Сельское хозяйство

In ARK Survival Evolved pick seeds from the wild vegetation around you, plant them in plots that you lay down, water them and nurture them with fertilizer (everything poops after consuming calories, which can then be composted, and some fertilizer is better than others). Tend to your crops and they will grow to produce delicious and rare Fruits, which can also be used to cook a plethora of logical recipes and make useful tonics! Explore to find the rarest of plant Seeds that have the most powerful properties! Vegetarians & vegans can flourish, and it will be possible to master and conquer the ARK in a non-violent manner!

## The Basics

To get started you need a plot, either a small, medium or large, some seeds only fit in certain boxes, which ones can be grown in which size plot is mentioned in the seed description.

You will need three things to grow crops in a plot: Seeds, Water, and Fertilizer/Compost.

### Seeds

The types of seed you can use is dependent on the size of your plot.

* Small Crop Plots can support all types of Berry Seeds. (,,,,,)
* Medium Crop Plots support Savoroot , Longrass , Rockarrot , & Citronal  seeds in addition to everything from the small plot.
* Large Crop Plots can support all types of Seeds.

To add any type of seed to an empty plot, open the plot's Inventory screen, and place the desired item from your backpack into the plot's storage. The seed will be consumed within seconds -provided water and compost are available- and will put your plot into the "Seeded" growth stage.

### Water

Water can be collected for a plot in two different ways: by hand, or by irrigation. ***Rain water will also fill the Crop plot automatically.***

To fill by hand, the player will need a water container (such as a Waterskin ) in their inventory. When the container is filled with water, place it in the plot's Inventory and select "Remote Item Use". This will empty the container, and fill the plot with all available water from the container. The amount added will depend on type of container, and how full it is (for example, a full Waterskin will add 100 units of Water to the plot).
To fill by irrigation, the player will need to have a working Tap  near the plot. The Tap will only be considered working if properly connected to an Intake Pipe , or a Water Tank with water already inside, if pipes are connected to a water source correctly they will change in color from the normal stone/metal color to blue. This will indicate that water is flowing through the pipe. You will know the Tap is working correctly when your plot's HUD says "Irrigated" in the Water stats.

Small Plots can hold a maximum of 200 units of Water. Medium Plots can hold 400 units.

### Fertilization

The following all count as types of compost:

* Human Feces
* Small Dinosaur Feces
* Medium Dinosaur Feces
* Large Dinosaur Feces
* Fertilizer

Each provides a different amount to your plot's 'Fertilizer' stat; Human Feces provides the least, and Fertilizer provides the most.

To add any type of compost to your plot, open the plot's Inventory screen, and place the desired item in the plot's storage. Once growing, your crop will slowly consume the first provided piece of compost, draining its value (shown by a brown bar under the item).
You can view your crop's total 'Fertilizer' value at anytime by viewing the plot's HUD.

Certain feces is too large to for certain crops. Human and small feces can go into small crop plots; medium feces in medium crop plot; large feces in large crop plots. Any size feces can go into fertilizer.

## Growth/Harvesting

As your crop develops, it will enter different stages of growth. *The approximate time your plant takes to grow is dependent on the availability of water and compost. Anytime one or the other is missing, the growth rate grinds to a halt.*

1. **Seeded** (0-1 Minutes)
2. **Seedling** (1 Minute - ~7 In-Game Days) SOmetimes even a reallifeday
3. **Midling** (~7 In-Game Days - ???)
4. **Growthling**
5. **Fruitling**

***NOTE:** Growth times are approximations, and require further testing to confirm.* [*citation needed*]
Once your crop enters the "Fruitling" stage, your crop will begin to yield food, and occasionally new seeds. To harvest, remove the crops from the plot's Inventory screen. As with all containers, overfull plots will need to have items removed -down to less than the maximum inventory size- before new items can be added.

## Notes

* Crops grow slowly taking quite a few day/night cycles before they are harvest-able.
* Larger plots tend to lead to a larger harvest.
* An unconfirmed rumor suggests that a plot's Heat Level can have an impact on the speed of growth; the warmer, the better.[*citation needed*]
* There's a bug regarding the tap using a setup similar to the one on the picture above where the small crop pots (haven't checked the other sizes) will show their status as irrigated but the water meter is 0/200 preventing any seed growth, this happens when you use a tap between two stone irrigation pipes, this will not happen if the tap is at the end of a stone irrigation pipe.