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Overview
Hemp seeds can be found when picking wild Hemp. These seeds can be planted in the ground and grown to collect additional cloth. Planting these seeds in a planter, and then watering them with large quantities of water yields significantly more cloth and faster growth.
Plant them the moment the wild hemp near your base runs dry. Everyone on the server picks the same plants for their first bandages and sleeping bags, so by the second day the closest patch is usually bare. These seeds drop while you pick, as the item's own text says, and they turn that walk into a box on your roof.
Bare ground works, and early on a seed in the dirt beats a seed in your pocket. But the same text is clear that a planter with lots of water grows hemp faster and gives significantly more cloth. A small planter box needs no workbench, and three hemp plants in a corner of the base keep the bandage supply going.
Say a raid took your sleeping bags and your clothes box overnight. The farm room still has hemp ripening, so you rebuild the bags from your own harvest instead of running the fields half naked.
Your first bed comes up with mixed genes. Pick out the strongest plant, take hemp clones from it and keep the rest of the seeds as a backup. A composter next to the beds turns food scraps into fertilizer that helps the next round grow.
