How many farm tiles are "enough"?

[Airship]

I've been fiddling with farm layouts to prepare for year 2, and realized that a field with 4 junimo huts and iridium sprinklers is around 800 tiles of farmland. Is that too much? I frequently see farm layouts online with comparable amounts, but how would you even manage to plant these fields in time during the change of seasons?

How much farmland do you maintain?

[rayx2times2]

theres litterally dosens of videos that help with this exact problem on youtube. but i dont know if anything has change in the multiplayer. gameshark and dangerously funny are too of my fav youtubers on the topic

[Seraphita]

800 might be overpowered... I remember not using more than 200 tiles myself by squares of 25.

I'd die of boredom if I had to take care of even 300 tiles+. Did 2 full games like this, no problems.

[Airship]

I figured it'd be a bit much. Hmmm... Now my plan is in shambles - I have an entire fields worth of empty space.

[elipod]

You don't have to plant them all in single day, most multiharvest plants can be planted at second day of season and still provide with maximum amout of harvests. This also mean that whatevever was planted fist day does not have to be watered, only tilled. And then we're moving onto plants that do not provide multiple harvests and don't have to be planted early.

[Mondai]

With the Junimo huts and full sprinkler systems, your biggest issue will be the boredom on day 1 of every season. But it may take a while to get the materials for the huts and sprinkler systems. (Disclaimer: I'm bad at the mines and forget what it takes to build junimo huts.) And day 1 of Spring could be even worse, 'cause you'd have to retill most of the tiles, if not all.

But if you're willing to put in the time to build the automation, I think the manual maintainence after that would be a non-issue for me...

.......... I haven't ever gotten a farm that far, though. I lose interest before I get it that developed.

[carl8000]

Lots of people who are really trying to max out can get fields of 2000+ plots fairly easily. The only time it's worth it is in summer (to plant a crap ton of starfruit). If you plant parsnips everywhere at the very end of spring, your tiles will all start tilled/watered, so you only have to scythe away the dead parsnips and plant. In my last round, I did 1200-ish plots the first day (scythe away the weeds, use the fast-grow fertilizer, plant starfruit), finished it up the next day (without the fertilizer).

This is just for making unnecessarily large amounts of money though, you can accomplish all of the other goals of this game with a way more chill strategy obviously.

[Dave1029]

Remember, enough preserve jars doubles harvest +50, and Kegs triple (fruit). So a field that is 250 tiles can be as effective as a 750 tile farm- with kegs. I run all 116 greenhouse tiles (4 sprinklers) and then 240 outside tiles and to me, that is a good balance between money printing and not wanting to blow my brains out come spring 1.

[Clovis Sangrail]

On the regular map --280 in the field outside my door and 104 in the greenhouse.

On the forest map -- 160 in the field outside my door and 104 in the greenhouse.

Both also include about 200 bee houses, plus 18 pomegranate or peach trees in the greenhouse.

Regular map has some fruit trees outside the greenhouse, and there is still a lot of undeveloped space.

Forest map has lots of fruit trees for seasonal production.

And of course, lots of jars and kegs on both.

Cash reserves are strong, so I can go fishing or mining whenever I want and just let the crops sit there as long as it's not the last day of the month.