How Can I Plant Stuff in Starbound?

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I have lots of seeds and saplings, how can I plant them? I have Dry Dirt, Dire Stone And Dry Sand (and no equipment except a Watering Pot).



Best Answer

Get your Hoe to do it!

Hoes will prepare the soil for planting. Once your dirt has been tilled, you can plant seeds. You'll see the top of the block changed to the appearance of "fresh tilled dirt".

After tilling the dirt you can also you use a Watering Can to improve the speed at which the plant will grow.

Further along in the game, you'll want to automate the watering with a Sprinkler.




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How do you place seeds in Starbound?

The basic tool needed to farm is the Hoe. It is used to till soil (see list below) into usable farmland using the left mouse button. Seeds can then be placed on tilled soil. Each plant takes a certain amount of time to grow.

How do you plant wheat in Starbound?

Wheat Seeds for growing wheat can be found on the planet surface or in chests. It needs two blocks of tilled dirt to grow on.

How do you plant corn in Starbound?

Corn Seeds are seeds used in farming to grow corn. The plant itself takes up a 2x5 tile space. They drop from corn plants when harvested. Corn plants do not need to be replanted, after planting once the plant will continue to grow both corn and corn seeds.

Do plants need light to grow Starbound?

Plants don't actually need sunlight at all. And they aren't sensitive to where they're grown. All they need is tilled soil that is watered.



Starbound - How To Plant Crops




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