Watering System For Crops Sucks

[Colonel_Camel]

I'm only on the bronze watering can system for now, so I'm not sure if there are upgrades later in the game that make this better, but right now watering my crops sucks!

First of all, there is no way to tell whether any given plot of ground will be dry tomorrow, the first you learn about it is you wake up one morning to discover that certain patches of your farm are dry and the crops in them haven't grown. This can completely mess up your farming schedule, as certain crops you've planted all at once won't ripen on the same day, leaving you with a very patchwork farm!

Then there's the horrendous way the watering can itself works! The slightest wrong move of your mouse and suddenly your vertical 1x3 watering zone becomes a horizontal 1x3 watering zone! So even if you're trying to be systematic about the way you water your crops, the watering can itself will totally upend this plan by changing the way it works as you're using it! Making this even more likely is the fact that some crops can't be walked though, and will divert your character off the straight-line course they've been trying to walk through, which almost always causes the watering can to change it's configuration!

This virutally guarantees that you'll miss certain squares while you're trying to water your farm; and there is no way of telling the squares that have been watered today from the squares that haven't!

Please, fix the watering system so that we can easily tell what still needs to be watered today, and add some consistency to the watering can!

[Pandas_of_doom]

I think they should add some kinda side to side strafing to make it easier to water the farm
also I don't like how when it rains that day the soil is wet so you would assume you can skip 1 day of watering but then the next day rolls around and the entire farm is dried up since the copper watering can only covers 3 days of wet soil that is also included with the rainy day so it throws me off that I still have to water the farm even if its raining cuz the rain doesn't count as a 4th day to keep soil wet.

[Mephistopheles]

Only have copper watering can, and it doesn't rain enough in game to help.

[Trunks]

They need to add a person to hire to water crops or a sprinkler system or bigger watering can, that is the only thing I have hated over the months. Having to water by 3 squares on your farm, over and over again.

[jwcoleman73]

It would be nice to see watering be area of affect instead of targeted. As pointed out the targeting can be very sensative.

[Fae Queen Of Gaming]

I do hope they make it so that hallmund can upgrade our stuff in town, could be a gold sink, which is always nice since the game does end up getting to a point where money just piles up

[Calico Witch]

I've an idea - since this is a medieval-ish game sprinkles aren't appropriate, but what about adding the ability to put irrigation ditches every 2-3 rows of crops?

[Puchbol]

Originally posted by Mephistopheles:

Only have copper watering can, and it doesn't rain enough in game to help.

The watering can waters soil for three days; rain only waters for the day it's raining - and the '3-day clock' keeps running, so if it rains on Day 3 of the Watering Can cycle, Day 4 you'll wake up to dry crops.

[Mephistopheles]

Originally posted by Puchbol:

Originally posted by Mephistopheles:

Only have copper watering can, and it doesn't rain enough in game to help.

The watering can waters soil for three days; rain only waters for the day it's raining - and the '3-day clock' keeps running, so if it rains on Day 3 of the Watering Can cycle, Day 4 you'll wake up to dry crops.

I know how the watering system works... In one month it only rained one day so we didn't get much help, which is what I was referring to when I said "it doesn't rain enough in game to help". Even if it only waters crops for one day it still helps.

Originally posted by Calico Witch:

I've an idea - since this is a medieval-ish game sprinkles aren't appropriate, but what about adding the ability to put irrigation ditches every 2-3 rows of crops?

Hiring a farm hand would be a nice option too.

[Mossfoxx]

I'm tossing in my two cents here, along with everything said above, just to emphasize: The fact that it will rain and my crops are dry the next day? Not to be dramatic or anything but blinding rage would be too mild a descriptor.

PLEASE please tell me this will get fixed at some point in the future. Why is sky water no good? What do devs have against the water cycle? We're being held down under the boot of Big Wellwater and I for one will not stand for it.

[Doc Savage]

The rain not soaking the ground is one of my current biggest pet peeves....

I'd be happy if the little personage would just spin and water the 8 tiles around themselves.

Like how hard is that..? All that work into grids and boxes and highlighting when you could have just done the circle around you and done.

Those two things would make watering tolerable at least.

I like the idea of irrigation rows. That requires a water source like a stream or a well that could be placed or ditched from. I don't know how that would work, but if we could farm little patches near the waters that exist in other parts of the map maybe..?

Cheers..!

[Camdol]

there was a rather nifty system in 1 harvest of the Slightly adjacent rock. think it was a tale of 2 towns.
you could "tie" each crop in a field together with an irrigation ditch and you only had to water 1 plant for the entire field to be watered......... if you had enough water in the watering can...

If sprinklers is too "high tech" there are other ways... There have been some talk about adding "magic" to the game... so localized showers on the fields every day if you unlock it could be 1 direction...

personally I'm more inclined to having a worker called "sprinkler"...

[Doc Savage]

Originally posted by Camdol:

....personally I'm more inclined to having a worker called "sprinkler"...

I believe they call that a dog....

Cheers..!

[Pandas_of_doom]

just a thought but since we have a magical broom that sweeps floors, why not have like forest spirits or something to tend to the farm/garden? its a medieval game with some magical fantasy so might as well go the full route.

could even do a quest for mai and she gets her spirit buddies or something to help you tend your farm

[Doc Savage]

You know, that's pretty good actually.

A magic can on a stick that goes to the well and then goes back to water the plants.

Limit their abilities to x amount per day so you have to have a couple of them to do a nice farm.

Maybe have to be replaced every year or two unless you build the special closet near the farm to keep them out of the rain...

Nice..!

Cheers..!

[Andromeda]

A garden gnome that Mai brings to life to water your crops sounds cool.
He would be a cute garden decoration until you activate him to water your crops.
Could be unlocked through a quest after reaching X (25?) level reputation mid to late game.
Perhaps we could name him ourselves.
I think sprinklers would ruin the medieval immersion for me. something magic related seems the way to go.

Garden gnome or Fairy statue! i like the idea of both or choosing which to get from the quest.

Happy Gaming!