winter farming only in green house wtf!

[Zero1]

really winter plants only for green house wtf is this!!

really killed the game for me

also your starter monster will never show up! and i found a shinny finally after 3 seasons! didn't even know shiny monsters were a thing!

[Psyringe]

You sound like it might be a good time for you to take a break. ;)

I mean, as you continue playing a game - any game - you'll always find that some of your expectations won't be met. Sometimes that's a positive surprise, when a game takes an unexpected turn that is also something cool - like the shinies. And sometimes it's a bit disappointing, when you expected something to be cooler than it actually is. But to have such relatively minor details ruin a game for you, I think you must have been burned out already. Really, taking breaks is not a bad thing. ;)

[Watt]

Thats kinda how these games work, when winter rolls around you catch up on all the other activities you slacked on during the first three seasons and upgrade your farm too. With this game its a perfect time to finish any of the 30 memory shards you didnt get yet, hunt down any treasure maps you have, and stock up on wood/stone to upgrade your greenhouse and normal house.

As for the green house itself, fully upgraded it has decent amount of space to last you through the winter. Even if its not enough you can always use the spring temple magic rod to rush grow some crops.

Grats on the shiny, still havnt found one myself and I am in the second year.

[Zero1]

i mean why have winter plants if i cant plant them outside like the rest of the winter plants!!!

[ApotheosizD]

starter monster will never show up? the fire and electric starter can be found in the wild. i believe the earth starter needs to be hatched from an egg, though.

[Morion]

Dumb design. I spent last winter sleeping through, to get the spring.

[ToastMunchie]

Is farming really a huge part of the play time for you guys? Once you unlock sprinklers it takes like a minute or two to plant and then you don't touch farming again for 6+ days. Why would it "kill the game" to do something else?

[Zero1]

well in winter there is a exp plant that gives a lot of exp all seasons have one but winter has the biggest % increase out of all seasons!!!!

and to lock it to the green house is just stupid because you can only plant so many in the green house! also invested 100s of seeds to only be disappointed that i couldn't plant them!

[KLightningflik]

This is exactly how Stardew valley worked. Winter kills all your crops unless you grow them in the greenhouse.

[dartharkonnis]

Originally posted by KLightningflik:

This is exactly how Stardew valley worked. Winter kills all your crops unless you grow them in the greenhouse.

well except for the wild seeds that grow in the winter

[Pheonix Fontaine]

Fishing is also a no-go.

Without farming, you cannot grow plants in as high quantity, RNG dictates random spawns. So that part of gameplay is suppressed. Without a higher quantity of plants, taming spirits may be problematic, which slows down pairing quests.

The Greenhouse takes 3 moonstone ingots or 9 moonstones. At this point in the game you've probably collected a good amount of the naturally spawning ones. Probably used most of them on Moongrass Spirit Stalls. That means this task is further dragged out particularly in the season you need/want it.

So your actions left are farming monsters for experience, dungeons, treasure maps and hunting mines.

Honestly it's just bad design. The way the game is built, you probably already were doing those things already and the game doesn't supplement your available tasks at this point heavily. It means pacing drops and as does engagment with the game itself.

They did say they'll add more things, but this is probably one of those things that got hit because their rush to meet their release deadline. What they'll add, I dunno, but hopefully 1.1 will include enough supplemental content and pacing changes so players can engage in a healthier way.

[Mysterious Pixie]

The greenhouse is available immediately though, and it's rather cheap too. We spent our first moonstones on the spirit barn, greenhouse, glider and the moonstone scythe. That's merely 36. If you first get the glider, and then everything else, honestly, it's ridiculously easy to do.

[dartharkonnis]

Originally posted by FunnyBunny:

The greenhouse is available immediately though, and it's rather cheap too. We spent our first moonstones on the spirit barn, greenhouse, glider and the moonstone scythe. That's merely 36. If you first get the glider, and then everything else, honestly, it's ridiculously easy to do.

Yea the hardest part about the greenhouse for me was the sea glass (primarily because it took me a bit to figure out how to tame since I don't usually read quests)

[ella bee]

Yes, the glider is the key to moonstones. Once you have it and some food, just buzz around and pick up all those lovely's.

[Lucallia]

While I don't MIND using the greenhouse for winter seeds it also just kinda doesn't make sense. I find all these plants in the wild and they grow fine yet somehow my farm that I'm actively taking care of to till is too frozen for these crops? That's the part that frustrates me the most.

Before anyone argues that it's because the environment on the other islands are different first of all even all the basic winter plants need to be in the greenhouse. Secondly if the environmental difference is the issue then ALL the plants from the poison, electric, and fire islands year round should be greenhouse only.

As it is I would've rather they just not make 'winter' plants that can't survive outside of a greenhouse in winter.

[dartharkonnis]

Originally posted by Lucallia:

While I don't MIND using the greenhouse for winter seeds it also just kinda doesn't make sense. I find all these plants in the wild and they grow fine yet somehow my farm that I'm actively taking care of to till is too frozen for these crops? That's the part that frustrates me the most.

Before anyone argues that it's because the environment on the other islands are different first of all even all the basic winter plants need to be in the greenhouse. Secondly if the environmental difference is the issue then ALL the plants from the poison, electric, and fire islands year round should be greenhouse only.

As it is I would've rather they just not make 'winter' plants that can't survive outside of a greenhouse in winter.

Maybe the seeds themselves can't start to grow in the cold of winter but they grow in the between phases of fall and winter when it gets colder than fall but not as cold as winter which is why you can't plant them outside but they can survive outside