This is still a pretty rough outline since I just thought of it on my drive to work, so I hoping for a brainstorming tag to help hash this idea out.
There's already a good assortment of plants in Starmade that could be used as a basis for agriculture, but as it stands they don't really have a use yet and you're little more than foraging for them at the moment. So, my idea is simple; any plants you gather could be put into a basic factory in order to process them into their fruits/veggies, their seeds, and other materials they may yeild.
Fruits & Veggies
Pretty obvious as to what you do with those; sell them as is or process them into foods for more credits. Not all plants will yield fruits or veggies though, fungi could produce yeasts (and subsequently spores instead of seeds) which could be used in other food recipes, like fermenting alcohol.
Seeds & Spores
Putting these in a factory with a dirt block could be uses to produce crop blocks, which continuously produce plants of that type. You could set up farms and plantations this way.
Chaff & other plant waste
There's always going to be some junk left over after processing your crops, maybe we could turn it into a compost or fertilizer to speed up the growing process?
Other ideas
How about an Agribeam? It could water your crops or till dirt blocks into crop blocks.
That's all I got for now, keep those ideas coming.
There's already a good assortment of plants in Starmade that could be used as a basis for agriculture, but as it stands they don't really have a use yet and you're little more than foraging for them at the moment. So, my idea is simple; any plants you gather could be put into a basic factory in order to process them into their fruits/veggies, their seeds, and other materials they may yeild.
Fruits & Veggies
Pretty obvious as to what you do with those; sell them as is or process them into foods for more credits. Not all plants will yield fruits or veggies though, fungi could produce yeasts (and subsequently spores instead of seeds) which could be used in other food recipes, like fermenting alcohol.
Seeds & Spores
Putting these in a factory with a dirt block could be uses to produce crop blocks, which continuously produce plants of that type. You could set up farms and plantations this way.
Chaff & other plant waste
There's always going to be some junk left over after processing your crops, maybe we could turn it into a compost or fertilizer to speed up the growing process?
Other ideas
How about an Agribeam? It could water your crops or till dirt blocks into crop blocks.
That's all I got for now, keep those ideas coming.