Probably not gonna add farmers scythe since it really only applies to wheat. Will have clippers be the basic farmers harvesting tool for plants and crops. At least for now.
I do still plan scythe weapons though.
I am thinking if you use clippers, you get double instead if you just use your hands. But some things you can't use your hands to harvest, like roses cuz the stems are too thick. But alchemy plants you can pull/ripe off and even corn and wheat and fruit, etc, using your hand.
Than after you have the initial harvest item, you can dissect it to get the various parts like seed, petals, fruit, extract, syrup, etc.
Items like bark and sap could be scrapped/harvested off trees, branches and logs using a knife item.
Alchemy, I was planning a 3+ item combo/mixture that are randomized at each wipe. The 3 basic items would be mineral(mined, like sulfur), organic extract (alchemy plants), and Rose petal grind. Something like that. The one issue I see is certain ingredients being far away from start spot, say like for a stamina potion, and players will be "handicapped" without it at first... and complain to me about it too.