Cotton in Farmstead World — crop in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
Cotton is grown for the soft fibres that wrap its seeds, which are spun into thread and woven into cloth.
It is a hot-climate crop and a heavy feeder, and the same harvest also yields cottonseed oil and protein-rich meal.
Farm facts about cotton
Cotton is a fiber of nearly pure cellulose that grows around the seeds inside a boll — in the wild, the fluff helps the seeds disperse. (en.wikipedia.org)
Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old World and the New World — two separate birthplaces for one fiber. (en.wikipedia.org)
Ancient Peruvians were using cotton by at least 6000 BC, trading it to coastal fishing villages that wove it into nets to catch fish. (en.wikipedia.org)
Medieval Europeans had never seen a cotton plant; in 1350, John Mandeville wrote of a wonderful tree in India that bore tiny lambs on the ends of its branches. (en.wikipedia.org)
Only four cotton species were ever domesticated, all in antiquity — upland cotton, from Mexico, went on to fill most of the world's cotton fields. (en.wikipedia.org)
Cotton fibers naturally grow in shades of white, brown, pink, and green. (en.wikipedia.org)