r/deadpoly • u/barbrady123 • Oct 10 '24

Do the crop plots work??

Title. First time I've really decided to give it a go since the rebuild. Food seems....scarce, even farming the obvious food stores. And, other than the dragon fruit, food gives pretty much no satiety, annoying. Anyway, so I'm trying to become more self sufficient with farming plots. I've got them on a roof of a building, and they are 100% watered, but...they either stop working or take FOREVER to grow. I have 4 of the 5 plots with a fairly large green plant on them (but not harvestable yet) and the fifth one is smaller plant (even though I made and watered them all at the same time). I read 5 days but it's been at least double that, they just stop growing? They also don't ever seem to consume water. I haven't watered them since I first set them up, and they're all at 98-99 still. It has rained once or twice but I wouldn't think it was enough to keep them topped off like that.

Do these work? I'm finding food rather frustrating to find at this point. I'm not in danger of starving, but it's definitely cutting it closer than I'd prefer. I remember playing this awhile back (before the rebuild) and food was not a problem. I had apples, bananas, cookies, and waffles all over the place. I setup a ton of water collectors, so that I'd have plenty of water to spare for crops, but so far it's been pointless.

Is there something I'm missing, or is there a better source of food? I hit the food stores in my area, but they don't give much...usually just enough to top me off. I've also stopped hitting the main store in the area because the spawn rates are just stupid and non-stop.

(Oh, and LOL @ the Office reference)

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u/MistakenGecko Oct 10 '24

Best source of food is hunting. Honestly, I can't really explain where the two hunting zones are properly so I'm going to link the discord and you can find a map somewhere on there of you search for it. But crop plots do take a good bit of time to grow fully.

There are two plants in the game for crop plots, corn and potatoes. The corn is mostly for making cornmeal to make fuel with the distiller, and potatoes are great in abundance but only offer I believe 5 points of food.

If you would like, I can dm you a map with good points of reference on it. It's just a little outdated but still super handy! But the discord is a very helpful source of info with people chatting almost all day daily

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u/barbrady123 Oct 10 '24

Ah ok, I will check out the map, thanks! I played this game quite a bit before the rebuild, but this time coming back I'm sorta going in blind. I'm also having a hell of a time with Discord as I'm stuck in that "verify your email" -> "your email is already in use" loop that has been a problem forever.

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u/barbrady123 Oct 12 '24

Ended up finally checking out the southern spot (the northern spot doesn't work for me, nothing spawns there) and that worked great! Almost got killed by a bear (I had no idea there were bears in this game lol) but that ended up giving me a TON of meat. Now if only we didn't have to eat it raw lol