Weeds

[medledan16]

Looks like weeds only grow on my land? Anyway, I need hundreds of them for farm upgrades like grazing fields. The ocean only drops a few shells a week in RNG so I cant make to many crop boost potions. Any idea how to get more weeds to grow?

[zuntan2002]

Yes, weeds are only found on the farm. Bugs me too that they don't spawn in other areas. The two solutions are to boost soil production or give it time to happen. Boosting soil runs into the problem that the ingredients one can forage are not enough to meet the demand.

Talk to Shelby, buy shells and everything else he offers every day till you think you have too much. Even so one never feels like they have enough shells (till one doesn't need them any more). It is somewhat easier to get the ingredients for the higher level boost potion. Check Peri in Ravenwood Hollow the same way.

And now I begin to ramble ... take it with a grain of salt ...

With the entire farm available average daily weed spawn is somewhat more than 4 per day. Thus producing 2 soil per day is sustainable. Once the Vegetable Patch is in place this rate drops slightly. Putting in the Hay Field seriously drops the rate at which weeds spawn.

Although I've used magic to increase soil production it's not a way I like to use magic. My solution was to go for a very long first Spring. My last play through the first Spring lasted 91 days, mostly because I thought I'd try putting up the Hay Field before the Vegetable Patch (so I wouldn't be feeding my cows and sheep by hand every day) and I wanted both done before turning the Season. Doing so dropped weed spawn so low that some days I didn't have enough to make even one soil which really slowed getting the Vegetable patch done. Almost all of the boost potions I made (for that play through) were used for silk production, 24 were used to boost Dragon Blood (there are 8 trees one can tap for Dragon Blood), the remainder were used for soil production so I could finish the Vegetable Patch.

I kept a lot of statistics during my last play through and found myself slapping my forehead repeatedly for not tracking weed spawn in the three zones they are found in. I suspect the spawn rate increases slightly (eventually), as the Vegetable Patch and Hay Field take up the spawning area, but it doesn't happen in the first Spring.

[medledan16]

Originally posted by zuntan2002:

Yes, weeds are only found on the farm. Bugs me too that they don't spawn in other areas. The two solutions are to boost soil production or give it time to happen. Boosting soil runs into the problem that the ingredients one can forage are not enough to meet the demand.

Talk to Shelby, buy shells and everything else he offers every day till you think you have too much. Even so one never feels like they have enough shells (till one doesn't need them any more). It is somewhat easier to get the ingredients for the higher level boost potion. Check Peri in Ravenwood Hollow the same way.

And now I begin to ramble ... take it with a grain of salt ...

With the entire farm available average daily weed spawn is somewhat more than 4 per day. Thus producing 2 soil per day is sustainable. Once the Vegetable Patch is in place this rate drops slightly. Putting in the Hay Field seriously drops the rate at which weeds spawn.

Although I've used magic to increase soil production it's not a way I like to use magic. My solution was to go for a very long first Spring. My last play through the first Spring lasted 91 days, mostly because I thought I'd try putting up the Hay Field before the Vegetable Patch (so I wouldn't be feeding my cows and sheep by hand every day) and I wanted both done before turning the Season. Doing so dropped weed spawn so low that some days I didn't have enough to make even one soil which really slowed getting the Vegetable patch done. Almost all of the boost potions I made (for that play through) were used for silk production, 24 were used to boost Dragon Blood (there are 8 trees one can tap for Dragon Blood), the remainder were used for soil production so I could finish the Vegetable Patch.

I kept a lot of statistics during my last play through and found myself slapping my forehead repeatedly for not tracking weed spawn in the three zones they are found in. I suspect the spawn rate increases slightly (eventually), as the Vegetable Patch and Hay Field take up the spawning area, but it doesn't happen in the first Spring.

This was very helpful! Thank you!

[valerie.anne999]

To be honest, I just pick up the weeds as often as I can. I have over a hundred. Might want to start prioritizing the weeds daily and spend the rest of your day on other stuff after finishing with weeds.

[Lucky]

After a weed shortage I cut the all the green trees. Less trees = more spawn points I guess.
Now I have plenty of weeds.
Good Luck

[twistedoldloony]

The whole weed thing made me so infuriated that I chose to cheat with WeMod! I know some people like the "challenge" but I think the game progress goes way too slowly at the beginning. Plus, for me, this is the type of game I play for the cute story NOT the challenge. Some would argue that it makes the game shorter but I don't need the game to last forever seeing as I already have more games in my library than I can ever play and keep adding to it any time there is a sale!!