My thought would have it set that crops would have to be within a certain proximity of water to grow, of course, the radius would depend on the crop. We could also have as the farmer would need to bring water to the crop and water them.

Crops need water ( or to be near water) to grow

Firedragon2035 February 16, 2018, 1:30am 8

This post right here could provide a solution to some of the problems.

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