Barley Sheaf
| Barley Sheaf | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Ingredients |
| Type | - |
| Hunger | -5 |
| Thirst | - |
| Calories | - |
| Fresh | 7 days |
| Rotten | 14 days |
| Cook Time | - |
| Weight | 1 |
| Location | - |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.BarleySheaf
|
A Barley Sheaf is a bundle of freshly cut barley, harvested from a barley crop. It is a farming product first and a food second. Its main use is to be dried and threshed for seed.
The fresh sheaf weighs 1.0 and spoils within two weeks. Drying it turns it into a Barley Sheaf (Dried), which keeps and can be threshed into Barley Seeds. Barley Sheaves come from farming rather than loot. The Chef is the best occupation for ingredients. It starts with the most Cooking skill. The Burger Flipper also starts with some Cooking skill.
Eating
A Barley Sheaf can be eaten in a pinch. It lowers hunger by only 5, which is very little for an item that weighs 1.0. The sheaf is far more valuable as seed stock for the next crop.
Farming
Barley is grown from Barley Seeds. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 sheaves at harvest. Barley is sown in late summer and autumn, from August to October. September is the best month to plant. Barley planted in June or July does poorly.
After harvest, the Dry Barley recipe turns a fresh sheaf into a Barley Sheaf (Dried). The Thresh Grain recipe then turns each dried sheaf into Barley Seeds. A farm can keep its barley going this way from one season to the next.
How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.
| Seed | Image | Grow Time | Harvest | Sowing Months | Best Months | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barley Seeds | 
|
18 days | 2-4 | August, September, October | September | /additem Base.BarleySeed
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Storage
A fresh Barley Sheaf stays fresh for 7 days and is fully rotten by day 14. Drying the sheaf soon after harvest stops it from going to waste.
Notes
- Dry fresh sheaves soon after harvest, since they rot within two weeks.
- Thresh dried sheaves to get Barley Seeds for the next planting.
- Plant barley in September for the best results.
- Eating a sheaf is a poor use of it, since it lowers hunger by only 5.
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