Solving shrine puzzles and freeing Divine Beasts aren't the only ways to spend time in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Traveling the vast open world in search of forageable items to make meals out of is an important part of gameplay when preparing to take on Ganon to free Hyrule Castle. However, it is easy to run low on certain products needed to make sneaky buffed snacks or cold-preventing potions, and finding a sustainable source of food that doesn't require an arduous trek can be difficult. This is why Breath of the Wild 2 should introduce a farming mechanic.
Currently, Breath of the Wild players can purchase a house for Link to live in. The home is limited in use, as it doesn't provide any storage except for weapon racks. With no trunks to stockpile craftable items, and no fields to grow Fortified Pumpkins or any of the numerous mushrooms scattered throughout Hyrule, Link's homestead seems more like a waste of time and money than a useful boon to gameplay and strategy. Adding onto the home in Breath of the Wild 2 by introducing plantable fields could be a way to make the investment more valuable to players.
There are many ways the farming ability could be introduced to enhance gameplay in Breath of the Wild 2. Purchasing new home additions, including the plowed fields, could make the benefit optional for those who want to use it, but not force it on those who don't. A storage room could also be an option, with bins to keep seeds, tools, and extra produce. The shop in town could introduce a mechanic allowing Link to pay a fee to process fruits, vegetables, or mushrooms into plantable seeds. Once a seed has been made, it could become available to purchase in the store, restocking periodically like other BOTW items.
Farming In Breath Of The Wild 2 Could Add New Cooking Items
Farming mechanics could also present an opportunity for Breath of the Wild to expand the current cooking ingredients list. Certain produce could be exclusive to farming, adding things like leeks, onions, peas, or corn to the current selection. BOTW 2 could also add the ability to purchase and raise new fruit trees, introducing peaches, cherries, pears, or lychee to the single option of apples available in Breath of the Wild. To get the different seeds, Link could need to travel to each of the store locations throughout Hyrule, where each shop could have a regional seed for players to purchase.
While keeping livestock could be a little more difficult to include, Breath of the Wild 2 could make it possible to purchase a chicken coop to go beside Link's house. This would offer a sustainable source of eggs to be cooked with or sold. It could also come with a selection of different chickens to purchase in different regions of the map. The chicken eggs could give benefits similar to Breath of the Wild's mushrooms, depending on the regions, with "icy" eggs cooling Link down, and "lava" eggs heating him up. Expanding the cooking and home-owning mechanics in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 could give more depth to the already well-loved first game.
