My idea is to make farming much more challenging and interesting. This mod is an experiment in how to do that. For now it adds pests that devour your crops far more often than they normally do. Thanks to Liil for the locust and rat mobs, DuckGo for the crow mob. This mod is compatible with the default farming, farming redo, crops mod, and x_farming mods. I intend to add support for more farming mods. I have added rat-traps & crows fly away from the scarecrow (also from the scarecrow in x_farming). Locusts are also caught by the rat-traps.
You can configure how often the pests spawn, how likely they are to spawn, and how often they eat your crops by clicking on Settings>All Settings>Content:Mods>hardcore_farming and changing the values there.
Nice idea
This idea is extremely interesting! It's true that it adds a good touch of realism to Minetest Game, I'm working on a b3d model of a scarecrow, when it's finished it would be nice to integrate it into the mod to scare away crows etc...