Harvesting Carrots

[Paradoxs]

What's the best stage for harvesting carrots if Im looking to expand my carrot farm first, quality isnt important to me just yet as im just trying to get a sizeable field first and then ill worry about quality grinding once I have it going

[InfernoI]

I believe on Amber client is you hold ctrl and press P it displays crop stages. Stage 3 *should* be just seeds. Stage 4 should be some seeds and a single carrot, and stage 5 should be all carrots.

[Paradoxs]

Yes I understand that but which stage yields the most seeds/carrots so that I can increase the size of my farm in the least amount of time

[MagicManICT]

the stages for carrots are: 1 carrot, 10 seeds, 2 carrots. Farming skills increase the seeds and carrots. Given the way farming quality RNGs work now, you could theoretically harvest at 1 carrot to get best chances of return if you use properly spaced plantings over time and space (5 hrs, 300x300 map areas). If you keep track of what your best qualities are, you can multiply the best qualities and scrap the worst while rolling the dice as frequently as possible (first harvestable stage). Compared to old methods, each crop harvested would have a different value, so you needed to sort for the best to go up.

You can tell when carrots will give seeds as they'll have white flowers. For multiplying qualities, this is the best time to harvest as it will get qualities up the fastest.

[InfernoI]

Farming skills increase the seeds and carrots.

So end game when people have like 1500 farming, they'll harvest one carrot and get an inventory full? xD

Or did you mean that it increases their qualities, not the numbers recieved?

[MagicManICT]

The extra farming skills: plant lore, etc. increase the returns. I'm not sure what the chance of extras are, but you end up with 1 extra carrot, beetroot, etc or 5 extra seeds after purchasing them all.

The incrementable Farming skill itself only affects quality of the items you harvest. (and there is doubt about that currently, but nobody has harvested q100 crops with a farming 1 alt yet to test.)

[Maiden]

You end up with 12/14/15 seeds with the 3 skills, and 33/67/100% chance of an extra thing for peas, grapes, beets, carrots, and hops. With all farming skills peppercorn is just 2 still...