Is the beach farm any good?

[Sterlander]

I've been reading that people are having trouble planting certain crops as well as not being able to place down sprinklers. Is any of this true? It sounds super ineffcient.

[BCD]

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

The river farm is "hard mode"?! LOL.

Genuine question, what are the pros of the river farm? I know you can fish there and put crab pots, but you can also do that in the beach or the river, whereas the building and farming space available in the river farm is the smallest, and you can't do those things anywhere else. I have played the river farm before, it's not unfun nor would I say it makes the game hard, but I fail to see how it stacks up to the standard farm.
Tbh the most interesting asymetric aspect I found on the river farm was that you can spam rice shoots, which don't even require sprinklers as long as they're near water and can be turned into milled rice very easily, overnight.

[funewchie]

I haven't had time to try the beach farm out yet, but I'm curious, if you can't build on it, what do you do about animals/livestock?

[BCD]

Originally posted by funewchie:

I haven't had time to try the beach farm out yet, but I'm curious, if you can't build on it, what do you do about animals/livestock?

You can build on it. There's also grass.

[Livy]

The sprinkler prevention is just redundant. Let players make their own restrictions leaving the map as mostly a cosmetic option.

[MerlinTheGameWizard]

Originally posted by funewchie:

I haven't had time to try the beach farm out yet, but I'm curious, if you can't build on it, what do you do about animals/livestock?

Yeah, big point to make is you can build on the beach farm. Just not the new unlockable piece of land.
You probably misread the patch notes.

[battlepants]

Originally posted by MrFox1231:

The sprinkler prevention is just redundant. Let players make their own restrictions leaving the map as mostly a cosmetic option.

that's what mods are for. There's a certain amount of tradeoff necessary to make every option balanced in the game as is. However, CA has always been super supportive of modders and people who prefer to play a more customized game. He even gave modders who wrote and maintain the most popular mods an early look at the update so that players who use those mods don't have to wait for updates.

[Lemeza]

Considering you can get an infinity enchantment on your watering can, and an enchantment that makes it drain no stamina, I don't see the problem. You'll have to work your way through a dungeon first, but still...

[Zunkin]

Originally posted by MrFox1231:

The sprinkler prevention is just redundant. Let players make their own restrictions leaving the map as mostly a cosmetic option.

The beach map becomes very imbalanced if you remove its one real down side. It has way too many bonuses compared to even the multiplayer map which is already a bit imbalanced compared to the others.

It's a bit like asking why not make the rusty sword hit as hard as the galaxy sword and just let the players decide if they want to use it or not. It's just fundamentally unbalanced to the point it would be poor game design.

[Dani007a]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

Where do the crates show up, anyways? I've checked that big pile of debris by the south exit, since it looks beachy, and haven't seen anything halfway through Spring...

They'll spawn anywhere along the beach, same as shells. I believe the darker sand area is more or less the spawn area, as you can't plant anything there.

[I Kinda Fail]

I did find one crate, and it was fairly obvious when I found it... but I don't know if they all look the same or not. For me, it was a blue corner sticking out of the sand between the 2 bridges leading to the forest to the south. It gave 3? cherry bombs. The only crate I've seen in 19 days, unfortunately. :(

[ed]

Originally posted by zunkin:

The beach map becomes very imbalanced if you remove its one real down side. It has way too many bonuses compared to even the multiplayer map which is already a bit imbalanced compared to the others.

This is my thought too. The beach map is perfectly fine for a small garden in the normal dirt area + greenhouse + animals, and then you have all its other bonuses. I've used the same playstyle on the forest farm, it was perfectly fine and this map is even better for it.

If it really ruins someone's day that they can't make their 300th ancient fruit/starfruit wine farm on the beach, just wait for modders.

[Sterlander]

Enchanted watering can? What? Is that a new feature? How lategame is it?

[MonkehMaster]

guys, no need to argue about sprinklers not working on beach map.

who ever wants to use sprinklers on the beach map, just go grab the mod called....

" Sprinklerable Island Farm (CP) "

[Rambit]

this game has a hard mode?

[ChrillBill]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

I did find one crate, and it was fairly obvious when I found it... but I don't know if they all look the same or not. For me, it was a blue corner sticking out of the sand between the 2 bridges leading to the forest to the south. It gave 3? cherry bombs. The only crate I've seen in 19 days, unfortunately. :(

No they do not all look the same. I have found some with a brownish color too. The last one I found gave me omni geodes o.o