Fantasy World Building- Agriculture & Civilization

[@Stoneworks]

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[@rev7913]

can i also grow a femboy

[@Stoneworks]

@@rev7913 Yes but you'll need some good loamy soils for that cash crop

[@TitanOfGlory]

I'm dying

[@stabbinnn]

Time to get a big backyard

[@echillaoi451]

@@stabbinnn you can borrow mine if you give me 20% of company profits

[@alextheim3920]

I genuinely love that you say “Plants on earth needs water to perform photosynthesis” while showing Indian Pipe which is a parasitic wildflower incapable of photosynthesis

[@Redlurk3]

Ghost pipe plz. Sounds cooler.

[@billybones956]

Fun fact: Plants rarely absorb nutrients directly from the soil. Most actually rely on fungi and bacteria in the soil to make the nutrients available. The fungi tap in to the plants roots and trade the minerals for sugars and carbs that the plants produce via photosynthesis. The bacteria are attracted by sugary root exudates that the plants secrete, and while the bacteria live and die and excrete their own waste they're binding all the minerals they use to amino acids. When the bacteria die and decompose the plants can then access all the minerals. So there's an idea, maybe there are plants in your world that are a part of other symbiotic relationships.

[@LANSl0t]

Mycorrhizal Networks are incredibly fascinating

[@solsystem1342]

My scifi setting has huge interconnected resource distribution systems based on the mushrooms and bacteria in our world that fill the same function in our world. It's not like a global concious or anything crazy like that. It just happens to be more efficient for them ie: plants and fungi to build onto larger ones that starting anew so over time they reconnect even if parts are destroyed by fires, flooding, spaceships landing, etc.

[@NoirMorter]

I incorporated this knowledge and how easy it is to kill the microbial life forms in the setting I'm writing.

[@mogaming163]

This isn't always the case, right?

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

They also absorb smoggy and smokey airborne fertilizer through leaves. Like co2.

[@oranjethefox8725]

I feel it is important to explain that the nile river floods so regularly due to the monsoon season in Ethiopia. The Nile gets its water from ethiopia and since the monsoon season is so regular the increase in rain in Ethiopia causes an excess of water in the Nile resulting in flooding. So rivers that flow from places that have a regular monsoon season are more likely to have regular flooding like the Nile.

[@pandabear4565]

I like the idea of wood as strong as iron. A certain type, not all wood

[@juwebles4352]

If you're going to do that something interesting to note is iron is really brittle hence why steel is better in the case of weaponry

[@jarrah580]

that is probably the most overused fantasy idea ever

[@juwebles4352]

@@jarrah580 "overused" spoken like someone who doesn't respect the greats

[@SuperGamefreak18]

@@juwebles4352 which is what makes the idea interesting as well

[@keepermovin5906]

Honestly all wood being as strong as iron would be super interesting

[@Lilas.Duveteux]

In parts of what is now Northern Ontario, the Ojibwé and Algonquins had started regular harvesting of wild rice, to the point of becoming a food staple and practiced horticulture. Imagine if the colonisation didn't happen. Maybe the world will have a cold-weathered rice growing culture.

[@jacobedward2401]

They still do gather wild rice, the Anashinabe in Minnesota claim the Line 3 pipeline threatens their traditional way of life. ... Possibly why I like fantasy stories, we can make it so the ents win

[@Redlurk3]

@@jacobedward2401 it does.

[@golwenlothlindel]

My friend... please don't talk about Native Americans in the past tense: they ain't all gone yet. The Ojibwe still have exclusive rights to harvest wild rice on the rivers flowing into Lake Superior.

[@Redlurk3]

@@golwenlothlindel yeah it grows all over the Rez . Till the pipeline fucks it up Thanks Canada🖕

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

Is rice native to north america?

[@CrispedUp]

Wait until he shows an entire nation that is just wheat field.

[@Stoneworks]

Ukraine be like

[@JG-vh6oy]

SLAVA

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Nation and country aren't interchangeable words. A nation is the people. The dirt can't be the nation. (unless it's a nation of dirt people) It's a really tiny nitpick, but it always annoyed me when strategy gamers and worldbuilders just use "nation" as a fancier way to say country.

[@CrispedUp]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes Who?

[@sontrombone6907]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenesUhhhhh, the word nation is a noun meaning a country, disagree, argue with the oxford dictionary.

[@WilliamDore06]

Stoney, really cool idea for a video! Agriculture is definitely overlooked in favor of flashier parts of worldbuilding, though it is very important, almost universally.

[@k-osmonaut8807]

for me it's one of the most interesting things to develop imo

[@jac0b88]

For the 3 sisters (corn, squash, beans) it has some more mutual benifits than just the soil fixing. The corn provides a structure the bean vines can climb and the vines help support the corn from high winds. The squash leafs help provide shade keeping the beans from burning and keep the soil from drying out. And if i recall correctly it provides plenty of coverage for small bush birds that help keep away weeds and insects while further fertilizing the soil.

[@victory8928]

It’s amazing how this experience over generations helped fueled the development of these practices how they often they unfortunately get pushed to the way side when other factors like wealth generating comes into play (cash crops be like)

[@alehaim]

21:06 There is also in places the problem that due to the constant regeneration of the plants, the ground can be literally too thicc for traditional farm tools, needing much more hefty equipment in order to be able to plow it

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

Certain roots of annuals can break up tough soil. Nature also tills with voles and worms aerating the soil over time. People could figure out ways to break up the soil naturally, or at least grow in clay pots.

[@rileyexistent8738]

heres an idea: A tree that grows and reproduces not using that stupid photosynthesis but instead by absorbing slowly magic from everything around it -would probably mostly grow around cities, wizard towers, and around anywhere or anything inherently magical. -you could probably use its wood to make an armor that's fairly ineffective against stopping conventional attacks but which completly counters anything magical (maybe combining it with steel would make the armor too heavy to use for most people but those who can still be a threat even with the added weight by combining the two are dreaded and feared) -maybe its leaves and roots could make potions and poisons that sap a spellcasters strength and nullifies magic. -I image the tree would probably either be a symbol of hope of standing against the tyranny of spellcasters or symbolize the threat of those that oppose magic

[@wyattwear815]

Lol this is basically petricite from league of legends

[@memeinatorun-official144]

@@wyattwear815 neat idea: how would people selectively breed these? What about cross breeding? Are they harder to mass produce due to their nature?

[@MerkhVision]

That’s really cool and interesting!

[@Cryodrakon2]

Magic all around it still includes the sun tho.

[@victory8928]

I love this idea though mine mainly involves the opposite certain trees and wood absorb different types of magic in different amounts so you can select a wood that best amplifies your magic while nullifying the magic of others on what you incorporate it into. It’s a common strategy for weapon making to prevent metal mages from turning their enemies weapons against them while amplifying their own elemental attacks. E.g a feared queen’s weapons are all crafted from a single type of wood that is great at transferring water magic while bad at most others. The queen then make these very strongly enchanted metals to imbue different elements into her weapons allowing her to do crazy stuff like laughing off the efforts of an 200 grand mages while beheading them in the process

[@talonkaine7121]

I love the NFT. Seems screenshottable.

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

Idea: A species of coral that lives very close to the shore, but on a thin and shallow inlet with no significant currents. The coral's method of dirpersal has become a fatty, energy rich substance filled with spore-like structures that can be dispersed by animals. Some variants may even use chitin for the skeleton and live in freshwater or even land (I know it's a bit unrealistic but a lot of other animals did similar transitions plus all hail the rule of cool). They may be cultivated by coastal peoples or even anybody in the world if you go for the land coral option. Edit: Another idea: Large carnivorous plants that pose *extreme* danger in their wild form and that only start getting cultivated by the likes of edgy crime bosses and warlords looking for unconventional and rather brutal security around their installations. With time, they start selecting them so that they are still dangerous, but easyer to control and that they maybe give some useful by-product of eating your enemies alive, thus justifying the domestication of things like elephant-sized flytraps.

[@leonartu3756]

you mentioned that volcano dirt and rock is really good, but the price is that there is a catastrophe once in a while, but you know what would be interesting? a civilization that can protect from a volcano eruption with minimal casualties. maybe it could make its cities fly, or they may make giant towers that can resist eruptions, or they live in a massive cave system.

[@leonartu3756]

Man i have more then one like Made by me because im cocky, this might be the best day of the week/year so far

[@creeperkingdom3190]

or mabye like the nile have a volcano that has a very predictable pattern of eruption say every fifty years that the people have simply gotten accustomed to.

[@francescosacca6674]

Talking about Sicily... some scientists attempted to dig a canal to direct the lava of the Etna in an empty valley. Though less lava than expected went where wanted, the experiment was considered a success. How about that?

[@rowanblair5694]

Cool plant idea. Skybreak: a tree native to dense rain forest that has a two part life cycle. During its growth stage it absorbs as many nutrients as it can to grow to the top of the canopy. It grows similarily to an Acasia trees where the leaves are almost grown flat across the top of the tree creating a large funnel like shape. It also grows one bulbous elastic blossom at the center of the tree. Once it rises above the canopy and detects that its lowest most leaves are absorbing sunlight it begins its 2nd stage. In this stage it absorbs purely nitrogen the nitrogen is transported to the tree and is stored as a gas inside the blossom. Over the next several decade growth cycle the blossom will fill with nitrogen and stretch like a water balloon over the tree canopy. Once the blossom covers all the trees leaves the tree no longer absorbs sunlight and releases a chemical compound that breaks triple bonded Nitrogen in side the blossom. This creates a massive burst of heat energy that ignites anything with a several 100 meter radius of the tree. Effectively creating a plant based wild fire in the jungle and a really cool natural disaster.

[@amountain7487]

Very cool idea. But anything that any creatures or plants do should benefit them in someway so they can have a reason to develop in that way, so i think the reason for it to make a forest fire is to create more land for it's sapling or destroy every trees so it can get all the nutrients or the fire that burned all the trees have something special that convert the trees in to nutrients that the tree can absorbs.

[@nathanphilbrick-cruse406]

@@amountain7487 that's easy, either the trees seeds are dispersed during the second stage and have evolved to grow after a fire, like some Australian plants, OR, there are seeds with thick husks all over the nitrogen sack, that are launched out when it bursts and also, grow after a fire

[@nathanphilbrick-cruse406]

To expand on this, I can imagine that there's a parasitic plant that is really nitrogen hungry like Corn, and latches onto the blossom to grow. Maybe it could become cultivated by humans who like the fruit of this plant and the seeds on the nitrogen sack.

[@kentario1610]

@@nathanphilbrick-cruse406 I wonder if, with enough nitrogen sapping plants and organisms, the nitrogen sack could be prevented from exploding at all, or if it would still happen for some reason. Building too many houses near one of these without control of when it will essentially bomb everyone could be reckless, that or people allow it to follow its cycle and just evacuate or move on to a new plant.

[@victory8928]

@@kentario1610I imagine it would slow down when it happened mostly cause these plants don’t want to deplete the nitrogen levels of the sac. Like mistletoe which will reduce its parasitising of its host during winter and other harsh times especially with many mistletoe on the same tree they will start using photosynthesis more to compensate and to not kill the host

[@iamwonka]

The background music selection is well selected! Lol, great video!

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Millet is the most amazing grain I’ve ever imagined, and somehow the stuff is real. One dollar will feed a family of three and it grows everywhere and it’s so easy to cook- it’s basically an instant meal if you need it to be.

[@Barakon]

Budgie treat & a good feed.

[@ajdogz5088]

I have a type of grain in my world that thrives in the colder regions. It uses magic to melt the snow around it in the winter for both water and to keep itself from freezing. When it reaches maturity, the seeds glow with a color akin to twilight, which attracts the animals and birds that live there to eat it and spread it's seeds. This occurs in early mid winter It has become the equivalent of wheat for subartic cultures and even when it has been ground into flour, it retains it's glowing properties for a few months, becoming a few days once baked. Edit: Spelling

[@rurikaunimoto]

Making this comment around 2:30 . On the topic of plants, not all the plants I have have roots. A plant, taking inspiration from the air plant, actually floats in the air, feeding on mana. Some spin to fly, others are just like jelly fish where they are simply carried by the wind. There are others, but this is the more unique one that I didn't directly rip from elsewhere.

[@wandernights7972]

On the plants that don't drink water, maybe we can substitute that for blood and go a ventus flytrap route? Could make places that were battlefields thrive and make the plant continuously traveling across areas? idk

[@3nertia]

Sounds reasonable to me! *yoink*

[@funnyswangoosething5088]

Imagine those blood drinking plants in an industrial war with technology similar to WW1/2 or modern era today, the amount of bloodshed on the trenches will grow an entire forest.

[@rileyexistent8738]

Now image that those blood consuming plants produced something useful to humans. There could end up being quite a bit of animal and human sacrifice

[@lifeuncovered6188]

Ight I’m taking that shit 💀

[@frenchempire9471]

Call it bloodsgrain or something

[@Elkulan]

I have missed these kind of videos

[@bobross547]

I prefer these too

[@zakmurdoch3129]

I literally watched less than 30 seconds of this and immediately liked and subscribed. Can't believe I slept on this for so long.

[@weltengeist]

Amazing video! I am feeling honored

[@silvertheelf]

That intro caught me off guard “This video is an official Stoneworks NFT owned by you guessed it, Ba’al” Cue that kungfu panda picture where Po is distorted around weirdly and staring at the camera funny.

[@jacobedward2401]

Check out "forest gardening" or "ecological gardening" or "permaculture". Building off the three sisters technique you mentioned and other techniques developed by indigenous people, and combined with new knowledge of soil chemistry and soil microbiology, we can build a healthy ecosystem that can produce food and materials for us while also providing habitat for wildlife. For example, there are several nitrogen-fixing shrubs that have few direct benefits for humans but might be planted to benefit the soil and provide food for birds, whose poop then provides even more nutrients. It's the Ciiiiircle of Life!

[@quel2324]

It's been a while but I'd like to add. Forest harvesting is a thing! Some plantlife in the amazon cannot be explained through natural selection, and after a lot of investigation it was discovered that Amazonic tribes artificially selected trees that gave bigger, juicier fruits. I'm using this in a culture in my world, where fairies often build houses in trees and favor those with better output.

[@Space_Pirate_Buzaso]

Since my setting is a flat, infinite plane with a sun that cannot physically set, the vast majority of all plant life falls into two categories. It is either subterranean, cannibalizing other plants to stay alive or has developed an increased number of external layers with a massive array of photon receptors to aid in the plant's growth beneath the massive exterior. Over time these outer layers eventually break down due to the large streams of unmitigated light, and so the secondary layer forms underneath to take over, ad infinatum until the plant is either harvested or its natural life cycle ceases. This results in an increased volume of yield from a single plant and some unusual ways of reproduction or pollination for the plant

[@polystralianpuritist801]

10:22 I guess it can be used to determine how vital the crop is to the societies around its home range. In terms economy, it will explain as to why some crops are more valuable than others despite being from the same lineage.

[@GregMcNeish]

I feel the need to point out that I liked the "subscribe therefore Big Bang" joke enough that I immediately clicked Subscribe. That's marketing.

[@beastmachine4793]

I'm writing a fantasy story taking place on an archipelago and this video gave me a cool idea. In the Urnu Isles, the smaller islands have very sandy soils, making it terrible for farming things like corn and wheat. To combat this, the farmers would take whatever fish they can't eat(as many native fish species in that area are extremely poisonous) and bury them in their gardens. This would provide fresh nutrients that the plants would need in order to grow.

[@aweetodd]

The book I'm currently writing takes place on these floating magnit islands that's constantly raining liquid nitrogen and lightning. Since there's not much sunlight the plants have evolved to relay on the lightning as a energy source

[@bretttracey8406]

I've been watching your videos for awhile, but this one earned you a subscription from me. The social norms caused by farming high maintenance crops sounds really good for a place in my conworld. Mine already has little infighting b\c of all the skull-island-esqe fuckoff monsters running around causing people to need each other's help pretty often, but they've extincted plenty of the megafauna too so this is a good backup.

[@punzersashes]

For the genetic drift. There might be an immortal or a long-lived character in your story, who takes the plants/animals to different environments and waits for generations until natural selection does its thing. then they take the product and breed it back into the stock. it might be like pseudo-selective breeding in the older times, before the knowledge of genetics.

[@tinoizquierdo5646]

i’m currently in the process of creating a world, tldr magic was discovered in medieval era but agriculture. antarctic culture, lived in caves with geothermal springs and there were semi domesticated duck things that would eat the bacteria that lived in the pools, magic allowed them to create bigger caves and springs and shit… so on and the time that the story would take place, they use the bacteria to make scoby leather for clothes, use the bacterial as feed for the duck which are raised for meat, feathers and eggs, and media for mushrooms as well as other stuff but those being the primary food sources. they use the geothermal heat in place of fire in every sense other than light which specialised bacteria are grown.

[@RocketJo86]

AS someone who recently grew very interested in mikrofauna: The fauna of the soil plays a major part in agriculture, too. They keep the soil airy (as do certain plants after they die, because of the roots) and greatly help in fertilizing. If you're going that deep into worldbuilding agriculture, you shoul consider all your isopods, springtails, earthworms etc. that live alongside your plants. Heavy fertilizing can kill that mikorfauna and ultimatly result in a dead patch of land, where the plants grow very well in the first year but die off in the next. And you didn'T even mention the cooperation between farmers and husbanding tribes (it could probably be in a follow up video which I haven't watched yet). Especially in middle and west Asia, but also some parts of Africa and the early Europe there have been small cities that lived off agriculture. Those where visited on a regular base by nomad tribes with their animals. While the trading between tribe and city happened, the animals where left in the fields. Of course the manure fertilized the soil, but especially ungulates did another thing. They sort of plowed the land with their hooves, just by walking over it and searching for food. This sort of soil regeneration was practiced in Europe up until the industrilaization and is a major part of the life cycle of steppe biomes like the Great Plains and the east african savannah. If you consider world-building a pre-industrial civilization (or certain biomes) you should keep this in mind as well.

[@la.cresenta]

One specific plant in my world is a hybrid of tree and mushroom. Instead of gaining energy with roots, they will get energy by feeding off small insects that enter the blossoms for sugar, instead being devoured as a food source. They make good food source when cooked, but can be toxic when eaten raw, for obvious and not so obvious reasons.

[@GnarledStaff]

That golden rod thing makes a lot of sense. When I lived in the NE US, building a hole 2 feet deep meant making a hole 4 feet wide so we could take out all the rocks in the way.

[@LoneWolf20213]

heres mine, and I am basing mine off of not only Mana being the main nutriance, but also this being multidimensional as well Agriculture, like all other dimensions, is the cornerstone of civilization as all civilzization cannot excist without it, and thus, the worlds in each realm have their own version, though, they also have their many Similarities as well since each realm is by itself, a carbon copy of one another in some form or fashion even if the geology and look are completely different, and plant life shows this as each world has the same plants even if, due to their conditions and region, are different in look, shape, color, function, and even taste, it’s why gods and goddesses of the harvest/agriculture study the many ways these plants react and find it fascinating to learn about, especially since all plant life takes nutriance not only from absorbing minerals from the ground, but also absorbing Mana from the ground, water, and air, meaning for many plants, some of them can grow with Mana alone With Mana in the air, water, and earth, plant life is able to not only grow even in the bleekest of conditions, so soil is not a factor when growing any kind of plant as the only real factor is the mana in said soil as you can have 2 of the same soil type, but based on how much mana is in one can have the plant that grows in it end up either better or worse, this mean’s any plant, no matter the type it is can also grow in more harsher environments, even plants like strawberries or blueberries can grow in dry deserts so long as there's enough Mana in the soil even without being given water for 2-3 years at a time, though based on the conditions, Mana Concentration/Density, and Environmental conditions, the plant iself may change, such as how dessert fruit have a higher concentration of Mana than forest based fruits due to getting their substadance from Mana over water, because of this, various types of fruit types can be found and grown, an example Greek Elven plants are greener, richer, and far more abundant in size and juices within the plant as well as diverse plants as well due to frequent rain and abondant Mana, however, these plants rely on a system taht if broken, will cause a mass loss of plant life Indian Catkin Plants are browner, dry, and have high enough concentrations of Mana to glow and shine with either spongy or hollow interior with a thick, waxy coating keeps the water inside from evaporating and less abundant plant veriations due to having less water due to only yearly rain and poor soil conditions compared to other of the same kind, but are far more foriving as they don’t need much water to grow Norse Dwarven Plants are sloghtly heated by the touch to melt parts of the snow that falls on it as well as white as it absorbes the ice that forms around it and make’s it’s version of a shell of Ice and Mana, because of this, once the ice melts away, the plant itself is a gloopy, loose, soft and squishy substance that is easy to eat Because soil revitalizes itself with the Mana in the ground, it is easy to grow massive farms without worry of the soils quality or type, and the only time you do worry is when the Mana in the ground is low, which is easy enough to fix if you grind Mana Crystals from defeated Monsters into powder and fuze it with the fertilizer to mix into the ground and the cultivation of plants varies on regions due to how some plants need certain conditions to grow, as such, no 2 methods of planting will work if you’re in a new region, and because of the effect that Mana has on living things, plant’s become either larger or smaller based on how much Mana they absorbin thier growth period, one reason the elves are said to have the best agriculture with some of the richest and largest plants of all the other races is becasue the elven forest are the only forest with literal mountains of Mana crystals to have mana be abundant in their forest, thought to also be the main reason elves have developed some of the most powerful magic of all other races as well, though, this is because of generations upon generations of this race eating food with this consintration of Mana, so for any other race to develop similar qualities of Magic to elves by eating the food the elves normally eat while not completely impossible, is very unlikely as their are many other factors that play a part in this Plants in the sense evolved over time as well, thanks to being exposed to different regions (which in this case are whole new dimensions since each regions is it’s own dimension in of itself), selected breeding of certain plants to get the most desired traits from them, and experimentation of how verious plant sould grow under certain conditions and Bioms, has changed the plants from before and are very different to how they were when they were first being planted in farms, being easier to eat with it’s edible parts larger and more abundant or having the task of extract the seeds from said plant far easier as, it’s why plants have 3 designations Region Races most prominante kingdom Plant type Each factor can drastically change and effect how these plants grow, and even how they look, some will glow, some will be dry, some will be filled with juices, and some can even utalize stone or ice as it’s seed shell, plant life is diverse, varied, and leaves a lot for experimentation as even now, the extend of these plants effected by the mana in the planet is yet to be properly understood even now I like this system as it show's the many ways mana effects plant life

[@auri1075]

One of the plants i made was a filtering plant which lives in the desert. It has filaments that absorb water in the air and any organic matter that reaches it

[@auri1075]

Oh. And it closes down if there is a sandstorm to protecr itself. I know the whole description here is very incomplete, but i dont want to write everything again.

[@nekokoishi]

I think the first ever plant I ever made for my world is a Tree that grows inedible fruit that mainly grows around nearby bodies of water. The fruit it grows has a special fiber inside it that helps the seeds float around water. The society who discovered this tree used the fiber for creating cut resistant clothing which is important in the world I am making because the major weakness of the magic system is bleeding/getting wounded.

[@alexiszapatacherniz421]

I WAS SEARCHING LITERALLY FOR THIS EXACT VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH, (no ironic, i literraly had to read a pdf about soil tipes)

[@Jormungandr633]

Tree in a dune. Never rains (except for like a whole month every 2 years) lots of ground water a half mile under ground. Truffles bring water up to the trees roots in exchange for nutrients

[@mid8150]

(My Idea.) A world with highly unpredictable weather patterns, non arable land and non existence of high calorie plants. The planet has no moon, rotates three times faster than Earth does, has ten percent of it's surface covered in water. Over the course of one thousand years the axial tilt can change by as much as sixty degrees. Plant migration is rapid as climates can change in a flash. This has caused the majority of this worlds inhabitants to live a simple hunter gatherer lifestyle. Some people however have rejected this trend and adopt a form of hierarchy based on the scarcity of the planets resources, the premise is that the intellectuals of the tribe would brainstorm and lead their people forward, this has encouraged them to take greater risks in anticipation of a greater reward. It pays off when they successfully grow a crop that is easy to grow in large quantity's and high in calories this enables them to settle in one place for an extended period of time, marking the true beginning of both agriculture and of what is basically a tribal form of Technocracy. Sry the post is so long, I didn't know how to shorten it with fewer words.

[@ashtwenty12]

Very underrated video. Hope this trends

[@nip3004]

A vegetable is any edible part of a plant. It's only confusing if you try to separate fruits from vegetables. Just like all squares are rectangles, all fruit are vegetables.

[@squesh5974]

Developing some stuff for my groups table top world (we share the world building) so this was awesome but also as a native person I was very pleasantly surprised! Thank you!

[@sithalo]

I wasnt expecting to see a mostly naked minecraft skin within the first 10 seconds but here we are lol. This reminds me of playing Horizion Zero Dawn, I saw the Nora (and others) have so much food but you would be hard pressed to actually find any large scale farming that provides the gameworld with such amounts of food. Theres a few small farms here and there and maybe that can account for the food of the Nora but the Carja would need much larger sources. Its possible I have just overlooked them but for as detailed as the game is I feel like farming is one they left out. Edit: Meridian does have a MaizeLand nearby it that I hadnt refound until after this comment. It grows lots of corn bananas and watermelons. But still the Nora dont have much in the way of farmland (again maybe I just have overlooked it) but they have a weirdly large amount of produce.

[@ImpossibleEvan]

28:00 love the worldbox map

[@McHaven07]

That's a fascinating theory describing the birth of the many vs. the individual cultures of the world. Thanks for sharing it!

[@dudster0624]

For my world, a steampunk skybound archipelago filled with airships, i had this idea for a plant called an aurerb. When a seed settles, it lowers sturdy roots into the ground nourishing itself on any Aeus (an ore that attracts this lighter than air particle called aerl) in the soil. As it matures, a bulb with a sturdy stem slowly grows upwards. After reaching up, for most aurerbs, about a foot, aeus the plant has been collecting in its roots shoots up to the bulb. The aeus than attracts aerl (that lighter than air particle), which fills the bulb with the lighter then air particle. The bulb expands like a balloon and the stem becomes less sturdy, becoming more of a string tying a balloon to the ground than a stem. Some Aurerbs will stay like this, and release smaller bulbs that travel until they run out of aerl, those bulbs contain the plant's seeds and will grow a new one where it lands. Other Aurerbs will lose the stem completely sustaining themselves only on the aerl they attract with reserves of aeus. These plants regulate their height by changing their aerl amounts depending on atmospheric pressure, maintaining a nice hover like there is no gravity easily. They release their seeds in bulbs as well.

[@heycheno9310]

Yaaaas! Excellent video, can’t wait for the next one! I learnt a lot from this!

[@orsislactoniaplatonia44]

A crop I made up was a source of microchips bc it was silicon-based life and its fruit had a lot of raw material for computer components like silicon and gold copper iron etc so u wouldn't need to mine for these materials but it could only be grown on methane based planetary atmospheres

[@dragonturtle2703]

Well, my setting is a sci fi setting, and they don’t really have any special plants so far (outside of death world plants which are super tough and/or deadly), but there is an entire species of sapient fungus which will grow on a corpse, and replace the dead flesh it eats until has a mobile fungal mass. This, you get a fungus man, who either keeps themselves trimmed or eventually grows to big into a fungal mass that just flops over. Some even opt for surgeries to shape their mass, and they have a more Geth like view on identity (so combining and splitting isn’t that big of a deal usually).

[@alehaim]

Another interesting thing regarding the connection between culture and agriculture/climate would be the northern places like Scandinavia, where short growing seasons and need to store food for the winter support a more communal/community common good centered culture, as the need to store food for the winter so that the community doesn't starve forced people to work together and also meant in part that social democracy became so popular here. The welfare state is in large part only possible because the people are willing to sacrifice income to pay for common services, which are for the sake of comon good.

[@nonya9120]

Geezer here.... In my cauldron agriculture has been a major consideration for decades. On some occasions the kittens actually seemed to pay attention. For me it's a magical "fantasy" setting. Love those magic tatters, halflings. There are simply eons of adventure waiting to be had. Look at earth history of rubber or bananas. Great vid. Gaming on.

[@leonartu3756]

I have another idea: non-starionary farming. Maybe they can transport the plants, maybe the plants can move, or i dunno, majik.

[@cameoshadowness7757]

There was one world I had where plants (or rather fungi) only grow on people. It was based on DC's Apokolips, it has super little water and such and it was a very dark fic.

[@adamjenkins7653]

My current project has all sorts of issues on the plant side of things, due to how mana (a force primarily generated by the planets rotation) mutates the life that absorbs it. The more you try to kill things, the harder they are to kill. Farmers therefore NEED to be able to fight in order to guide the plants mana evolution in the way they need to. If a long-grass crop gets flooded, there's a chance it may become drown-vine. A plant that like the name suggests will reach out and ensnare noisy things nearby and drag them down into the water to drown them near their roots. So a common "quest" would be to help deal with any vines that pop up after a flooding.

[@arthurofalsen2110]

Love the civ icons

[@dr.keinmann2996]

i've always wanted to make a world building system agnostic book for plants for stuff like dnd. although I don't remember much, I remember there was a plant idea I had come up with, that being a plant that was kind of like a bubble? using some sort of lighter then air poisoness gas to float above potential preditors. i remember though its fruit was a gigantic part of a civilization because it had made the best wines around. and it had saved some king from dying of starvation or something, and named after him. this reminds me how I should continue that project!

[@pojo398]

Very engaging video and pretty dang good! Loved every second, keep it up mate, purely for my entertainment and learning of course.

[@mann_man8556]

Someone needs to make plants that can move and then they get domesticated by humans and then the people become crop herders.I mean I don’t know how that would happen but I think it’d be cool.

[@3nertia]

*yoink*

[@funnyswangoosething5088]

Not feasible irl but there’s a Disney animation short of speculating on life on Mars. Two of the organisms shown in that video is “migratory plants moving for better soil” and “plants that eat themselves”, the former could be an underground insect like creature with the stem being like a worm and the roots helping it move like a centipede underground, with its branches being the part gaining energy being harvested by humans for food and such. The plants that could “eat themselves” might be like what some fungus do today, and honestly a lot more realistic, some fungus just basically grow massive because it is growing while dying, basically growing past the parts that’s dying to greener pastures. This plant could work like aspens of today, where it’s one singular root system extending offshoots/clones of itself and “moving” by said method I just explained, alot similar to the former but less exciting lol.

[@3nertia]

@@funnyswangoosething5088 Wait, plants that eat themselves? Do you have any information readily available that I could use to look that up? Plant name or something? A link would be nice :D

[@funnyswangoosething5088]

3nertia oh what I said was based on the Disney short I was inspired by, if you want the some real life inspiration on the mumbo jumbo I talked about, bladderworts not only eat bugs but also microscopic plants, also the Broomrape (yes the name) is a parasitic plant that leeches off nutrients from other plants, although a perpetual self driving cannibalizing plant isn’t possible, you can have something similar of a plant “farming” another plant.

[@3nertia]

@@funnyswangoosething5088 Which Disney short were you referencing then?

[@flyingsquirrell6953]

I play a medieval fantasy NRP - I live in the tundra so I say that my plays have unnaturally high sugar and mineral content and are able to lower the freezing point of their sap and this be able to stay alive even with snow on the ground. The extra nutrients leads to my population being stronger too. I did this to spite the DM.

[@bernatsaenz5100]

Amazing video, loved it, I just would have liked some examples of how magic might influence the agriculture. I know that whenever we introduce magic or gods, logical reasoning goes out the windows, but I thought it could be interesting too. For example, maybe the local tribes have a ritual to enrich the fertility of the soil, or maybe there's an ore vein of a mineral that naturally contains magic, which plants can use as fertilizer, but may develop unforseen side effects. You could even create some sort of tree or flower that faintly glows in the dark, as a method of pollination, which then societies can use to locate spots where to mine the magical ore mineral.

[@Stoneworks]

That will hopefully come in the next one

[@brandonver-non7573]

I love all the historia civilis videos in the recommend videos. A man of culture i see

[@tonydeveyra4611]

This is why the Polynesians are so fascinating. They brought breadfruit with them across the ocean to tropical volcanic islands its an agronomic cheat code.

[@popakontas328]

Maybe since the plant gets nutrients through ash particles in the air, a civilization ignited a bunch of controlled forest fires to try and cultivate it but it got out of hand and led to their demise.

[@nicoruppert4207]

Blood soil. A civilisation regularly executes prisoners and animals to enrich the soil for their super crop. Super dark and easy way to make some baddies for a story.

[@GROMALOCARIS]

the whole 7:32 section just sort of happened and it took me a solid 10 seconds after it occurred to realize that I did not comprehend what it was that just flew through my eyes, like my mind erased it from my memories to seem like it never occurred in my life, and then I rewinded

[@EchoLog]

Particularly Skywalker OG ... Good taste friend

[@andrewrezendes]

Loved the Portuguese interjection.

[@seremaddox4759]

Plants are one organ of the elementals that have proliferated throughout the World. The elementals themselves live in geologic time, so mountains, ect... have their own movement, but sloooooowly.

[@sizanogreen9900]

Great video:) There are also cultivated forests, I have a civilisation in my world that has gone down that rabbit hole instead of more familiar field based agriculture and it has given them some interesting stuff.

[@nobody4248]

Hmm, how does that work?

[@tyrant-den884]

Then there's my least favorite result of magical agricultural world building: boot rear. It's root beer that grows on trees and kicks your butt every time you drink it.

[@gideonjones5712]

Uses for genetic drift in crop types: maybe one nation develops a strain resistant to a plague or blight that comes along and devestates surrounding nations. Alternatively, stealing corn as an example, hundreds of varieties existed and would be grown alongside each other. So, a culture might find it super important to collect and cultivate different varieties of their crops for food security. A lot of potential stories of espionage and seed smuggling, trade deals and hell, even wars if you feel like it

[@Zamtrios245]

I know this video is about the plants used in agriculture, but animals are very much a part of agriculture! Like cow ranching or using animals for work.

[@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person]

About agriculture, I did once a parody setting of the cultivation system in chinese novels where people lived solely on Peaches, which enhanced their cultivation, then they focused their chi after becoming aware of it, coagulating into a kernel, the golden core, near their livers, where the remnants of their umbilical chords used to be, meanwhile expelling their impurities. Once their core was finished, they transfered their soul into it, and the body perished, feeding back the peach trees, whose fruit tasted of flesh. These coccoon-like peach kernels then sprouted 9 months later, forming a new person, and the cycle repeated. They reached "immortality" by constantly dying and coming back alive. Everything in this setting was transient, as not only humans, but plants too dissolved in the mist like essential oils in a steam dislillation, and coagulated back into blossoms, as if plants were like frost flowers. It is this "mist" that is chi, full of pure flower essence, ready to coagulate into a blossom, and when people breathed while meditating, they were effective doing internal alchemy with these essences. One more serious though I did inspired by the amazon rainforest and southeast asia. In this rainforest setting, all mammals were exterminated in a cataclysm, so birds and reptiles occupied their former niches. When settlers came back, they couldn't rely on husbandry despite chickens in this land being as big as cows, so they had o rely on the local flora to feed themselves, with many of them being based on Brazilian plants such as açaí berry, cashew, cupuaçu, etc...

[@TheGlader2]

I borrowed Charms/Badges from games like Hollow Knight and Paper Mario to make a new type of magical item called . . . Charms, that's right I just stole the name because the alternatives kinda suck, like who wants to call their magic items *Pins*. Basically charms are ultra rare mod drops, like actual mod drops not loot that they had on them to begin with, the lore behind them is that when someone dies sometimes a piece of their soul is left behind in the form of a charm, if they have a particularly strong will then they are guaranteed to drop a charm. These charms all have unique effects based on the type of thing that dropped them, and because they are based on what dropped them it's really easy to come up with their abilities. I'm an artist and I also enjoy drawing these charms for my players in my free time and they seem to think it's sick. Anyway I guess that's why I decided to share that with you guys.

[@Menzobarrenza]

I love this idea. Thanks for sharing!

[@kaitlynboss3497]

You have no idea how happy it makes me to listen to this video and have already done a lot of this, just instinctively.

[@Lyozar589]

I have a lot of different types of flora. - Living Wind Woods: A forest augmented by Heartstone (crystalized life energy), it radiates light that over time changed the woodlands. Plants grow larger and their nutrients level is increased (that's one of the vast effects) A large city was built in the woods and their farms are some of the best in the world. - Snow Berries: A cold blue berry grown by Snow Elves in their Boreal Forest settlements. It's flavor is cold & sweet and highly coveted by other species. - Taphir Fungus: A necrotic fungus that stores dead matter in it's sap making it high in nutrients. Their spores can embed themselves in people but activated when they die and reach ambient temperature or the person is exposed to negative energy. This fungi is a powerful tool against undead as they are full of negative energy. They are used by a group of people called Vanir for food as their sap is an ingredient in "Taphir Noodles". - Aconite: A foul smelling flower that grows exclusively in Vanaheim. It's scent wards off demons.

[@Menzobarrenza]

That sounds like a very interesting take on the old Norse mythological realms. Are you using the World Tree and Nine Worlds, or are you doing it differently?

[@Lyozar589]

@@Menzobarrenza I'm doing something different in my setting. The World Tree is called the "Tree Of Grace" it was made by Gaia, Primordial Goddess Of Creation. There are only four left on the last four prime planets in the universe as an ancient death cult race wiped out 99% of life on the universe leaving barren, frozen worlds and cold solar systems as they consumed the stars. The last four prime planets are Zodia, Midgard, Avalon, & Threa - Zodia originally Divonis is a world ruled by 12 theocratic Kingdoms that worship the Zodiac Pantheon. - Midgard is a tidal locked Hypergiant planet ruled by a group of Nephilim that evolved to be very physically strong due to the high gravity. The capital is called Asgard and ruled by Odin. - Avalon is a large planet ruled by a group of Nephilim that evolved to be more slender due to their constant use of magic. The planet was rendered barren so they live on floating islands. The capital is called Megistus it was ruled by Merlin but he died and now his daughter Merlina rules. - Threa was a normal mundane human world but after an extinction event it became a Fallout like world with bandit clans and a few cities. There are Elemental Realms, the Upper Realms like the various Heavens, the lower Realms like the car Hells, the Ethereal Realm which is purgatory, the Astral Realm which acts a border realm for other planes of existence. Vanaheim is a continent on Zodia were Scorpio is primarily worshiped.

[@Menzobarrenza]

@SuperVegeto00 This sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I like the creative variety in the setting. I assume it was a way to tie together 4 different projects? Or did you start out wanting to create a multi-planet setting?

[@Lyozar589]

@@Menzobarrenza I wanted multiple planets from the start

[@ernestlam5632]

In an Isekai I saw a character said they didn't have agriculture in that fantasy world bc that got everything from adventuring. I thought that was interesting. A world so abundant that agriculture never developed.

[@ludvikpavel3758]

This is truly a great video Stoneman, we thank you very much.

[@lordcjripper7621]

A volcanasaur is a creature that consumes rock and spews lava/ash as waste. These creatures are domesticated to enhance local agriculture. And thus a new society is born.

[@ouroboroscycle]

Your videos get better and better nice work

[@Pointillax]

Just about the "vegetable" category, vegetables are the plants cultivated in a garden. So technically, any cultivated plant can be a vegetable, roots, tubercules, fruits, whatever. It's a really broad "category" that is really more a laymans term to talk about food.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Stoneworks! Can't wait for the next video man! Remember Guys and Gals, Don't put your Beans in your M1 Garand (Pronounced Guh-Rand) Rifles, you never know when you'll need it. Beans you can usually get at the store if they're in stock, as well as Corned Beef and Potatoes, so for the sake of your own Safety against the Criminally Insane who've been roaming the Lands since the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was Closed down back in the 1980's, Keep for Rifles Clean and Ready and Eat your Beans in a Custard Cup or something. This was *NOT* Sponsored by "B&M Boston Baked Beans" LMAO! Not gonna lie though, Those Boston Baked Beans are Really Good. Also, Your Minecraft server isn't the only thing making all our Girls and Waifu's Moist. Just the sight of their Guy doing some of the Cooking, Cleaning and giving them a Massage for once is enough to make them want to stay with you. So boy's, Step up your game and show your Girl that you're willing to provide for her and possibly have a Family Together by doing some of the Work Around the House for once at least, it might help if she catches you shirtless and a Bit sweaty as well!

[@NoirMorter]

In my setting I have two interesting plants one that has effected the culture "running of the carrots." During harvest time the community gets together to harvest the carrots. The problem when the first in the field is pulled from the ground the rest run away. Until they learned magic to sooth the plants it became a festival done now in thanks and remembrance. The second plant is the first version of settlement walls. Great veins that would bear large fruits that resemble tomatoes but are as spicy as Thai dragon peppers. They are also sentient and prefer the magic of the beasts and monsters of the woodlands they are from. They blossom and grow gargantuan in size when placed around some forests in my world.

[@kirkwagner461]

This was all good stuff. Very interesting!

[@eddie3051]

Idea: everything comes from Octavian Augustus, everything is named Octavian Augustus, everything needs Octavian Augustus and every word and frase is Octavian Augustus except for the frase "I'm having diarrhea on a horse while laughing and dying" which is Titus Flavius ​​Vespasian. everything is Octavian Augustus even the alphab- Octavian Augustus Octavian Augustus, Octavian Augustus Octavian Augustus. Octavian Augustus Octavian Augustus Titus Flavius Vespasian, Octavian Augustus.

[@eddie3051]

Bruh actually why did you Heart this comment?

[@Stoneworks]

@@eddie3051 shit's funny lmao

[@eddie3051]

@@Stoneworks seems.... Acceptable

[@joaoosahko]

the OBRIGADO part caught me off tho I was half asleep watching the video and went just "EXCUSE ME IS THIS A PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING REFERENCE?????"

[@realhuman4879]

I have no idea what the captains are trying to say but I’m scared

[@SwordlordRoy]

I seem to recall once having medieval farming explained to me, where you would have effectively 3 fields...let's call them A, B, and C. Field A in Year 1 would be where you plant your wheat, potatoes, etc. Field B would be where you feed your Pigs, Cows, Goats, etc. Field C would be left to rest for the year. Year 2 would see Field A with the animals, Field B resting and absorbing all the nutrients of that sweet sweet animal dung, and Field C is where you would have your planting. I could be wrong about this though, I just know that animals followed the plants to fertilize the fields, it's possible they had beans or something growing in the third field instead of resting.

[@ladyoblivious]

One of the most interesting ideas I've seen with plants in a fantasy would have to be from an anime called the twelve kingdoms. There are specific kinds of trees that grow fruit that can either be humans, animals, monster, or even the gods themselves being born from it. Life in that world is born through regular means, but through these different trees. Honestly some of the best world building ideas I've seen has come from this anime. Even to this day, and it's an old anime that had the protagonist isekaied.

[@zetoboogaloo8802]

cat tails could be a very amazing crop if you think about it. The corndog top can be used for fabrics and be turned into food. the stem can be used in rope and other products. And the roots are edible. unmature cattails have more nutrients in the roots as well.

[@refoliation]

Lmao have fun with that we over here eating potatoes!

[@zetoboogaloo8802]

@@refoliationalmost the entire plant can be eaten at some point in its life making it more useful then potatoes.

[@refoliation]

@@zetoboogaloo8802 NOM SCROM NOM I'm eating potatoes the #1 staple crop in the entire biosphere! Their subterranean nature means they don't need heavy vegetable growth to grow stems or other junk - just delicious and nutritious starch! Just playin though. Hope you're doing well!

[@zetoboogaloo8802]

@@refoliation I move my cattails up to b1 your move!!!. And I’m doing alright. How bout yourself.

[@ToqTheWise]

For any traveler who sees this: Here in Utah, our irrigation isn't done through glaciers but through snow melts. Basically, here in the valley we don't get regular rainfall because of the wasatch rain shadow but during the winters it snows regularly in the mountains. (mostly...*cries in drought*) In the spring, we capture this snow as it melts and use it for our water grid and to try and fill the giant death lake before it poisons us all. ... Help me.

[@SpaceSoups]

Now you're just somebody that I used to know.

[@zakarybourbeau5750]

In my current and only world building priject so far, xenar there a plant callled the healing berry bush ( dint get to make a smarter name yet ) that unlike the other plans in the setting are made by evolution, the healing berry bush instead was litteraly created by the god of that world building world and the reason why he made it, is because he used to bet on some animals winning battles in the wild, but they kept dying to infections and such, so he created the bush just so his combatents would last longuer.

[@SMunro]

Agricultural Yields Produce: Yield Soybean: 5290lb/acre Green Mulberry leaves: 4465lb/acre Paddy Rice: 33 bushels*/acre Indigo: 1322lb/acre *56lb/bushel as standard. Secondary Produce Silk: 123lb green mulberry leaves fed to silkworms produce 1lb silk. I use to have a list of western agriculture produce, but its lost.

[@Menzobarrenza]

Thanks for sharing. This is actually pretty useful to me. I might want to consider making such a list, starting with what you shared here.

[@worldbuildingjuice]

Wow that's a lotta research you did here, respect! Thanks for the amazing video!

[@aidan4472]

“He described it as alchoholic popcorn and I really wish that were true in real life.” 3 steps: go to AMC Order popcorn and a ticket to Space Jam II Profit. Wait that’s psychedelic popcorn… welp, I got nothin