What does the boost to skills do?

[Death2all546]

A lot of food has bonuses to skills.
What do these bonuses do specifically?
(especially with farming)

[Mackenzie]

Mostly less energy expended per use of the related tool actions. For farming that's watering can and hoe.

[Death2all546]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

Mostly less energy expended per use of the related tool actions. For farming that's watering can and hoe.

So once I get into sprinklers, it's useless?

[Mackenzie]

Depends on your goals. If you're aiming to replace the need to water entirely, it makes energy conservation with the watering can less useful yes, but you'll still need to water at the start of every season, same with tilling. 95% of soil untills itself between seasons. Hoe doesn't consume much energy anyway though..

For me I always have as many plants as I can manually water as possible with a full energy bar and whatever sprinklers I have are EXTRA on top of what I can manually water, thus the can is never useless for me until I have enough iridium sprinklers to cover every crops I can handle per season.

[Death2all546]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

Depends on your goals. If you're aiming to replace the need to water entirely, it makes energy conservation with the watering can less useful yes, but you'll still need to water at the start of every season, same with tilling. 95% of soil untills itself between seasons. Hoe doesn't consume much energy anyway though..

For me I always have as many plants as I can manually water as possible with a full energy bar and whatever sprinklers I have are EXTRA on top of what I can manually water, thus the can is never useless for me until I have enough iridium sprinklers to cover every crops I can handle per season.

It ended up being very time consuming to manually water my entire field. Plus I ended up making tons of food to keep energy up. I could've been watering stuff all day without my sprinklers!!!

[Mackenzie]

Yeah I usually spend the first 6-8 game hours a day watering haha.. but I also rush to upgrade my watering can pronto to level 5 or at the very least level 4 until I have better access to iridium.

[梦境里的莫妮卡]

So I don't think the food worth it's value...I ate a tuna taco once, it only gave me 5 minutes improvement in fishing. After that, you return to yourself. When I went to combat, I took my cheese with me to the mine, one or two could boost up your HP and Energy.

[Death2all546]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

Yeah I usually spend the first 6-8 game hours a day watering haha.. but I also rush to upgrade my watering can pronto to level 5 or at the very least level 4 until I have better access to iridium.

Speaking of access to iridium, would you suggest I save up the 25k to fix the bus (I got the other 10k, 5k, 2.5k packages already) or should I work towards fixing up the greenhouse first (the money will be put towards barn/coop upgrades).

[Mackenzie]

Definitely unlock the desert as a priority. Greenhouse can wait a while.

[梦境里的莫妮卡]

Yes! Bus is the priority. If you like Hayley, it is a good place to collect coconut. That's her favorite thing. Green house is useful during winter.

[Death2all546]

Originally posted by yuanxiyuanye:

Yes! Bus is the priority. If you like Hayley, it is a good place to collect coconut. That's her favorite thing. Green house is useful during winter.

During winter, I plan to plant industrial amounts of wild winter seeds. Probably the only thing that can grow in the winter.

[Mackenzie]

You have lots of winter seeds ready then I take it?

[Vahvi]

Originally posted by Death2all546:

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

Mostly less energy expended per use of the related tool actions. For farming that's watering can and hoe.

So once I get into sprinklers, it's useless?

Well it does affect your playstyle and the aesthetics of your farm I suppose. Aesthetically speaking, some people might not want their design scheme to be shaped around sprinklers. This and the steel/iridium upgrades make watering fairly simple. A Steel Can waters 5 in a line and an Iridium Watering Can can water a 6x3 area (18 Squares).

[Death2all546]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

You have lots of winter seeds ready then I take it?

I have 148 seeds right now (and that's after only 1 winter)

[cylordcenturion]

the wiki says they farming level also affects crop quality. but does anyone know whrn that happens is it you level on planting or on harvesting?

[Howru]

+fish skill increase size of your fishing bar.
+foraging increase amount of berries from bushes. IIRC at Foraging level 8 you will get 3 berry and at lvl 12 - four.
+movement speed - you should always bee under this effect, so buy a lot of coffee)
+luck - use it when you go into Mines\Skull Cavern, fishing or artifact digging.