Optional fertilizer?

I was just planting some cotton and noticed that there's an optional fertilizer component. Where do we get this, or is it even implemented yet?

 

Its Optional Just use water and seed and you will be able to plant your seed

 

I don't think we have fertilizer yet. If we do then I am not in the know

 

I suspect it will form part of the agriculture skill later on when its released but currently it isn't available.

 

Agriculture was specifically removed from being a skill.

 

Can we have pets roam our lots to create fertilizer? How about the out house, maybe a poop pipe to an irrigation system? Or some kind of refuse fertilizer bin?

 

Are you sure it was removed?

This is from the Q3 release schedule.

RELEASE 34, September 29, 2016

• Story: A final polish pass will be completed through the Love Path of the story and we will begin a polish pass on the Courage Path. Aerie and Resolute NPCs will also get a behavior improvement pass. Additionally several NPC towns that are currently clones will be replaced with original scenes.
• Player Towns & Player Housing: Player-Owned Towns that have locked submission forms will appear in the game. New variations on the town templates may also appear.
• Offline Economy: The economy in offline mode will be tuned to be better balanced for single player. NPC merchants will buy player crafted items at a profit to the player for instance. Additionally pledge and add-on store items will be available from NPC merchants for purchase with in-game gold.
• Crafting: Recipes will become teachable (much like emotes). Agriculture will get a polish pass and some new content.
• Creatures: We will continue a major polish pass through our creatures.
• Roving Encounters: Potential encounters (wandering merchants, monsters, etc.) will appear on the overworld for players to engage (or avoid).

 

Agriculture is, of course, in the game. It's just (intentionally) not a skill.

 

Even without being a skill, it seems agriculture at large will get an overhaul and vertilizers might be added with that. Right now I don't know of any vertilzers that can be used.

 

Try a fish as fertilizer, I faintly remember using it once

 

How do you get the plants to produce. I planted with water. Got plants to grow but no harvest? And yes I waited the equivalent of months in game time.

So, I thought I needed to water, double clicked the planter and it unplanted my seed?!?

 

When you double click it, and the plant goes away, that's how you harvest. You have to replant it every single harvest.

 

There are not any items that can currently be used as optional fertilizer. We're all hoping that makes it in for this release coming up.

It was removed specifically yes. They seem to have reconsidered it though and recently mentioned they'd be adding agriculture skills.

 

Did you plant this outside or in a greenhouse. From my experiments, it doesn't grow very well indoors or in basements. If it took the equivalent of months in game and it didn't even mature yet, then something is wrong. Whenever I grow anything, I can harvest in about 2 to 3 days (real time) max. Sometimes, it will drop a seed when harvesting.

 

Well the plants I was speaking of where potted on the roof of a tower outside.

 

Something doesn't sound right then, I have planter beds on the roof and am not having the issues you are. Maybe an issue with the planting pot? I may try an experiment myself and see if it grows normally.

 

Thanks. I see it now

 

There used to be an agriculture skill box that did not really have any effect on the outcome. Plants did not have a difficulty associated with them. Since it doesn't have any formal recipes, then I suspect it is on the back burner and just works until they have more time to devote to the agriculture system. In theory, you will eventually use it for planting and livestock.

I think the decision on focus on shooting fireballs or milking cows decision was made a good while back on priorities to implement first.