Farming improvement wishlist.

[Samuriko]

For reference, I have a farm-house that I made for the Senyap lot in Cahaya with 192 farming plots.

Basically what I find missing/lacking are options to manage my farm “in bulk”.
Like, I need to plow the land, one at a time.
Seed the spots, one at a time.
Fertilize each one, one at a time.
Pull weeds, one at a time.
And sometimes water, one at a time.
Harvest, one at a time

Now I really do not mind my Zoi(s) doing all that, one at a time, I really don’t… I just dont want to wear my mouse/fingers off trying to do all of the above by myself. An option to “Plow everything, seed everything, fertilize everything(with or without premium one), pull all weeds out would be nice. I would set the command to every member of my household and they would keep going until all the plots are taken care off on the entire property, or they get tired or something.

For the watering, this is easy. Just make the sprinklers workable with a 5x5 squares area total, surrounding the sprinkler (see pic below). With this setup you can have huge farms and water it all in a click… Assuming that the sprinklers can all be turned ON like the lights (“Turn ON all sprinklers” option from clicking one).

For the harvest, there’s those scarecrows/harvest spirit, I am almost ready to try those in my game, but if they have huge range (which does not seem the case) it will take care of that. If not, we need their range to cover A LARGE area, see example below again for a size of the suggested area, in that example it is 11x11 squares since those take a lot more room than the sprinkler. Again, I am fine with zois going to each square and work all day to pick every harvest up, I just dont want to click a billion times. Also an option for “Harvest the crops with the family” where all kids and up who are at the farm start working until all squares have been harvested.

Finally, a large freezer item.
This item would store all harvested crops (maybe a max storage of 5000 units).
And maybe have all harvest dropped in it like zois throw things in the trashbin.
If you have a freezer, they would first harvest as much as they can in their inventory, when their inventory is full (or there’s nothing else to harvest if you have the “FeatherBAG” cheat on), they take a trip to the freezer.

Suggested size of that freezer (should be 4 feet or about 1,5 meters high ) :

PS: as per another suggestion, also allow kids to be able to do all the farmwork, except maybe the plowing since it is more physical.

Thank you !
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[ EDIT ]
Those better sprinklers and better scarecrows could be expensive. Having to upgrade/work my farm over time would feel very rewarding. Maybe some are limited behind skill requirements, other simply cost a fortune. Maybe those 11x11 scarecrows cost 11’000 mew each. Maybe those 5x5 sprinklers are 5’000 mew each. I am fine having to work for it, it should be part of the fun, IMHO.

[anibea528]

Supporting these proposals. It is especially inconvenient to manage a farm when there are several people in the family and each one needs to be assigned tasks.

I would like to add to the farm issue: I encountered the problem that not all crops can be resold (when lettuce cultivation became available, I could only sell it in the shop). Plus, the products cannot be eaten just like that, raw or fried over a fire. This is especially inconvenient when you are on a desert island or far from cafes and shops.

[LittleBrownBiscuit]

The lettuce, peppers and small apples are a waste of time. I managed to sell some in the market in Cahaya, but even then, most zois that looked complained that they were too expensive or that my zoi was selling rubbish. One of them got really mad. She was shouting and waving her hands about how bad the produce was, that my zoi was wasting her time. It even hurt my feelings.

[GDfromRivendell]

Just do it like in Farming Simulator… large fields, greenhouses, crates of vegetables for sale, a cultivator and agricultural machinery. When they first presented farming in Cahaya, I thought — oh, maybe this is a new level in terms of world scale and engagement. But in reality, it’s like — “got it, doing the same thing five times across the genre doesn’t hit anymore.” So the whole mechanic misses me completely — doesn’t even begin to express how frustrated I was with all that repetitive single-crop planting and selling.

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[Samuriko]

Also to add on my idea, especially about the Freezer.

Instead of having zoi’s inventories check to make food (ie: need tomato, corn or whatever), they could check the freezer. My hubby has over 40 tomatoes on his person, yet since I don’t have any in MY inventory, I can’t make meals that require them.

It would be nice that the Freezer counts as a “Family Inventory” for produce.
Thank you.