Farming is so messed

[FilthyHobbit]

I cant go to sleep for 6 hours without my farms running out of ferlizer? When I make 4 large bags for each plot, thats 4 plots and I am solo. So I spend a decent amount of time farming to make these 16 bags of large fertilizer and 4 bags in one plot is not good enough for 6 hours? I am getting tired of waking up and seeing my farms are ♥♥♥♥♥♥. No one can get to them, so its not someone stealing my ♥♥♥♥. Stupid that they made you depend on farming (npc are useless since they dead all the time) to progress with the game or make certain items. I get the idea, but for ♥♥♥♥ sake, make farming worth it. All this trouble to make feed for a tame, when you can just tame the thing with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ berries and save yourself the time and frustration of farms being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless.

[Zombilicious]

I hear you man. I have 7 plots and am located on the floating islands and it rains all the time, but somehow someway I leave my base and come back to find MY 12 WATER RESOVIORS ARE EMPTY!!!!! How is 12 resoviors not enough for 7 plots with rain intervals atleast once a day.

[ChecTv]

same here 1+

[KillBait]

i've been doing some testing for the server i help admin so we can get at least some use out of crops, since the patch yesterday they did increase the amount of fertilizer per bag but the usage per 24hrs is the same, i did the same calculations before and after the patch on the 3rd August to double check.

I worked out that a large plot need 2.1million fertilizer per 24hrs (so 90,000 per hour), now the math may not be spot on but as a rough estimate its about right i think.

Timed 1 small bag of fertilizer in large plot with lightblossom seeds, 1 small bag lasted 12 minutes, that 18,000 fertilizer, 60 mins * 24 hrs / 12mins = 120 small bags * 18,000 = 2,160,000 per 24hrs

[Amuze]

Also note that I've had three plots working for a good 10 hours, Cooking herbs, Snow lotus and Thundergrass. In those 10 hours I've probably generated enough crops to make 1-2 feed and we all know how many materials are required to sustain crops.

Not only is it painful to farm, the yield is just not worth the effort especially considering feed is only a small boost.

[KillBait]

i tested crop growth at 50x speed and it was only just (in my opinion) an acceptable amount per hour.

wheat and Shrub seeds (Cooking Herbs) use a significant amount less fertilzer (likes 10 times the seeds that give elemental cores) and yield more.

[Splutty]

Cooking Herbs can be grown in the smallest plot and requires almost no fertilizer. Of the other plants you need, you need 3 or 4 to make the fodder. Yes the fertilizer usage is nuts, but the plant yield I think is fine as it is.

There are much more serious issues, such as piping being impossible to repair. If one pipe going to the water breaks, replacing it won't fix the pipe and you don't get (Irrigated).

[Muck]

how many days does it take for a large crop plot to mature?

[eltsoldier]

Originally posted by KillBait:

i tested crop growth at 50x speed and it was only just (in my opinion) an acceptable amount per hour.

wheat and Shrub seeds (Cooking Herbs) use a significant amount less fertilzer (likes 10 times the seeds that give elemental cores) and yield more.

where do you modify the farm growth rate?

[Socrates Johnson]

So they didn't actually fix the problem then. It was always about consumption.

[keltten]

Consumption stops once the plot is FULL 50 flowers for the large required. Make lots of Medium over Large.

[vinadir]

I believe they just patched it to have fertilizer last 1.6 times longer than it was?

[therealshakur]

Originally posted by vinadir:

I believe they just patched it to have fertilizer last 1.6 times longer than it was?

prolly another bug they managed to not fix or break in a different way.

[Splutty]

They increased the values of all fertilizer bags. Large is now 450K.

Originally posted by keltten:

Consumption stops once the plot is FULL 50 flowers for the large required. Make lots of Medium over Large.

There are no seeds for medium plots, only for small and large.

[therealshakur]

Originally posted by Splutty:

There are no seeds for medium plots, only for small and large.

Please explain?

I have lots growing in medium plots.

[Splutty]

Originally posted by therealshakur:

Originally posted by Splutty:

There are no seeds for medium plots, only for small and large.

Please explain?

I have lots growing in medium plots.

Yes, all the small plot seeds also grow in medium plots. There are no seeds specifically for medium plots, and there's very little point in using the medium plots for the small seeds.