Gardening in PZ - Suggestion for better balance

[rorschach]

I have had a few years of growing fruits and vegetables, so I really like that one can grow their own food in PZ too.

But I feel that the farming element of PZ is rather unbalanced, compared to how gardening works in real life. Plainly put, some plants are much too easy to grow, the rest too hard.

My main examples are carrots and radishes (C&R). In real life these are two of the easiest vegetables to grow; whereas in PZ, they’re the two hardest to grow! Practically impossible, I would say. I have never been to grow either of them to harvest in PZ in a ’survival mode’ game, only in a sandbox world set with a drier-than-normal climate (which means all other veggies suffer from lack of water as a result).

In PZ, there is also no such thing as over-watering the other plants (broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, strawberries and tomatoes), but this too also doesn’t reflect how things work in real life. Although under-watering is more often a problem, plants can be overwatered easily causing root rot, mildew or blight, and I think that PZ ought to work like this too.

My suggestion would be to raise the total amount of water needed to grow ‘C&R’ closer to 70,
and lower the water needs of ‘the other plants’ to 90, and also reduce the amount that falls in storms quite a bit.
This would make it simultaneously easier to grow all crops, and harder to just bugger off for days at a time during hot weather and expect your plants to still be alive and thriving when you get back. It would also make ‘C&R’ actually usable in the game, because right now you can only find them in fridges or in seed form.

The other suggestion I have is regarding diseases. IRL, plants are more susceptible to certain diseases. Potato gets blight, cabbage suffers from the larvae of cabbage white butterflies, carrots get carrot fly, and tomatoes get mildew, etc.

The following is an idea I had of which plants should be hardest hit by which diseases (but they can also suffer from the other diseases to a lesser chance and severity):

Susceptible to pest flies: Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots
Susceptible to mildew:Tomatoes, Strawberries
Susceptible to Devil’s Water Fungi: Potatoes, Radishes
 

There you go. Any thoughts?

[Steelshrapnel]

Sounds like a plan!

[Kajin]

Gardening has pretty much remained unchanged since the devs put it in a while back, aside from bug fixes. There's a farming overhaul planned that will change how gardening works entirely but for now it's at a functional enough state to where they can focus on other features and fixes for the time being.