Stranded Alien Dawn | How To Grow Crops Right | Farming Guide

In this video I will show you how and what to grow. I will also show you why large farms are not necessary. Check out my how to and hard play videos in the links below. Please like and subscribe and I hope you enjoy this series.
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[@davidhart5344]

These guides this guy has done are the best for this game. He has figured out how to use the mechanics most optimally.

[@frenziedplaytime]

Thank you very much. I'm glad they helped you.

[@0minous187]

this is typical knowledge

[@Quetzietse]

While Mushrooms are a great back-up crop that can substitute Buttermelon when unavailable in most cases (except for advanced recipes like 'pumpkin' pie) I do think it is more efficient to have buttermelon as the standard vegetable you lean on. A 3x3 square can house one buttermelon or 9 glittercaps, so glittercaps do have the higher yield per square: Buttermelon yields 40, while a similarily sized glittercap field will yield 45. So if space is a big issue, glittercap is a bit better but not ridiculously so, considering the difference is only 5 units of vegetable per 3x3 square. Together with their longevity (spoilage) and hardiness (glittercap will still grow instead of die in winter), this might seem to give glittercap the upper hand overall, seeminlgy the logical conclusion. But that one buttermelon patch only takes one planting/harvesting action by a survivor: while with glittercaps you will have to plant/harvest 9 times in order to beat buttermelon yields. This means that glittercap, while very dependable, a wise back up crop because of the reasons you mentioned, is just *too labour intensive* to use as the main vegetable crop. This is extremely important, I can not stress this enough, glittercaps being 9 times the labour compared to buttermelon by itself more than reverses all the other advantages glittercap has over buttermelon. Glittercap is a chore. Planting/harvesting a big field of buttermelon takes one or two hours and then some ferrying to move all that to your storage. Planting/harvesting a similarily sized field of glittercaps can occupy a survivor for the whole damn day, if not longer. Laara is a farming beast ofcourse, so she is able to cut that labour to some extent but if you count on other survivors functioning as farmers they will be a lot less stressed if they can grow some easy buttermelon instead of just glittercap. Converting the right half your glittercap field in the video (6 horizontal, 15 vertical, so 10 patches) to buttermelon will make your survivors not dread going to work into the fields. I would argue that around 8-10 buttermelon patches is the ideal amount for 4-5 survivors to subsist on (so 2 patches per survivor as a rule of thumb), switching to glittercap in recipies only when your buttermelon is almost gone by the end of the winter and early spring. Pickling buttermelon (which is not very labour intensive at all, handling fert. barrels) is also a good way to make your harvest last a lot longer and into the dead of winter or start of spring. I do like that you mention the shroom torch though which I think a lot of people undervalue to their detriment; but you don't need a lot of glittercap to keep those going, and healing balm is honestly useless (never even seen it get used, ever).

[@docgiggs]

So, as someone with a few hundred hours into the game and having completed just about every steam achievement, I want to toss a few words here. Crops and farming are really needed until you get a fridge room. Then they are barely needed. For the most part, these are the things your survivors must observe immediately for farming before they disappear potentially in the first winter. Cotton, Skinbark, Glitter cap mushrooms, and a grain crop. Everything else will survive or come back. Eventually you'll have to observe a tree to plant for wood, a bush to plant for stick, a plant for hay, and a plant for a vegetable or fruit. Typically vegetables are better than fruits. You can make your crops a little bit off from your base. If you fence it in, the "hungry pests" spawns won't be able to go after your crops. Which makes that spawn mostly ignorable if all your storage for food items is indoors as well. You only need to ever plant one big crop for cotton and skin bark usually. Once you have a thousand or two of each you can stop planting them. They never go bad if under a roof. You don't consume them as fast. Sticks are used until you get a power grid then are basically not needed anymore. Wood is useful until you start making concrete or nano housing and fortifications. Then it is less useful if barely used at all. Farming is less useful as well once you have a freezer or a freezer room to use. I personally prefer just building a fridge room and ignoring fridges/freezers all together. Rush concrete rooms and build a decent size room with shelving to put food items on. Build some air conditioners and set them to under 32 degrees F and you have a room that is a freezer. With a big enough freezer room, you can easily harvest and store thousands of crops. Once done you probably will never have to farm again. Without freezers, food products just rot away too fast so constant farming is needed until then. Basically never use your stone and and don't build anything out of scrap metal except lightning rods and traps. Every bit of scrap metal and ore should be used to make metal alloy bars. Stone should only be used to make concrete. Nano tubes can be easily obtained through taming a broodmother shreiker or by mining the bug nests. Don't bother wasting time "printing" nano tubes at all. Printers should basically be used to print electronics and the occasional CPU. Most of the time you can salvage electronics and cpu cores from debris faster than you can print them or get them from certain expeditions. Also realize, most of the tech in this game is useless and not worth researching unless you want to get an achievement for it.

[@alishab2337]

I lol'ed at farm size and base location hahaha - new to this game so loving your vids

[@frenziedplaytime]

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[@Stormenergy]

Good video! Very informative! Especially appreciated the bit about the mushrooms, and the ability to turn the planting option off an on! :D

[@frenziedplaytime]

Glad it was helpful.

[@TonyEjerJiang]

Wow finally someone sharing useful knowledge other than things that I can read in the game Thank you!

[@itsIouie]

On my 2nd playthrough now. Found this game and played it blind. I had a bunch of "ah ha!" and "ooooh I can use this for that!?!" moments on my 1st playthrough. Made the game so enjoyable and satisfying discovering methods and strategy on the go. Learned a lot from wasting time building stuff I didn't need and so much back and forth lol Everything he said in this video I read in the game myself 😅 I left the cursor hovering over everything clickable and you can read the information yourself. Play the game and have fun. I was curious to see how others play this game during my 2nd run now. He definitely did a great job explaining everything he read and learned from playing himself too lmao

[@nickwild7]

GLAD-LOCAL has become my favorite. It has everything you need near by and you spawn against a cliff, I personally move to the otherside but it's a vast flat land. Build against the cliff and out. Setup 2 or 3 funnels. Only thing I haven't been enjoying so far is the nests are all far af.

[@0minous187]

i was really hoping you would have explained how to make soil more fertile

[@safetythirdified]

bro, thanks.

[@danag6756]

Good guide! thank you

[@n000b51]

Nice explanations. Thanks to share.

[@frenziedplaytime]

Thanks very much.

[@EvokeHaze]

Very cool and good ideas

[@frenziedplaytime]

Thanks.

[@Bobbo662]

Hi. where do you get the plant to make energy crystals? I enjoyed ur video.

[@Jolarwar]

I observed a shiny rock and it was silicon, found one decent deposit so far.

[@muppetarms8406]

In an update the Glitter Caps not rot on shelves and I think in boxes

[@nepocrates]

THere is much info in this video however some if it is at best tangential to framing. For example the long explanation of survivor getting happy looking at shroom lamps. That has nothing to do with how to grow crops right . One thing I was hoping you would go over is that I notice my land has been slowing changing. what was decent farmland is now sand and such. I am not sure why this is happening and what I can do about it. thanks

[@frenziedplaytime]

The video was to show types of crops that were best to plant and why. Also showed some mechanics as well. As far as why your farmland is deteriorating, could be because you built too much near the land and it may cause issues with yield.

[@nepocrates]

@@frenziedplaytime Thanks for your quick reply

[@Alonzo-kt8kf]

What map?

[@KeysundKreisPlaylists_Colt]

Is your channel dead ? Or do you make more Videos?

[@juliannemullins7479]

Try the seed…. Earth 3.0 Very large fertile flat land. Best location I’ve found. Chaos moon, insane difficulty. Let me know if anyone has tried this 😊

[@frenziedplaytime]

Will check it out.

[@loganlewis8160]

Buzz shrooms?

[@passionfly1]

You never covered how to start growing food when you started. This guide is not good for starting in the first 2 weeks of landing.

[@irvendouglasadams9633]

I like most your video but this one dissatisfied

[@frenziedplaytime]

Sorry you didn't like it. This was made in early access when the game first came out.

[@kennethblasdel6728]

wtf thought this was about farming, why not just call it 'starter guide' instead, talk about farming for 1/5th the vid

[@lavishly_savage]

My ppl will starve even though I have the crops fully matured. They will not harvest to cook. I just started playing yesterday 🥹