Farming Updates (well, tweaks is more like it)

[Ts_Stormrage]

I've been examining the uses of the Farming skill, and while there is great potential, it seems somewhat un-realized. Here are a few tweaks I wish to suggest:

 

 

 

Papaya Trees

 

Other then for eatage, and paying your farmer to watch your Coconut Tree, what use do Papayas have?

 

 

 

I say, change this to an Olive Tree (while everything else stays the same).

 

Pick the olives, and crush them into 1 dose of Olive Oil which you need a Pestle and Mortar to do.

 

 

 

I've always hated it that you can only BUY Olive Oil, or randomly get it from an Afflicted Mor'ton Villager which you have used a Serum on (be it 207 or 208)...

 

 

 

 

 

Sweetcorn

 

You cannot put these in sacks or baskets, but when harvesting them, you get way more then half an inventory full per patch. With 2 patches of these, and a Herb patch, I often have to walk THREE times to the bank to unload everything.

 

 

 

Let Sweetcorn (just the raw) be put into Sacks.

 

 

 

 

 

Curry Trees

 

These have little use again, other then paying a farmer to watch a patch for you, or use on a stew to make Curry, something that can also be done with much easier to obtain Spice.

 

 

 

In addition, let these leaves also be used to strengthen the Tea you make in your POH, giving an additional +1 bonus to your construction level (for a total of +4 with gilded cup). This means that you have to take the leaves into the house, and then make the Tea, ofcourse).

 

 

 

 

 

I've pondered other produce, but everything already has their use cut out for them. Although Bittercap Mushrooms should be able to be used instead of Mort Myre Funghi in the Potion business, perhaps.

 

 

 

Strawberry is already highly valued for their use in Summer Pies, for example, and even Sweetcorn has it's use in Tuna Potatoes.

[MyFaceWhen]

Maybey a whole new farming related quest would be nice, A new potion reward maybey made from papyaya tree roots or fruit. Or a wieldable pouch or something of the sort in the cape slot which you can store 20 harvests of allotment crops in.