{"id":1426,"date":"2022-03-07T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polymorph.games\/foundation\/news\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2022-03-07T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:22:09","slug":"modding-mondays-episode-6-a-farmers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polymorph.games\/foundation\/news\/2022\/03\/07\/modding-mondays-episode-6-a-farmers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Modding Mondays Episode 6: A Farmer\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to yet another episode in our Modding Mondays series! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s already been a month since we last featured a popular fan-made mod here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we have the pleasure of talking about the Vegetable and Poultry Farms mod<\/strong><\/a> from creator Batyushki, whom you may remember from the Security mod<\/a> we shared not so long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immersion is an important part of gaming: feeling like you\u2019re part of the world and, to an extent, being able to engage in role-playing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to achieve a greater level of immersion is by adding gameplay features that feel relevant without bloating what\u2019s already in place. With Vegetable and Poultry Farms, Batyushki had two goals in mind: to add variety and a more realistic food supply for villages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was one of the first mods that I designed. I am a hobby farmer in real life and wanted to add some basic foods to the game. The mod has been through many versions and I’ve slowly improved and simplified it over time<\/p>-Batyushki<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Agriculture and farming in the Medieval age were critically important: most peasants worked the land and played a key role in the production chain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mod introduces two major gameplay additions to Foundation. The first one, a poultry farm<\/strong>, is unlocked once you get 10 villagers. Once it has been built, you will be spawn chickens and geese (they respawn every two weeks). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chickens produce eggs and poultry. The former is faster, but trades for less gold. On the other hand, geese, duck ponds and dovecotes produce only poultry. You want to keep that in mind once you start building your new poultry farms! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally\u2014and this is a nice touch\u2014you collect dung from your animals using the dung heap. You can then turn dung into compost to grow your vegetables. The circle of life! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other major inclusion from Batyushki’s mod are the vegetable farms. Unlocked once you get 20 villagers, you can build them according to your own taste just like wheat farms (by snapping together building parts in free-form) or use the simple, fixed farms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The free-form farm requires both field workers and a processing worker, but produces more per acre of land than the simple field farms. Once you build a free-form farm you need to select which vegetable to grow, and paint the crop field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a list of available vegetables:<\/p>\n\n\n\n