If you have zero farming skill you can not pick flax or cotton, in a really buggy way. If you double-click one of them, it says "you begin harvesting the crop", and your character will make farming motions forever until you walk away, but you never get a success or failure message.
I believe you can do all other harvesting skills (albeit poorly) with zero skill, for example I think you can lumberjack with zero. All of my other harvesting skills have a base of 0 but a 'fake' value of above zero, so maybe that's why?
I believe you can do all other harvesting skills (albeit poorly) with zero skill, for example I think you can lumberjack with zero. All of my other harvesting skills have a base of 0 but a 'fake' value of above zero, so maybe that's why?