PLEASEEEEE for the love of god add sprinklers

[Trasher351]

whenever i play this they get on before i do and all my plants die because there isint water if there was a way i could water my plants while i wasint there that would be awesome

[HunkFromAlphaTeam]

I would just build off the current systems in the game instead of making a new item. Basically the devs should reuse the plug code to have a hose connection on the farm pad that can "connect" to one of those big blue barrels you can get. So you can automatically suck water out of a water barrel to keep the water meter 100% full on the farm pad while it draws from the container to keep itself topped off. Then you can connect up to 3 hoses into 1 barrel or just have each plot use their own barrel. This system could allow for easy water maintenance of just exchanging barrels rather then running around with a bucket. It can even be a crafted item like the filtered barrel, just one that allows a hose to be connected to it at the bottom so it can dispense water to a connected farm.

[MechWarden]

Until then, once your plants are at a harvesting state, you should be able to harvest them safely if the plot was filled before hand.

There are a couple things to keep in mind for plants.

1. When ready to harvest, they stop using water, and the fruit never decays
   
2. From harvest to harvest, it uses 400 ml of water. One Small Plot has a 400 ml tank, and the 2x2 as a 1650 ml tank

This means that if you keep the tanks topped off after harvest, your plants should be fine. Though with the Small Plots you will want to wait a few minutes after harvesting and then top them off, since there does seem to be a rounding error with how much water it uses. This doesn't seem to happen with the Medium (2x2) Plot because of the extra 50ml.

[Monokuma]

+1 to some sort of irrigation system. Not necessarily sprinklers because I can see that becoming a performance issue with particles, but some sort of irrigation or reinforced hose system to hook up to water coolers + purifier barrels

[MechWarden]

You kind of already have a watering system.

The simple fix is just make the tanks on the plots bigger. That's basically what you are asking for.

Maybe there will be a way to connect hoses to things in a future update, which would mean you could connect several plots up to a water tower barrel and only have to refill one thing, rather than several.

Given there is a Small and Medium plot, I do wonder how big a Large plot is. 3x3 or 4x4?

Also making the water level indicator more noticable could help prevent plant deaths.

[Trasher351]

large plot is 2 by 4

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

You kind of already have a watering system.

The simple fix is just make the tanks on the plots bigger. That's basically what you are asking for.

Maybe there will be a way to connect hoses to things in a future update, which would mean you could connect several plots up to a water tower barrel and only have to refill one thing, rather than several.

Given there is a Small and Medium plot, I do wonder how big a Large plot is. 3x3 or 4x4?

Also making the water level indicator more noticable could help prevent plant deaths.

The thing is, I'm actually fine with the starting planter water limits. Increasing the capacity leaves less room for gradual upgrade progression. Leaving it as it is and adding stepping stones to eventually lead up to some late-game set-up where you don't have to worry about water at all is probably the best choice in terms of gameplay design. The main problem right now is that the medium planter box is the best we can make at this moment, and the idea of stepping-stone extending the capacity by using water coolers on small planters, barrels on medium planters, to maybe water purifier barrels on future large planters? flows a bit naturally and lets them space out upgrades without eventually dead-ending agriculture too early.