[Mod idea] Wasteland Agriculture

[anbeegod]

Geography student here. Learned about agriculture so have some idea to improve the farming system in Fallout 4.

 

 

 

Keys of the mod: Productivity, nutrient value, attractiveness

 

 

Productivity: quantity. Refers to how much crop you can gain by harvesting and retrieving from workshop.

 

Nutrient value: the higher the nutrient value of a type of crop, the higher its value, and the more SPECIAL the settlers who eat these crops are.

 

Attractiveness: refers to the taste and look of a type of crop. The higher a crop's attractiveness, the greater happiness of a settlement that has these crops.

 

 

 

Features

 

 

Arable farming

 

1. Monoculture

If you plant too many crops together which are of the same species, productivity will be lowered. If you plant different species of crops together, productivity might be affected positively or negatively, depending on the crop species.

 

2. Crop mutation

Crops might mutate into new species due to radiation in the air and the soil. You can add radiation to the soil yourself to foster mutation. Mutation can have positive or negative impacts to the crops.

 

3. Genetic modification

Modify the genes of a single crop; effect is similar to mutation except you can control everything here. Modifying the genes of crops will be like modifying weapons and armors.

 

4. Fertilizers

The use of fertilizers improve the crop's productivity and nutrient value. Over-using fertilizers, however, would cause serious problems.

 

5. Pest

Pest greatly reduce productivity. High nutrient value and attractiveness leads to more frequent and more dangerous pest attacks. Use pesticide and sound wave devices to deal with it - beware not to overuse pesticide, as it might cause the pests to develop pesticide resistance, and cause contamination.

 

6. Precision farming

Precision farming can auto-regulate the application of fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation water, but is very expensive and requires high technology level.

 

7. Irrigation

Build channels to direct water from rivers and beneath the ground to irrigate the field. Lack of irrigation water reduces productivity, excess use of irrigation water causes series of problems.

 

8. Mechanization

Replace farm labors by machines. Increases happiness of settlement if settlers have other jobs, reduces happiness if settlers don't have any job.

 

9. Light

Light input directly impacts productivity. Increase light input by setting light source.

 

 

 

Might add more when I have time to type.