Rats?

[dreampuppeteer]

A bit sudden, 80% of my crops suddenly replaced with rats... I understand that it is new but suddenly come with 80%, isn't it a bit TOO much?

[thelefthorse]

Yeah, this just happened to me, too, and I'm done for the day. I don't know how effective the traps are, but unless they're 100% effective, I'm just not going to enjoy this game.

Part of the game's appeal, to me, is the ability to plan my perfectly ordered, nicely laid out little farm. That means uniform fields with uniform crops, etc. If I know that I'll basically never have an entire field of one crop grow to maturity at the same time, then I'm probably not the targeted audience for the game.

I can't stand the thought of having to have rat traps all over the place either. Smh.

[awalker300]

do you have to place them like scarecrows? That would be awful. So you'd have scarecrow coverage + sprinkler coverage + rat cage coverage? Was doing a mining/gem/jewelry run right now. Saw the rat cages added to the game but hadn't seen them in action.

[dreampuppeteer]

Scarecrow doesn't avoid rats, but I did place for all my crops else crows really took almost 90% that doesn't fall in scarecrow range...

Since there is rat cage, seems like more things to try now

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by awalker300:

do you have to place them like scarecrows? That would be awful. So you'd have scarecrow coverage + sprinkler coverage + rat cage coverage? Was doing a mining/gem/jewelry run right now. Saw the rat cages added to the game but hadn't seen them in action.

I haven't tried the rat cages yet, but I assume you're right about it being similar to the scarecrow in terms of mechanics. I just don't know if I will play with those things littered all over my farm.

[DEADkid]

Rat cages in no way work like scarecrow, they're just the first step to getting the potions craft line going. I had 12 rat cages around my farm and it didn't put a dent into the rat plague.

[BaamAUnicorn]

Found a solution to the rats. Just dont play with crops. Jewlery ftw!

[RandomEnchanter]

Rat swarm is an event that you can see from the top daily bar. Because it is a 'bad' event it can only occur on days 4 and 6 of the week. There is only one way to stop this event and that is to not have crops.

You can however GREATLY benefit from this event as each rat spawned drops either a rat tail or rat fur upon being chased away and vanishing.

Rat fur sells for $50 and is an ingredient in the insta-grow potion.

Rat tails, thou they only sell for $15, are used to make alchemy cauldrons (gives you more alchemy regents) which are like beehives... but better (totems) and are used in the same insta-grow potion.

So a rat swarm, while devastating to crops, doesn't end your run.