Usable crops? [Feature Request]

[Taose]

I'm wondering whether you plan to add usable crops? So for example things like Flax, Hemp or Ramie?

Additionally are there plans to increase more food based crops? Like carrots, garlic etcetera?

@sofar is currently engrossed in a rather massive project with Inside the Box. It may be up to the users and fans of this mod, here.

https://github.com/minetest-mods/crops/network

We could probably find some things to fix and merge?

I wanted to keep editing my post, but I'm going to write a new one. I think we could add all of these things and make good PRs, but we're going to have to get real specific. Like, I don't even know what Ramie is, let alone how it would be grown/cultivated/used.

Ps. I just looked up the word cultivated. lol

[Taose]

Ramie is a type of grass in in the far east that is used to make cloth in much the same way as Hemp. Flax is something more frequent to Europe again it can also be used to make materials in fact it used to be a really common material.

Hemp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
Flax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax
Ramie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramie

Hemp is really easy to grow, sunlight, a bit of humidity...mostly just plant and go. It's typically found in warm temperate environments. To be fair, this would probably be found initially in more humid regions.

Flax is much more hardy, it can be found in colder (pine) environments although it typically sticks to temperate climates as well. You might also find flax in dry environments (albeit not desert). Again, it's easy to grow, just plant.

Ramie I'm less sure of but as it's a relative of Stinging Nettles I'm positive it wouldn't be hard to grow, however it is annoying to refine.

[sofar]

I'm not super inclined to add more foods since there's little reason to add more pure food items that are just used for eating.

However, flax sounds like an excellent addition since it's ubiquitus and well-known, and it is widely used (like cotton) to create fiber, so I'd be interested in seeing how that would look.