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a) if you plant a field and it grows, does it disappear by itself after some time, or only if someone harvests it?
It will disappear after time. I think the most I have 'risked' planting was 4 fields while still harvesting all. I have planted a field and 'walked away' to see what happens and it poofed.
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b) Is there any bad reason to plant several fields in the same spot? Eg are harvests reduced or does it not matter? I planted up to 5 fields in the same “squareâ€, letting me harvest it one after another once the field “on top†was harvested.
I do not think it matters, but being superstituous, if I get 2 bad yields in a row, I move!
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c) If planting one by one, is there any problem with using the same square or does it get used up and I should move over a little bit?
I usually use the same square, plant->harvest->plant->harvest, subject to above.
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d) I apparently was farming all day and it turned to night. The plants still grew but I seemed to harvest less. Is this the effect of night time or was it just a randomly bad harvest? After that bad harvest, I stopped farming in case night time affects it negatively.
I do not think time-of-day affects yield, otherwise do mushrooms grow better at night? Fun to speculate but I have not observed any difference.
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e) One of the farmer NPCs says something about “letting the plants grow longer to yield moreâ€. Is he talking about general planting or is this a clue for player-farmers to get better results?
I have not noticed any difference in yield by waiting to harvest a field.
What does makes a BIG difference is mastering a tier and using the crit Soils. ALWAYS do this unless you want seeds. Some seeds are not sold by NPCs so you might want to increase your chance for poor bushels by not using crit soils.
After I mastered a tier I would almost never glean seeds from poor bushels, if those seeds were sold by NPCs. Seeds only cost 4cp and it takes a LONG time to get ONE seed from a bushel hehe. Unless I needed the craft points, I sold the poor bushels. I don't even buy the seed recipes anymore if the seeds are sold by NPCs.
Edited, Oct 30th 2007 10:41am by Dottiel