Regular Sprinklers?

[Peeshit6548]

Heyo so Ive been playing for like 5hrs straight now. In Summer day 7, I have probably 75-85 plants. Should I get normal level sprinklers? Or wait to get better ones? I've only been to level 12 in minging so I dont have any iron yet...Been focusing on wifey material and finishing the bundles.

[queen's gambit]

With that many plants it wouldn't hurt to use them, but you probably won't save too much time if you're still watering the coner crops.They can be sold in your box when you upgrade and by the time you do so, you could have ores o plenty. Just be sure to mine on rainy days and good luck days. quartz+furnace=refined quartz. i've avoided the wiki as much as possible and didn't get the tip until the fall from tv

[Rus]

Regular sprinklers suck. Wait till you're able to craft quality sprinklers.

[CloudSeeker]

Never ever use the normal sprinklers, if you use them you will still need to go around and water the spots they don't cover. You are better off focusing on quality sprinklers as soon as you can in Spring (as well as getting the greenhouse for the winter). Just don't forget to get Lightning Rods for batteries, very important.

What you really want to get is the Iridium Sprinkler. You can get Iridium quite easy. All you need to get a huge amount of Iridium is a pretty good sword. Bombs. Life elixir or anything that restore your HP a lot. And then about 9900 stones (or about 10 full 999 stacks of stones, cost around 19.980 gold).

You use the stones to create 100 staircases and when you are in the skeleton cave you just rush as fast as you can down to floor 100 and below and just start blowing the place up. If you spend a day in there you will easily walk out with like 300 Iridium ore. As you now got so much Iridium have fun with all those awesome sprinklers.

[CloudSeeker]

BTW. I have recently found out that if you plant "season" seeds you will level up your forage when you harvest them. So you should try to go around and plant those things to get your forage skill up easy.

[MadamLizzy]

The dude in the sewer sells the highest quality sprinkler on Friday for 10,000.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Never ever use the normal sprinklers, if you use them you will still need to go around and water the spots they don't cover.

Normal Sprinklers shouldn't be used in square formations like Quality Sprinklers and Iridium Sprinklers. You have to place them in crooked diagonal lines (two spaces down and one to the side, like a cavalry piece in Chess), the sides will look weird but in the end you can fit crops in every inside space and they'll all be watered.

[Nakos]

Naysayers notwithstanding, the Normal Sprinklers are fine.

They do exactly what they're supposed to do, they reduce the load you need to water manually.

How you arrange them is up to you. You can try to be extremely efficient about it, and create asymmetrical patterns that water every spot, or you can just stick to the square pattern and accept that you'll have to water the bits that aren't covered.

I certainly don't recommend using up all your metal bars making them, but a few can be useful.

I also repurpose all my old type 1's to Trellis plants once I upgrade to type 2's.

Type 1's in use:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=949388193

Upgrade to type 2's:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=950468455

Old type 1's repurposed:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=950468867

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by red255:

People are welcome to do whatever they want to do, but unless you make them in significant numbers they aren't going to save you any effort.

Unfortunately, this is a valid point.

Let's say you want to water 96 tiles (a reasonable number of crops)...

That's 24 Sprinklers. That's a lot of Sprinklers, and would cost you a lot of materials:

120 Copper Ore
120 Iron Ore
48 Coal

With a simple Copper Watering Can (25 Copper Ore, 2,000g and 5 Coal), you could water all those crops in 32 shots, which would take two or three minutes every morning.

As much as I hate watering crops, it's tempting to just do it manually until Quality Sprinklers become available.