How does the farming plot work in stranded deep?

Our Stranded Deep Farming Guide will help you step-by-step on how to construct a Farm Plot and how to plant, water, and harvest.

Farming in Stranded Deep is an effective way to generate food but at the cost of freshwater. Once players start farming, they need to check up on their farm every 36 in-game hours.

While farming consumes water, however, even if it doesn’t’ rain and if players are farming tropical fruits, farming will return more-or-less the exact amount of water used. Our Stranded Deep Farming Guide will help you with how to construct a farm and how to plant, water, and harvest.

How To Construct Farm Plot

Players first need to construct a Crude Hoe and for that, they need the following materials.

• Wood Stick x2
• Stone Tool x1
• Lashing x1

Now that the Crude Hoe is constructed, players can now construct a Farm plot with the following materials.

• Plank Scrap x2, or
• Corrugated Scrap x2, or
• Wood Stick x4 and Lashing x1

When players are placing the Farm plots, they can overlap it with rocks and other plants. However, the plots can’t overlap with Palm Trees or player built structures. Furthermore, the Farm plot can be planted on Sand or dirt.

How To Plant, Water, And Harvest

To plant, take an Aloe Vera, Quwawa or Kura Fruit in hand and go to the Farm plot. Left-click to plant and even the spoiled fruit can be used to plant. However, Wild potatoes can’t be farmed.

After that, a sapling will appear where you planted and will mature in 48 in-game hours and will produce a single fruit. Left-click to pick up the fruit and the plant will start another growth cycle and so starts a continual harvest cycle.

A newly constructed Farm Plot has 5 Water Charges which will dry out in 36 – 48 in-game hours. If there is no water charge then the plant will die.

To water the Farm Plot, players need a Water Skin or Clay Water Bottle. Keep it in the hand, go the Farm and left-click and one serving will be removed from the bottle and Water Charges will be refilled. If it rains, the Water Charges will be fully restored.

That is all for our Stranded Deep Farming Guide with tips on how to construct a farm and how to plant, water and harvest. For more on the game also see How To Craft Weapons, Tools And Buildings and Food and Water Guide.

Farming is not worth it !

Why can´t i plant anything, without worrying about to come back later and find dry plants overall? I saw some people planting near the sea to get Plants watered all the time, what actually doesn´t work for me :( Have someone any idea for some mod? To be honest without growing plants, there is any reason to build a main base on any island...

Originally posted by NukeAJS:

Remember that the type of farm plot that you build determines how much water it can hold. Therefore, you should always hold out and build the metal farming plots as they hold 8 "charges" of water (if I remember correctly) versus the plank's 6 and the stick's measly 4. They're the last to be learned in the farming tab and their materials can only be found, but it's definitely worth it.

A single plant takes two days and two "charges" of water. If you're planting fruit, you're getting at least one of those water charges back when you eat it since they restore 2 hunger and 1 thrist.

It's definitely worth it to build some farms. Just don't build anything other than the metal farming plots. They should stay watered for up to a week IG time which is good for all but the most nomadic explorers. One good tip is make use of "free" water when it rains and you're on your home island. Empty your water stills into water bottles and just let your farming plots fill up. When it finishes raining, top off the farms with the water bottles (if they're not topped up already). This way, you're getting maximum free water because your stills and your farms are filling up at the same time. A typical storm will give 2 charges of water so that means you'll get +1 water from fruit and even-out on everything else. Lastly, even if a crop dries out and dies, it was still worth it if you harvested it just once. Anything after that is just converting mostly free water from storms to plants. Oh ... one last thing -- medicinal herbs will never rot so getting a pipi farm going is a good idea because you'll be able to make tons of antidotes and shark repellent. Since poison and bleeding are the only things that can actually kill you unless you totally suck at running/swimming away from thing -- it's always a good idea to have a supply of antidote and bandages on hand.

My only complaint about farms is that it doesn't really match-up with the design of the end-game. Clearly, you have to be quite mobile if you've any intention of ever escaping Pacifica but farming is the least mobile thing you can do. It's basically pushing you in opposite directions.

Date Posted: 12 Oct, 2020 @ 11:50am

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