GUIDE: HOW TO GET RICH/FULLY EXPAND YOUR FARM

[Prince Jake]

HOW TO GET RICH/FULLY EXPAND YOUR FARM


Hi, this is my guide on how I got rich fast and expanded my farm fully.

When you first start playing, you'll probably be focused on unlocking all of your gallery first. However, I am going to write this guide as if you are starting from scratch. Wherever you are, this guide should be able to help you fully unlock the farm.


First, a note on crops and feeding your animals:

Your animals have to be fed every day, or they lose affection for you and run away. You also get fined. Because animal stats don't matter for making fast income, I recommend just planting the fastest growing crops. I never buy anything that takes longer than 4 days to grow.

Also, crops don't need to be watered or fertilised. Don't task any monsters with farming, simply plant and harvest the crops yourself. Or, if you would like to maximise your time, simply buy all forty bakery items that Birma has for sale every day and feed your monsters that.


Now, the main part of the tutorial.

The way you will make most of your money is selling monster essence in the academy. The two monsters that produce the most valuable essence are dragons and chimeras. Their essence price peaks at 55 gold per essence. So, the basic strategy is to have a full stable of chimeras and dragons and nothing else. Harvest them every day, and sell the essences at the peak price.

However, if that's all you do, its going to take you a long time to get the shards you need to expand your farm, since shards are 10, 000 gold coins each.

Its important that you breed selectively and maximise two traits: 'Loads ♥♥♥' and 'Beast of Burden'. Loads ♥♥♥ gives you one extra essence per harvest per level. Beast of Burden lets you harvest one extra time, per level.

A monster with Level 5 Loads ♥♥♥ will produce 7 essences per harvest. If it also has Level 5 Beast of Burden, you can harvest it 6 times. Giving you a total of 42 essences per monster, per day. At 55 gold per essence, that's 2310 gold. If you have 40 animals with these traits at this level, that is 92, 000 per day. However, it will take you a number of generations of ruthless breeding to reach that goal.

There are a few other traits that may be helpful. Abundant Body will net you a little extra cash, selling the surplus matter that your monsters produce. Dragon Blood will make levelling up the traits much faster. I also like Friendly as it makes it easier to keep the monsters happy.


Breeding:

When you start, playing, and finish the first mission to open your barn again, you'll have some starter monsters. If any of them have Loads ♥♥♥ or Beast of Burden, you'll want to keep them for breeding. Otherwise, breed them as much as you can before the first market day on the 7th.

On the market day, you want to visit the egg seller and buy ONLY DRAGON, CHIMERA AND CRAB EGGS. Chimera and crabs are bisexual and can be bred with males, females and each other, so they are great for crossing for traits. Crabs are also the third most profitable essence (sell at 45 gold).

Until you have a collection of monsters with Loads ♥♥♥ and Beast of Burden, you will keep buying crab, chimera and dragon eggs. When those traits start to show up, selectively breed across your lines, until you have the desired traits at the desired levels. Sell off excess crabs and replace them with dragons or chimeras.

Before then, bred often, hatch and sell the offspring as quickly as possible so you don't waste food or time on them.

Remember to harvest from your monsters every day if you aren't breeding them. Also, don't mate them with your farmer, as it tends to weaken your bloodlines and make breeding limited.


To sell essence, go to the academy and ask to see the essence ledger. The plus symbol buys and the minus symbol sells. It took me ages to work that out. You can sell miscellaneous materials to the same woman who sells the shards (she also sells wood, stone and metal) on market days. To buy shards, select the dialogue option 'what sort of deal do you have?' and she will offer you a shard for 10, 000 gold.

To upgrade your farm, go see the wizard. The cost goes up with every expansion. The first is 1 shard, the second is 3 shards, the third is 7 shards, then 10, 13 and so on.


If you really want to unlock your gallery, the most cost-effective way to do it is to buy eggs, hatch them, mount them with your farmer, then sell them. Also, if you really need to up your affection with your monsters, mounting them is a good way to do that. Particularly if you also hand feed and pet them every day. I only pair my farmer with same sex monsters (male farmer/male monster) so there are no offspring, so my hatchery isn't always stuffed with trash. You can also just sell unwanted eggs at the egg stall.

Hope that helps.

[Grizzzly]

Thanx this helps a lott

[Grimbus]

why is this in discussions? put it in the guide section

[audekhatru]

Can you sell monsters? If yes, where?

[spyke889]

Originally posted by audekhatru:

Can you sell monsters? If yes, where?

go to the bird in the guild hall and choose "i think a monster is ready to join society" they cant have been harvested, breed, or working on the day you want to sell them

[Forklift.Jr]

where do you get shards?

[Freedead]

Originally posted by Army Men Air Attack 2:

Where do you get more shards, OP? They come from the dungeon and clearing it out again doesn't make new Charged Ley Crystals.

Shards sold by the trader Edeline. Costs 10k for one.

[sphynx]

I wish there were 40 bakery items to buy. I can just get only 10 breads per day. Also, the town really needs some grocery store that refills ingredients every day because they are so damn rare. I might have missed it but I tried to get inside every possible door

[Rose]

Originally posted by Forklift.Jr:

where do you get shards?

Same I wanna know how you get shards because she said it costs 10,000 each

[Poop_Master]

Do not follow this advice, just go to the bird dude, and multiply your money using the essence market. Use the 3 cheapest essences, and use an auto clicker to buy/sell them. Hope this helps.

[crluber76]

farming 10 fields takes a lot of time by yourself
monster get in the way when you farm but monsters gain experience farming

how does your monster get to level 5
you use the dungeon or combat training field

I use combat training fields in 2 days have monster up to level 9
I have monster worth over 4k with the right side completely full of traits

to produce more than 1 essence you need a corresponding trait to do that
also this trait over rides any equipment you have on, it does not stack with equipment

I use game NPC for dungeon, monster become to weak after a while
also combat train field is faster and raises the price of monster

I plant a lots of trees, are slower at start but after 1st week never have to replant one
unless storm damage.

But everyone has there own approach, i use most of his techniques when I first started
so it is good advice, but there are other ways to develop your farm too.

[bearcombat]

While this guide is certainly true and will point people in the right direction, there's a few important details I'd like to add.
First of all, the 'beast of burden' trait can only originally appear in holstaurs, though it can be passed on to any species.
Second, there's a gold trait 'quickshot' that does the exact same thing as beast of burden, it's just rarer but can appear in any species. With both quickshot 5 and beast of burden 5 you can harvest a whopping 11 times per day.
Third, you can buy two equipment items to put on your monsters that increase the essence they give per harvest, the wiztech receiver (+1 essence) and wiztech focus (+3 essence). You can usually find these from the genie merchant, but can also occasionally get them from Yonten or the racoon. With loads c*m 5 and both pieces of equipment, the monster will give 11 essence per harvest.
But wait, there's more! The 'abundant body' trait increases the number of byproducts a monster gives per harvest. The value of byproducts is determined not by species, but by the domesticity of the monster. A domesticity of 80% or higher will net you 5 star byproducts, with a value of 50 each, though you can only sell them for 38 each (and only to the racoon) or have your monsters ship them for 42 each. As the guide I'm commenting on suggests forgoing anything other than harvesting, we'll use 38 as the number.
So, with all of this together, a perfect dragon/chimera with 80+ domesticity, the traits beast of burden, quickshot, loads c*m, and abundant body at rank 5, and equipped with the two wiztech items, is a straight up money printer generating a ludicrous 9,163... uh... what was the currency called again? Whatever, we'll call it power levels, because the scouter says it generates *OVER 9000!!!* of it per day.
As my last little tip, the shards that you give to the wizard to upgrade your farm can by bought from the busty wolf merchant for 10,000 a pop by asking 'what kind of deal do you have'. Have fun making phat stacks, folks.

[RespecMan]

Can confirm. Chimera and dragon loads make BANK. Finished the story and proceeded to expand my farm every other day by farming essence and cashing them in. I also increased the number of monsters I can have by making all three fields into pastures. I can now buy everything in the game and still have money left over.

[chevionlogan18]

where to get more food for the monster

[Pertsa]

Originally posted by chevionlogan18:

where to get more food for the monster

• Crowing crops and feeding those or refining them in the mill into ingredients to make cooked food instead.
  
• From merchants during Market days.
  
• From the Dungeon as loot.
  
• From Birma in front of the barracks at Cloverton square.

[UnholySniper]

Originally posted by RespecMan:

Can confirm. Chimera and dragon loads make BANK. Finished the story and proceeded to expand my farm every other day by farming essence and cashing them in. I also increased the number of monsters I can have by making all three fields into pastures. I can now buy everything in the game and still have money left over.

How do I turn the farm land into pastures to increase my monster capacity?