Wild Food Farming

[Kodiak412]

Now with Survival going main stream, and the GECK being release, you are starting to see some very good mods that add a lot to the cooking aspect of FO4. IMO this was an area that was severely lacking. Since you need to eat food for survival, having a larger variety of options is always far more immersive that just a few vanilla options.

 

Many of these new options, and some vanilla ones, need (Wild) versions of the fruits and veggies, however you cannot farm them in settlements. There were a couple of mods that addressed this.

 

DDProduction made a mod that would allow you to plant, and assign, some wild versions. This worked great and still works but it is tailored toward being a drug lord and so only a few of the wild verities were available for farming. It never had Farming in the title so a search for farming or planting would not show this mod, and thus was hard to find. It was also out very early in the game release so it did not matter as much then as it does now. Also as anyone knows DD is a mod machine with some very outstanding and larger scale mods so this little mod is relegated to the dust bin, without any updating. :( Pity because it was a simpler mod that just let you plant and farm wild fruit, but was incomplete.

 

There is also NX Pro Farming which is really an outstanding mod for planting a lot of the different wild verities. In fact this will let you plant and harvest all of them. However this mod does a whole lot of other things, and there really is no tutorial about what it all does and how to use it. In the comments section for NX Pro the author speaks to this saying that there was a much lengthier and comprehensive description for the mod but it was removed because of the length. This was a pity as more information is always a better thing. This mod still works and I have planted and I am harvesting all the wild fruits but it does other things to the rest of the plants and I am not liking all the changes to vanilla. Also this is an old mod and could really use updating but I believe this mod too has been abandoned.

 

So that is why I am looking for a mod that just lets you plant wild crops, assign a settler to them, and harvest them like a normal plant, without doing a lot of other things, or changing the way the vanilla farming works.

 

Just a simpler updated mod that allows you to farm all the ingredients (wild fruit, veggies and mushrooms) without a lot of other changes.

 

Any good sir / ladies out there willing to help out a frustrated survivalist farmer? Thanks in advance for any reply!

[forral87]

shouldnt be too hard to change the drops from wild plants to their non wild counter parts.

[Kodiak412]

I hope it can be done without a lot of other stuff. NX Pro Farming adds a lot of other things and I think it has now been abandoned. I want to just plant the wild versions and assign a settler to them to add to the food total.

 

I think NX Pro gave a food value of .5 and .25 to most of the wild plants so one settler can manage a lot of the wild crops.

[Kattiana]

I second this so very much! There is a huge gap in the "mod market" for farmable wild flowers, and other wild growing plants harvestable plants. Just a simple mod that adds the wild fruits, veggies, mushrooms and flowers, and nothing more, would be amazing and if kept simple, compatible with almost everything.

[Kodiak412]

@Katt, yeah I hope someone can do this. It is needed.

[ETSubmariner]

Now with Survival going main stream, and the GECK being release, you are starting to see some very good mods that add a lot to the cooking aspect of FO4. IMO this was an area that was severely lacking. Since you need to eat food for survival, having a larger variety of options is always far more immersive that just a few vanilla options.

 

Many of these new options, and some vanilla ones, need (Wild) versions of the fruits and veggies, however you cannot farm them in settlements. There were a couple of mods that addressed this.

 

DDProduction made a mod that would allow you to plant, and assign, some wild versions. This worked great and still works but it is tailored toward being a drug lord and so only a few of the wild verities were available for farming. It never had Farming in the title so a search for farming or planting would not show this mod, and thus was hard to find. It was also out very early in the game release so it did not matter as much then as it does now. Also as anyone knows DD is a mod machine with some very outstanding and larger scale mods so this little mod is relegated to the dust bin, without any updating. :sad: Pity because it was a simpler mod that just let you plant and farm wild fruit, but was incomplete.

 

There is also NX Pro Farming which is really an outstanding mod for planting a lot of the different wild verities. In fact this will let you plant and harvest all of them. However this mod does a whole lot of other things, and there really is no tutorial about what it all does and how to use it. In the comments section for NX Pro the author speaks to this saying that there was a much lengthier and comprehensive description for the mod but it was removed because of the length. This was a pity as more information is always a better thing. This mod still works and I have planted and I am harvesting all the wild fruits but it does other things to the rest of the plants and I am not liking all the changes to vanilla. Also this is an old mod and could really use updating but I believe this mod too has been abandoned.

 

So that is why I am looking for a mod that just lets you plant wild crops, assign a settler to them, and harvest them like a normal plant, without doing a lot of other things, or changing the way the vanilla farming works.

 

Just a simpler updated mod that allows you to farm all the ingredients (wild fruit, veggies and mushrooms) without a lot of other changes.

 

Any good sir / ladies out there willing to help out a frustrated survivalist farmer? Thanks in advance for any reply!

 

I believe this is what you might be looking for - just wild crop farming, though if you don't like the perk requirements (it is hard to generally domesticate wild crops -- immersion), you could remove the perk reqs using FO4Edit or the CK. http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/13246/?

[Dracula420]

No Wild Fruit Harverst - http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/3927/?

this switches the wild fruit with its plantable variant for farming.

 

it wont help with things like carrot flowers or the stuf that not already farmable but at least its a start

Edited May 21, 2016 by Dracula420

[Kodiak412]

@ETSub thanks for linking that mod. I have seen it and sadly it says that it is incomplete. Thistle and Wild Razorgrain are a couple of the wild plants that I use. :sad: These are the two plants that he/she says are not included.

 

A modder did just post a new mod that adds the Far Harbor wild plants and lets you plant and harvest them. I am hoping that he/she can do the same thing for the commonwealth wild plants (all of them) and help out us survivalist players

 

Exotic Harvestables - Far Harbor Plants by frogprincess_q4 For some reason my link is not working but this is the mod.

 

With Survival main stream now a lot of cooking and crafting mods have been made to utilize those wild plant ingredients so a go to, simple and complete wild plant harvesting mod is sorely needed.