Simple Farming is a module that adds the capability to grow plants in Terasology using seeds. After the plant is ripe, you can harvest the 'fruit' that is grown by that particular plant.

1. Plant the seed in a ground.
2. Wait for the plant to grow.
3. Wait for the produce to ripe.
4. Harvest the produce - you can do this by pressing E while facing the plant.
5. Destroy expired plant OR go back to step 3.

• Un-Growth Can - Make the plant go 1 growth stage back.
• Growth Can - Make the plant go 1 growth stage forward.

You can start making new plants by creating a new prefab file at assets/prefabs.

Usually for each plant you want to make these three prefabs:

1. Seed Prefab (e.g. TestberrySeed.prefab)
2. Fruit prefab (e.g. Testberry.prefab)
3. Ripe Stage of The Plant Prefab (e.g. TestberryBushFull.prefab)

You will also need to create a .block file for each stage of the plant at assets/block, as well as the textures for each stage of the plant at blockTiles.

For a good example, see TestberrySeed.prefab at assets/prefabs

maxRandom & fixed set the duration of a particular stage. The plant can grow to the next stage randomly during the range between maxRandom and fixed. If the value in fixed is reached, the plant immediately grows to the next growth stage. This will make the plants not grow to the next stage all at the exact time - some will get there faster than others!

engine:halfblock can be used to create a half-size block. This can be useful if you are trying to characterize the plant being "small" in size during that particular growth stage. (For instance, in the first stage of TestBerry Plant, the plant is a half-block of berry bush block).

    "growthStages": {
        "SimpleFarming:BerryBush:engine:halfblock": {
        "maxRandom": 5000,
        "fixed": 10000
    },
    "SimpleFarming:BerryBush": {
        "maxRandom": 5000,
        "fixed": 10000
    },
    "SimpleFarming:MatureBerryBush": {
        "maxRandom": 5000,
        "fixed": 10000
    },
    "SimpleFarming:TestberryBushFull": {
        "maxRandom": 5000,
        "fixed": 10000
    }
}

For a good example, see Testberry.prefab at assets/prefabs

This prefab should be pretty intuitive. It creates the fruit that will be dropped when you harvest the plant that grows it.

For a good example, see TestberryBushFull.prefab at assets/prefabs

This prefab manages the items that are are obtained when a particular plant is harvested.

For a good example, see the .block files on assets/blocks

The block files sets the characteristics for the plant block. You can use basedOn to make that block have the characteristic of the block that it is based on.

tile should show where the texture for that particular block is located.

One thing that you need to pay attention when you want to create a stage that can be harvested is adding this code to the .block file. (Ex: TestberryBushFull.block)

"entity": {
    "prefab": "<Ripe stage of the plant prefab>"
}

This code will allow the game to know that this particular block is associated with a prefab that indicated that this stage is where the fruit is ripe and is ready to be harvested.

There's 2 kind of produce mechanism that you can make using the SimpleFarming module.

1. Periodic
2. Once A Periodic produce will grow again after it's harvest. On the other hand, a Once produce will only be a one-time harvest and after you harvest it, you need to plant it again from the seed.

To make a plant have a periodic produce mechanism, you need to add "UnGrowPlantOnHarvest": {}, in ripe stage of the plant prefab file, and vice versa.

Destroying a plant with produce, will also yield a produce.

• Blueberry: Made by TheJYKoder (original)
• BlueberryBushFull: Made by TheJYKoder(original)
• Strawberry: Created by Patrick Wang. Original.
• Gojiberry: Made by Harry Wang(original)
• Apple: http://opengameart.org/content/good-fruits-m484-games
• Apple seed by gkaretka (own work)
• Apple bush full by gkaretka: merge of BerryBushFull and Apple