Open Farm

The Open Farm is a Terraforming building in Surviving Mars. It is part of the Green Planet expansion

Description
Consumes seeds to plant crops, which can be harvested for Food by Drones. Crops will wither or grow according to local Soil Quality and global Temperature and Water. Doesn't work during Dust Storms and Toxic Rains.

Strategy
Farms are unlocked by researching Domeless Farming, a Terraforming technology.

Open Farms, have different requirements than Farms, Hydroponic Farms and Fungal Farms, they are built outside of Domes and require a vast amount of terraformed land (A circle of 16 hexes width and 19 hexes length).

The land on which they are built needs to have a minimum Soil quality in order for anything to grow. Soil Quality is affected by the Forestation Plants initially, then the crops chosen can influence positively or negatively the Soil Quality.

Also, the crops have different requirements considering the Global Water and Temperature terraforming advancement in order to grow.

They require no wokers, instead, harvests are done by Drones. They also need seeds for each harvest, water and power in order for anything to grow.