I got 2 useless gardening machines

[leannethesimsgirl]

It says they are not active when I check on it, what does that mean? I can't use it. I can't dig neither, even though I've gotten enough mist.

[StressFrakture]

Same, I'd love it it somehow we could have an overhead one but IDK if they consider that too much.

I have about 200 crops or so planted in the Meadow and another 20 or so in the swamp.

[wesnef]

Yeah, I stopped farming that much when I got above 2mil gold. I've had a patch of 40 pumpkins in the forgotten biome (since replaced with a single L3 ancient machine), and a couple 10's in other biomes for ingredients I might run low on.

Had to do some new gardening in the DLC zones for the new crops, but once I hit a stack of each, I just stopped harvesting. Installed one ancient machine in the desert when I got some extra L3 cores.


edit: even at my largest cash farming stage back in the beginning, I don't think I went above 60-80 plants. And once I learned about Berry Salad, I stopped cooking other meals for energy, and just moved the three types of berry bushes into the Meadow and put a large chest + cooking station next to them. And now the auto-cooker. I've got 300-350 berry salads stored up so far.

[StressFrakture]

I usually gobble gooseberries if needing quick energy.

I think I started out with a normal size farm and then quests or daily tasks would ask us to grow something else. So that's how that started, then I just kept it all filled with pumpkin (a few other things now) so I don't have to re dig it all. Will change it if in need of land, in future.

[JayohPlaysThoYT]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Yeah, the vacuum seems pretty pointless.

i have an advanced vacuum in every biome because i get tired of manually clearing out night thorns and flowers so they actually do have some point

[leannethesimsgirl]

Originally posted by leannethesimsgirl:

It says they are not active when I check on it, what does that mean? I can't use it. I can't dig neither, even though I've gotten enough mist.

Just to be clear, I found out you can only have 4 of them in a biome or they will be non-functional. What a stupid design by Gameloft