How does the tree farm work?

[Rex Lupus]

Can someone explain to me what are all the options in the tree farm menu? There are Goals per Day in "current cost" and "project cost". what are those? And what about the prices? What do I pay and how much? When I played in beta there was nothing of this. Can someone explain?

[Flo]

Worst menu ever

Current cost is how much you're currently paying for your order
Projected cost is how much you'll pay if you modify your order
The prices are written on each item. They will go up when you reach certain caps. For exemple 1 Hardwood costs 5g, but after 12 it will start costing 6g.
You can only request up to 500g worth of items at first (500/500), but you can increase that by leveling the farm.

I have no idea what the random red numbers mean. I also have no idea how the cost is calculated, as 500:28 = 17.85 (each month has 28 days). So 17.85g per day, not 10 like the menu tells me. And you don't even pay per day, you pay per month, so the number actually paid is again different.
And when you change your order and pay, I don't know if it cances the current order (you already paid for), or adds time to it, or becomes active immediatly...

Anyway, just put a little bit of everything until you reach 500/500, pay for as many months as you want, and call it a day

[Iyasenu]

Red numbers are just the game telling you "hey, you're ordering too many of this specific material and the cost per material is going up"

So the number just turns red as a warning, like "you should spread out your order amongst other materials, as this one's going to start getting more expensive if you keep focusing just on this".

Also if you update your order, you'll pay the difference in the projected cost.
Like if your old order was for 500/500, but then you upgrade the tree farm for 10,000 gols and your new limit is doubled, so you decide to fill it out for 1,000/1,000, it'll make you pay the difference before it starts the updated delivery package.

But it adds on the duration of the new updated order, so like, say your old order of 500/500 was started as a 1 month order, and you were on it for 14 days before upgrading. (14 days left)
Then your new 1,000/1,000 order was for a month as well, it'll add on to the 14 days, but also convert the old 14 days into the new price, so you'd end up paying 500 (14 days worth at the new price) + 1000 (1 month at the new price) to update your order.

Upgrading can get pretty expensive (starts at 10,000 for the first doubling after all) but it also seems to raise the limit you can order one specific material before the price per unit goes up.