H0-9Seasons

There are currently 4 seasons in Odd realm. Each one has a unique look and soundtrack.

The only affected mechanic regarding seasons in Odd Realm is farming. In all biomes except taiga, wild plants will grow during the winter. Winter is the only season in which the player is no longer able to plant otherwise plantable crops from the plant menu. Planting crops is prohibited by the tooltip description.

 Summer
 Fall
 Winter

## Spring

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When the player starts a new game, it will always start during Spring.

The spring may be deadly due to it succeeding the winter. Because of the way food rots, food harvested before the winter started will start to rot and your settlement may not be able to pass by until the fresh harvest comes.

## Summer

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Already having had enough time for multiple harvests, you will probably have a large supply of food during the summer. Fruit trees will also produce fruit now.

## Autumn

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In the autumn it's starting to get cold. It's a good idea to stockpile what food you may have lying around before the winter starts.

## Winter

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The winter is the most difficult season to survive, as agriculture is no longer a possibility. It requires a lot of planning, as any settlement solely reliant on fresh crops will be wiped out. Furthermore, crops harvested during autumn will go bad before the end of winter, so simply stockpiling is not a possibility either. Nonetheless, with proper preparation winter can be survived without too much trouble. Here are a few possible ways to sustain your colony until spring comes around and lets you plant crops again:

**Surviving Winter**

Please keep in mind that you will not immediately start producing food when winter ends. It will still take a while for your first harvests of spring to mature, so you will need to survive more than just the 11 days of winter without farming.

**Fishing**

* If you have access to water, make sure you have a settler capable of fishing on hand. Alternatively, you can equip your farmers with fishing poles and have them try their luck during their off season, although this method is very unreliable as untrained settlers will rarely catch fish.
* Snow and ice may block rivers or ponds. When this happens, you can simply mine around the edge of the body of water and get access to the water again.

**Farming**

* Before winter starts, you can make an unreasonably large amount of wheat and then immediately process this wheat into wheat flour. As wheat flour doesn't spoil as of yet, you can keep a large amount of it in storage and bake it into bread when necessary necessary during the winter
* Mushrooms can be farmed indoors or underground, where the winter's snow and cold won't affect it, as they do not require sunlight to survive. By building a heated underground farm you can keep farming, and the fast maturation rate of mushrooms will allow you to constantly produce food.

**Hunting/Herding**

* Set a combat group, hunt down common animals like Squeaken, and cook their meat at a campfire.
* Tame cows and chickens throughout the year and if food gets scarce, butcher a few of them or live off their products.
* Tame other animals and keep them on hand for when you need food, but do keep in mind that they consume food themselves and take up space in your pens.

#### Notes:

* Currently when winter comes all crops and wild plants are destroyed on the taiga biome, but not in the tropical & desert biomes.