Editing Agriculture

[[Agriculture]] is the cultivation of plants on tilled land. Growing crops with high yields is a balancing act of maintaining the proper soil conditions (Temperature, Nutrients, and [[Soil Moisture]]).  

== Getting Started with Agriculture ==

Until this skill is learned, you can look at the map to see where certain crops will grow well by clicking on the right arrow, going to the bottom of the list, and finding things like "plants -> yield potential -> (plant's name)". Yield potential is an indication of % match in the soil conditions for each specific plant. Planting crops in high yield potential areas will successfully produce and have higher total yield per plot. This will give you a good start until you are able to make the [[Soil Sampler]].

Soil moisture can also be lowered by creating "raised beds", elevating multiple spots on a plot with appropriate temperature by adding blocks atop the existing terrain progressively. To not alter the elevation significantly (consequently temperature), the player should add blocks a single layer deep, but over the area of the plot until soil moisture content is lowered to the desired range for crop growth. Player can expect to see somewhere around 15% decrease by raising half the area.

There are three nutrients: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K).  

Using the [[Soil Sampler|soil sampler]] to check nutrient levels on a plot of land does not show the levels for that single block. It will display the levels for a 5x5 plot of blocks, in which each block contributes 4% of it's actual value to the displayed values for the plot.

This also means that every plant inside this 5x5 plot counts into the checked farming area (including [[Grass]], bushes and [[trees]]) for the simulation, which can lead to overcrowding even though the player planted only a single seed. Plants have a lower tolerance for crowding the less optimal the soil conditions; this can result in crowded crops from fewer plants than on a 100% optimal plot of land. Overcrowding will hurt survivability; if you plant 5 crops and they are "very over-crowded", 2 or 3 may die before maturing to harvest. ''(Currently, overcrowding seems random - two identical 5x5 plots may have different overcrowding status. It may prove difficult, and often fruitless to try fixing it.)''

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<nowiki>*</nowiki>plant regrows in half time after harvest.

<nowiki>**</nowiki>numbers might not have an effect

<nowiki>***</nowiki>yield is lower when the nutrients are below 20 times the consumption and you get a bonus when they are above 300 times the consumption and the match is over 90% (there might be more to get the bonus)

<nowiki>****</nowiki>Temperature scales with global min/max temperatures on the server, and each in game adjusted value seems to be calculated as shown (default server settings having a 40°C range from -10°C to 30°C):  

  AdjustedValue = (BaseValue * GlobalTempRange) + GlobalMinTemp

[[File:Temperature and moisture graph.png|left|thumb|539x539px|(This is Outdated) This graph shows the temperature and moisture requirements of the edible plants. The solid color rectangle shows the optimum for that plant and the larger translucent rectangle of the same color shows the min/max range for that plant.]]

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