SUGGESTIONS: 1. Don't make your farms one block tilled then one block water. Water will provide a three block reach with 75%, 50%, and 25% hydration/moisture level from the water source, both straight and diagonal. If you are doing Open Air, go two blocks tilled farmland to one block water. That still gets everything 75% Moisture, but you're doubling farmland to water. 2. RABBITS CAN BE FARMED AT YOUR FARM. Instead of a fence, dig a two by two dry moat around your farm. All Animals and drifters (But especially bunnies and drifters) will fall into the pits, where you can kill them at your leisure. Spears work especially well. Isn't a problem for us, as Serifs can jump across a two block wide trench. Bears? Well, they can climb up to three blocks. Just make sure to include a way out for you should you fall in. 3. Crop Rotation: The soil nutrient mechanics is based on real world growing. The N/P/K (Nitrogen/Potassium/Calcium) are real world nutrient types. Each plant is going to consume one type while helping to build up another type. In the real world, you would rotate in the following order in a yearly cycle: Nitrogen crop, Potassium Crop, Calcium Crop, and then leave field fallow with compost or some other organic matter. In Vintage Story, this order isn't as important, so long as you are planting the same type in the same block. In order to keep track, it's best to divide the farmland into four zones to keep track of rotation. 4. GREENHOUSES. This is mostly a "later game" for when you can make glass blocks (I.E. Bloomery and some way to get Quartz). In it, you'll want to do a different farm layout. There's videos on this, but I do a 9 by 9 block structure, giving me roughly a 7 by 7 block farm. (Minus the center block for water and two to four blocks for fires in the winter.) You can use dirt or stone blocks for the walls. You'll need a door to get in, but Rough Doors do not work for this. I dig a one deep trench in the parameter for water, except the corners and where I put the dirt. Water has to be on the same level as the farm blocks, so you can't put water under or above it. The nice thing is you can built the walls on top. Then give it a glass roof. Here's the wiki article: wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Greenhouse
@@ghislaine1726 N is for Nitrogen, P is for Phosphorus, and K is for Potassium (from latin kalium), similar to the NPK fertilizer labeling convention used in real life. The author of the comment got it a little wrong.
i would advise a 2 block deep moat around your farm even if bunny's or other animals cant reach your farm they will still try and get trapped, this can lead to getting 1-2 red meat for protein, small hides for future leather working, and a bone or two with 1-2 flint spears thrown depending on class also beware of foxes they will eat the rabbits (and chickens) and will fight back if hurt this also apply to wandering rosters and hens if your growing grain crops and racoons which drop bush meat but can also drop fat for early bowl lamps
I've only played 150 hours on the game,I wouldn't plant a farm like this middle to late game,But as a early game set up I can't express it's more important to GET SEEDS IN THE GROUND than to build a nice farm :D ,Nice video good details
My favorite farm shape is the 8 blocks surrounding a single water block. Its also great because you can fit 4 of those plots in a greenhouse and if its tall enough also have a fruit tree planted at the center late game. Although that is mostly best with terra preta you find as forever farmland. For basic mass farms especially growing flax and sometimes for dormant fields to rotate through other shapes might be fine even with reduced growth rate from inefficient watering. The fact those fallow fields can grow things like dry grass and more importantly horse tail is also important to consider.
Use a dry moat around your farm, at least two deep (three if you're worried about bears) and two wide, you can jump that but the rabbits and other animals can't. Keeps your crops safe and it's free food! There's another comment that goes over this. I'd also harvest the grass as soon as it pops up when leaving a field fallow to recover, usually daily.
@@blackfeathercrafts Huh! Actually I haven't played my main survival world in a bit because I'm waiting for some mods to update still, but now that you mention it, I rarely get rabbits in there anymore. I'd have to play some more to check.
Seen your vids on reddit so i got here, appreciate the explanation to everything, the beekeeping video helped a lot, planning to eventually do vids on mechanical power? also how do you get the UI to show seasons and time like that?
Very good Video! Nice work, thanks. On the screen over your healthbar I saw the time and date and so on. Can you tell me which mod it is? I miss this so much in the game and I don't want to open the character menu everytime I wanna see how late it is...😅
I love Farming in Vintage Story. I said it and I mean it. I hope this helps you start your first farm
SUGGESTIONS:
1. Don't make your farms one block tilled then one block water. Water will provide a three block reach with 75%, 50%, and 25% hydration/moisture level from the water source, both straight and diagonal. If you are doing Open Air, go two blocks tilled farmland to one block water. That still gets everything 75% Moisture, but you're doubling farmland to water.
2. RABBITS CAN BE FARMED AT YOUR FARM. Instead of a fence, dig a two by two dry moat around your farm. All Animals and drifters (But especially bunnies and drifters) will fall into the pits, where you can kill them at your leisure. Spears work especially well. Isn't a problem for us, as Serifs can jump across a two block wide trench. Bears? Well, they can climb up to three blocks. Just make sure to include a way out for you should you fall in.
3. Crop Rotation: The soil nutrient mechanics is based on real world growing. The N/P/K (Nitrogen/Potassium/Calcium) are real world nutrient types. Each plant is going to consume one type while helping to build up another type. In the real world, you would rotate in the following order in a yearly cycle: Nitrogen crop, Potassium Crop, Calcium Crop, and then leave field fallow with compost or some other organic matter. In Vintage Story, this order isn't as important, so long as you are planting the same type in the same block. In order to keep track, it's best to divide the farmland into four zones to keep track of rotation.
4. GREENHOUSES. This is mostly a "later game" for when you can make glass blocks (I.E. Bloomery and some way to get Quartz). In it, you'll want to do a different farm layout. There's videos on this, but I do a 9 by 9 block structure, giving me roughly a 7 by 7 block farm. (Minus the center block for water and two to four blocks for fires in the winter.) You can use dirt or stone blocks for the walls. You'll need a door to get in, but Rough Doors do not work for this. I dig a one deep trench in the parameter for water, except the corners and where I put the dirt. Water has to be on the same level as the farm blocks, so you can't put water under or above it. The nice thing is you can built the walls on top. Then give it a glass roof. Here's the wiki article: wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Greenhouse
Thank you for the comment. Helpful! I didn't know about the 75/50/25. I need more greenhouses in my life
Im confused on the nutrient tables. Why is it called N/P/K but its Nitrogen, Potassium, Callsium? Arent the symbols wrong?.
@@ghislaine1726 N is for Nitrogen, P is for Phosphorus, and K is for Potassium (from latin kalium), similar to the NPK fertilizer labeling convention used in real life. The author of the comment got it a little wrong.
@@ch4n4o2 thanks, I was really trying to put my head around how you'd give Calcium to onions, lol
I was looking for this, the dry moat is so handy for catching animals like you said, and protecting your crops!
I must have had an unlucky spawn because all I have around me for miles is low-quality soil.
The first time I played, I had the same thing happen to me. Move, it is worth it
best guides by far! very underated channel. loving your content so far
kind words. thanks!
i would advise a 2 block deep moat around your farm even if bunny's or other animals cant reach your farm they will still try and get trapped, this can lead to getting 1-2 red meat for protein, small hides for future leather working, and a bone or two with 1-2 flint spears thrown depending on class also beware of foxes they will eat the rabbits (and chickens) and will fight back if hurt
this also apply to wandering rosters and hens if your growing grain crops
and racoons which drop bush meat but can also drop fat for early bowl lamps
YES! Rabbits forever 🐰
I've only played 150 hours on the game,I wouldn't plant a farm like this middle to late game,But as a early game set up I can't express it's more important to GET SEEDS IN THE GROUND than to build a nice farm :D ,Nice video good details
thanks
I Hope more Vintage Story content get bigger hehe the community is soo chill and Fun i Hope This game get more people playing It
I feel the same. More people need to be playing this game.
My favorite farm shape is the 8 blocks surrounding a single water block. Its also great because you can fit 4 of those plots in a greenhouse and if its tall enough also have a fruit tree planted at the center late game. Although that is mostly best with terra preta you find as forever farmland. For basic mass farms especially growing flax and sometimes for dormant fields to rotate through other shapes might be fine even with reduced growth rate from inefficient watering. The fact those fallow fields can grow things like dry grass and more importantly horse tail is also important to consider.
Fruit trees! My next video is on Greenhouses :) I like the 8 blocks around one, but I am lazy and don't want to water ;)
@@dracsfantastic same amount of watering required as it drops to 75 percent without rain or watering can regardless?
Love this video ❤
thanks!
I have everything fenced in, and I still get rabbits on my private world. On Aura Fury Mystic Winds, I have my farms the exact same way. No bunnies.
Hmmm? Have you cleared the land all around the farm? The bunnies can jump! Also, if there is wild grass growing in the farm, bunnies can spawn.
@@dracsfantastic I think the wild grass might be my issue. I’m trying to gather more seeds to fill it up and see how it does from there.
Use a dry moat around your farm, at least two deep (three if you're worried about bears) and two wide, you can jump that but the rabbits and other animals can't. Keeps your crops safe and it's free food! There's another comment that goes over this. I'd also harvest the grass as soon as it pops up when leaving a field fallow to recover, usually daily.
@@forgenorman3025 did that too. There was a glitch for a while I think. Eventually I had no more rabbits getting in, and I hadn’t changed anything.
@@blackfeathercrafts Huh! Actually I haven't played my main survival world in a bit because I'm waiting for some mods to update still, but now that you mention it, I rarely get rabbits in there anymore. I'd have to play some more to check.
Composting last week and farming this week. I am ready to grow some stuff! ;)
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Seen your vids on reddit so i got here, appreciate the explanation to everything, the beekeeping video helped a lot, planning to eventually do vids on mechanical power? also how do you get the UI to show seasons and time like that?
Yes, more videos coming. I have a windmill video in the works ;) I use a mod called Status HUD. It's new and works well
Very good Video! Nice work, thanks. On the screen over your healthbar I saw the time and date and so on. Can you tell me which mod it is? I miss this so much in the game and I don't want to open the character menu everytime I wanna see how late it is...😅
Thanks for watching. There are a couple of great HUD mods. This one is new: mods.vintagestory.at/statushud
what mods do you have on?
Just a couple: Status HUD, Xandus Inventory Tweaks, Alternative Map Icon Renderer, Waypoint Colours, Extra Overlays.
I'm just loving this game but i think $25 still to expensive :/ IMO for a massive adoption they need to reduce it to ~$10 at least for a while
$25 seems fair to me :) Lowering the price might bring more people but, I think Steam or Epic would make this game blow up