Time really is something else - A Farming Tip

[Sharphawkx]

Alright, bear with me and follow my logic:

Every in-game minute takes around 4 seconds of real life time. Therefore, I calculated to a approx. point how long it takes In-Game for a crop to grow.

Why? Well I'm not about to set my alarms to go off every 20min so I can check if my potatoes grew. It's easier (To me and maybe to some of you) to track via in-game time, since this is such a huge game, spending hours playing it is quite easy.

There are 7 crops in the game so far:
Carrots, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Potatoes, Corn, Onions and Wheat

Crop - IRL Time - In-Game Time

• Carrot - 20min - 5 hours
  
• Tomato - 25min - 6 hours 15min
  
• Lettuce - 35min - 8 hours 45min
  
• Potato - 40min - 10 hours
  
• Corn - 50min - 12 hours 30min
  
• Onion - 1h - 15 hours
  
• Wheat - 1h10min - 17 hours 30min

Hope this helps someone out there who, like me, enjoys running around doing stuff and totally forgets their crops for longer than they should.

[Panterich]

Originally posted by Sharphawkx:

Every in-game minute takes around 4 seconds of real life time.

3.

Originally posted by Sharphawkx:

• Potato - 40min - 10 hours

Potato won`t be grown after sleeping for 12h.

Originally posted by Sharphawkx:

Hope this helps someone out there who, like me, enjoys running around doing stuff and totally forgets their crops for longer than they should.

You might want to do this instead.
Each time you get to a new tower, fast travel to each farm, collect crops, plant tomato/lettuce/potato (starting with potato) sleep 12h, collect crops, plant corn/onion/wheat.
Then go with main objective untill the next tower. No need for clocks / alarms or any calculations.

[Sharphawkx]

I'm pretty sure its 4. Also, I don't do much sleeping cuz the resting bonus aint that great, since combat is quite easy even against bosses.

[privateerths]

@Sharphawkx,
Thanks for tip.

[Panterich]

Originally posted by Sharphawkx:

I'm pretty sure its 4. Also, I don't do much sleeping cuz the resting bonus aint that great, since combat is quite easy even against bosses.

Not doing much sleeping shoud make it even easier to go plant a tile of potato, sleep and see for yourself, instead of being "pretty sure". Well, whatever ... doesn`t change much anyways.

[Vardis]

It's 3 RL seconds to an in-game minute. If you sleep for six hours, your carrots will be almost grown. The ones you first planted may have started to be ready to harvest, if you planted a field.

[arcturus.mengsk]

Or, do what I did, and just mass plant every seed you got every 1.5 hours, until you reach 500+ of each. Use all planting locations possible. If you somehow run out of one, just repeat the process. Always keep 100 reserve of each plantable.

[Sharphawkx]

Originally posted by arcturus.mengsk:

Or, do what I did, and just mass plant every seed you got every 1.5 hours, until you reach 500+ of each. Use all planting locations possible. If you somehow run out of one, just repeat the process. Always keep 100 reserve of each plantable.

That's a good idea, but quite a lot of effort on grinding the farm stuff. But I can see it working. Either mass farming or run-and-back farming work, in my opinion.

[Sekzon]

Originally posted by Panterich:

Originally posted by Sharphawkx:

Every in-game minute takes around 4 seconds of real life time.

3.

Originally posted by Sharphawkx:

• Potato - 40min - 10 hours

Potato won`t be grown after sleeping for 12h.

errrmm you sure? I never slept a single minute ingame...

edit: also I can confirm about the just plant stuff tactic. Every now and then I just harvested and planted a new batch and it was enough for ark and all recipes

[Anonymous Helper]

Do note that if you've picked all 5 Farmer traits, they are supposed to double plant growing speed (Plant growing speed +100%, +20% per perk). Also Old Pocket Watches/Digital Wrist Watches time slowing/time speeding up effect might also affect plant grow time.

[Dslim]

This game is such a time sync that ive always had crops just sitting there to harvest, i have never really even bother wondering if they are ready, im never back over to check them even in an hour.

[Gena_Snow]

Anyone timed the mana bead growth time yet?