Farming and Rottong vegetables

So I have spent a lot of time over the past week banging my head against the wall trying to fix my farming system. For some reason I couldn't make the plants grow the way I wanted to. Then I couldn't make them give me the vegetables i wanted based off the farming health system. And then came the dreaded rot system, where nothing would rot, and even when it did it wouldn't do it in the right place!

Sorry, rant over. It's been a stressful week.

It just goes to show that you need to be so careful when eventing and double/triple and infinity check that ye, you do actually have the switch that will make the rotting system actually start, turned on. I have never been more elated and shamed in all my life. 3 days of banging my head off the problem and it was that simple.

So I have a working farming system (currently only for the one vegetable, but it can be copy and pasted and variables and switches changed--baby steps, baby steps). I have a working rotting system. And I have a working health view system for the vegetables while growing. Currently it is only affected by whether or not you water the plants when they need it, but future expansions will add more dynamics, like needing to deal with pests, droughts and other environmental issues that would affect crops.

Sorry. I should try to make more sense.

What the farming system offers, taking my tomato plant for example, is;

1. a nine in day growth period, from seed to harvest.

2. a plant health system (currently only based on watering but expanded on in the full game) which gives players different health types of the tomato's (Excellent/Good/Bruised/Rotten)

3. The tomatoes will add a rot level every two days after the harvest. so Excellent becomes Good becomes Bruised becomes Rotten becomes Seed. and each level will have a different food restoration. Excellent offers more food restoration, bruised less. etc.

4. The rotting of the tomatoes is not staved off by putting them in storage, they will continue to rot even in storage, so you'll need to keep an eye on your stores as well.

We are growing ever closer to a demo release date. Please keep checking back. But for now please feel free to check out my video of my growing tomato plant!