Gardening

[bizkit_109]

So this is probably a total noob question but I cant find an answer. In the new prison the default job is gardening duties, the arrow points me to the room that has hoes ect., I pick them up but if I try to go outside into the snow I get attacked by gaurds, If i try to start using the tools inside I get put in solitare for tunneling. How do you reach this quota?

[Manchos]

Dont use the trowels, they're illegal items. Just take a hoe out and go find weeds around the grounds, using the hoe to remove them

[bizkit_109]

Thanks Chris!

[Kestrel]

Yeah this threw me off originally too. It does seem a little odd that the guards would stock illegal items if they don't want you to use them.

[bizkit_109]

Originally posted by ChrisD:

Dont use the trowels, they're illegal items. Just take a hoe out and go find weeds around the grounds, using the hoe to remove them

I might have just had bad luck but is the spawning rate of the weeds set to something very low? I have done 2 plays now and lost my job both days because I couldn't meet the quota. The first day after circling the entire yard twice I was only able to find 1, the second day I found 2 weeds

[TacticalCobra1119]

Thanks for letting us know how gardening works. Perhaps a quick-tip on the first day of work at any given job would help.

[Stashkin]

People, you can read about ALL the jobs from the job notification board (it's a place with an elder behind the desk). Every single job is explained there...

[Markimoo]

Chris have you stopped trowels form spawning?

[Pinky]

Originally posted by bizkit_109:

I might have just had bad luck but is the spawning rate of the weeds set to something very low? I have done 2 plays now and lost my job both days because I couldn't meet the quota. The first day after circling the entire yard twice I was only able to find 1, the second day I found 2 weeds

There seem to be only about 2-3 weeds on the ground at all times. I think they respawn whenever you dig one up. So every time you dig up a weed, the next one could easilly have spawned in an area you already looked. They also seem to spawn in the same 8 or so places. So, you need to keep cirling the yard.

Originally posted by Youngfenrir:

Chris have you stopped trowels form spawning?

The trowels seem to spawn in the tool shed only on day 1. They get cleared out after a while (either a guard entering the shed looking for illegal items, or loading a save game seems to be the cause) I kinda like the idea of having trowels in the shed, because it gives the player a new option for getting digging tools. But without a better warning system to let new players know they are contraband, having them spawn there will cause a lot of frustration and confusion.

Also - The hoes never degrade (they stay at 100%) - so if you keep one in your inventory, you'll never have to enter the shed a second time. -

[Girzu]

Took me forever to figure out that the hoe had to be unequipped to use