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Vegetable
Vegetables refer to the various edible plants which can be grown and harvested from seeds. All vegetables can be grilled in a Firepit or cooked in a Kitchen; most have other uses as well.
Egypt has access to the five standard vegetables -- cabbage, carrots, garlic, leeks, and onions -- the seeds of which are available to paid accounts from Universities of Worship where the Agriculture tech is open.
A sixth vegetable, peppers, was introduced to Tale 6 during the "Race of the Phoenix" event on December 10, 2011. Pepper seeds were given out as one of the prizes in the race.
In the future watermelons, cucumbers, and eggplants may also become available, as they have in prior Tellings.
How To Grow
All vegetables are grown from Vegetable Seeds. Vegetables can only be planted in the proper terrain: grass for cabbages and carrots; sand for garlic, eggplants, leeks and onions; and dirt for peppers.
All five standard vegetables and eggplants are grown in the same way. Planting a seed produces a tiny vegetable; this must be watered from a jug quickly or it will die back into a seed. A vegetable that has been watered will soon grow to the next larger size, at which time it should be watered again or it will shrink. When a vegetable reaches maximum size, it may be harvested. A vegetable must grow four times before it can be harvested, which means at least four waterings (more if they shrink on the way).
To sum up: Water upon planting, then again each time the vegetable changes size. With the exception of onions, overwatering (watering more then once between growths) will result in it dying and reverting to seed.
If you know of a location that produces a good yield please post the coordinates.
List of Vegetables
Cabbage
12 yield at my compound, 598, -783 -Flowbar
20 yield at my compound, 254, -308 (10:07am) -Zen-
Obtained halved cabbage yield standing next to one person when growing (not three, not four, not six. Worked with both genders.) -Indra
Carrots
Yield changes with waves or ripples, moving across the map over time. Max yield 10 outside my compound, 596, -783 -Flowbar
Max Yield of 14 near 1018, 7134 12:30pm teppy time. -Niceguy
Yield of 16 a week ago (day before thought principle opened) at the Paradise Plains guild. Have gotten 20+ yields in T4, don't see any change in pattern. - Bezurn
Garlic
16 garlic per seed @ 70,4398 (Next to the Four Corners CS) - Tunnen
- Now reports as being too close to CS to plant - Khama 12/21/11
Leeks
8 yield reported by Eugie at 1326 -860 near University of Worship (Seven Lakes)
13 at 625, -715 just west of S Lead in Seven Lakes (Raw Data: MrStoned)
21 yield at 250, -300~ in 7L
19 at Cradle of the Sun chariot (4290, -765), 20 North up the road at 4302, -442
Onions
7 yield blob West of S Harmony around -500, -500 ish in Seven Lakes (Raw Data: MrStoned)
12 @1113,275 and 13@0,0 (Raw Data: Stoneyard)
13 @4108 3913 (Sinai, just east of UArt)
14 at UArt in CotS 4071, -314
Yield looks like a diagonal wave pattern to me. For example @ the CS in Sinai it's always 4. Going west slowly increases yield until you reach the coast line (west of UThought @2220 5010). Going east had the same effect only it went up to 13. Didn't venture farther than 4463 3758 though. Going north or south doesn't seem to have (much) effect on yield.
--entux
Seeds can be reproduced by harvesting wood from a certain, avatar specific tree (not tree type!) prior to planting the onion seed. The tree may change over time. Some other trees are cursed (bad) and will give half yield on the next harvest.
I did a test while bored growing onions:
Stout Palm followed by Bottle tree(a) followed by Bottle tree(b)= cursed
Bottle Tree(b), followed by Bottle Tree(a), followed by Stout Palm =cursed
Stout palm followed by Bottle tree(a) = not cursed
One of the Bottle trees was cursed to me but not the other, Bottle tree(b)
Cucumbers
Watermelons
Peppers
Found this recipe: 211-142 for a yield of 18 /Catote (male)
The first day I was getting 19 yield for 346761. Other people in regional chat confirmed they were getting the same yield for the same sequence, as well as a couple people in other regions I mentioned it to during the phoenix race. The following day the recipe no longer worked. I believe it is a global recipe that changes every so often (per egypt day?) --LehmanHotep 15:17, 11 December 2011 (EST)