Use your hands for farming ?

[Painkins]

You must use an showel to make hole for farming.

 

But you cant use your hands ?

 

So why not using your hand but it has more handicaps than an showel,like get more tired,take more time and so on......

 

What you think ?

[Liva98989]

I like it 

[Tweek]

yea why not

or grab a treebranch/big stick to dig with

[cuddlepums]

I like it but there should be a consequence, perhaps a greater chance of getting sick?

[zombo]

Good point, but maybe the ground is too tough to "till" it with your hands?  Got me thinking though, gardens of various types are quite common, whether it be food or just flowers.  It would be reasonable to find houses with garden areas that are already prepped for gardening.  Since it's not long after the apocalypse, they wouldn't be overgrown with wild plants or grasses for some time.  Those should be easily diggable by hand or just small hand tools.

 

Maybe we could even have specific gardening tools, rather than just a shovel, that make gardening easier/faster/better yields?

[GSC]

Yes, I think this should be an option, depending on the type of ground (tile) you are working on. Hard packed earth would be tough to dig into unless you have at least a stick, but the fenced farmland for example looks soft and manageable by hand.

 

Working by hand should definitely take longer and be more exhausting (urging you to look for tools), but causing illness sounds a bit too much. Maybe a chance for slight injury (hurt your hands on a rock or something) that won't kill you.

[TinnedEpic]

I'm personally happy looking for a trowel or something. dunno bout this hand digging idea.

[maxthebeast]

I support game balance over realism.