Sprinkler System for Farming

[Gubbins]

So like many other people, I have taken to farming quite a bit to gain a lot of gold quickly. Is there a better way to water? I have to refill my energy twice just to water 200 crops. I admit it is not too cumbersome, but I am lazy and would rather be doing other things. I sort of wish you could craft sprinklers or something to have a solid farming system. Anyone else feel this way?

[mischtfieh]

I agree. Farming is very time consuming atm and not really relaxing - at least not if you want to make some gold and not in the casual way just planting / watering / harvesting 10 plants a day. As this game is still in EA I think in the future they bring something to make it a bit more comfy but thats just my guess.

[Myth Alric]

I don't think the game is really designed for planting 200+ crops. That is excessive. What are you even spending the money on?

[Gubbins]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

I don't think the game is really designed for planting 200+ crops. That is excessive. What are you even spending the money on?

Upgrading all of the character buildings like the restaurant, garden, fishing boat, my house. Also just assuming as more characters are added there will be more buildings to upgrade.

[MadDawg2552]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

What are you even spending the money on?

The hundreds of clothing and furniture items. Granted, you can't buy them all at once, but you need a lot of money to get it all.

[Myth Alric]

I maxed out all the buildings after like 3 days of farming pumpkins and that was with only like 100 each day.

[mischtfieh]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

I maxed out all the buildings after like 3 days of farming pumpkins and that was with only like 100 each day.

Atm right - there are a lot of other things like said: all clothing, furniture. And the character & buildings etc. they add in the future. And even if you plant 100 seeds a day its not really designed for it (the stacks are 50 seeds.. so maybe for 50 its just barely ok and does not feel like just endless farming simulator but you wont make a lot of money a day - in the end not the amount you need to clear the whole daily shop). So imagine if you only have a very limited playtime (like kids) its not fun bc you never have enough money. Yes you can also sell other resources but then theyre not available for quests or other things you may need later.

DDV is a total casual game and should be like one. In the end most people will login daily only for a short time and it should be possible to gain enough money in a more comfortable way than now. Otherwise youre only daily mission is to plant/water/harvest. Not very diversified.

[Raven Claw]

Originally posted by Gubbins:

So like many other people, I have taken to farming quite a bit to gain a lot of gold quickly. Is there a better way to water? I have to refill my energy twice just to water 200 crops. I admit it is not too cumbersome, but I am lazy and would rather be doing other things. I sort of wish you could craft sprinklers or something to have a solid farming system. Anyone else feel this way?

ME personally I use 2 methods to address the whole farming aspect. As a reference I have 4 plots of 72(288 total. FYI I keep things in groups of 6 which is the most reliable way for watering) for my pumpkins, and then a few other miscellaneous plots if i need ingredients. Really thou it is the pumpkins I think we are all more commenting about.

First off I am cheap.. SO I go visit remy's realm and pickup one of the stacks of food I have sitting on the floor so I can get a full yellow stamina bar, and drop the remaining food for my next visit. Secondly I use the fruit plants to my benefit. Some people cook them (awesome idea if that freaking vender would ever sell me coal. I swear he has been stuck on selling snow ever since I unlocked him). I just chomp on fruit to restore my bar, which over my whole crop planting and watering takes about 5-6 pieces of fruit. Interesting point is it takes less energy when it is the gold energy bar(over saturated) then when it is the blue energy bar. Example: I can pick 2 fields on the gold, but only 1 and a bit with the blue bar. (bug/by design /shrug dunno)

[chocobabychibi]

I know the trick to go to Remy's realm and just cook and eat there for gold bar but I am lazy so I don't even bother. For now I only have one 100 plot crop for Okura (as the watering is best for this crop, once and you are done) it still takes me around 15 mins to plant and water them all. I used to do two round of Okra harvesting but recently I have become more lazy and feel like even twice is getting tedious and not fun at all. Couple with the fact that even when I lock my buddies, those gold spots are usually very stubborn for me to pick them (even I have no plants or anything)

[Schutzengel]

You can move and line up forageable Fruit Trees and Bushes using the "Furniture" menu, and harvest them without the need of watering. Foraging >>> Gardening

[leannethesimsgirl]

Omg yes, especially for cotton, which you have to water 2 or 3 times before it will grow. Also when it rains it dries out the crops and you have to re water which is very frustrating, especially if you have other things to do.

[chocobabychibi]

Originally posted by Schutzengel:

You can move and line up forageable Fruit Trees and Bushes using the "Furniture" menu, and harvest them without the need of watering. Foraging >>> Gardening

I do this exclusively and it does bring in decent money and it's more fun! Right outside of my house and no need to "cage" my buddies. I have given up with the crops, I just leave the plants there so my dig holes won't go away.

[Gubbins]

I never even thought of cooking food and eating it in Remy's realm and that makes SO MUCH SENSE. I will have to try this. I also tried farming pumpkins once, but I think the onions lead to create money in the same amount of time and they also have about a 71% profit as opposed to the pumpkins at 59%. Thank you all for the tips and discussion!

[ionnypie]

I've planted over 750 tomatoes and it has made the game almost unplayable. 10/10 game :)

[Myth Alric]

Originally posted by mischtfieh:

DDV is a total casual game and should be like one. In the end most people will login daily only for a short time and it should be possible to gain enough money in a more comfortable way than now. Otherwise youre only daily mission is to plant/water/harvest. Not very diversified.

Well it isn't really casual if you try to buy everything at Scourge's store everyday. If you just buy the stuff you actually like and will wear/use, then you don't need to farm hundreds of crops a day.

[StressFrakture]

My query is why do rainstorms not really water the crops?

I have seen red teardrops on the map while I am standing in the crops which are green during a rainstorm. Immediately after the rain ends, they need to be watered. Not only the thirsty ones but the easy ones, too, it seems.

I don't mind watering but I wish \it did not delete our energy so fast. I think it's not that realistic in that regard. Watering the ground is not THAT exhausting is it? So I agree with that. I also have no blueberries near where I am farming, so I have to keep 'going home.'

Can we not make an energy bar in the game (if they don't want to change the energy depletion for farming/watering), made only from free items (fruits or berries on shrubs or trees; free to harvest herbs) which would fill up our energy again or at least by half? We could keep a bunch of those in our Inventory while doing tasks. Please allow them to stack to 99.