Crows!

[filemonkey13]

Okay, seriously, what the hell is with the damn crows? I have had 12 crows in three damn days! That's crazy. That's literally hundreds of coins gone. Sure, I occasionally get random seeds back, but twelve in three days? That's too damn much. And before you say, "Build a scarecrow," I can't. It's day 4 of Spring. I don't have the recipe. Rant over.

[Piperbird]

You should have gotten the scarecrow recipe the first day a crow ate a crop, do you not have it still?

[Raptvre]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

You should have gotten the scarecrow recipe the first day a crow ate a crop, do you not have it still?

Spring Day 5, still no scarecrow recipe. The birds are winning this war, and I fear we will all starve to death soon.

[RhiWilder]

Originally posted by filemonkey13:

Okay, seriously, what the hell is with the damn crows? I have had 12 crows in three damn days! That's crazy. That's literally hundreds of coins gone. Sure, I occasionally get random seeds back, but twelve in three days? That's too damn much. And before you say, "Build a scarecrow," I can't. It's day 4 of Spring. I don't have the recipe. Rant over.

I also did not get the scarecrow on day one like I should have so sad, bye bye upgrading my farming skill in a decent amount of time.

[Versitie]

same here and I have level 2 in farming so that shouldn't be the case :(

[Ivory]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

You should have gotten the scarecrow recipe the first day a crow ate a crop, do you not have it still?

I only got my scarecrow recipe when I leveled up my farming skill.

I guess this will pose a bit of a challenge for some people then. You need to level up your skill to get the scarecrow recipe but you can't level up if the crows keep taking your crops before you can harvest them. Fortunately, I only got 1 crow during 5-6 in-game days.

Also, IMO, the first (makeshift) scarecrow has a super tiny range of 5x5, and the better one is 11x11. Compared to Stardew's scarecrow that protects 17x17... I like to plant in 3x3 sections with a path in the middle, and this tiny scarecrow threw a wrench at my designs, lol.

[Piperbird]

oh no that stinks! I honestly don't remember if Ben sells one on the weekends or if you can get one in the furniture store. I always just put up with the crows until I got the recipe, but 12 is certainly more than I've ever gotten!

[EMT-Fields]

When do you get the recipe if you didn't get it the first day?

[Ivory]

Originally posted by EMT-Fields:

When do you get the recipe if you didn't get it the first day?

You don't get it on the first day. To unlock the first scarecrow you need to level up your farming to level 1, and for that you need to harvest some crops first.

[Aepervius]

Originally posted by Ivory:

Originally posted by EMT-Fields:

When do you get the recipe if you didn't get it the first day?

You don't get it on the first day. To unlock the first scarecrow you need to level up your farming to level 1, and for that you need to harvest some crops first.

That is not a great design... When you are already getting bird feeding on your stuff on day 3

I harvested 18 crops and did not get any level. I got 30 xp out of 120, that mens roughly I have to ahrvest 80 more crops... The bird will get VErrrrry fat.

ETA: it seems you get the experience during the night : I went from 30 xp to enough for elvel 1 120+ during the night. Got the scarecrow.