sprinkler or watering can?

[lore2688]

Hi everyone, i'm at my first year (end of fall) and i love this game but i literally hate to watering my fields with my watering can (is a copper watering can)and i don't want to spent a lot of time in this type of work for the second year..i know that i can improve again this tool but i have seen that there are 3 type of sprinkler. Actually i can "produce" quality sprinkler but it cost a lot..what do you suggest? wait for iridium sprinkler? improve my watering can? help...too much time fo watering all my field actually!

[ceilidhachaos]

I like to improve gardening supplies during the winters when there's not much use for them. Good thing about this game being kind of open world is that it's up to you. Which one do you want to use more?

[ehyder]

I usually skip the first type of sprinkler, too many resources and not enough watering, and start investing in quality sprinklers. If you wait for iridium that is going to be a lot of watering. So, it really depends on how much watering you want to do :)

[CalhounMKZ]

I would say that the cost of quality sprinklers vs the time savings they provide is worth it. If you are watering 250-500 tiles by hand that will take a few hours that could be spent doing other things including running the mine to get more resources to make sprinklers and other items with. They can always be thrown into a chest later when you upgrade to iridium sprinklers.

[Akat]

Skip the basic sprinklers and make/buy as many of the quality sprinklers you can. You'll be using them for a good while even when you get access to iridium sprinklers since you'll eventually have a ton of them. Then start phasing into iridium sprinklers later on when you can afford to min max your farm. Start by buying/making six iridium sprinklers for your greenhouse, then everything after that is gravy.

The watering can is still important, but it gets less important once you get enough quality sprinklers to water your entire crop automatically. You'll still want to upgrade it when you can because you'll still have to manually water your crops on the first day of the season if you had to hoe out new patches.

Also, place a path tile first and then put your sprinkler on top of it. You can craft the default one with 1 stone each. That keeps the sprinkler in place when you hoe over them.

[lore2688]

thank you all for your suggestions. i have unlock in this moment iridium sprinkler but they requires a lot of things to be produced :( in addition i'm only at level 15 in the mine so i don't find ore or iron for the moment...is very difficult because i want to delete the time that i need in order to watering all but is impossible immediately..the only solution is to buy a lot of iron and gold and use it for crafting good sprinkler (or dedicate all winter to mining and crafting sprinklers etc)...

[Clovis Sangrail]

The basic sprinkler only waters 4 squares. I only use them to water flowers around my bee houses.

The quality sprinkler waters 8 squares, and it is my 'go to" sprinkler for everything except flowers around bee houses.

And Farmer Stanley is way too lazy to go mine everything needed for iridium sprinklers. Not worth the work.

[ehyder]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

And Farmer Stanley is way too lazy to go mine everything needed for iridium sprinklers. Not qorth the work.

:) this is why I start buying them from Krobus once I get a steady income flow, and access to Korbus of course.

[Artsleeves]

A good thing to keep in mind is when your next spring comes, plan your farm around the sprinklers. In the beginning when I started using quality sprinklers I struggled with placing the sprinklers so that everything is watered because I didn't really plan where and what the sprinklers would water. Also, not all your plants has to be watered by sprinklers. I, for example, when I knew I would only plant a few of a certain crop I would plant them near the house and water them on my way out to town.

[lore2688]

Originally posted by Artsleeves:

A good thing to keep in mind is when your next spring comes, plan your farm around the sprinklers. In the beginning when I started using quality sprinklers I struggled with placing the sprinklers so that everything is watered because I didn't really plan where and what the sprinklers would water. Also, not all your plants has to be watered by sprinklers. I, for example, when I knew I would only plant a few of a certain crop I would plant them near the house and water them on my way out to town.

Can you explain me what mean "also, not all your plants has to be watered by sprinklers"?
What type of plants do not need sprinklers?

[Ricky Moose]

Also, it's worth noting that if you hold down the mouse when watering (w/ an upgraded watering can) that you can water more squares with a single click. Iridium watering can allows you do water 18 squares at once (3x9)

[ddddddddora]

I think you should get the quality sprinklers if you can. The normal ones are just waste of time but the quality ones are pretty useful.

[Cudlestrugle]

Originally posted by ehyder:

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

And Farmer Stanley is way too lazy to go mine everything needed for iridium sprinklers. Not qorth the work.

:) this is why I start buying them from Krobus once I get a steady income flow, and access to Korbus of course.

I second not crafting them and buying them from Krobus.

[Too lazy to choose a name]

Originally posted by lore2688:

Hi everyone, i'm at my first year (end of fall) and i love this game but i literally hate to watering my fields with my watering can (is a copper watering can)and i don't want to spent a lot of time in this type of work for the second year..i know that i can improve again this tool but i have seen that there are 3 type of sprinkler. Actually i can "produce" quality sprinkler but it cost a lot..what do you suggest? wait for iridium sprinkler? improve my watering can? help...too much time fo watering all my field actually!

Sorry for my terrible English and sorry for my rude.
If you don't want to use too much time for watering,
why didn't you upgrade your watering can (iron, gold) ?

How many source do you have ? (ore, coal, wood, G)

[Too lazy to choose a name]

Sure, but maybe he has a shortage of resource.

[CloudSeeker]

Q sprinklers are worth it, basic are garbage. You should try to get Q sprinklers as soon as you can. The reason for it is that using the water can simply isn't viable. When you want money to expand you simply need to have a lot of crop. When you have lots of crop you can't water it with the water can before time run out or you run out of energy. If you run out of energy you have to eat something, but you most likely have to buy that so now you wasted the money you tried to earn.

In late game it will take a whole day just to plow the field. You do not actually have time to water it. So you spend a day plowing and seeding the field. Then you just let the sprinklers do their job when you are out of time.