Hydroponic Farming

A mod that adds Hydroponic Farming to the game. Using the in game models that can be found in POIs across the work, You can craft seeds cheaper using the Hydroponic Seed Station as well as using the Hydroponic Growing Station to grow your seeds into crops. Craft times are based on in game crop growth times with the Living Off The Land perk helping with the crafting times and costs.

What This Mod Does

Adds a new level to Living off the land. Plus two new workstations.

Hydroponic Growing Station

• Needs Nitrates Power in the tool windows to work
• 5 seeds can then be grown (crafted) in to 20 crops
• Growing (crafting) time is base on a crops in game taking 126 mins to fully grow.
• Living off the land level 3 (25%) and 4 (50%) time decrease for growing crops in the Growing Station.
• Adding steroids to the tool window will give a 15% crafting time buff.
• Adding an engine to the tool window will give 50% crafting time buff.

So having the Living off the land perk maxed plus the steroids and engine means you can “grow” craft 20 crops in 31.30 minutes.

Hydroponic Seed Station

• Needs a bucket of water in the Water Tank to work
• For the cost of 4 crops you can craft a seed of that type.
• Living off the land level 3 and 4 lets you use less crops to make your seeds
• Adding a water filter to the tool window will decease the crop cost to make the seeds by 1.
• Adding an engine to the tool window will give 50% crafting time buff.

So having the Living off the land perk maxed plus the a water filter and engine means you can “grow” craft seeds 1:1 1:15 minutes.

Install

To install this mod, unzip the folder and place it inside “/7 Days to Die/Mods”. If “Mods” folder doesn’t exist, just create one.

The folder structure should look at like this “7 Days to Die/Mods/Hydroponic_Farming_(Version_Number)”.

Has only been tested on solo worlds but servers should be all good.

How to Tweak

You can change the conversion rate or time to whatever you want. Just edit the number in recipes.xml.

SMX Patch

The SMX patch will only work with version 2+ of this mod as the block names have been changed from version 1.

Things to Note

When shift clicking items in to the tool windows their buffs will not be counted, You need to place them in to the window for them to work right.

Strongly recommend starting a new game after installing this mod. If you wish to try using it on a world that has had version 1 installed you will need to remove the version 1 stations from your world and then close the game update the mod and load back in, but a new world is Strongly recommend.

Changelog

For 2.1

• Changed the stations names in the xml file.
• Changed the stations window ui names to use the new naming layout.
• Changed the stations base recipes to need a cooking pot and not a beaker.
• Added steroids and an engine as tools to the Hydroponic Growing Station
• Added water filter and an engine as tools to the Hydroponic Seed Station
• Fixed living of the land 4 not giving you the buff of level 3 for 3x crop drops in world
• Added an SMX Patch for version 2+ of the mod

DOWNLOAD (64 KB)

The forum topic of the mod is here.

Credits: WimpingEgo