I keep losing crops because i forgot they got nerfed. I try to fill in the gaps but always something slips through. I thought there was a patch that added the ability to see their coverage, or was that a mod?
I keep losing crops because i forgot they got nerfed. I try to fill in the gaps but always something slips through. I thought there was a patch that added the ability to see their coverage, or was that a mod?
I haven't played since last February or March. Did they nerf the scarecrows with that big content patch, then?
How long do you lose your tools when they get upgraded? I have to do a crazy amount of watering as it is and need that copper can!
One full day. That is, if you hand over the tool on Day 1, Cliff works on it for Day 2, and you can pick it back up on Day 3.
So for watering cans, one way to do it is wait for rain to be forecast for tomorrow, water all your crops today, turn in the can, go pick it up the day after and do your watering then. Alternately, do your watering on the 27th (as needed), hand over your can, pick it back up on the 1st.
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How long do you lose your tools when they get upgraded? I have to do a crazy amount of watering as it is and need that copper can!
I believe it's two days after you bring it in. I remember my way of upgrading my water can was to check the weather forecast. If it was going to rain the next day, I'd water everything that needed it and then turn it in to get upgraded. It'd be out of commission the next day, but it wouldn't matter because of the rain. And then the day after that you can pick up your new watering can once the shop opens.
I keep losing crops because i forgot they got nerfed. I try to fill in the gaps but always something slips through. I thought there was a patch that added the ability to see their coverage, or was that a mod?
I haven't played since last February or March. Did they nerf the scarecrows with that big content patch, then?
When the game first came out they had like, a 20 tile radius. Got dropped to about 8 in one of the early patches because you could basically cover the entire Tofy's MegaFarm Agricorp complex with 2 or 3.
Also, re tool upgrades. The entire town shuts down on the day of a festival, even if it's not during the hours the festival takes place, so don't schedule your pick up or drop off for one of those days.
Also Clint is terrible at multitasking, so you can't process geodes or buy ore while he has one of your tools.
How long do you lose your tools when they get upgraded? I have to do a crazy amount of watering as it is and need that copper can!
One full day. That is, if you hand over the tool on Day 1, Cliff works on it for Day 2, and you can pick it back up on Day 3.
So for watering cans, one way to do it is wait for rain to be forecast for tomorrow, water all your crops today, turn in the can, go pick it up the day after and do your watering then. Alternately, do your watering on the 27th (as needed), hand over your can, pick it back up on the 1st.
Cool will do that. This is my first summer and i'm on day 22 and we have had zero rain.
I need to hit the spa to even complete my watering for the day because of the size of my garden.
I love my forest farm - having access to hardwood early and not having to go to the Secret Woods was a major boon. However, I'm now running into some space concerns since I feel like I have so little farmable areas.
Any tips for maximizing space on the forest farm while still keeping up a barn and a coop with space for animals to roam? I know they aren't the most efficient for $$$ but I'm not giving them up!
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I use the forage seeds to reduce my stamina drain on the first of every season to nil. Starting at 6 days before the end of a season I start planting any empty spots with forage seeds. Then when the next season rolls around, instead of hoeing I just need to scythe a dead plant away, which takes not stamina. Sure it takes stamina when you hoe to plant the seeds, but you can spread it over a few days so the drain is more manageable.
It's a massive boon for spring especially, and it also means that upgrading your hoe can be your last priority, as you don't need it upgrades at all.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
Yeah, the watering can is probably the most important first upgrade, since after you get your garden hoed it's your biggest consistent stamina drain.
I did not realize crops die when the seasons switch (spring to summer) over so i am heavily invested in corn right now.
Rows and rows and rows of corn.
Watering takes me till 3 p.m.
The funny part of this is that corn will survive the summer to fall transition because it is a multi-season crop.
And also not a terribly great one.
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I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I can't ever find enough coal to smelt any ore!
It drops in abundant amounts when you hit the ice strata of the dungeon.
I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I can't ever find enough coal to smelt any ore!
It drops in abundant amounts when you hit the ice strata of the dungeon.
I can never make it to the dungeon because I'm busy/tired from watering. I cannot get sprinklers because I need coal from the dungeon etc...
In the fall or my next rainy day I will take a few cracks at it. I'm around L18 now.
When you're running through the mines, be on the lookout for mine carts and backpacks. They generally have 6-10 coal in them. Geodes give coal pretty often, too.
I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I can't ever find enough coal to smelt any ore!
It drops in abundant amounts when you hit the ice strata of the dungeon.
I can never make it to the dungeon because I'm busy/tired from watering. I cannot get sprinklers because I need coal from the dungeon etc...
In the fall or my next rainy day I will take a few cracks at it. I'm around L18 now.
Edit: Thanks for the advice!
It sounds like you may have overextended yourself farming wise. You're really meant to do a balance of things between farming, exploring the dungeon, fishing, and socializing with farming taking up the most but not all of the time.
If you're doing that much farming early though, you may be making enough money to buy coal and ore directly from Clint for at least the lowest tier of sprinklers though that won't help with the refined quartz you need for the middle tier ones.
But also keep an eye for the trader in the wagon in the forest who shows up on Friday and Sunday. Sometimes she has sprinklers available.
I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I can't ever find enough coal to smelt any ore!
It drops in abundant amounts when you hit the ice strata of the dungeon.
I can never make it to the dungeon because I'm busy/tired from watering. I cannot get sprinklers because I need coal from the dungeon etc...
In the fall or my next rainy day I will take a few cracks at it. I'm around L18 now.
Edit: Thanks for the advice!
It sounds like you may have overextended yourself farming wise. You're really meant to do a balance of things between farming, exploring the dungeon, fishing, and socializing with farming taking up the most but not all of the time.
If you're doing that much farming early though, you may be making enough money to buy coal and ore directly from Clint for at least the lowest tier of sprinklers though that won't help with the refined quartz you need for the middle tier ones.
But also keep an eye for the trader in the wagon in the forest who shows up on Friday and Sunday. Sometimes she has sprinklers available.
Never even knew about the trader!
I totally overextended myself but now I have a good cash base to build on for the fall so hopefully I can dig a bit deeper into the dungeon.
Trying to diversify and just finished the chicken coop but i think that's as far as I am going to go for a while with animals.
I generally do not upgrade the watering can. It's pretty easy to get quality sprinklers by mid summer, at which point the can is irrelevant. I use the Spa in early summer up until I get sprinklers to deal with the energy cost of watering, and can generally make 5/10 levels in the mines with the time remaining.
I can't ever find enough coal to smelt any ore!
It drops in abundant amounts when you hit the ice strata of the dungeon.
I can never make it to the dungeon because I'm busy/tired from watering. I cannot get sprinklers because I need coal from the dungeon etc...
In the fall or my next rainy day I will take a few cracks at it. I'm around L18 now.
Edit: Thanks for the advice!
It sounds like you may have overextended yourself farming wise. You're really meant to do a balance of things between farming, exploring the dungeon, fishing, and socializing with farming taking up the most but not all of the time.
If you're doing that much farming early though, you may be making enough money to buy coal and ore directly from Clint for at least the lowest tier of sprinklers though that won't help with the refined quartz you need for the middle tier ones.
But also keep an eye for the trader in the wagon in the forest who shows up on Friday and Sunday. Sometimes she has sprinklers available.
Never even knew about the trader!
I totally overextended myself but now I have a good cash base to build on for the fall so hopefully I can dig a bit deeper into the dungeon.
Trying to diversify and just finished the chicken coop but i think that's as far as I am going to go for a while with animals.
The other thing to watch for on the trader is a void egg. That will be useful to hatch when you get the upgraded coop.
It's also possible to get free void eggs... VIA STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS METHODS. *magic fingers*
I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new areas earlier
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
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Ooh! Another tip! When you get around to building a couple of crab pots, keep at least a few in the ponds on your farm. They will occasionally spit out junk, including broken discs and broken glasses. SAVE THE BROKEN DISCS AND GLASSES. There is a machine that will turn them into refined quartz, which you will need for some advanced recipes later or can be sold. This is fer sher the easiest way to get refined quartz.
It's also possible to get free void eggs... VIA STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS METHODS. *magic fingers*
I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new area
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
Not enough copper bars. Have 2 x going on pine and a oak ATM.
Have a whole bunch of maples planted in a row just waiting for them to grow.
Also have a few fruit trees that I clearly underestimated the grow time on. are they worth it long term?
It's also possible to get free void eggs... VIA STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS METHODS. *magic fingers*
I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new area
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
Not enough copper bars. Have 2 x going on pine and a oak ATM.
Have a whole bunch of maples planted in a row just waiting for them to grow.
Also have a few fruit trees that I clearly underestimated the grow time on. are they worth it long term?
They don't really pay off until you've had then asking long enough to get whole month of production. But fruit every day with no watering is nice.
It's also possible to get free void eggs... VIA STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS METHODS. *magic fingers*
I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new area
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
Not enough copper bars. Have 2 x going on pine and a oak ATM.
Have a whole bunch of maples planted in a row just waiting for them to grow.
Also have a few fruit trees that I clearly underestimated the grow time on. are they worth it long term?
Fruit trees each take one entire season to grow (they don't grow in winter), but after that:
--no longer require growth
--no watering or other maintenance required
--produce every day for an entire season
--last forever
You get max profit from fruits from trees once you have kegs or preserves jars and can turn it into wine or juice or jam. I wouldn't get into trees right away, IMO. The description of the tree seeds tell you which season they will produce. You have to plan ahead for trees if you want to start getting returns on them asap. (For example, if the tree produces in spring, trees don't grow in winter, so plant that shit on the first day of fall or mid-summer.)
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Another tip for the mines and farming coal. Once you get a certain distance into the mine, it unlocks access to that area via the elevator. The floors of the mine randomly populate upon your entering them. So what I will do is find a floor of the mine where those little coal-dropping sprites appear, and I will pop into that floor and see if there are a bunch of sprites. If not? Exit the mine via ladder, immediately take the elevator back to that floor, then check: are their sprites? If not: repeat until I get sprites.
Basically there are a couple of floors in the mine where you can quickly force the floor to re-roll itself a bunch of times quickly until it maximizes your profit from it. I do this mostly for farming coal and later gold.
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I love my forest farm - having access to hardwood early and not having to go to the Secret Woods was a major boon. However, I'm now running into some space concerns since I feel like I have so little farmable areas.
Any tips for maximizing space on the forest farm while still keeping up a barn and a coop with space for animals to roam? I know they aren't the most efficient for $$$ but I'm not giving them up!
Remember that one of the patches let you build buildings on areas that aren't farmable as long as it's still clear ground.
:edit: and you can also axe away some of the bush things
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It's also possible to get free void eggs... VIA STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS METHODS. *magic fingers*
I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new area
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
Not enough copper bars. Have 2 x going on pine and a oak ATM.
Have a whole bunch of maples planted in a row just waiting for them to grow.
Also have a few fruit trees that I clearly underestimated the grow time on. are they worth it long term?
Fruit trees each take one entire season to grow (they don't grow in winter), but after that:
--no longer require growth
--no watering or other maintenance required
--produce every day for an entire season
--last forever
You get max profit from fruits from trees once you have kegs or preserves jars and can turn it into wine or juice or jam. I wouldn't get into trees right away, IMO. The description of the tree seeds tell you which season they will produce. You have to plan ahead for trees if you want to start getting returns on them asap. (For example, if the tree produces in spring, trees don't grow in winter, so plant that shit on the first day of fall or mid-summer.)
*edit*
Another tip for the mines and farming coal. Once you get a certain distance into the mine, it unlocks access to that area via the elevator. The floors of the mine randomly populate upon your entering them. So what I will do is find a floor of the mine where those little coal-dropping sprites appear, and I will pop into that floor and see if there are a bunch of sprites. If not? Exit the mine via ladder, immediately take the elevator back to that floor, then check: are their sprites? If not: repeat until I get sprites.
Basically there are a couple of floors in the mine where you can quickly force the floor to re-roll itself a bunch of times quickly until it maximizes your profit from it. I do this mostly for farming coal and later gold.
Fruit trees do grow in winter, unless it was patched out. It's the normal (Pine, Maple, Oak) trees that don't grow in the winter.
It's also possible to get free void eggs... VIA STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS METHODS. *magic fingers*
I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new area
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
Not enough copper bars. Have 2 x going on pine and a oak ATM.
Have a whole bunch of maples planted in a row just waiting for them to grow.
Also have a few fruit trees that I clearly underestimated the grow time on. are they worth it long term?
Fruit trees each take one entire season to grow (they don't grow in winter), but after that:
--no longer require growth
--no watering or other maintenance required
--produce every day for an entire season
--last forever
You get max profit from fruits from trees once you have kegs or preserves jars and can turn it into wine or juice or jam. I wouldn't get into trees right away, IMO. The description of the tree seeds tell you which season they will produce. You have to plan ahead for trees if you want to start getting returns on them asap. (For example, if the tree produces in spring, trees don't grow in winter, so plant that shit on the first day of fall or mid-summer.)
*edit*
Another tip for the mines and farming coal. Once you get a certain distance into the mine, it unlocks access to that area via the elevator. The floors of the mine randomly populate upon your entering them. So what I will do is find a floor of the mine where those little coal-dropping sprites appear, and I will pop into that floor and see if there are a bunch of sprites. If not? Exit the mine via ladder, immediately take the elevator back to that floor, then check: are their sprites? If not: repeat until I get sprites.
Basically there are a couple of floors in the mine where you can quickly force the floor to re-roll itself a bunch of times quickly until it maximizes your profit from it. I do this mostly for farming coal and later gold.
Fruit trees do grow in winter, unless it was patched out. It's the normal (Pine, Maple, Oak) trees that don't grow in the winter.
I spent an inordinate amount of time playing this weekend. My new max-upgraded house almost has a full cellar of casks aging starfruit wine now. Just about to hit summer Year 2 (second playthrough). I am loving trying to min/max as much as possible! Starting to work on a crystalarium farm in the quarry now too. All while building up my ancient fruit greenhouse, slowly but surely.
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I had no idea the mine carts in the mine had a bunch of coal in them.
1st day of fall and have a ton of work to do around the old homestead but with upgraded tools! My chickens are digging the little enclosure so they can self feed with grass and are laying eggs at a steady clip.
So once you woo someone and get them to marry you... What exactly do they do?
Like, do they help on the farm?
-Sleep in the same bed as you ;-)
-Adds a small wing onto the bedroom of the fully upgraded house that is unique to the interests of whatever spouse you marry.
-If you talk to them every morning they will occasionally make you breakfast. A free quality meal that you can eat (or gift to someone else) without wasting any of your own ingredients.
-Will sometimes water some of your crops for you, but this is useless if you are using sprinklers, which most people obviously are.
-Changes the lines/interactions your spouse has with you at holidays/events.
-You can kiss/hug your spouse (I think it's supposed to be a hug, but it also kinda looks like a kiss so whatever one you think it is). If you repeatedly spam the kiss/hug command all at once, they get mad at you, though, lol.
-Eventually you will make babies, if you agree to it. You can keep the babies or sacrifice them to a dark altar.
-Figure out who your competition in town was before you married them, then eat the breakfast your spouse cooked for you in front of them like "mmmmmm, sorry if I look tired, I was up aaallll night, if ya know what I mean".
So once you woo someone and get them to marry you... What exactly do they do?
Like, do they help on the farm?
Occasionally they'll have watered your crops by the time you wake up but chances are you already have a sprinkler system covering all your crops by the time you get married. They sometimes also give you food or coffee. There's a one time gift of the permanent stat boost when they're happy enough too.
And at some point you'll have a chance to make babies with your spouse. Creepy children who will never age past a certain point and remain trapped in their larval forms forever.
Also, your grandfather thinks you're a loser if you're not married after a few years.
So once you woo someone and get them to marry you... What exactly do they do?
Like, do they help on the farm?
-Sleep in the same bed as you ;-)
-Adds a small wing onto the bedroom of the fully upgraded house that is unique to the interests of whatever spouse you marry.
-If you talk to them every morning they will occasionally make you breakfast. A free quality meal that you can eat (or gift to someone else) without wasting any of your own ingredients.
-Will sometimes water some of your crops for you, but this is useless if you are using sprinklers, which most people obviously are.
-Changes the lines/interactions your spouse has with you at holidays/events.
-You can kiss/hug your spouse (I think it's supposed to be a hug, but it also kinda looks like a kiss so whatever one you think it is). If you repeatedly spam the kiss/hug command all at once, they get mad at you, though, lol.
-Eventually you will make babies, if you agree to it. You can keep the babies or sacrifice them to a dark altar.
-Figure out who your competition in town was before you married them, then eat the breakfast your spouse cooked for you in front of them like "mmmmmm, sorry if I look tired, I was up aaallll night, if ya know what I mean".
Your spouse will also eventually give you a stardrop (the item that permanently increases your stamina, not starfruit) if you get a sufficiently high affection - I've seen it described as 13/12 hearts, though the UI never shows more than 12 hearts.
So once you woo someone and get them to marry you... What exactly do they do?
Like, do they help on the farm?
-Sleep in the same bed as you ;-)
-Adds a small wing onto the bedroom of the fully upgraded house that is unique to the interests of whatever spouse you marry.
-If you talk to them every morning they will occasionally make you breakfast. A free quality meal that you can eat (or gift to someone else) without wasting any of your own ingredients.
-Will sometimes water some of your crops for you, but this is useless if you are using sprinklers, which most people obviously are.
-Changes the lines/interactions your spouse has with you at holidays/events.
-You can kiss/hug your spouse (I think it's supposed to be a hug, but it also kinda looks like a kiss so whatever one you think it is). If you repeatedly spam the kiss/hug command all at once, they get mad at you, though, lol.
-Eventually you will make babies, if you agree to it. You can keep the babies or sacrifice them to a dark altar.
-Figure out who your competition in town was before you married them, then eat the breakfast your spouse cooked for you in front of them like "mmmmmm, sorry if I look tired, I was up aaallll night, if ya know what I mean".
-Mostly just for fun, though
Man... you think you know a game ...
TBF, I think that was a request from players, to be able to get rid of their children and go back to the single life, and it was just implemented in a "whimsical" way.
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I keep losing crops because i forgot they got nerfed. I try to fill in the gaps but always something slips through. I thought there was a patch that added the ability to see their coverage, or was that a mod?
Like, set up a chicken farm for Shane to run, or buying Penny a house, etc.
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I haven't played since last February or March. Did they nerf the scarecrows with that big content patch, then?
My Backloggery
The day you drop it off and the next day.
One full day. That is, if you hand over the tool on Day 1, Cliff works on it for Day 2, and you can pick it back up on Day 3.
So for watering cans, one way to do it is wait for rain to be forecast for tomorrow, water all your crops today, turn in the can, go pick it up the day after and do your watering then. Alternately, do your watering on the 27th (as needed), hand over your can, pick it back up on the 1st.
I believe it's two days after you bring it in. I remember my way of upgrading my water can was to check the weather forecast. If it was going to rain the next day, I'd water everything that needed it and then turn it in to get upgraded. It'd be out of commission the next day, but it wouldn't matter because of the rain. And then the day after that you can pick up your new watering can once the shop opens.
My Backloggery
water crops on day 27 and then give watering can to clint
collect crops on day 28, no need to water since everything will die when season changes
plant new crops on day 1, collect can from clint, water crops
When the game first came out they had like, a 20 tile radius. Got dropped to about 8 in one of the early patches because you could basically cover the entire Tofy's MegaFarm Agricorp complex with 2 or 3.
Also Clint is terrible at multitasking, so you can't process geodes or buy ore while he has one of your tools.
Cool will do that. This is my first summer and i'm on day 22 and we have had zero rain.
I need to hit the spa to even complete my watering for the day because of the size of my garden.
Any tips for maximizing space on the forest farm while still keeping up a barn and a coop with space for animals to roam? I know they aren't the most efficient for $$$ but I'm not giving them up!
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I did not realize crops die when the seasons switch (spring to summer) over so i am heavily invested in corn right now.
Rows and rows and rows of corn.
Watering takes me till 3 p.m.
It's a massive boon for spring especially, and it also means that upgrading your hoe can be your last priority, as you don't need it upgrades at all.
And also not a terribly great one.
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I can't ever find enough coal to smelt any ore!
It drops in abundant amounts when you hit the ice strata of the dungeon.
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I can never make it to the dungeon because I'm busy/tired from watering. I cannot get sprinklers because I need coal from the dungeon etc...
In the fall or my next rainy day I will take a few cracks at it. I'm around L18 now.
Edit: Thanks for the advice!
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It sounds like you may have overextended yourself farming wise. You're really meant to do a balance of things between farming, exploring the dungeon, fishing, and socializing with farming taking up the most but not all of the time.
If you're doing that much farming early though, you may be making enough money to buy coal and ore directly from Clint for at least the lowest tier of sprinklers though that won't help with the refined quartz you need for the middle tier ones.
But also keep an eye for the trader in the wagon in the forest who shows up on Friday and Sunday. Sometimes she has sprinklers available.
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Never even knew about the trader!
I totally overextended myself but now I have a good cash base to build on for the fall so hopefully I can dig a bit deeper into the dungeon.
Trying to diversify and just finished the chicken coop but i think that's as far as I am going to go for a while with animals.
The other thing to watch for on the trader is a void egg. That will be useful to hatch when you get the upgraded coop.
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I agree with upgrading the watering can first, but tbh I give it the first upgrade and then focus on the ax and pick. If you are balancing your daily activities well, you can craft standard sprinklers pretty damn early, and I find that to be a much better investment than another watering can upgrade. They're not very good sprinklers compared to the other types, and yet:
--Not too costly, allows early spamming of crops, which means no time investment on watering (but still some on harvesting, natch)
--Gives you more time for scavenging/fishing/mining/lumberjacking
--Lets you focus on ax/pick upgrades for better materials and accessing new areas earlier
At least that's how I did it on my second playthrough, and the returns in both time and money were tremendous.
Don't forget to tap those trees ASAP! You need that resin for kegs, son! Kegs is how you become a gazillionaire!
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Ooh! Another tip! When you get around to building a couple of crab pots, keep at least a few in the ponds on your farm. They will occasionally spit out junk, including broken discs and broken glasses. SAVE THE BROKEN DISCS AND GLASSES. There is a machine that will turn them into refined quartz, which you will need for some advanced recipes later or can be sold. This is fer sher the easiest way to get refined quartz.
Not enough copper bars. Have 2 x going on pine and a oak ATM.
Have a whole bunch of maples planted in a row just waiting for them to grow.
Also have a few fruit trees that I clearly underestimated the grow time on. are they worth it long term?
They don't really pay off until you've had then asking long enough to get whole month of production. But fruit every day with no watering is nice.
Fruit trees each take one entire season to grow (they don't grow in winter), but after that:
--no longer require growth
--no watering or other maintenance required
--produce every day for an entire season
--last forever
You get max profit from fruits from trees once you have kegs or preserves jars and can turn it into wine or juice or jam. I wouldn't get into trees right away, IMO. The description of the tree seeds tell you which season they will produce. You have to plan ahead for trees if you want to start getting returns on them asap. (For example, if the tree produces in spring, trees don't grow in winter, so plant that shit on the first day of fall or mid-summer.)
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Another tip for the mines and farming coal. Once you get a certain distance into the mine, it unlocks access to that area via the elevator. The floors of the mine randomly populate upon your entering them. So what I will do is find a floor of the mine where those little coal-dropping sprites appear, and I will pop into that floor and see if there are a bunch of sprites. If not? Exit the mine via ladder, immediately take the elevator back to that floor, then check: are their sprites? If not: repeat until I get sprites.
Basically there are a couple of floors in the mine where you can quickly force the floor to re-roll itself a bunch of times quickly until it maximizes your profit from it. I do this mostly for farming coal and later gold.
Remember that one of the patches let you build buildings on areas that aren't farmable as long as it's still clear ground.
:edit: and you can also axe away some of the bush things
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Fruit trees do grow in winter, unless it was patched out. It's the normal (Pine, Maple, Oak) trees that don't grow in the winter.
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My bad! You could be right!
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1st day of fall and have a ton of work to do around the old homestead but with upgraded tools! My chickens are digging the little enclosure so they can self feed with grass and are laying eggs at a steady clip.
Like, do they help on the farm?
-Sleep in the same bed as you ;-)
-Adds a small wing onto the bedroom of the fully upgraded house that is unique to the interests of whatever spouse you marry.
-If you talk to them every morning they will occasionally make you breakfast. A free quality meal that you can eat (or gift to someone else) without wasting any of your own ingredients.
-Will sometimes water some of your crops for you, but this is useless if you are using sprinklers, which most people obviously are.
-Changes the lines/interactions your spouse has with you at holidays/events.
-You can kiss/hug your spouse (I think it's supposed to be a hug, but it also kinda looks like a kiss so whatever one you think it is). If you repeatedly spam the kiss/hug command all at once, they get mad at you, though, lol.
-Eventually you will make babies, if you agree to it. You can keep the babies or sacrifice them to a dark altar.
-Figure out who your competition in town was before you married them, then eat the breakfast your spouse cooked for you in front of them like "mmmmmm, sorry if I look tired, I was up aaallll night, if ya know what I mean".
-Mostly just for fun, though
Occasionally they'll have watered your crops by the time you wake up but chances are you already have a sprinkler system covering all your crops by the time you get married. They sometimes also give you food or coffee. There's a one time gift of the permanent stat boost when they're happy enough too.
And at some point you'll have a chance to make babies with your spouse. Creepy children who will never age past a certain point and remain trapped in their larval forms forever.
Also, your grandfather thinks you're a loser if you're not married after a few years.
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Man... you think you know a game ...
TBF, I think that was a request from players, to be able to get rid of their children and go back to the single life, and it was just implemented in a "whimsical" way.