In alpha 19 you could craft a seed from veggies or flowers or whatever, plant it, and the seedling would be left behind when you harvested it. This was a NICE thing. Harvesting was super quick and enjoyable!
Now, in alpha 20, you have this RNG amount you can harvest from a plant that YOU planted and the plant disappears, because we can't have nice things apparently. Oh and you get a seed back 50 percentish of the time, wow, thanks so much. I get a seed about 40% of the time and have gotten as little as ONE seed back from 12 plants of that type. So I had a very low profit from my plants even with all LoL perks. WHY RNG had to be added to this, I do not know, but it is quite frankly straight up bad. It feels bad to play, especially when it was so NICE before.
The major problem with this is they ALSO made hunger and thirst worse, so in early game your hunger is dropping like a rock, and you don't have ANY food, and you have to just, FIND seeds apparently and plant them and have a net loss of veggies for food, so you're constantly starved trying to loot for food while fighting zombies but ALSO you have to prepare for horde night.
Why? Why make this so miserable? In the end at high levels it doesn't matter anyway as I have nearly 100 crops growing and I still have tons of food for everyone on my server. HOWEVER, even though I now have lots of food, it takes an absolutely stupid amount of time to harvest and replant. This is going to burn people out quicker. I mean to be honest I am sick of being the farming person and I used to always enjoy it. If the goal of wimping the player like this was to get more played hours out of people, this was the exact wrong way to do that. People play your game because it's fun, not because you squeeze more time out of them with crap like this.
Wimping is negative game development practices used to reign in player power, not because they make the game better, but for some arbitrary reason that the devs think players have "too much", too much power or too many abilities or in this case apparently we had too much enjoyment so they had to squash it. This is what you are doing TFP, wimping, just stop it please. Let people enjoy the game. The changes to farming are overall a huge nerf and it wasn't necessary and it just feels bad. The ONLY positive thing is that we can find seeds more often I guess, but it isn't often enough to make up for how bad this is.