Is it just me or is the farming part kinda bad?

[One (1) Lini]

For starters, the profits are pretty bad per crop, but maybe that improves once I get more into processing them into other things.

My main gripe however, is the watering system. Mostly that the watering can has such atrociously low capacity, and each upgrade tier only seems to add 5 to the capacity. For the sake of comparison, SDV's basic watering can has a capacity of 40.

Usually in farming games (Stardew valley, Rune factory, Harvest Moon) upgrading the watering can also lets one charge it up to water a bigger area at once. If that is an option in Sun Haven I haven't figured out how to do so yet.

This wouldn't be as bad of an issue if there was at least some sort of sprinkler available, or if the rain cloud spell unlocked earlier in the farming skill tree. But as it is, farming just feels like the most tedious and boring part of Sun Haven.

[Willow Rivers]

Your main watering is the rain cloud.

I enjoy the farming part the most lol. It is relaxing tending crops and making money from farming. All the running around is the tedius part for me.

[peep]

Idk.. there'll always be someone who hates the thing you like the most. Fishing for example was my favorite part of Stardew Valley but I had two friends who absolutely hated it.

[SushiCat]

Actually there's a bit of a big jump to Sunite Water Can being 70 I believe. But tbh you just gonna have to tough it out on the early levels of farming. A good way to get ahead is just doing community quests that are rather easy and stockpile enuff for skill point potions.

[One (1) Lini]

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Your main watering is the rain cloud.

I enjoy the farming part the most lol. It is relaxing tending crops and making money from farming. All the running around is the tedius part for me.

Would be nice to unlock it a bit earlier then.

I do tend to enjoy the farming part more, but having to water each tile individually and refilling my watering can so often doesn't feel great so far. I reckon it'll get better with the cloud though.

[Shiva]

Originally posted by One (1) Lini:

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Your main watering is the rain cloud.

I enjoy the farming part the most lol. It is relaxing tending crops and making money from farming. All the running around is the tedius part for me.

Would be nice to unlock it a bit earlier then.

I do tend to enjoy the farming part more, but having to water each tile individually and refilling my watering can so often doesn't feel great so far. I reckon it'll get better with the cloud though.

A work around that I figured out is one that you can't do in similar 'Harvest Moon' esk games..... Make more watering cans! When I realized this I nearly fell out of my chair.

I totally concede that watering 1 at a time is tedious, but with multiple watering cans, its not quite as bad. Especially once you're in Iron+.

[Goof]

Skills, skills, skills! If you hover over the farming skills, you will find later on that there are skills that increase the profitability of crops, but I would not recommend using your skill points on that since cooking expensive recipes is where the real money has been for me on top of completing quests every day. There is also a skill that allows you to make a maximum of 8 gold for every single thing you craft, including planks. Highly recommend that one for passive early money.

Personally, I don't sell my crops in case I can use them in a recipe either for money or to increase my mana pool, or to give them as a gift to a romanceable character (there are skills that reward you for being a hopeless flirt), or I might need them for a quest that would pay more than the crop would ever be worth. Utilize the seeds that are on sale at the general store and you'll have a nice variety of crops for recipes for cheap. There are even more skills that make those seeds even cheaper.

As for the watering can situation, I would love the option of sprinklers, or even an elvish and withergate crop you could water that then turns into a sprinkler would be nifty, especially since many of the crops are so whimsical and fantasy based in this game. Maybe its range grows the older the sprinkler gets or maybe there's a special fertilizer you can craft to increase the sprinkler crop's range? I know we can grow crops from other places with the right scarecrows, but it would be nice to not feel obligated to town jump every day when I decide to actually use the farms in the other towns.

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by Dex:

Is there no way of watering a large area of crops?

The water cloud spell is the only way to water an area of crops. The watering can is 1 at a time but each level holds more water then the previous one.

[zoycite]

there are some skills in farming that can significant;y boost profits on crafted products and also provide all kinds of other benefits. the rain cloud isn't available until 30 points are spent in the farming skill tree. you can also stack xp totems/scare crows to gain insane amounts of xp when harvesting.

[One (1) Lini]

Originally posted by narwhal:

there are some skills in farming that can significant;y boost profits on crafted products and also provide all kinds of other benefits. the rain cloud isn't available until 30 points are spent in the farming skill tree. you can also stack xp totems/scare crows to gain insane amounts of xp when harvesting.

I'll have to take a look at those totems, leveling farming is a bit of a slog right now.

[Myst Leissa]

Originally posted by One (1) Lini:

Originally posted by narwhal:

there are some skills in farming that can significant;y boost profits on crafted products and also provide all kinds of other benefits. the rain cloud isn't available until 30 points are spent in the farming skill tree. you can also stack xp totems/scare crows to gain insane amounts of xp when harvesting.

I'll have to take a look at those totems, leveling farming is a bit of a slog right now.

Farming was easy to level for me, come Spring, I (more or less) use and abuse Weedi's Dandelion Spawns to make my farming skill shoot up by 5 - 10 levels a day. Fun Fact: My Farming was my SECOND skill to reach level 15, right after exploration. M'fishing Sucks tho, only like level 4 there...Need to fish more Even though the minigame is what I'm used to the bands start out incredibly small, and the pacing of the needle is kinda fast for my liking.

[Halcyon Eve]

Originally posted by Nysch:

Originally posted by One (1) Lini:

I'll have to take a look at those totems, leveling farming is a bit of a slog right now.

Farming was easy to level for me, come Spring, I (more or less) use and abuse Weedi's Dandelion Spawns to make my farming skill shoot up by 5 - 10 levels a day. Fun Fact: My Farming was my SECOND skill to reach level 15, right after exploration. M'fishing Sucks tho, only like level 4 there...Need to fish more Even though the minigame is what I'm used to the bands start out incredibly small, and the pacing of the needle is kinda fast for my liking.

Same. By the end of my first year, I had first Farming and then Exploration at or above level 50. I enjoy both of those the most. Fishing is okay but kind of easy compared to other similar games. Mining is... well, mining. Hitting rocks with a pickaxe. Not much to work with there. I was slow to level it up mainly because of the key system. Combat got much easier to level up once I hit around 20ish. Mining and fishing are probably my least favorite as they're not terribly interesting to do--I've fallen asleep irl doing both!