New season: Do I need to water first night if I have sprinklers?

[Yatagan]

Sprinklers don't water ground that isn't hoe'd. As such, when the season changes and most of the hoe'd ground goes away, it is not watered. If I hoe the ground then plant crops, do I also need to water them the first day for them to grow? Or overnight will the sprinklers water them, then the system checks to see if they're watered and should grow? I don't want to waste time watering them if I don't need to, but I'm worried it will check for growth before applying the watered state, meaning I have to water them the first day of the season. Thanks!

[Proteus]

I for my part do it (i.e. watering the ground manually before planting) ... never checked whether this really makes a difference however (compared to leaving the ground dry till the next day the sprinklers do their work)

[Saluki]

You do have to water them. The sprinklers will work starting the next day, but they need water the day you plant them.

[CatPerson]

If you water new crops before a certain point (late evening I think?) it does make a difference - with most crops anyway. The next morning they will graphically be in an early growth stage.

If you water just before bed, say, or don't at all and wait for sprinklers to do it in the morning, they will still be "seed" graphics.

[Yatagan]

That's unfortunate. I am far less excited to have set up a 600 crop sprinkler system for spring2. Oh well, guess that still makes the watering can upgrades relevant. xD Thanks for the replies!

[CatPerson]

Any hoed land that remains on a season start day, is considered still watered if it was by a sprinkler. eg, those tiles don't need additional watering after planting a seed.

But any freshly hoed tiles do. And since season starts like to mess up most of your plots... :)

...I dunno. I know people like to min/max but the loss of one day isn't a big deal to me. Can still get in 2 cycles of 13 day crops, for example. And you'll still make tons of money/millions, never fear.

[Saluki]

As for your planning for Spring of year 2. None of the spring crops need to be planted on the 1st in order to get the most harvests.

The most time sensitive crop is Rhubarb. You need to plant it by the 2nd to have harvests on the 15th and the 28th. The rest of the spring crops can be delayed even more.

Here is a list showing the last day you can plant to not miss any harvests:

Rhubarb 2
Green Bean 3
Parsnip 4
Garlic 4
Tulip 4
Kale 4
Potato 4
Strawberry 4
Cauliflower 4
Jazz 7


My spring setup:

As a practical matter I always plant the flowers from day 1 to facilitate more expensive honey as soon as possible, and I just leave them until the 28th.

For food crops:

Potatoes, Green Beans, and Kale on day 1.
Rhubarb on day 2.
Parsnip, Garlic, Cauliflower and Strawberries on day 3.

This schedule really coordinates my harvest days nicely, and gives me plenty of time to set up my fields.

Trying to do all this in one day is realistically impossible given the number of fields that I plant.

[NeilSteel]

What you can do is use a rain totem at the 28th of *insert season* before sleeping so that when you wake up at the 1st day of *insert season* there will be a high chance of raining therefore instant water!

[Seelen]

Like the previous post say:

Plan ahead your planting schedule, that way youll see there is no need (unless you want) to plant all your seeds in the first day, only a few need to rush out for the sake of more harvest.

The day prior to the planting, till the soil and place the sprinklers, the next the soil will be watered ad you can over them and the seed will be counted as watered.

There is a small problem with that last one, tilled soil that has no seed on it has a chance to disappear, also when season changes, rocks and others things might disrupt your planting areas.


I try to do some work the last day of the season for the next one, but that requires planning ahead.