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#### Living off the land

I'm going to make an attempt at "living off the land", just for fun.
The rules are pretty simple:
1) No buying from vendors
2) No buying from the auction house
3) Have fun!
I want to be able to sell to vendors as otherwise my house will start looking even more pack-ratty than it already is.
I have all of my cooking and bartending skills maxed, as well as gardening and animal kinship, so getting food and drinks won't be a problem. I'll probably stick with my current favourite, Rich Tagine, which can be made with meat, spice and onions.
To keep onion production up, I'll be feeding my pigs a lot. I was hoping that they'd make onion seeds if I filled my feeders with onions, but unfortunately that's not the case.
I'll need to get Tinkering 3 so that I don't have to worry about my tinker tool breaking - it's next up after Mining 4 is finished in a couple of days.
Other than that, it looks like the things I won't be able to produce are:
1) Bags and other containers
2) Tree Poison and Antidote.
3) Random veggies (for example, if I want to make a spice tree bean and I don't have carrots).
I already have all of the bags I need, and I'm not too worried about making more seeds.
Is there anything else I'm missing, or is this a plausible way to live in Glitch?
-- spatten

Posted 13 months ago by spatten | Permalink

### Replies

- well good luck:)
  your goin to need it:)
  Posted 13 months ago by Epaige58 | Permalink
- I pretty much do that anyway. Occasionally I'll buy something that can't be produced like honey or salmon depending on what I decide to make that day. Its not hard.
  Posted 13 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- I think living off the land might include barter with other players. "I'll trade you these beans for a spice tree bean." ymmv.
  Posted 13 months ago by WalruZ | Permalink
- One idea to add: You can donate to shrines rather than sell to vendors, seeing as how you aren't planning on buying anything from vendors or auctions.
  Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle | Permalink
- Sounds like I'm already inadvertently living off the land (other than EHSP/cubimals, which aren't really for surviving anyway), so I guess I'm in this club too! I'd probably call myself a harvester in terms of what I do primarily. Interestingly, I don't have any cooking skills except Fruit Changing, Blending I and EZC I, so I think you will survive just fine! I pretty much survive on meditate III, teleport V to ancestral lands, and eggs (and even then, only rarely)... And new days :P
  Mind you, I don't mine, so maybe that saves me energy too.
  Posted 13 months ago by Lara | Permalink
- You can grow carrots (though it would be difficult to do it after you start if you didn't have at least 3 carrots).
  I mostly do this stuff (inadvertently, I suppose). I do tend to buy seeds from the vendor a lot as piggy feeding for seeds isn't quite what I'd like to see. And I occasionally buy bags, but I haven't needed any in a long time. I don't buy much off the auction anymore... well I didn't before other than shrine powders. But now I can make those powders.
  Posted 13 months ago by Little Miss Giggles | Permalink
- I personally haven't found veges that useful, although I have croppery III and a bag of different seeds I carry around anyway. I dunno, I find tending a garden saps more energy than it's worth it for me (as a non-cooking person, of course), just energy loss from normal standing around (plus doing stuff) during the time it takes to do a whole cycle. That is, hand-feeding piggies, making sure seeds from plops stack properly, watering, hoeing, replanting, and keeping watered, if it's something like potatoes.
  Guessing it'd be different for you since you obviously need onions, etc :)
  Posted 13 months ago by Lara | Permalink
- <quote>To keep onion production up, I'll be feeding my pigs a lot. I was hoping that they'd make onion seeds if I filled my feeders with onions, but unfortunately that's not the case.</quote>
  Feed a piggy three onions and you'll get a packet of onions when you examine the droppings. The same goes for each of the crops you can grow on a plot. BTW if you feed a piggy more than three onions you still only get one packet of seeds, which is a pain.
  Apologies if you already knew that.
  Posted 13 months ago by John259 | Permalink
- I tried that and actually had fun, but now I use groceries vendor to have more variety in my cooking, and buy seeds, because feeding pigs got rather tiresome after a while. But really, being a gatherer in Glitch is supereasy with higher skills, and all the music boxes I get from chickens and trees make for rather nifty donations too. I mine for elements, mostly, although from time to time go for a mining binge. Good luck with your experiment! And, ahem, I forgot where, but there IS a place that spawns carrot seeds on a tree... just saying.
  Posted 13 months ago by Verea | Permalink
- Where would that be..all I see on trees are coins and the occasional pig or chicken...
  Posted 13 months ago by Just Me | Permalink
- Yeah, I want to know too. Any clues on the carrot seed tree would be much appreciated!
  Posted 13 months ago by spatten | Permalink
- That is easy. In fact, I already had done it all throughout beta and up till now. I rarely get stuff from vendors and I do not use the auctions to buy or sell anything. The only difference is that I usually give stuff away to clean up the floor rather than selling them to vendor. You can be pretty much independent if you want.
  Posted 13 months ago by Macs | Permalink
- You don't really need Tinkering 3, I think. Just have 2 tinkertools all the time and you're covered, because you can repair one with the other by dragging them onto each other.
  Posted 13 months ago by Kieley | Permalink
- Most people don't know about the tinkertool trick. It is really a shame.
  Posted 13 months ago by Macs | Permalink
- Ahh, man. I didn't know that about the tinkertool trick either. I had gotten that quest in beta, but I just assumed that you had to have Tinkering 3 for the trick to work.
  Thanks!
  Posted 13 months ago by spatten | Permalink