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Farming
Crops can fall sick, need water and draw the dead at night. Eleven new crops join corn, potato and pumpkin.
How it works
- Plant seeds (from loot and traders); look at a crop to see its card: growth, water and health.
- Water: dry crops grow at half speed, watered crops 40% faster. Sprinklers water everything within 5 blocks.
- Pipe it: hold E on a sprinkler, choose Lay Pipe, aim at water or a dew collector (or the ground beside it) and press E. The pipe routes itself along the ground, over and around things. R cancels.
- It costs one piece per block, from Irrigation Pipes or Metal Pipes (4 pieces each). Short? The missing part glows amber: bring pipe and press E on it to finish the line.
- A sick crop shows spores and spreads. Treat it with E holding a remedy: Herbal (one crop), Copper Fungicide (radius 2), Ward Tonic (radius 5).
- Harvest ripe crops with E or a tool.
Tips
- Sprinkled crops get sick half as often.
- Farms of 6 or more crops pull heat and zombies at night. Wall them in.
- Fresh crops and vegetable dishes give the Farm Fresh buff.
- Remedy recipes come from the HOMESTEAD tree or seed magazines.
- Pantry: Salt, Black Pepper, Wheat Flour, Sunflower Oil and Butter make farmhouse dishes; salt and pepper on a vanilla dish double its food.