🥕 Grow Your Own Garden In Paralives (Patreon)

Hey there! It’s Alex.

Remember the Hackweek? It is our annual week-long event where each member of the team can work on a special project of their own choice, even if it’s not in our top priority planning for the release of the game. Last year, this spawned things like Paralives’ Photo Mode and a rework of Doggo’s look. This time, a lot of interesting projects came out of it once again, like the painting skill images and animation we showcased last month.

Today’s post is all about Léa’s Hackweek 2023 project: 👩‍🌾🥕 Growing crops and harvesting vegetables! Parafolks will be able to purchase seeds and turn them into fully grown vegetables. This post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it 🔐

Ohh, the joy of gardening! I love the plants Léa created for the game. One day, I'm gonna make a huge garden!

How to Tend to Your Garden

1. 🌱 Purchase seeds: Use the build mode object catalog to buy seeds. Later, we might add the ability to order them online or purchase them at a local shop.
2. 🏡 Plant them on your lot: They can be placed anywhere on the ground as long as it’s inside your own lot. We might also add wooden boxes for your plants later.
3. 💦 Water them everyday: Ask your Parafolks to water the crops to make sure that they stay healthy.
4. 📈 Watch your crops grow progressively: Keep reading this post for a showcase of that!
5. 🍆 Harvest your vegetables when they are ripe: Your Parafolks will be able to collect the veggies when they are ready.

💰 Sell your vegetables: Enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Your Parafolks will have to regularly water the plants or else they won’t make it.

Growing Process

For this Hackweek, Léa created four different species of crops and more could come later. Here’s how each of them will grow, step by step. Note that the exact number of days for each plant to grow is still to be determined as we start testing the gameplay more and more.

🥕 Carrots

🎃 Pumpkins

🍆 Eggplants

🍅 Tomatoes

Extra Ideas Being Considered

The following are just ideas, for now!

• 🥕🥕🥕 Take good care = more vegetables: If your Parafolks tend to their garden especially well, crops could give out more veggies.
• 📊 Gardening could be a skill: Parafolks who garden a lot would become high level in that skill and do it more efficiently with better outcomes too.
• 🍴🎁 Use vegetables in cooking or gift them: In addition to being able to sell vegetables, you could be able to use them in recipes or gift them to friends.
• 🌧️ Rain: When we add seasons and rain later down the development road, Parafolks won’t have to water the crops if it recently rained.
• 🌅 Seasons: There could be different crops that grow in different seasons.
• 🏪 Open a shop: Players could open their own shop or stand at the market to sell their own vegetables and make higher profits.

Now, that’s more like it! My Parafolks are gonna make quite a few Paradimes with this!

Hope you liked this look at gardening in Paralives! Remember that it was done for the Hackweek and there’s still work to be done. It’s possible that we change things up as we test the gardening features or that it won’t be available on day one of the Early Access release because we will prioritize core features of the game first.

Have a great weekend and don’t forget to take care of your real life veggies! 👨‍🌾

Alex