Cant place sprinkler

[Dekak]

I can't place my sprinkler on my beach farm

[Deathbloom]

When you selected the Beach Farm, the tooltip stated that sprinklers do not work in the sandy soil. There is a small area on the Beach Farm where sprinklers can be placed but you will need a silver axe to clear it for use

[StrawberryBoy]

Originally posted by Deathbloom:

When you selected the Beach Farm, the tooltip stated that sprinklers do not work in the sandy soil. There is a small area on the Beach Farm where sprinklers can be placed but you will need a silver axe to clear it for use

do the crops get water automatically or do you have to water them all by hand for the whole game?

[Manluck]

Originally posted by MoonBoy:

Originally posted by Deathbloom:

When you selected the Beach Farm, the tooltip stated that sprinklers do not work in the sandy soil. There is a small area on the Beach Farm where sprinklers can be placed but you will need a silver axe to clear it for use

do the crops get water automatically or do you have to water them all by hand for the whole game?

You have to water it with a watering can, basic retaining soil and quality retaining soil will be very helpful in that farm

[I Kinda Fail]

truly amazing how there's 5 of these threads per day, despite the game warning people about it before they begin playing...

[XenoReaver]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

truly amazing how there's 5 of these threads per day, despite the game warning people about it before they begin playing...

I'm not surprised, it just shows how dense the average person is.

[Steelflame]

For the beach farm, you should aim for other forms of income with your space since hand watering is insanely monotonous, especially with how big the farm actually is. I'd argue it's best for ranching for animals, forestry, and fish farms as your main income streams farm wise. Use the patch of normal soil and your green house for crop growth with sprinklers. I wouldn't actually fish on the farm (too much trash) but it's great for crab pots as well with how much coastline it has.

Overall, it's a more early game centric farm, or for alternative playstyles from cash crop spam.

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by Steelflame:

For the beach farm, you should aim for other forms of income with your space since hand watering is insanely monotonous, especially with how big the farm actually is.

Hand watering isn't THAT bad with an appropriate watering can. For Spring, I just did under 40 crops, so I could water them all without refilling. Before Summer, I upgraded to copper, and set up a crop field of 6 6x3 rectangles. 6x3 melons, 6x3 blueberries, 6x3 hops, 6x3 wheat, 6x3 tomato/pepper/radish, and 6x3 corn. Towards the end of Summer, I was able to upgrade to steel, and could now water each square as 1x3 and 5x1 (3 times). In Fall, I expanded, and added 3 more 6x3 squares of cranberries, so in total I was hand-watering 162 crops per day. Finally unlocking the golden watering can means now I can water the entire field in 18 clicks. Once I get iridium, I plan to double the size of my field, so I'll likely be hand-watering ~300, and have sprinklers taking care of another 200.

However, doing the ENTIRE farm with a watering can... I wouldn't recommend it. You'd be watering until 3pm every day, even with iridium.

Another possibility, though, is to get pigs and make rain totems. I don't think there's a downside to it, but you can just starve your pigs, and when you get down to your last few totems, feed them and let them out the next few days. They'll dig up 12 truffles, hopefully, and then you can put them back in pig jail for at least 2 more weeks.

[Steelflame]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

However, doing the ENTIRE farm with a watering can... I wouldn't recommend it. You'd be watering until 3pm every day, even with iridium.

Having a small area you water by hand is fine, just more referring to late game where you generally try and minimize how much tedium you do, the farm best supports non-farming incomes as the easiest solution.

[wilky]

How profitable is it to fill up the beach farm with tons of sturgeon (or whatever) fish ponds? I feel like this would take forever to earn $10,000,000 for the golden clock, etc. surely it would be faster to just farm on a normal layout. Maybe a mass-beehive layout on the beach farm could turn better profit?

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by wilky:

How profitable is it to fill up the beach farm with tons of sturgeon (or whatever) fish ponds? I feel like this would take forever to earn $10,000,000 for the golden clock, etc. surely it would be faster to just farm on a normal layout. Maybe a mass-beehive layout on the beach farm could turn better profit?

By my math, 16 fish ponds will produce roughly 392k per season. You can probably fit at least 3x that amount in the sand, should you so desire, so let's call it 950k per season. So with those fish ponds alone, ~3 years to afford the clock.

Of course, this isn't factoring in the fields of crops or the greenhouse, or animals. I think a barn full of pigs can easily make 15k per day.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by wilky:

How profitable is it to fill up the beach farm with tons of sturgeon (or whatever) fish ponds? I feel like this would take forever to earn $10,000,000 for the golden clock, etc. surely it would be faster to just farm on a normal layout. Maybe a mass-beehive layout on the beach farm could turn better profit?

Or you just use the tractor mod an water the field every day.

[Steelflame]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Or you just use the tractor mod an water the field every day.

Moment you go for mods, you could just literally use the "Beach House doesn't restrict sprinklers" mod.