Enshrouded The Ultimate Guide to Farming Food and Plants

[@TotalXclipse]

What changes would you like to see with Farming in Enshrouded?

[@Zykl01982]

Ability to plant multiple crop at a time by creating a zone with the mouse! or ability to automatically re-plant a seed if found in inventory when cutting a plant

[@markam67]

Totally agree we need a sickle tool for mass harvesting

[@FelipePicoliniVisse]

Where is the location of this base?

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

Quality over Quantity! Yes please to more Yield from a better Farm!

[@TotalXclipse]

The start location@@FelipePicoliniVisse

[@gdbalck]

100% agreed on your two observations at the end. I’d like to add one more, from a Valheim mod. The ability to plant a grid of crops at a time, similar the the building blocks/grids. 4 x 4 plants 16 crops with one click. Better than clicking 16 times.

[@TotalXclipse]

Absolutely!

[@strawberry-parfait3922]

Yes, and i would even say that even in the base soil stuff grows way too fast. It should take like 3-7 ingame days to fully grow to reward proper planning and having larger fields + storage for the harvest. There should also be stages of growth that allow you to harvest it earlier but get way less crops, like harvest an half grown plant in an emergency for only 25% of what a fully grown plant would have dropped.

[@pcdeltalink036]

100% agree with you as well.

[@Aethelbeorn]

I'd prefer a late game item you can unlock with a mod rather than just having the thing just because.

[@daisyou812]

Yes not having to click E a thousand times would halp me sleep better bc i hear the “e click” in my sleep now 😂

[@hogfry]

Yay! The ultimate power in Enshrouded! Hoeing! Also as far as improvements i feel like we should be able to automate the process by assigning the farmer to handle farming and replant when they harvest stuff for us. Honestly it should be possible for each of the NPCs to be able to handle some tasks

[@aaront9816]

This isn't palworld, I definitely want to keep planting myself. It's really relaxing.

[@flyingkiwi8441]

@@aaront9816 I mean, even if they added that option, you still can plant it yourself if you want to.

[@ploppyploppy]

Yeah it'd be good if it was as good as palworld

[@seankraus5246]

Would like plant breeding to increase yield. Add a breeding plot, and each plant specimen is assigned random stats. After pollination, the offspring has a mix of the stats. Like in Rust. Only part of the game I miss is the plant crossing...

[@andybrown4284]

Easiest way I've found to make a flower bed is to place 2 floors, one at ground level and the other underneath, remove the area for the bed and place a couple of blobs of soil. Then bring out the rake and you can spread that right across the area you hollowed out. Currently the rake will generate the terrain it's flattening so not only is that bed nice and level it's also mostly free soil. Works a charm for raised beds or window boxes. Always worth putting a few of each gathering into a seed bed so you have a stash of seedlings and never have to go hunting for anything but desert flowers.

[@Draco.Invictus]

For those interested, you don't actually need multiple wells. Simply pick up the well, and then place it back down to bypass the time delay. PS: To avoid wearing out your E key and help with your carpel tunnel, use a mouse that has macro keys available. I use a Logitech mouse that has a couple buttons near my thumb and I use a simply macro like Press E and release, and it repeats that macro until I press the button again. Great for picking up loot on the ground, picking plants, etc.

[@TotalXclipse]

It's a good idea using Macro keys, but we shouldn't have to use work arounds

[@JSON_bourne]

​@@TotalXclipse The whole reason I found this video because he as trying to figure out how to get water. Watching the whole video though because quality AF. SUBBBED

[@dra6o0n]

The tier 1 wells holds water capacity up to 8 units, the tier 2 wells is up to 15. So it's easier to have multiple wells if you have resources because it's less annoyances when you do farm.

[@exorruination]

It doesn't stop the time delay fully, it just refills it to the minimum amount (5 for the improved well).

[@shvmoz]

FYI: replacing the well no longer instantly refills it, as of update 4

[@PaulBohno]

totally agree on the button spamming and the soil producing more instead of taking less time. I play solo, so i have to be the farmer, warrior, mage, builder etc and it becomes overwhelming trying to take care of all these plants and progress through the game. Don't make me do it more often for more, give me more over the same period of time! Makes so much more sense. Surprised this wasn't done already, as most survival games already do it this way.

[@MapleGoodness]

How do you manage storage of your farming plants/seeds? Do you have general storage? Keep each plant in it's own box? Store it in the seed beds?

[@DJ_Bonebraker]

As an amateur botanist/horticulturalist, I am just loving the fact that all their plants actually look like the real plant's they are supposed to be, unlike so many games with generic plants whose only resemblance to the real thing is the fruit or grains they bear...

[@360Fov]

I have installed it but still haven't given it a try....engrossed in Diablo 4. I absolutely love the fact that archers use twigs to craft arrows, and farming can sustain an archer's ammo production! That is EXACTLY the type of stuff I would hope to be able to do with a farming system....and a farming system is exactly the kind of thing that player housing should offer. I hope the game sells well and the devs stick with it! Rust and No Man's Sky are two shining examples of well-supported games that are worth every penny (and more) with frequent content updates.

[@luxter858]

Itd not as great as u make it out to be. The higher levelled arrow tiers cannot be crafted on the go

[@ROsborn-ys8cy]

You don't need to harvest the water at the well, simply use the item fill option in the seed-bed/magic box tab, all the wells in the builds zone will be available on a ticking 2m interval

[@plasmodesma7569]

I am SO glad you are making guides for this game. I recently got it and I am having way too much fun. I didn't expect to like it this much, but it truly is a gem that should only get better over time. I think it's an excellent early access release. Can't wait to see all your builds!!!

[@Myrrath991]

Make the farmer walk out and plant and harvest whatever seedlings you've created at the tables. Provide her with the farming fields she needs and set her to work. Planting over 100 flax is getting super tedious. Automate the npcs to make them more useful. Maybe only make it available after you've collected all of their supplies.

[@HoiPolloiNtertains]

I’d like to see magic infused soil that has a slower growth time but doesn’t need replanted after harvesting.

[@Jezato]

Great video, agree we need some mass harvesting/planting tools. A hand sickle would be a good tool to get. Also why can't we employ our resident NPCs to help with things around the place?. The alchemist and farmer should be able to gather and process some materials for us, while the carpenter and blacksmith could chop trees and mine stone in designated areas around the alters build zone. The hunter could also go get animals too. Hopefully we'll get an NPC recruit update soon so we can either find lost survivors and get the 5 crafters to help out.

[@adrianwyant3702]

Do you have a tutorial on how to build the wall you made? Thank you for your farming tutorial, by the way!

[@HereFishyFishy85]

How are you adding the dirt?? To fill in holes. Am I missing something? Or is that the bug you’re referring too?

[@JJvonEmiya]

Bro, u need to make a farm build step by step guide if u dont already got one, cause your farm look amazing. subbed for this type of content.

[@JankyGamer]

Agree with your improvement suggestions! Also, I wish I could build such a gorgeous compound for home!

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

Nice video. I also agree with your suggestions of using different soil, holding down E or having a Scythe and the better yields for better soil. You can always check out their Planned Features and if those aren't in there, you can always suggest them.

[@lasagna3084]

I’m new to the game and love it. This was really helpful. Thanks!

[@Baldiur]

My favorite thing I just did because im tired of clicking E and getting a cramp is, change your key bind from E to Scroll up and down on your mouse wheel. Cleared out my farms WAY faster that way.

[@SpartanWarrior76]

Quick question regarding planting and harvesting. I assume whatever you pick you must replant or does it respawn?

[@TotalXclipse]

You need to replant seeds after harvesting

[@SpartanWarrior76]

@@TotalXclipse thank you.

[@littlestarshepherd]

Where did you find those empty farmbeds? It doesn't show in my farmer's crafting list. Was that unlocked from a note or something?

[@AlyCarm]

same! I haven't found them anywhere but in ruins of the game.

[@eckhardslejs7628]

Somehow I can't make it to this farm bed, just the standard little trough. I'm 25 and have completed all the quests, at least none of them appear anymore. Did I miss something? I'm grateful for tips!

[@firstnamelastname7982]

Custom build using farm soil as a material for decor iirc

[@Graybeard_]

Great video. Very helpful. I hope you do a plant landscaping video as well. I'm interested in flowers as borders with curves and planting trees for landscaping. Also is it possible to plant/grow the huge hardwood trees?

[@TotalXclipse]

I can't see the option for hardwood atm, as for a plant landscaping guide, may be able to tie it into another video I plan on doing soon :)

[@shadowynz]

best advice: create 2 macros, one for E (pickung up) and one for mousclick (planting) and toggle those

[@ASTROSR4]

Can you do a build guide on your base design or just a similar style to what you have!

[@passirocks_7005]

Short tipp for Water: You can place a well, take out water, pick up well, place well, take out water,.... With one Well you will have infinite amount of water available.

[@TotalXclipse]

Yeh, but then you're only grabbing 3-5 water at a time, if you have a few wells you'll not need to keep picking and replacing them as they store 8-15 water each when full 😊

[@Dracomancili]

personally i think that the farm soil should double the speed, then when you get the enriched soil it should not only keep the double speed but also give you twice as much growth, or even the reverse of those would still work great

[@mikearge23]

7:10 I totally agree. I I don’t even use “farm soil” to plant my crops in. I go out to adventure and when I come back everything is grown. I don’t see a point. But if the soil gave you double or triple harvest amounts then it would be worth it for me. And the spamming E is sf annoying to harvest all your crops 🤦🏻‍♂️ They gotta do something.

[@GreymanWalking]

You can get goats, ox, the rabbit things (not sure what ox and rabbits give you) and fae deer...

[@Firise]

We play with 12 active players, they all want to do farming. So we ended up with 4 lockboxes full of tomatoes and corn. Nobody uses them, but farming is so fun. Lucky that some people do flax, and you never have enough linen.

[@gregsmirnov327]

i farmed flax for 3 hours straight yesterday, made a loom loom spinning room w/ 2 looms and 4 spinners... linen and fabric farm right there, i went a bit... loomy

[@ashbeech7258]

where did you get this garden fence??? 3:28???😮

[@TotalXclipse]

Workbench has it 😊

[@jeremylindemann5117]

I did avoid farming because it seemed like a lot of work that got in the way of questing and it seemed like farming wasn't much better than just grabbing those resources out in the wild. I went on resource trips where I would gather 20, 50, 100 or even 200 of something. Eventually I did get into farming and it is very much worth the effort, but it does take some bootstrapping where you farm something and then some of the produce goes back into the seed plot to produce more seeds. I didn't mind that and after a while i found that the payback was getting big returns on resources after coming back from questing. Some items grow quicker than others. Chamomile flowers are a slow grower but purple berries and mushrooms are pretty quick. With a relative modest sized farm plot I could put down a hundred of something. I got all the resources I needed to make health potions, then greater health potions in the hundreds which I could then take with me into another server with friends and give them potions so that we could concentrate on enjoying the quests and combat. The farming is pretty much a side game which is both a good and bad thing because it's not what some people want to do and it is a bit like turning a game into work. The farming could use some improvements, as was mentioned in this video, and also some bug fixes. I had a minor problem where farm soil I put down didn't always make a full, clean square and some of the grass underneath would stick out and anything planted there would grow at the slowest speed, not farm soil speed. Some plants such as aloe need to be cut down when they're ready and then the actual bits you want sort of fall or fly away from the plant and you have to go find them which is even more work. On top of that there is a problem with some things like the aloe leaves partially or fully clipping through the ground and are very hard to spot so you end up losing some.

[@FreshDiehmyson]

Thank you, helpfull video! But where can i find nitrate?

[@TotalXclipse]

You make it with the alchemist

[@FedorMihalskiy]

0:23 Panel slot 5, what kind of item do you have?

[@TotalXclipse]

I believe this has been removed in the day one patch it was a plant bed, but I haven't been able to craft it since

[@From.TheHollow]

I feel you on the hold e to harvest thing. I actually have a post on their feedback page for it. You can access the page through the game by hitting escape while playing and it’s right there in the menu. Go upvote it so the devs see it.

[@robbailie5878]

Great Video, how do you farm for purple berries? Berry bushes when they grow just give me plant fibre I never get any berries from them.

[@TotalXclipse]

Makesure they're fully grown, if they have yellow flowers, they aren't ready to be harvested for the berries.

[@deathntaxeset]

Does desert flower not make seedlings?

[@Magitek_Armor]

Nice cozy base, how do you remove grass with the rake ?

[@Magitek_Armor]

ok I found out just now, you have to start with an area without grass, very clever

[@gro967]

Great video, very helpful. But what is up with your framerate, it looks like 30fps, is it just the recording?

[@TotalXclipse]

It's at 30fps on steam, may be it was default set at that

[@gro967]

@@TotalXclipse ahh got it, just came across a little bit chucky.

[@blackfoot1178]

Can you change the terrain it's on after you plant it? I want to make shrubs kind of blend into the grass and don't want soil under it

[@TotalXclipse]

yep

[@WittlessWonder]

As a archer, the amount of twigs you need is insane.. Ofc shrubs farm is the best option but pressing e for like 300 shrubs takes.. time. I ended up with creating a simple spam e macro wich makes life easier.. I use the same macro for planting them. Just dont forget to turn it off when you are done >D.

[@Klaus680]

Hi can u make a video about Enshrouded rings / locations ?

[@TotalXclipse]

perhaps - although the good rings are all Rnd from chests from my experience. Search gold chests at the higher levels and you'll eventually come across them

[@zanicar4087]

100% agree... I dislike the keyboard / mouse / controller button killing mechanic of farming atm... I like the idea of having superior growth medium producing extra resources. No more 1000 clicks to get 500 flax planted and harvested 😅

[@edmzone8473]

Where did you build your base? it looks like a great spot!

[@TotalXclipse]

It's the very starting spot where the quest asks you to build :)

[@KelleyStrzelczyk]

Is the Mycelium utilized in the garden?

[@TotalXclipse]

For growing some seedlings I believe but thats it

[@NeonXXP]

Soil place able as a block for planting as decoration.

[@TotalXclipse]

You can do, using the single block pieces

[@boandersen8239]

My old and long removed SHRUB SEEDLINGS keeps comming back. Growing up through rockflooring and so on. Any one have that and or found a way to stop them comming back again and again?

[@lennonrobinson4255]

Wow you’re very into the game. I’ve been playing it since a day after release and I’m level 15 and probably only discovered like 15% of the map. Not even got to a dessert area yet. How’d you progress so quick?

[@TotalXclipse]

I had a little headstart - a few days early access, but I've now sunk over 100 hours into the game so far.

[@premiumsomdier]

i made farming swaths around my entire base, each about 5x5...i have almost every single herb growing in over 100 on each plot...

[@whoisj]

the rake will give you infinite soil of any kind, so long as you have at least one square of it placed.

[@AllAboutCigarsKSA]

is there any way to make farmbed appear ?

[@Ruben-ph2lm]

Hello, I would like to know the location of the base so I can recreate it. Thank you

[@TotalXclipse]

It's the starter location

[@Ruben-ph2lm]

@@TotalXclipse thanks😉

[@Repaer25]

Awesome looking farm, i love farming in games, some games are better and more in depth than other games when it comes to building farms, and this game Enshrouded looks like it does the job very well.. :)

[@asytippyy352]

Planting: They should offer the option to surround patches with markers; that way, they can work like grids and neatly plant as many crops as the player/space can provide. Harvesting: You don't need to be careful with positioning which makes it far less tedious but, if they ever went in the direction to give the NPCs their own AIs, that could make things better later down the line. I personally think it's tolerable for now.

[@TheJesusSixSixSix]

Where can I find this walled in area to farm at? It looks so nice.

[@TotalXclipse]

I only unlocked it with the farmer right at the beginning, (first unlock along with the seed bed) but haven't seen it since so believe it's bugged, as I mention

[@TheJesusSixSixSix]

so is this not some naturally spawning location in the overworld? @@TotalXclipse

[@King-bw3ne]

no he said he built a base where it tells you to the looks like he built it him self @@TheJesusSixSixSix

[@JerDog1984]

This game is fantastic for the price, wow!

[@Alvar666]

how to make sugar?? I'm almost at the end of the game, I've unlocked everything and I can't find the sugar recipe anywhere, or even a ready-made one anywhere.

[@TotalXclipse]

Grow sugar cane then make it in the I believe stamina section of the farmers recipe

[@King-bw3ne]

Where is this base location @ 👀👀

[@TotalXclipse]

It's the start location :)

[@King-bw3ne]

If you can do a base tour/ build I'm in love with the idea of a wall around the base face-turquoise-covering-eyes@@TotalXclipse

[@mrvette8964]

I would love to see a full base tour video

[@TotalXclipse]

I've actually got something better planned for a future video :)

[@detach103ff4]

Holy hell! I'm patiently awaiting xbox when it's ready but I will drop way too much time on making a farm castle 😭

[@Samaelx.]

still no rake.. Can you still farm without the rake ?

[@TotalXclipse]

Yep, but it would just require you to place the soil down with the build hammer

[@michaelmller4582]

what is the dirt youre running on? :)

[@TotalXclipse]

Dirt road 😊

[@Vosje_]

if you harvest them do they grow back?

[@TotalXclipse]

What you harvest has to be replanted

[@Vosje_]

@@TotalXclipse would be nice if they would just stay on the same spot and you only had to "refill them" or they grow back after X time instead of replanting. Seems like such a drag

[@svenolaf5215]

Where is this farm located? This looks so awesome

[@TotalXclipse]

It's the starter base location 😊

[@svenolaf5215]

@@TotalXclipse Oh wow, very amazing. :D

[@CityMorguex99]

Anyone else want a decaying hunger and thirst option? Like a hardcore setting I suppose. Make it totally optional, and I feel like it would push players to delve deeper into the farming mechanics. Just my thoughts on it

[@HadenSavanti]

Second vid I've watched of yours. Sub +1. Your homes/bases look immaculate. Wish I was that good with the building. Need more practice I guess. Look forward to more as the game grows, and thanks for your efforts.

[@ufade2]

Game is super fun!

[@justchuck8408]

hot tip, you only need one well for infinite water, just pick up the well and replace it to get more water.

[@dra6o0n]

The farming system could be improved, the whole throw a crop into a seedbed to get 5 seedlings is a bit annoying to maintain since you gotta put so much resources in a object instead of having a renewable crop like berries you can feed fertilizer or something to regain it.

[@therealgreg5653]

Like the hazelnut tree, I'd like to see more fruit trees too.... like can get some orange trees!

[@Valdis63]

What I would like is a reason to do all this lol im at 32/37 archivements lvl 24½ and im still naked minus my wands flame alter fully upgraded have not crafted anything that wasnt needed to advance a quest lol

[@schillelagh]

Farming seems like an anomaly when every other crafting building is simple add ingredients and wait. Keep the manual placement for now, but add a “planter” recipe that automates this process. Inputs are seedlings and soil. Downsides are the cost of the planters and soil is consumed in the process.

[@jlaun78]

Ugh, after watching this there's no way I don't spend way too much time setting up a killer garden

[@MegaHorop]

u build this all teriroty by ur self?

[@TotalXclipse]

yep

[@markdavies407]

guessing i have the farmbed bug since i did not know that was a thing.

[@Pathless168]

if your in a shrouded area and cant fast travel just log out then back in and presto you fast traveled

[@tek6931]

let the rake or make a new tool to multi plant seeds

[@TotalXclipse]

Yes! That would be so useful!

[@swhirst]

Good stuff Total, sub'd :)

[@SSZaris]

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[@GregoriusKek]

I mean I would totally use the farming system if the DAMN RAKE would show up on my workbench 😭

[@01talima]

id just like the fps and graphics issued fixed so its playable

[@DiddiYang]

If only I could get the rake. Not even on a second or third character can I get a base rake. Even without it I still enjoy the game.

[@Mikedegot]

I'm trying to make a beeline straight to gardening but the rest of the game is getting in my way.

[@NACHTMERRIEFABRIEK]

A sythe is a good idea

[@ColeChapman205]

I’d like to see an option to plant faster and harvest faster. Way to slow right now

[@FeedTheFreak]

ultimate?

[@Gn8Lif3]

You just need one well and the lowest Tier well is enough Place the well ,harvest water,pick up the well ,repeat =Infinit water

[@LoafyGoofy]

I use an E spam mouse macro >.>

[@SkashTheKitsune]

I am disappointed that you can't farm stone or ores, I understand that we can't do it IRL but it would be nice to have a pet rock or a slug of silver to help with your emotional needs when times get tough.... "hold on Bullwinkle, daddy's coming to save you I just need to get back to the location!"

[@jerryharvey2179]

wheat go to Bounty Barn south east off nomad highlands fast travel

[@basvh666]

farming simulator looks like fun

[@couragefox]

It is mad that you are taking the time to rotate the crops to line up like that. There currently is a way to get unlimited water - which is a shame. Just dismantle and replace the water well and it will be fully topped up. I hope the devs patch this so that water wells dont give water for 20 minutes or so after placing them down. Also you can duplicate any terrain using rake and get infinite fertilised soil. This is less of a big deal though

[@TotalXclipse]

I have two wells, and unless I'm doing a lot of farming in a short amount of time, I don't ever run out of water, but you're right that exploit isn't exactly fun for the game. As for the rake duplication - that's the same method I talk about in the video I believe

[@AllWeNeedIsHope1]

por que no los dos, faster growing AND more yield

[@TotalXclipse]

For me, because it just takes so much time planting and harvesting, I'm not bothered if the speed increases as well, but if that's the case, I'd want some kind of option for planting multiple items or harvesting multiple items at once.

[@AllWeNeedIsHope1]

@@TotalXclipse i know a mod for valheim did multiplanting really well hopefully we get something like that in this game

[@TehOnionGod]

It's pretty tedious planting individually, late game farming is massive, and planting 500 seeds every 30min is just annoying.

[@user-xo2og8kv1o]

just do it like vallheim. let us plant grids of plants at the same time. having to place each seed individually is a pain and made me not engage with the system more. same goes for harvesting. this gardening system is literally a carpal tunnel speed run right now.

[@TotalXclipse]

Isn't it the same as Valheims system? You need a mod to do grids of plants IIRC

[@user-xo2og8kv1o]

@@TotalXclipse i dont remember if it was a mod or not, but either way, its the superior way of doing things.

[@huualan3166]

this game needs pals

[@TotalXclipse]

😅 wrong game.... But a little help here and there wouldn't go a miss

[@Autepify]

one thing weird about this game is theres literally no bodies of water anywhere

[@Christopher.mabbitt]

If there were bodies of water, we would have to hit it eith a pickaxe to collect the water lol.

[@exorruination]

Be careful about spreading soil near your own planted crops. I did this while they where growing and now I have 20 saffron I cannot harvest (it's a known bug).

[@TotalXclipse]

Just use the pickaxe to dig them out, and then resurface with the rake and replant :)

[@exorruination]

@@TotalXclipse Trying to dig them out with the pickaxe resulted in a few losses, however digging a small hole and spreading the new ground level with the rake worked well.