This mod makes farming more realistic by adjusting the growth durations and growing seasons such that crops are grown on an annual basis.

The growing seasons of the crops are roughly similar to those of their real-life counterparts.



HOW TO USE


IMPORTANT: Farm plots should be set such that the desired crop is planted only in the FIRST season of its cycle (e.g. A farm plot is set only to grow plump helmets in Spring, with NOTHING set in any of the other seasons). Planting a crop in the wrong season (e.g. Planting plump helmets in Summer) will result in wasted seeds and no harvest, as the crop will not have enough time to germinate.

As crop yield per tile is now lower, a larger farm area will be required to adequately provide for the fortress.

Genning a new world or starting a new save is probably not required.



CROPS


SPRING CROPS - Planted in SPRING and harvested in AUTUMN:

- Plump helmets
- Pig tails
- Cave wheat
- Muck roots
- Bloated tubers
- Longland grass
- Rope reed
- Hide roots
- Silver barbs
- Whip vines


WINTER CROPS - Planted in WINTER and harvested in SUMMER:

- Quarry bushes
- kobold bulbs
- rat weeds
- blade weeds
- dimple cups


BERRIES/HERBS - Planted in SPRING and harvested in SUMMER:

- Sweet pods
- Valley herbs
- Prickle berries
- Fisher berries
- Wild strawberries
- Sun berries



INSTALLATION


After unzipping the archive, copy plant_standard.txt to your raws folder (for an existing game/region, use the raws folder within the region's save folder). Optionally, entity_default.txt may be copied over to give dwarves access to aboveground crops from embark, and create_standard.txt may also be copied over to make dwarves learn farming at five times the normal rate so as to compensate for the reduced amount of time they spend planting and harvesting crops.