We definitely need gardening in our houses. I think this would be a great feature.
But NOT LIKE SKYRIM.
Here’s my idea.
New Skill Line - Gardening
Planter - Able to plant Reagents and select Provisioning ingredients in Soil.
Compacter - Able to grind down Provisioning ingredients into Fertilizer.
Nutrient Knowledge - Fertilizer use doubles chance of successful growth.
Green Thumb (1/2/3/4/5)- Increases chance of successful growth to 10/20/25/30/40%)
Rationing - Able to use Fertilizer twice.
Harvester(1/2/3) - Doubles/Triples/Quadruples harvesting yield from plants. Does not increase chance to yield.
Mechanics
1) You must visit the garden once a day and water the plants with 3 Leveled water.
2) Base chance of growing a plant - 5%. With all perks - 80%
3) Fertilizer is very important. You can mush all FOOD provisioning ingredients into Fertilizer. No difference if you use purple ingredients. Plants won’t grow with out it. If you’re lucky enough to find GUAR DROPPINGS, your success will be 100% and doubles the yield given from HARVESTER.
4) Base yield is 1 -> 3 which means with all perks you can turn 1 -> 12. With GUAR Droppings you can turn 1 -> 24! If you’re super lucky, if your Master Gatherer CP activates at this point, you can turn 1 -> 48!!!!
5) Once a plant is harvested, you must plant another reagent and do the process again.
6) You must visit your garden even if you watered. There is a chance that pests can attack the plant. This can occur once every 12 hours. If you don’t eradicate the pests, they will eat your plants.
7) Weeds can grow as well. When you visit, and weeds are present, Activate them to pull them out. If you harvest a plant that hasn’t been weeded, you’re yield will be halved.
8) Gardening Beds can be built at a Woodworking Station. Recipe for these can be bought at a Gardener. Gardeners also sell Fertilizer (500g), Leveled Water (500g/ea) and Soil (50g).
9) when you build a bed, it will hold 15 plants, and you must buy soil for it (once). 200 bags will fill it. Only one Bed can be in a house. And it is a Large Furnishing so if you have a small house, you can’t have a bed. One Per Account.
10) Clay Pots can be built at a Blacksmith Station. They are a small furnishing so they can be put into a smaller house. 15 per house/account.