Anyone get Farming to produce?

TETSUJIN

Pawain said:

TETSUJIN said:

Hotei said:

Hello,

I almost posted when the seasons changed and I lost plants I'd been tending for many days, but I realized I'd not carefully read all the instructions on how farming worked. Some of the issues I experienced were "operator error". 

I do wonder though, is there some way to know when seasons are about to change? That would be very helpful. I wouldn't want to lease a plot and plant a day or two before the change is to happen only to have plants disappear because the clock ran out. That's a waste of time and gold that doesn't seem necessary or fair to deal with.

Also, it seems the mandrake and garlic are taking a lot longer than expected. I tended one batch of mandrake for 17 real world days and the plants never became harvestable. They disappeared when the season changed.

I planted a second batch of mandrake the day after the season changed. It's been 42 UO days and my mandrake is still not harvestable. Mandrake is only supposed to take 24 UO days.

Has anyone else been able to harvest Mandrake? Is anyone else having trouble with the timer on the garlic as well? I've planted more garlic, I forget the exact date of planting, but I'm very sure it's been more than 22 UO days since planting and I should be able to harvest by now.

Thanks

HI,

The plants seem to run out of water once after shard maintenance. I went to the field yesterday and today right after maintenance and all plants were out of water.

Perhaps this is the reason why plants are not growing or growth is being reverted.

Here is an image taken just after maintenance

As for the change of seasons, if you hover your mouse pointer over the Britannian calendar on the wall of a bank or other institution, you will see the number of days until the next season.


I hope this helps.

Plants go through a graphic cycle change at times other than server down. I've seen it happen at 8pm C and 11amC while I was at the field.

I plant nightshade and ginger daily in a field.  It harvests the next day.  You can harvest those dry looking plants.  Since Mandrake takes 6 days.  We should have the 24 day Mandrake root ready tomorrow.

Mine are the first 3 plots on that field.

HI,

As you say, the growth of a plant changes its graphic as the number of days in the Britannia calendar passes (some sprout in one day, others in two, etc., depending on plants)

I am telling you that I have actually confirmed that the water runs out after maintenance.

I watered the plants 5 minutes before the shard went down and logged in immediately after shard maintenance and the plants were all out of water as per my last post.

I think the key is timing of watering. If the water runs out before the plants grow, they will either not grow or will revert back to normal.

Like the manual says, "You must Keep your crops watered, or else they will not survive!."

Garlic can be harvested one day and 20 hours after real time (about 22 days after Britannia) by simply watering twice, once when planted and once after maintenance time.

Mandrakes could be harvested two days after real time,  if growth checks during water loss can be avoided, even if slightly off.

I planted mandrakes and these took 2days and 1 hour for real time, then harvested.

Since garlic and mandrakes have a long growing time and it is inevitable to interrupt the maintenance time of the shard, the second (and maybe third) watering should be done as soon as possible after the maintenance to shorten the time of stagnant growth, so that they can be harvested as per the expected period.

This is what I got from checking the fields every two hours during my waking hours this past weekend.

I think the current specifications are unfair to players who live in areas where it is difficult to log in immediately after maintenance to grow mandrakes and garlic, as they will spend extra time due to water loss.

Wouldn't it be better to make it so that the plants never run out of water until 24 hours have passed, starting when each player waters them?

Higure

I can harvest ginseng and nightshade but I am having problem with my garlics and mandrakes.I water them sometimes more than once a day

Kalsey

Add to this, same here.  I have not yet been able to harvest mandrake root.  And I water at least twice a day.  Not a morning person so my first water is usually late mornings.

Is maintenance on NL at 4 AM central?

Pawain

@TETSUJIN ; The plants just reverted to a lower state right now, at like 12:15pm C.  Luckily I plucked out the Ginger and Nightshade right before they would have reverted.  You only have to water Ginger or Nightshade one time, at planting.  You can harvest the dry plants.  See Pic.

@Kyronix ; Seems at least 4 of us planted Mandrake Root and Garlic when this season began.
Since Nightshade takes 6 days.  It has been long enough for MR and Garlic should have been able to harvest now.  Something is wrong with those @Kyronix ; It is still very difficult to water the plants in this picture, can barely see them and they have a tiny clickable area for water.  T

Pawain

The shard crashed at around 11:30pmC, there was a few min revert.(I just did a Tmap and recalled to town, I had to do the map again)  I decided to check my plants.

The ones I harvested and replanted this morning were full size, so I harvested them,  Ill replant to see if I get more tomorrow.

Kalsey

Pawain said:

@ TETSUJIN  The plants just reverted to a lower state right now, at like 12:15pm C.  Luckily I plucked out the Ginger and Nightshade right before they would have reverted.  You only have to water Ginger or Nightshade one time, at planting.  You can harvest the dry plants.  See Pic.

@ Kyronix  Seems at least 4 of us planted Mandrake Root and Garlic when this season began.
Since Nightshade takes 6 days.  It has been long enough for MR and Garlic should have been able to harvest now.  Something is wrong with those @ Kyronix  It is still very difficult to water the plants in this picture, can barely see them and they have a tiny clickable area for water.  T

That is me in the pink dress next to you.  My other account is right after that.  

I'm getting tired of this.  No response.  I've been watering 2-3 times a day, and this morning I set my alarm just to water.  And, the hue needs to be changed so we can see where to water.  One needs to attempt to water several times until it finally hits where the seed is planted.

This has been an ongoing problem.  If the DEVs would take the time to work a plot they could see for themselves, since no one appears to be paying attention to the paying customers.  

Today my plots look exactly the same as this pic.  There are nine planted seeds in each plot, we need to play around to find the other seeded area because they are not visible.  

Anyone there????

Pawain

So Kalsey, Tejsutin and I are using the same field.

There was just another 20 min revert, I had not reached my field yet.  All the not fluffy plants look like this.
I hope they made the small versions look like this from now on.  I could not harvest the ones I planted last night. 

Higure

I lost my farm again today..:D
Double clicking on scarecrow gave me this message "your lease on the farm has been terminated due to abandonement"

Ermmm...what? 

Hotei

Still no Mandrake root to harvest. Planted on Sept 5, 424 Sosaria time. Supposed to take 24 UO days. By my count it is now approximately day 80 in Sosaria time. Plants have been watered daily. I own all plots in this photo. I've only been able to harvest Ginseng and Nightshade. All plants were watered about 4 or 5 hours ago.

Tetsujin, I don't doubt that what you are posting is true.

My problem lies in the fact that I don't believe that it is working as intended. Do they really expect us to water every 2 to 3 hours every real world day starting at server up in order to harvest plants? On my work days, I'm up between 4:30 and 5:00am to get ready for work. Leave the house around 5:30am. I usually don't return home until after 9:00pm. Although tired, I log in to make sure my farm plots are watered. If it is working as intended, then I feel I've been misled and the lack of any clarification from the team is starting to irritate me. It really takes a lot to get me to come on the boards to complain.

Some sort of clarification from the team would be greatly appreciated. @Kyronix

The color of the plants when needing watered is very hard to see, as others have pointed out, but I can live with it. First time I encountered that, I thought I had lost all my plants. Annoying? Yes, but not enough to get me on the boards for that alone.

I appreciate that others are posting in this thread and hope the developers will deign to reply to us and address our concerns.

Kalsey

Pawain said:

So Kalsey, Tejsutin and I are using the same field.

There was just another 20 min revert, I had not reached my field yet.  All the not fluffy plants look like this.
I hope they made the small versions look like this from now on.  I could not harvest the ones I planted last night. 

Looking at my two plots after @Pawain gives me some hope here.  This is the first time I am able to see all nine seeded areas.  

Thank you for posting screen shots.

Pawain

Kalsey said:

Pawain said:

So Kalsey, Tejsutin and I are using the same field.

There was just another 20 min revert, I had not reached my field yet.  All the not fluffy plants look like this.
I hope they made the small versions look like this from now on.  I could not harvest the ones I planted last night. 

Looking at my two plots after @ Pawain gives me some hope here.  This is the first time I am able to see all nine seeded areas.  

Thank you for posting screen shots.

I am hoping they changed the graphics so we can see the small plants better.  Or the shard crash and revert did what's in the picture.

I decided to post pics with more plots since 3 of us use that field.

TETSUJIN

Hello.

Yesterday was a bit bad.

In addition to maintenance, there were shard downs, and the plants ran out of water three times that I am aware of.

There was also a time rewind.(I use a scarecrow and a clock to check the time.)

The newly planted mandrakes yesterday are past 10 days in Britannia days and still not sprouting.

I think the last time I harvested mandrakes they had 10 days to sprout.

The beginning of the guide says “Farming will require a bit of hard word, a touch of a green thumb, and of course, some good fortune.” is there a random factor?

Does this mean that the last successful mandrake grow was a lucky one?

If so, I must say that growing mandrakes is a very hard task.

If you have to calculate even unexpected shard downs.

@Kyronix

I'm just checking the description in the guide.

“You must visit your plot and water all 9 plants once each earth day in order to maintain it.”

Is this once each earth day in real time, not Britannia time?

Is this only for the maintenance of the plot and do the plants need more water than this?

Is there a random rise and fall in the growth stages of the plant?

LilyGrace

Frustrating

Higure

I think I won't try again until this is fixed. I harvested ginsengs and planted shades, garlic and mandrake still waiting...watered everything and logged in next day to find my plot empty and message that I abandoned my farm.