Is Farming ACTUALLY Useful? - 7 Days To Die (2023)

I only play on a multi-player PVE server and farming has been great as I have food and can sell it in a vending machine for extra dukes while keeping the other players fed. You also didn't touch on veggie stew as you can carry 1 stack on you at all times and it both feeds and hydrates you and can be crafter from farmable items like corn, mush, potatz and water. No foraging required. On top of that it gives you a quick way to level up as my farms have about 200 plots so it turns out to be a lot of XP and you get products. Also, super corn and cotton are extremely helpful as cloth and glue become quite vital and having 1 rotation of crops can give you enough to have all the duct tape you could need for a while and you can sell a lot of that in a vending machine to other players on the server.

I don't think farming was added for single player but more for multi player. Personally, I wish they would allow for animal farming so that animal fat wouldn't require going on hunting trips in the winter land and require expending ammo to get it.

My friends laughed at me for making a farm build in this game. 40 days later and I haven't crafted a single food item cause I'm converting everything back into seeds and replanting with thousands of each ingredient and... they are still laughing at me. I just think it looks cool all the crops surrounding my house lol.

wanted tips on farming and this blokes got graph charts 💀
this is the kinda guy who eats pizza with a knife and fork

Fun Police let you craft your own stuff and survive by farming, but they DON'T WANT YOU TO.

I wouldn't say that farming is worthless. I'd consider it unnecessary but mildly helpful. I wouldn't spend points in it. Just plant what seeds you find.

honestly farming is pretty useful, my friend is farming in our trio game and he provides very good food and antibioticks

Glad I usually play on Darkness Falls, where plants auto replant with 100% chance, and high quality food is the only way to get wellness, being the only way to increase max hp and stamina, which don't grow with level. All this makes farming not only much more efficient, but actually necessary to grow stronger.

All I'll say is that I miss alpha 18. While the game has gotten better in some ways, i think it's gotten worse in many. I didn't think there was anything wrong with farming!

They should make farming exclusive foods unlocked via the perks. They don't need to be "the best" but "better-than-standard" would be a nice touch. At least that way you can farm foods exclusively on your farm and get early-mid game foods with some nice buffs. Obviously, the more advanced food-stuffs, should be found in the wild to encourage exploration. But you could give some unique buffs/combos for those foods. Might make it more appealing to people.

If you are using a brawling build the moonshine is way too strong an effect to pass on just because acid. Its a late game build. You arent blowing through moonshine unless its horde night or you are doing something like tier 5 infestation. For other things beer is enough. If you go fists you need super corn and that is a rare crop that comes from like 2 specific POIs. So that means you want living off the land.

IM always the farmer and this video makes it sound not worth it (at the beginning when I write this anyway) But once I get my plots up to 100 and get a rotation, of potatoes and corn going. I can stop cooking the food after a while to focus on supercorn. also having unlimited fruit for smoothies (that dont require water!!!!) and herbal antibiotics makes it very very worth it. solo play or multiplayer.

Back when I played on playstation where all you had to do was place fertilized dirt on the ground and then place the seed. And beack then 1 corn gave 1 seed.
So I would find the cornfield harvest the corns and turn them all into seeds and then make a cornfield next to my base and after the first harvest I would turn all into seeds and make an even bigger farm until I had so many cornstalks that I could use them as backups if I ran out of other foods.

Farming is worth it when you have 6 to 8 people playing most of the time, early to mid stages of game.

Ah yes. Remove the survival aspects from the survival game. Thanks tfp. Ill keep my a16.

Why does it take 5 produce to make a seed?

If you have access to traders farming and crafting are not worth it as quests will get you food, drink, and gear faster.

Oooh? Time travel! You are right though: The farming is tragically borked in this latest alpha, it's a shame...

i strongly disagree with the notion that blueberries and pumpkin are useless. both allow for the avoidance of hunting, since so many recipes require meat. getting fat at the trader is easy, and eggs are nearly everywhere, and they give really good food points to the character. also, the chrysanthemums, yucca, and goldenrod are only available if you have a map gen that favors the biomes. furthermore, the dew collector means that better water is needed for drinking, due to the cost of them. pure mineral water is worth 3x of the standard water, reducing water demand for fewer collectors and other crafting.

in fact, the only core reason why crops are lower in importance, is based on a player with the chef traits, but that is on another skill tree. the can goods are found, but the chances are low, and chef is needed to find more.

5 of a crop for 1 seed is laughably HORRIBLE game design. They made farming so incredibly useless.

Farming pretty useful in the server i play cuz we get to save our base after reset, it gives me fast xp boost cuz i made 31x31 big farm x3 cuz i utilizes ur tecnique to build multi floor i only make 3 floors for farming cuz the bedrock basement i put a bunch of dew collectors cuz with 6block high ceiling dew collectors worx i wants to kno what crop is the most expensive i can mass produce to be ultra rich so i can buy all the end game items from other players lol

What about trees and tree seeds?

No, its a useless mechanic i never had to use in order to survive. Best to go finish mission while looting POIs for food and water. Farming is just a waste of time in 7d2d.

Since a majority of the top tier food is from looted foods farming is relatively useless.

In reality, a single plant gives à plentifull of fruits and hundred or thousands of seeds....
Its à game...

I keep a few farming plots just to grow seeds i find... In my current game we either got them as loot or a quest reward ii dont remember.... Im certainly not spending in perks on it

I get more seeds with a certain tool?

bacon and eggs... done x.O;

Also, if you have 0 loot respawn, eventually the coffee grounds are going to run out, the yucca plants won't regrow in the wild etc. and farming is your only way to in effect respawn something.

Do I actually need to farm to survive? Nope. Will I ever build a base solo or join a team multi where no farming happens? Hell no! There's just something absolutely lovely to me about grabbing it out of your own yard. And Yucca Smoothies are OP, since they are also food, somehow. Granted they are basically on par with boiled meat for nutrition, but it will keep you from seriously debuffing due to hunger while you look for something to eat. And I don't like having to depend on looted items either. Yeah I can find enough cans of pasta generally to make spaghetti, but that's no fun.
That said, the cost of planters is insane.

what a shame, the devs should change that

I've only just started playing this game with a mate, and sometimes i question why the Devs have done certain things in this game.
If 1 seed can make several corn, 1 corn should make several seeds if you're not going to eat it?
Things are so unbalanced in places, especially the food and farming.

I just find it fun to do, it's on my way to clear out my dew collectors, and I only loot seeds not craft them

any mods to fix farming?

Is there a build guide for the best skills to apply? I farm on industrial Levels

In A21, l just plant the seeds I find. That gives me enough crops to make a few of various foods.

Use a knife fastest attack speed and i actually agree with the fun pimps making it hard to keep a farming operation fully reseeded makes sense this is an apocalyptic setting so like you said the fact that the majority of the perk makes you more adept at getting the most from the land around you the perk kinda makes sense i think the fun pimps are trying to make thier end game players think about what abilities are going to be the most effective and look for the combinations of food and drink that are going to help you the most to survive

"Farming is a scam, because you need to invest 3 skill points in order for it to become useful."

THATS SAD IT RELLY SUCK WHEN SURVIVEL GAME DON'T HAVE A GOOD FARMING system when its a survivel based game

As of Alpha 21.1 with the massive increase of cloth requirement I think cotton is somewhat worth if you wanna mass produce duct tape or anything else that uses cloth

Yeah Alpha 21 is kinda trash xD

Until you get living off the land 3, it's just the old fashioned marshmallow test. Your inventory is limited, do you take the ear of corn, or the corn seed back to base? Plant the seed, get 2 corn.

when farming in a video game is more arduous than real life.

I want to farm all of the cotton I need to craft. Lol.

Thanks for collecting and sharing so much farming data. You do seem very upset by the numbers but I am excited to start a farmer role play session.

i love time travel xD

The amount of times they removed and nerfed farming yes it is useless

Imho the game lacks several plants to grow, with which eventually you could make this industrially refined food items like e.g. Canned Peas.

So yeah, the food system imho is one of the areas where the game truly is Early Access and has an unfinished feel, because the base system is there, but currently not that useful, since theoretically it is true, even in current Alpha 21 you can go very far with just bacon and eggs.

developers what is agroculture ?

If you're trying to do a seed for crop ratio yeah the numbers are off intentionally.

They want it to be a struggle to survive.

The entire point of taking away jars and adding dew collectors that generate heat is to make it harder to get water and increases the chance of attracting zombie's. That's also why all the recipes except foggy water into water require clean water now.

Anywho, if you build 6 farm plot's and have 2 points in living off the land + 2 points into iron gut and just rotate key crop's and you'll have all the food you need for one person.