farming and RNG?

[MagicManICT]

TBH, and as I saw devs want to put less randomness in this game, a +2 each time you plant would be less trouble for all.

The mean in legacy was about +1.5q/generation. I haven't seen anyone do any testing under the current rules.

@joojoo: they have tweaked the mechanics so that positive qualiity growth over time is more likely. Many people were actually losing quality down to 1/1/1 over a few plantings at the start of w8. I'm kind of torn on which is better. I've not had an issue with growth over time since that issue was fixed, and I like the fact that I don't have to constantly micro manage seeds every 10 plants or so.

[joojoo1975]

TBH, and as I saw devs want to put less randomness in this game, a +2 each time you plant would be less trouble for all.

The mean in legacy was about +1.5q/generation. I haven't seen anyone do any testing under the current rules.

@joojoo: they have tweaked the mechanics so that positive qualiity growth over time is more likely. Many people were actually losing quality down to 1/1/1 over a few plantings at the start of w8. I'm kind of torn on which is better. I've not had an issue with growth over time since that issue was fixed, and I like the fact that I don't have to constantly micro manage seeds every 10 plants or so.

micro manage? when I was in legacy, used a cupboard and then just planted the highest seeds/plants. I was using ender's client at that time and you just had to like ctrl + shift mouse wheel and the crops would go into the cupboard in ascending or descending order.

the longest times for me was actually harvesting the plants.

[MagicManICT]

Still micro managing. We had custom client tools, and many even used bots to automate farming. We still have some client tools to help, and some still bot, but it's less of a need. Harvesting and planting can be done in one command each instead of clicking each plant, sort seeds, dump undesirables (trash or into the feed troughs), replant the good ones, start harvesting again until inventory full, repeat.