Losing seeds...

[Zapp Brannigan]

Even with gold star boosts to my zombie farms I'm getting fewer seeds with each planting. This is and issue if I'm planting gold star crops since the seeds are either expensive or cannot be purchased. Will the 'Roots and Shoots' prayer work with zombie farms?

[Bangal]

You can use Quality fertilizer, too. Or plant it 50/50.
I always use Quality and getting more seeds i will ever need.

[Zapp Brannigan]

I'm only losing a few seeds per harvest so I've been staying ahead by planting a few crops myself with gold quality boost to make up for the seeds I lose. Just wondering if the prayer would help me eliminate that step, but I guess it's probably better to use prayer day for cash.

[joshlyle]

From my experiments, the work efficiency of the zombies working the farm definitely contributes to seed productivity. With 15-16 white skulls I definitely net extra seeds with each crop; if I had to guess I'd say that a gold-quality farm with a 12 white skull zombie should be close to break-even.

[Zapp Brannigan]

How are you getting 15-16 white skulls!?

[Bangal]

for example:
you make a corps/zombie with 12 white skulls, which have a brain with +2 white skulls.
now remove the brain and put another one in with +4 red and +4 white.
now you have 14 white skulls. The zombie ignores the red skulls. Only white counts for him.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Originally posted by Cat_Mine:

for example:
you make a corps/zombie with 12 white skulls, which have a brain with +2 white skulls.
now remove the brain and put another one in with +4 red and +4 white.
now you have 14 white skulls. The zombie ignores the red skulls. Only white counts for him.

I just tried that but adding more red skulls doesn't seem to add to zombie efficiency.

[Bangal]

it will. the new efficiency will shown when you get the zombie off the table and put it back.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Just tried again. Took him off and put him back on, put him on a work station and back off. No change.

[Bangal]

hmmm, maybe it is new that 12 skulls is the maximum. I must test it.

[Zapp Brannigan]

13 white will give you 32%, but that is the best I've gotten.

[joshlyle]

You can get over 12 white skulls with a few tricks. First, save up important parts (brains, hearts, intestines) with +3 white hearts (which often also have -2 red hearts). Then, get a corpse - an empty one will work - and give it at least two red skulls, then embalm it with lye, silver, gold, and glue injections, for a total of -2 red and +5 white skulls. Remove any fat and blood, add flesh and skin if needed (+1 white skull each), and add your three +3 skull important parts (+9). That should get you +16 white hearts.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Never thought about stock-piling parts. I'll give that a try

[Murlin[ESP]]

Originally posted by Zapp Brannigan:

Even with gold star boosts to my zombie farms I'm getting fewer seeds with each planting. This is and issue if I'm planting gold star crops since the seeds are either expensive or cannot be purchased. Will the 'Roots and Shoots' prayer work with zombie farms?

I almost always use quality fertilizer(gold) and look like I don't lose seeds even with zombies(ofc every zombie farm have quality fertilizer too). If I don't use fertilizer then yes, I lose seeds.
Only 30% eficience zombies btw.

I don't know if that change something talking about seeds, but I have almost always the farm sermon buff online and I have all the perks from farming.

[Zapp Brannigan]

I have the zombie farms upgraded to level II boost and always use level II when I plant graded crops.