water coin drop rate and item to get specific coins

[OreoFox]

I really enjoy the game so far and I get most coins regularly except for water coins. I really wanna make a pond but I never get any, let alone a water piggy bank. I also have like only 3 of the water items unlocked while I have almost all of the others. Does anyone else have such a bad drop rate for water coins? Will there be an item later in the game that can help you get specific coins?

[Miche]

The method that I use has some spoilers depending on which part of the game you're at so marked for spoilers just in case.

In the Gold set is an altar that you can place items on to get them to appear more when you're dropping coins in. I would highly recommend unlocking a few of these e.g. getting lots of gold coins and spamming them until you have a few altars unlocked and then saving up your water coins until then. After that, you can try your luck getting a water piggybank and then putting that piggybank on the altar to (hopefully) generate more piggybanks and thus growing a collection. Eventually, you'll get to a spot where you'll have a few extra piggybanks and will be okay to put water tiles on those altars and start spamming water coins to get as much water as you want.

It's a bit of a process and requires some patience but you'll get there slow n steady. I like leaving my game open in the background while I watch youtube videos so I can harvest a bunch of coins all at once so I don't feel like I'm actively 'waiting'. Don't give up! And best of luck with your garden :)

[Don Kauz]

But even with the altars it's a drag to get reasonable water pieces... Would be nice to have a comment from the developers, if the low drop rate of water coins is intended or a bug.

[Miche]

I don't think that's necessarily true. In a random sample of ~100 coins, water coins drop on par with other special set coins. When I say random, these are just the coins that I passively collected and then stacked for the picture.

Picture: a sample set of around 100 coins[i.imgur.com].

The standard coins (gold, silver, and bronze) are going to drop at a higher rate but that's what the piggybanks are for - to convert those higher drops into special coins and that's very achievable with the method I outlined above.

Obviously, we are all having individual experiences and I don't want to invalidate that it may feel difficult, but the devs have already adjusted coin drop rates previously and I think it is currently in a great spot.