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I love this mod so much, keep it up! Question though, although this is a mod for farming would it be possible to have some terraforming too? Like turn stone to gravel then to sand or something. As well as maybe have a way to turn dirt into shallow water.

I'm always subject to persuasion, but honestly, my initial gut response is that both of those options -- turning stone directly into soil (as opposed to just layering soil over it) and turning soil into actual water (as opposed to marshy terrain) -- are more extreme than I'm really comfortable adding.

How is compatability with telkir's crop mod that also adds carrots.

As it happens, T's mod was one I used for reference, so I know his mod and mine use the same DefNames for carrots and carrot plants. (There may be very minor differences in the plant stats, but nothing that you'd likely actually notice.) So technically, yes, they'll conflict, but in a good way. Whichever mod is loaded last will overwrite the carrots added by the other, so you'll only have a single "plant carrots" option in the game, but recipes calling for carrots from both mods will still work.

Update:

- Added "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" and "What's Up, Doc?" incidents.
- Ravenous rabbits are now visually distinctive, because why not?

so if people want to have a farm inside a mountain then they have to give up using tilled soil, that sad.

Yes, there's a trade-off. The fact that you can't till soil that you laid over smooth stone inside of a mountain means that you have to trade a small bit of efficiency for the significant increase in security that the mountain gives you. I don't think that's unreasonable.

look like i will be waiting for the tilled soil mod to be updated, at least that mod don't punish people for where they want to put their farm at

The beauty of modding is that it lets you tailor the game to be exactly what you want it to be. What you see as "punishment," others see as a nod to realism and game balance. "Tilled Soil" and "Fertile Fields" offer two different ways to accomplish similar goals. If you prefer your soil enhancements to be cost-free, then by all means, continue using "Tilled Soil." (And by the way, I don't know what you mean about waiting for it to update, as it was updated for a16 a month ago.) But other players consider "Tilled Soil" to be overpowered, and so I've offered "Fertile Fields" as an alternative.

Am I the only one having issues with the provided link?

What problem, exactly, are you having? I just double-checked, and the Dropbox link seems to be fine.

Small update:

- Hay can now be used in the creation of compost.

Update:

- Topsoil can now be fertilized (but still can't be tilled).

(And Stage, I checked, and human meat *can* in fact be used in creation of compost, so I'm not sure why you're having trouble, unless you were trying to just compost corpses without butchering them first.) (That's not the sort of comment I normally expect to find myself typing.)

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Last update: 2/20/2017

"Rascally Rabbits," as you can probably guess from the title, adds... rabbits.

Rabbits are smaller, more social, and more tameable than hares, and are found in warmer climates. You might even start with one as a pet, though admittedly they're rather useless. Brown rabbits can be found in boreal and temperate forests, and grey desert rabbits can be found in arid shrublands and deserts. And then there are the Caerbannog bunnies, which show up occasionally in all of those biomes. Probably the result of some misguided ancient genetic manipulation, the innocent-looking Caerbannog bunny is surprisingly dangerous, with nasty, big, pointy teeth and a vicious streak a mile wide. A generally solitary creature, it should not be underestimated.

Of course, where there are rabbits, there must be carrots, and so "Rascally Rabbits" also adds carrots that you can grow and eat. And you'll be able to cook up a tasty rabbit stew, using rabbit meat, carrots and potatoes.

Finally, the mod adds a few rabbit-themed events:

+ "Beasts of Caerbannog" presents you with a swarm of maneating Caerbannog bunnies. Yes, it's a reskinned (rabbit-skinned?) copy of the default "Maneater Pack" incident. But it uses a custom copy of the incident code, so "Rascally Rabbits" is compatible with other mods, like ZorbaTHut's "Mad Rabbits of Caerbannog," which modify that event.

+ "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" sees a herd of rabbits migrating through your territory. (Yeah, I know, rabbits aren't actually migratory.) Tame, hunt or ignore them as you see fit. This incident is based on "Animal Migration" from Ilawz's "More Events and Incidents."

+ "Ravenous Rabbits" infests your garden with hungry, hungry rabbits who'll devour your crops if you let them. This one's based on Nandonalt's excellent "Pests!" mod.

+ "What's Up, Doc?" gifts you with a crashed escape pod, containing not a colonist, but a small stash of supplies and someone's injured pet bunny. (It combines code from the default "Cargo Pod" and "Refugee Pod" incidents.)

- Rainbeau Flambe (dburgdorf)

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Compatibility:

"Rascally Rabbits" adds new things, but doesn't change any existing things, so it should be compatible with pretty much any other mod, and you should be able to add it to an existing saved game without trouble. But removing the mod from a game in progress will, of course, likely cause problems or even make the game unplayable.

License:

If you're a modpack maker and want to include "Rascally Rabbits" in your pack, or if you're a modder and want to use "Rascally Rabbits" as the basis of a derivative mod, please feel free to do so. I ask only that you let me know about it.

If you have any (helpful) suggestions for improvement, please let me know!

I've three suggestions for you....

Glad you like the mod!

I'm already planning to allow topsoil to be fertilized (though still not tilled). That was specifically requested by another user on Steam.

My original plan with the compost bins was to essentially just use the existing fermentation barrel code. Build a barrel, put compost in, later take fertilizer out. Rinse (or not), repeat. But I ran into errors I couldn't debug -- my coding expertise barely goes beyond the "cut and paste" level -- and so I ended up using a completely different method. But I may yet revisit the fermentation barrel code and see if I can figure out where I went wrong.

As to corpses, well, to be honest, I kind of assumed it was already possible to use corpses in the creation of compost. I hadn't actually tried it, but I also hadn't specifically disallowed it. There must be a default setting somewhere that I need to override. I'll look into it.

Update:

- Topsoil is now removable, so you can return tiles to smooth stone if you're not using them for farming.

- Soil pits and compost bins now impede movement through their tiles.

- Tillage now requires 140% fertility. I know you there's no logical reason why non-fertilized fields can't be tilled, but for balance purposes, this limitation prevents you from being able to jump fertility from 100% to 160% in a single too-easy step.

- Advanced Terrain Reclamation now also allows the creation of marshlike muck, if you want to impede movement through certain areas.

Now, I just need a mod that will let me put marsh wherever I want and I'll be set!

It actually wouldn't be unreasonable to allow creation of marsh once you've researched advanced terrain reclamation. It's just sort of the inverse of what the tech already allows, anyway. And while I hadn't really thought about it before, it shouldn't be difficult to implement.

I'll put it on my "to do" list.

Another (bugfix) update:

- Squashed a couple of bugs related to reclaimed soil.

Update:

- Fertilization of gravel or marshy soil to the fertility of regular soil, and fertilization of regular soil to the fertility of rich soil, are now separate processes. So fertilizing regular soil to 140% fertility takes just one bag of fertilizer, but fertilizing gravel to that level takes two steps and two bags.

- Gravel and marshy soil can't be tilled without first being fertilized.

- Tilling no longer requires fertilizer.

Could you put up a download link independent from Steam?

Done.

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Last update: 4/23/2017

"Fertile Fields" lets you fertilize and plow your soil, create farmland on solid rock so you can farm in inhospitable environs or inside of mountains, and eventually even restructure your landscape.

Create raw compost with food waste at a butcher's table, then put it in a compost bin or barrel so in time it can become fertilizer. Fertilizer can be used to convert any soil to rich soil. Further improve your farm's fertility by researching tillage and plowing your soil. Or learn the fine art of terrain reclamation, and terraform your environment to your heart's content.

Yes, this mod is in some ways very derivative of Sam's "Tilled Soil." I like the idea of that mod, but dislike the fact that it lets you turn any dirt into supersoil with virtually no work or effort. Dismarzero's "Vegetable Garden" offers a more balanced method of improving soil, using fertilizer, but it's a much larger mod than I really want, and adds some things I'm not terribly fond of. And so, I ended up combining what I liked from both of them, and came up with "Fertile Fields." Originally just an "improve your farmland" mod, it's since grown into a full-fledged terraforming mod.

- Rainbeau Flambe (dburgdorf)

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New Research and Terrain Improvement Options:

Without researching anything, "Fertile Fields" allows you to dig up piles of dirt from soil, and also to create raw compost and turn it into fertilizer. Fertilizer and dirt can be used together to upgrade gravel or marshy soil to regular soil, and fertilizer can be used by itself to upgrade regular soil to rich soil.

Researching "Tillage" opens up the ability to plow soil, which lets you increase the fertility of rich soil.

The "Terrain Reclamation" research opens up the ability to "reclaim" rocky terrain, turning it into farmable land. Essentially, you're figuring out how to effectively lay topsoil over smooth stone. Create a garden inside a mountain if you're so inclined. Topsoil can be further improved by fertilizing it, but can't be plowed.

Finally, "Terraforming" represents an understanding of advanced irrigation and drainage techniques, and opens up a wide variety of terrain-altering options. It allows you to turn marsh, mud, sand or shallow water tiles into farmable soil, or to turn fertile land into sand or marsh. It lets you create shallow water tiles from marsh, so you can create decorative (or defensive) moats. It opens up the ability to dump dirt into impassable water to create deep water, which can then be further developed into shallow water. Alternately, you can remove dirt from deep water, producing impassable water. Finally, it also allows you to break solid rock into rocky soil, which can be further improved into regular soil, letting you create mountain farms that can actually be plowed for maximum fertility.

New Terrain Types:

Plowed Soil: Plowed soil has a fertility of 180%. It can be removed with the "remove floor" command, so if you find that you've plowed in the wrong area, you're not stuck with the plow lines.

Topsoil: Topsoil is quite simply a layer of soil placed on top of smooth stone. It can be fertilized to increase its quality, but it can't be plowed, as plowing it really wouldn't accomplish much. Still, it's a lot better for your crops than solid rock! If you decide you don't like the topsoil, you can remove it and get your stone floor back.

Rocky Soil: Rocky soil is the first step in converting smooth stone into true farmland, as opposed to simply layering topsoil on top of it. It's the immediate and quite labor intensive result of breaking up a smooth stone floor. It's minimally fertile (only 30%) but it can be further refined into gravel, and then into true farmland. Rocky soil is also what's left after you dig all the good dirt out of fertile soil.

Water: There are now three types of water rather than just two: shallow, deep and impassable water. Shallow water slows movement a fair amount, deep water slows it tremendously, and impassable water, as the name suggests, can't be moved through at all.

New Items:

Raw Compost: Raw compost is made at a butcher's table with raw or rotted food. It requires both animal and vegetable matter. Essentially, it's a disgusting mix of organic waste products.

Compost Bin: You can create a compost bin with wood and raw compost. Once you've created one, it'll just sit (and stink up the place) for about 3 days, before becoming fertilizer. Yeah, I know. Composting should take weeks or even months. We must be dealing here with some sort of super high-tech space compost bins.

Compost Barrel: Compost barrels require power, but are reusable, and are also more space efficient than compost bins, converting 10 raw compost into 10 fertilizer all at once.

Fertilizer: Plant and animal waste products have been used for millennia to improve soil for farming. Fertilizer is made from raw compost in a compost bin or barrel.

Pile of Dirt: Dirt is used in a variety of terrain improvements. Dirt piles can be dug up from fertile soil, leaving less fertile terrain behind.

Crushed Rocks: You can break up stone chunks at a stonecutter's table into crushed rocks. These can be further pulverized and mixed with fertilizer to create dirt, or can be used to recreate rough stone floors from rocky dirt terrain.

Compatibility:

"Fertile Fields" adds new things, but doesn't change many existing things, so it should be compatible with pretty much any other mod except perhaps for those which also change vanilla terrain definitions or map generation. You should be able to add it to an existing saved game without trouble, but removing the mod from a game in progress will, of course, likely cause problems or even make the game unplayable.

Special note regarding "Vegetable Garden": Though I don't necessarily recommend trying to use them both of them at the same time, "Fertile Fields" (FF) and "Vegetable Garden" (VG) are technically compatible with each other. Make sure that FF appears *after* VG in your mod load order. There are, of course, a few things to be aware of if you're using the mods together. First, you won't be able to make fertilizer at a butcher's table as you normally can in VG. You can only make compost there. VG's other methods of fertilizer production, however, should be unaffected. Second, both mods add piles of dirt, but they define those items differently. So you'll actually have two types of dirt piles. One comes from VG's digging spots, and is used for VG's terrain improvements, and the other comes from FF's terrain alterations, and is used for FF's terrain improvements. Finally, FF's plowed soil will overwrite VG's tilled soil, meaning that it will have 180% fertility instead of 120%, and it can only be placed according to FF's requirements, not VG's.

Credits:

The C# code related to compost bins derives from Dismarzero's "Vegetable Garden." The C# code related to compost barrels draws from Sulusdacor's "[sd] Luciferium Production" mod, which in turn borrows heavily from the default code for fermentation barrels.

The mod utilizes Pardeike's "Harmony Patch Library." (No additional download is required, as the library is included with the mod.)

License:

If you're a modpack maker and want to include "Fertile Fields" in your pack, or if you're a modder and want to use "Fertile Fields" as the basis of a derivative mod, please feel free to do so. I ask only that you let me know about it.

If you have any (helpful) suggestions for improvement, please let me know!