Proposed Farming Skill

Farming System Goals

• breeding animals: reagent-related animals, pets
• growing crops: reagent plants, food plants
• make Farming skill a worthwhile addition
• reduce need for massive NPC reagent spawns

Options for Farm Areas

• in a field/plot of land: "farmhouse", new style of building
  • size of a large smithy, divided into quarters like the smithy
  • 1/4 enclosed "small farmhouse" area, could be used for vendors, etc.
  • 3/4 fenced and slightly elevated plots, can be any of the following:
    • farmland: "corral" or "pen" (grassy) for breeding
    • soil: each 1/4 can be further divided into 1-tile-wide strips for different crops -- soil color could be used to indicate these "strips"
    • water pool: breeding aquatics
    • orchard: apple, pear, etc.
    • plots must be renewed regularly, success depends on Farming skill
• for certain crops only, can grow in a house craftable, i.e. flowerpot
• can grow crops in existing ("NPC") fields as well
  • plant on tilled-soil tile: that tile of farmland is "yours"
  • harvesting someone else's crop is criminal, guards will protect farmland in justice regions

Crops

• require Farming skill to plant and harvest efficiently
• vines planted in soil
  • grapes
• direct planting in soil
  • use seeds, require watering
  • carrots, turnips, pumpkins
  • crop-type reagents
    • nightshade, ginseng, blood moss, mandrake root, garlic
    • some of these might be sun/moon specific
    • need to grow fast enough to eventually replace NPC vendors; probably need to grow in stacks to keep item count down
  • wheat fields (wheat as animal feed, or convert to flour)
• orchards can be provided for tree-based fruits
  • apples, pears
• "craftable" flowers, hedges, etc. for houses

Breeding

• fish hatcheries (require Farming to establish, Fishing to harvest)
  • spawn fish for fishing
  • spawn oysters for pearl (jewelry) and black pearl
• farmland breeding for materials
  • chickens (eggs), sheep (wool), spiders (silk)
  • keeping animal in pen will keep animal tame up to 10x longer than normal, dependent on Farming skill (checked when pen is tended)
  • animal must be tame to be harvested, return per animal depends on Farming skill
• farmland breeding for pets
  • keeping in pen keeps animal tame up to 10x longer than normal, dependent on Farming skill (checked when pen is tended)
  • can raise pets and improve their stats and skills: keeping them on a farm improves their potential, practice in the field (i.e. combat) helps them reach it
• beehives (honey), return per hive depends on Farming skill

Related Issue: non-crop reagents

• sulfurous ash: (not Farming-related) alchemy on certain earth/dungeons/ores? plus earth elementals...?
• black pearl: (along with above Breeding ideas) fishing in certain areas should have a chance of catching oysters/pearls
• spider's silk: possibly allow breeding of spiders, but mostly from spiders in the wild...?

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