How do you water larger farms?

[对不起我只会说英语]

I'm curious to what a bit of endgame is like when you have tons of crops to water because watering crops ever morning is becoming tedious, lol. I'm thinking of upgrading my watering can soon (just waiting for rain).

I know this game has sprinklers but the radius feels small :/ plus I haven't found iron yet to craft the 3x3 sprinkler (which is still very small btw). I didn't want to spoil myself too much but I did see screenshots and clips with people having very large farms. I don't understand how they manage that.

[Avilyn]

The sprinkler after the 3x3 one does a 5x5 square, and later in the game you have the opportunity to earn a reward which can increase that to 7x7. Once you have the materials to start making even the 3x3 sprinklers in any quantity, it becomes fairly easy to do large amounts of crops, because you only need to spend energy tilling the ground, and possibly on the first day of the season watering everything if you don't want to waste a day.

Also, you can upgrade your watering can at the blacksmith's, and water a larger area with each upgrade (hold down the button to increase the number of tiles affected). Copper does 3 tiles, Iron = 5, Gold = 3x3 square, Iridium = 3x6.

[NBOX21]

Iridium sprinklers[stardewvalleywiki.com] have a 5x5 tile radius that waters all 24 tiles around it which is available to craft at farming level 9 and can either be crafted with one gold bar, one iridium bar and one battery pack, or purchased from Krobus in the sewers for 10,000g once every Friday.

I myself have found iridium sprinklers to be very useful late game, especially with the more valuable crops for fast money. It gets even better once you start applying pressure nozzles[stardewvalleywiki.com] onto them!

[对不起我只会说英语]

So basically late game has better sprinklers and a way to mass produce them, I see 🤔. Well I don't want to spoil myself too much but that's good to know that I don't have to spend so much energy on watering my crops the whole day, lol. I guess I have to grind more.

Thank you for the response @Avilyn and @NBOX21! I appreciate it.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by A.:

So basically late game has better sprinklers and a way to mass produce them, I see 🤔. Well I don't want to spoil myself too much but that's good to know that I don't have to spend so much energy on watering my crops the whole day, lol. I guess I have to grind more.

Thank you for the response @Avilyn and @NBOX21! I appreciate it.

My experience is that by the time you actually can produce a good quantity of irridium splinklers, you already have crafted so many quality sprinklers that there's no reason to switch.

8 squares of area of effect might seem small, but it adds up very quickly. 10 sprinklers is already 80 crops for example. And since the recipe is pretty cheap, if you make regular trips to the mines you can easily craft a dozens of them before the first year ends.

[hexnessie]

Definitely stick to 3x3 quality sprinklers everywhere except the greenhouse, at least at first. They are a really good investment. Do NOT make the regular iron sprinklers, they aren't worth the resources.

Later on, when you find gold, instead of upgrading your watering can, spend the first 5 gold bars you get on making 5 quality sprinklers. That will give you 45 plots automatically watered every morning.

[Stardustfire]

a little spoiler for when you are not already in a situation to get enove resource to build iridium sprinklers (or not high enove in skill to get the build recipe):
Crobus in the sewers sells one every Friday for 10k

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by DaBa:

My experience is that by the time you actually can produce a good quantity of irridium splinklers, you already have crafted so many quality sprinklers that there's no reason to switch.

8 squares of area of effect might seem small, but it adds up very quickly. 10 sprinklers is already 80 crops for example. And since the recipe is pretty cheap, if you make regular trips to the mines you can easily craft a dozens of them before the first year ends.

The iridium gets 24 tiles; 3 times as many. You're essentially losing 2 tiles of crops by not switching. Like you said, it adds up.

I like playing Riverlands. It's pretty. It also has a lot of weird little twists and turns and irregularly shaped islands. I use the best sprinklers I can for most of it then use the older ones as crack-fillers along the edges. I'm fairly sure there isn't a better way to organize them that ends up with more usable tiles, and as such I'm in the endgame with a couple basic sprinklers and a few qualities still on my farm. If they make even one tile usable, they're worth it.

[playboifarti57]

just cheat and spawn some in LMFAOOO

[Queen Droxxanna]

once you finish the community center, you can buy a Jumino hut from the Wizard, and tell your Juminos to water your garden for you.
Also if you are married, some times your spouse will water them for you.
Dont want sprinklers?? Get the tractor mod, hop on the tractor with your watering can and zip around your fields -- zippo, crops watered in a few seconds.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

once you finish the community center, you can buy a Jumino hut from the Wizard, and tell your Juminos to water your garden for you

That's a mod.

[Queen Droxxanna]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

once you finish the community center, you can buy a Jumino hut from the Wizard, and tell your Juminos to water your garden for you

That's a mod.

ah no it is not. the Juminos are available to help on your farm in the vanilla version

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

That's a mod.

ah no it is not. the Juminos are available to help on your farm in the vanilla version

I'm pretty sure they only harvest your crops for you that you can later on collect yourself in the vanilla game; I'm almost certain they don't water crops for you unless I'm missing something.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

ah no it is not. the Juminos are available to help on your farm in the vanilla version

I'm pretty sure they only harvest your crops for you that you can later on collect yourself in the vanilla game; I'm almost certain they don't water crops for you unless I'm missing something.

You're not missing anything.

Also, just going to point out, OP didn't know iridium sprinklers were a thing. Maybe not shout out too many end game surprises?

[Queen Droxxanna]

there's also a mod that gives an item to power up your sprinklers so they water an even larger area, if you are into huge farms.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

there's also a mod that gives an item to power up your sprinklers so they water an even larger area, if you are into huge farms.

That's...that's NOT a mod.
...
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or if you've just played modded enough that you've lost sight of vanilla.