New crops
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Khaelis
Bell Tree Forum's Resident Hybrid Addict
The known ones are:
So, six patches. Make eight if you want to be safe, and if you don't need them you could just repurpose them.
- Pumpkins (already in the game)
- Wheat
- Sugarcane
- Tomatoes
- Potatoes
- Carrots
So, six patches. Make eight if you want to be safe, and if you don't need them you could just repurpose them.
Fey
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Why do you think it’s extremely unlikely? Not saying I’m sure there’ll be more, but it seems almost as likely as it would be unlikely to me.
Khaelis
Bell Tree Forum's Resident Hybrid Addict
Mostly just me setting expectations low. If we're going to get any additional 'crops', they will likely be exotic fruits from Kapp'n's islands. Lemons, Bananas, etc. But actual farm crops? I find it unlikely.
nightglow
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Also there was a dish shown in the diy menu that had what looked like to be green peppers sliced horizontally.In the Direct, Leif has a sign in the Plaza that appears to show bell peppers or similar looking veg. Prob not a green pumpkin but perhaps.
edited to add: would love to see aubergines or courgettes in the game
KittenNoir
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I hope they add new veggies in smaller updates I would love to see corn be added
Regalli
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Yeah, I’d guess a couple more crops/fruit varieties - not as many as your average farm sim, to be sure, but there’s still a couple more ‘obvious’ options like lemons or peppers that we haven’t seen but would make sense with the cooking we HAVE seen. Some kind of pepper, maybe onions, a berry, maybe rice - you can do a lot with a handful of crops, especially if some recipes have ingredients that aren’t in the game at all but you have ENOUGH that are there it feels like it works, but I think it’s very possible they include a handful more than we’ve seen, if only to gloss over things we likely aren’t getting as ingredients. (For example: There are clearly pretzels with some kind of coating in the Direct. I kind of doubt we’re going to get anything that can’t be grown - no eggs or dairy, no salt - so adding strawberries or cacao would provide just enough of an ingredient for the coating while glossing over the fact that essential ingredients for pretzels include baking soda and salt, and that their signature color usually comes from an egg wash. Peppers as a stand-in spice for any given ‘spicy’ dish even if the spice in question is actually like, cardamom.) Just enough, and versatile enough, to sound sufficient for a wide range of recipes, with a minimum number of actual unique ingredients to implement.
Consider the case of BOTW’s seafood paella, which uses all five ingredients you’re allowed per recipe and is made using rice, goat butter, salt, and two varieties of seafood… but as the Polygon Unraveled video pointed out, not saffron, which is one of the most important ingredients alongside rice and what gives paella its distinctive color, because the game doesn’t include saffron as an ingredient. But it has the rice, it has the protein, it has salt and butter to saute in and a big wide curved pot… good enough with the limitations, so our brains accept this as a simplified video game paella recipe. I expect a lot of recipes like that, where there’s clearly an ingredient being added that’s not an in-game ingredient, but we’ve got the fish and we’ve got a seasoning so we don’t mind that it’s clearly slathered in butter.
Consider the case of BOTW’s seafood paella, which uses all five ingredients you’re allowed per recipe and is made using rice, goat butter, salt, and two varieties of seafood… but as the Polygon Unraveled video pointed out, not saffron, which is one of the most important ingredients alongside rice and what gives paella its distinctive color, because the game doesn’t include saffron as an ingredient. But it has the rice, it has the protein, it has salt and butter to saute in and a big wide curved pot… good enough with the limitations, so our brains accept this as a simplified video game paella recipe. I expect a lot of recipes like that, where there’s clearly an ingredient being added that’s not an in-game ingredient, but we’ve got the fish and we’ve got a seasoning so we don’t mind that it’s clearly slathered in butter.
nightglow
What's ye treasures?
Totally agree but I kinda hope to see in a future game ingredients that rotate in a store like salt or other spices. Eggs Milk butter and oil in the store too but also be able to get them as gifts from certain types of villagers if that isn't seen as too weird. Like sugar which could be crafted from sugar cane could also be acquired as a gift from horse villagers. Eggs can be gifted by duck, chicken, eagle, and alligator villagers even though it would be a rotated food item in the store. Oil and mushrooms could be gifted by pig villagers even though oil could be crafted from mushrooms you find in autumn. Ect.
I feel like it gives a fun little nodd to real life by also making villagers feel involved with cooking beyond meal requests if they even do that. And help a player feel less as an atm.
Regalli
Senior Member
I maybe wouldn’t tie it to species - seems too likely to get weird/disincentivize certain species that don’t have a clear ingredient gift - but I can definitely see a future game expanding on cooking and having villagers offer ingredients as gifts and asking you to cook the same way they ask you to catch certain fish and bugs. We’ll see - I wouldn’t really expect any talk of a new Animal Crossing until 2025 or so.
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