What's up with my barley?

[Sevenless]

imo, having test plant spots open is kinda critical for reliable gain. It lets you avoid getting RNG helled. If you just ignore that and replant every generation, 2 weeks of "gain" can be ruined by 7 mediocre RNG rolls, which isn't unheard of.

[Yasgur]

I don't have much land, and I've been happy with the improvement of all other crops. Most are now maxed at my farming level.

[MagicManICT]

My barley is definitely advancing a point or two overall each planting. It's nowhere near what it is for the rest of the server, but from the triple single digits it ended up at (because of earlier issues), it's climbed back up slowly. It's now about 20/10/20 (for some reason that middle number just isn't coming up, but it's not vitality, so who cares, anyway?)

[hazzor]

My barley is definitely advancing a point or two overall each planting. It's nowhere near what it is for the rest of the server, but from the triple single digits it ended up at (because of earlier issues), it's climbed back up slowly. It's now about 20/10/20 (for some reason that middle number just isn't coming up, but it's not vitality, so who cares, anyway?)

that's kind of the problem I'm having, that damn 9 is just fucking with me.

[MagicManICT]

I'm not sure what qualities you're looking for, but each one has a different effect on food. As long as it's not 9 vitality, I wouldn't even fuss over it. The others will come up over time. If it's 9 vitality, I'd only plant small batches at a time until you can get good vitality seeds for food. For other purposes, focus as needed.

[Sevenless]

I'm not sure what qualities you're looking for, but each one has a different effect on food. As long as it's not 9 vitality, I wouldn't even fuss over it. The others will come up over time. If it's 9 vitality, I'd only plant small batches at a time until you can get good vitality seeds for food. For other purposes, focus as needed.

Barley Q influences Straw doll Q which uses the average of the qualities.

[MagicManICT]

Yeah, but that's one curio vs how many useful food items? I'm looking at the bigger picture. the rest can be brought up over time.

[Drevar]

Even with test fields, the RNG can still fuck you. Maybe not so much with ruining your crops, since you avoid planting when the RNG seed is bad, but in time. For 3 days now I have had absolute crap RNG seeds which lower my qualities on 5 different crops. Tried planting at several times during each day, but they stay crap or get worse.

[MagicManICT]

Shit happens? The random range is [-2, 5], so you can be getting crapped on that much unless you're hitting a very sever bad streak. Don't try to get all 3 up at once. You'll just go nuts waiting on the ideal minimal combo. Just shoot for an average of 1-2 points a generation increase overall, not 1-2 points in every quality aspect.