Unorthodox Farming

Unorthodox Farming (in-game mod file name is SpiderFruitFarmingAndFood.mod) designed to provide players with 3 new funny but lore-friendly crops: spiderfruit (mushroom), desert crawlers (edible mellipede) and treefish (fruit).

Every crop comes with own list of food recipes, corresponding storages, somewhat unusual farm design, cooking balance and in case of desert crawler hivekeeping – additional buildings to produce feed for your hives.
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Special thanks to Kenshi Community Discord mod makers for sharing knowledge and support!
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++ Spider Fruit ++

"Heading back to swamps, drifter? Here… take this ‘lucky charm’ with you, it will protect you from bloodspiders. " (Shark barkeeper)

Spiderfruit is spongy cabbage-sized mushroom mostly popular in swamps because it is poisonous to spiders (and hivers) and used by locals to ‘poison’ their blood with it before journey to the swamps. Mostly hated by everyone else, because Western Hive caravaners spreading rumors about poisonous nature of this mushroom.

Comes in small cluster farms, that can be placed in almost any place and environment, just requires significant amount of water. Especially likes swamp environment.

Spiderfruit negative effects could be negated with alcohol drinks via special refineries.

++ Desert Crawlers ++

"Hungry shek is no warrior. Good scout have to know how to turn every stone but find something to eat." (Unknown shek scout)

Desert crawlers are mellipede insects from Stenn Desert, that live in ground cracks and under stones, make hives in clay and large cacti. It is the most favourite snack of shek scouts, because often is the only one available. Despite being a good alternative for meat, desert crawlers have sturdy carapace and only shek teeth can actually deal with it, unless properly cooked and properly peeled using some metal tools.

Shek mostly harvest crawlers during their raids and patrols, sometimes bring insects to barmen to cook. But if someone can finds a way to make proper feed and hives, desert crawlers can be cultivated in extreme numbers.

Farms come in form of hives of 2 sizes, some could be placed indoor. Desert crawlers require specialized feed, that you cna produce using algae cultivation tank, grinders to produce it from cactus, raw fresh and foul meat or greenfruit… or by larger grinder to make feed in bulk (item furnace) from limbs, rotten food, damaged books and other desert crawlers, including food made from desert crawlers.

++ Treefish ++

"Welcome, welcome, ho-hives! What do you need today: a lantern, an armour… Are you hungry? Try the best snack in all the world – treefish! It’s like fish, but it grows on trees in Vain. What is with your face, you don’t like it? It tastes amazing, don’t pretend it is not!" (Western Hive wandering merchant)

Treefish is purple banana-like fruit growing on small trees in Vain. It smells nice, but have strange sweet-bitter taste and cause extreme tongue numbness, so not very popular outside of Vain. Hivers do not cultivate this fruit intentionally, but rather harvest it from wild trees.

Dehydrated treefish in fact edible for everyone, because it loses it’s bitterness almost entirely.

Treefish is edible for gardening, every tree can give 10-15 fruit per harvest. It is also possible to grow trees indoor in large bags containing Vain or similar soil.

++ Distribution in the world ++

Spiderfruit: raw spiderfruit can spawn in swamp raptor nests, raw and in form of food – sold by swamp barkeepers and fish food stores.

Desert Crawlers: sold raw and in food form by shek barkeepers and general stores, happen as loot from shek scouts.

Treefish: sold raw and as food by hive merchants in their villages and by Western Hive caravans (except material traders).

++ Compatibility ++

Should be compatible with all mods, uses only own and vanilla game researches and resources.

++ Can I use this mod in my mod-pack? ++

Feel free to integrate this mod into your mods, make rebalance patches or your own extensions of this mod. Only requirement: please, mention this mod and authorship in your mod description.

[ ! ] GenAI Warning: icons and preview image generated by using official paid version of generative AI tool and post-processed manually by me. No other author direct content is used for this mod, except base game materials available in FCS and supplied with game.