Wheat Sheaf

Wheat Sheaf

Class	Ingredients
Type	-
Hunger	-5
Thirst	-
Calories	-
Fresh	7 days
Rotten	14 days
Cook Time	-
Weight	1
Location	-
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.WheatSheaf`

A Wheat Sheaf is a freshly harvested bundle of wheat stalks. It is a farm crop rather than a meal, and it barely touches hunger if eaten. Its real use is drying into Wheat Sheaf (Dried), which can then be threshed for Wheat Seeds.

A fresh sheaf rots within two weeks, so it should be dried soon after harvest. It comes from growing wheat on a farm. 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

Chewing a fresh wheat sheaf lowers hunger by 5. At 1.0 weight, that is a poor return for a heavy bundle. A sheaf is far more valuable dried and threshed than eaten.

Cooking

The Dry Wheat recipe turns a fresh sheaf into Wheat Sheaf (Dried). The dried sheaf keeps without rotting. The Thresh Grain recipe then turns a dried sheaf into Wheat Seeds, ready for the next sowing.

Farming

Wheat is grown as a field crop. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 sheaves at harvest. The sowing season runs from August to October, and September is the best month. Wheat planted in June or July does poorly.

Tomatoes and Watermelons are sown in spring, so wheat fills the autumn gap. It lets a farm keep working the soil after the summer harvest.

How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Wheat Seeds		18 days	2-4	August, September, October	September	`/additem Base.WheatSeed`

Storage

A fresh wheat sheaf stays fresh for 7 days and is fully rotten by day 14. Drying it is the way to keep the harvest. A dried sheaf can then wait in storage until it is threshed.