Riceweed grows in green biomes
This mod makes it so that Riceweed farms have 50% yield in green biomes, where before they would have 0% in anywhere but swamps.
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Has it ever bothered you that riceweed could only be grown in the Swamp biome, which consists of exactly 5 regions, all clustered together in a small corner of the entire map?
If you know anything about rice farming, you might know that the only reason rice fields are flooded is to reduce the work of weeding and watering. Common weeds drown in waterlogged soil, but rice plants are resilient enough to withstand it. They don’t actually *need* it to grow.
After digging in the game files, I found the reason for this was that riceweed was originally supposed to have been "seaweed" in early development, but the attributes had never been changed to reflect the new plant. So I decided to fix that.
Rice can now be grown in green biomes, albeit only at 50% yield to reflect the non-ideal environment. They will still maintain 100% yield in the swamps and require stupid amounts of water to grow. Now you, too, can grow rice without needing to wait until you unlock hydroponics or having to endure the awful lag-fest of the swamps!
Don’t expect to be able to grow rice in the desert, though. Rice plants are tough, but they aren’t THAT tough.
