How many should I get?

[Solar]

I got 270 max energy on year 1 summer, 20k gold, basic watering can, want as many blueberries as my energy will allow me to take care of - how many should I get?

[Haethei]

depends on watering can efficiency (farming skill), but it should be easy to do at least like 50 without any food

[Solar]

Originally posted by Haethei:

depends on watering can efficiency (farming skill), but it should be easy to do at least like 50 without any food

6 farming skill, currently

[Haethei]

you can craft basic retaining soil for energy efficiency (33% chance for the soil to stay watered every day). the other two types of fertilizer suck for plants that are harvested multiple times like blueberries. retaining soil can be used after its already planted

honestly just buy like 100 of the blueberry seeds and see what happens, I think you could handle it fine with the retaining soil. might need a snack every day, or I could even be underestimating the efficiency and you can get more plants of other types. need 200 stone to craft all the retaining soil

are you doing joja playthrough? should be getting the plants for community center while you're in the first year

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by Solarwaving:

6 farming skill, currently

If you're on the basic watering can, I'd say you should stick to 50-70 for now. It is very tedious to water block by block and your energy will drain a substantial amount every day, so much so that you'll have very little else to do unless you eat food.

If you prefer to only stick to farming, then just know that at every level of a skill decreases energy gain of their respective tools by 0.1. So a basic watering can energy cost at farming 6 is 1.4 energy. So if you only want to water your crops with a basic can at 270 energy, and nothing else, you can water at least 192 blueberries a day.

[Buffmania]

You can water 192 tiles before you run out of energy.

basic can (2 energy per usage - (0.1 X farming skill)) = 1.4 energy/use
270 energy / 1.4 use = 192

[Solar]

Alright thanks I got a ton now and i am thankfully just barely able to handle it with no
food so I can make it through summer with huge profit

[maestro]

I find that the biggest problem with this type of play, is that you are devoting 100% of your energy to watering plants, when there's all kinds of stuff that should be done as well.

I mean, this is a game where "you do you" is the intended design, but... it just seems odd to forsake every aspect of the game, especially early-game, to water massive amounts of crops.

The money you will make from 192 blueberries pales in comparison to the money you make from other things, later in the game.

For example, let's take the median price of 65 per blueberry (normal is 50, silver is 62 and gold is 75) and assume no bonuses.

192 blueberries will give you about 150,000 gold for the entire season.

To put that into perspective, my deluxe coop and deluxe barn along with artisan perk and mayo/cheese machines gives me about 10,000 gold per day once I get them maxed out at about mid-Fall.

That's 280,000 per season in PASSIVE income. Once you buy two Auto-Grabbers, you spend 0 energy and about 20-30 in-game minutes holding down the RMB and walking past your animals on the way to the grabber, and then dump the produce in the machines and before you go to bed, get them out and dump them into the shipping bin.

This leaves you with a full energy bar to do anything you want.

Suddenly, that 150k gold blowing your entire energy bar seems kinda dumb.

Rather than do that, my best suggestion would be to take a more balanced approach: I did about 40 blueberries, and 9-18 melons, and 1 of each of everything else for CC bundles and quests (like the Pepper quest that George asks for). Far less money, but yet leaves me with energy to get the materials to get those animals going for a humongous payoff later.

In your case, if you blow all of your energy on that 150k in blueberries, and then in the fall I imagine you're going to do the same with cranberries, and.... then what, in the winter?

Or the spring after it?

You won't have any passive all-season gold generation going, as you're relying entirely on crops, and you probably won't have the CC bundles done (unless you went Joja, which I can't understand why anybody would do that, but eh whatever I suppose), so probably no Greenhouse.

Oh, and since you're dumping all of your energy into crops, I assume no mine for resources to make sprinklers?

I had 191 crops in Fall on my latest playthrough, because I made 24 Quality Sprinklers before Fall even arrived (24x8 is actually 192, but the Meadows Farm map has this annoying 1-square tile that can't be tilled so it was actually 191).

And on top of that, I ALSO had the animals and their passive gold generation ontop of that.

[Clovis Sangrail]

In my current game, I had the basic watering can until the first Winter because I could not afford the time needed to upgrade it.

My field gradually increased as the year progressed, and by Fall, it was 180 tiles, almost all pumpkins, which I could just barely get watered without eating some food.

First day of Fall, when I had to hoe, then go buy seeds, then plant, and then water, was brutal. I had to eat some leftover corn to keep going, and it took until 10:30 p,m,

But I don't know what my farming was by then.

[red255]

I never upgrade my watering can, I just get quality sprinklers. I mean i eventually upgrade it, for ginger island dungeon, but not for crops. I just do a few fields of spring crops for farming 6 then go sprinklers.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

In my current game, I had the basic watering can until the first Winter because I could not afford the time needed to upgrade it.

Time wise the upgrade can be freely done over rainy day or over last day of season.