{"id":3300,"date":"2025-01-31T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:34:35","slug":"farming-gardening-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/farming-gardening-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"FARMING AND GARDENING PREVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are currently working on adding Farming to the game. Since we\u2019re currently working on things, the details in this article may change, but the shape of the end-result feature should be quite similar.<\/span><\/p>\n

We recently added the ability for players to harvest seeds from nearly every flower, tree, and bush in the game and gave them the ability to plant those seeds and regrow them anywhere in the world. There were no rules as to where you can place those plants and they\u2019d grow any place you put them, even if the heat and humidity weren\u2019t right for the plant, and even if you planted it on stone.<\/span><\/p>\n

With this update, a lot of that changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the big changes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • You can only plant seeds in soils.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The soils have to be the <\/span>derecha<\/span><\/i> soils if the plant is going to thrive and not die.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Even with the right soil, you\u2019ll still need to make sure it gets the right amount of water and that the temperatures are conducive to it growing well.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Those of you that have played the game will realize that changing the soils, and balancing heat and humidity out in the wild is challenging and\/or impossible. So that\u2019s where Farms & Gardens come into play.<\/span><\/p>\n

    When you build a Farm\/Garden on your Homestead, you can control all those variables. You can place the soil, invest the soil with additives to change it into other soils, and use ThermalMeters and HydroMeters to adjust the heat\/humidity to make your \u201cplant children\u201d happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Use your <\/span>Harvester <\/b>to harvest a plant out in the wild, gathering seeds and in the process, get more information about the plant\u2019s favorite soil, heat, humidity, and seasonality.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Use your <\/span>Terraformer <\/b>to dump soil that you gathered in the world into your garden bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Then use a <\/span>Trowel <\/b>to clear weeds, enrich the soil, clear plants and turn your plants into potted plants so you can decorate with them or sell\/gift them to other players.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Place a <\/span>ThermalMeter <\/b>near your plants to adjust the temperature in that area to the right comfort level for those plants. Use a <\/span>HydroMeter <\/b>to do the same thing for moisture levels, making it drier for desert plants or wetter for tropical plants.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Use <\/span>Calcium Fertilizer <\/b>or <\/span>Ammonium <\/b>to shift the pH level of your soil up or down, transforming that soil from one type to another, getting it to the right type for the plant. There are a lot of soil types, so keep shifting it from one to the other to achieve the soils you want. <\/span><\/p>\n

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    And of course, get\u00a0better at Farming<\/b>! There\u2019s a new branch of the Botany skill tree that\u2019s dedicated to the Farming systems. It\u2019ll help you get better yields from plants, unlock better versions of ThermalMeters and HydroMeters, increase the number of Garden Beds you can use, unlock some of the abilities mentioned above (like potting plants), and increase growth speed.<\/p>\n

    AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Later on, we\u2019ll add things like hydroponics, greenhouses (including ones for outer space), growth and yield stimulators for your soil, raised beds to avoid pests (and the pests and diseases you\u2019ll want to avoid) and more. But even just this first bit is quite a lot, so we\u2019re focusing here and then we\u2019ll enlarge after this gets a chance to settle.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":217806712,"featured_media":3305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1462,1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-build-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/starsreach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SR_Jungle_Potential-Farm-Plot.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdLeGO-Re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217806712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}