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6 years ago

Wonder crops - How big is too big? (expand)


Still hard at work on the farming system. The game at least has time and the inventory all working so it will be easy to hook everything together. But thats not what this post is about!

Wonder crops

one of the things I've been wanting to do is make the farming system more fun and introduce a few new mechanics, hence Wonder crops.

Wonder crops are grown over a 3x3 set of dirt tiles on the farm and require far more care to maintain and grow. They need to be heavily watered. fetilised and kept free of weeds. Their seeds cannot be bought in-game. instead you will need to find someone around town and befriend them to learn the secrets of these mega veggies and how an ordinary bag of seeds can be used to plant them. Wonder crops are worth more than the total price of 9 of their basic version and will yield a generous amount of seeds if you wish to use them and not sell them.

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