Farming Guide for SoS:AWL
Decided to make another save file for testing purposes. Mostly focusing on 1st year crops and fields and trying to see exactly how long certain crops needed to grow. I found out some nifty stuff! Please note that I might end up editing some things if I find better data.
The different soil qualities have NO EFFECT on crop quality/speed
I believe it's something that only determines which crops can go in whichever field (all 1st year crops can grow in any soil quality, I think hybrids need good quality and up)
Fertilizer lasts for 10 hours
I believe the countdown starts once the animation is finished
4 bags of Fertilizer for A rank 8 bags of fertilizer for S rank (crops only)
This is at least consistent with tomatoes and watermelons. I tried logging how many bags of fertilizer for tree crops but I got through about 40 on the free apple tree and didn't get A rank by Fall Yr1 so I'm a liiiitle intimidated.
Crops only advance to different stages at 12:00pm and 12:00am
From what I can tell the game checks at 12pm and 12am if the crop has been in the ground/watered for enough time to grow to the next stage. I'm going to refer to these 12 hour chunks as "cycles." Due to this particular system, even if you plant crops a few hours apart, they will naturally sync up to the closest cycle. For example:
It's Spring 1 6:00am. You plant a Tomato seed. The game checks at Spring 1 12:00pm if the seed has been planted/ watered for long enough. 6 hours is not enough for the Tomato seed to progress to the next stage so it stays in the "planted" growth stage. The next time the game checks is Spring 2 12:00am. The Tomato seed has been planted/ watered for 18 hours, which is enough for it to progress to the next growth stage
Water lasts ~ 21 and 1/2 hours (from "just watered" to "bone dry" )
Haven't fully tested if the different water amounts impact growing time. If they are kept bone dry they won't progress to the next stage even if the plant goes through multiple 12 hour cycles. There's four levels of watered:
Dark Brown -> Brown (Takes around 6 hours and 45 minutes) -> Light brown (Takes around 5 hours and 30 minutes) -> Tan (Takes around 8 hours and 15 minutes)
Crop growth (Spring)
Tomato
Seed: 10 hours (1.75 hours water) (1 cycle)
Sprout: 24 (9.5~10 hours watered) (2 cycle)
Small trellis: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Big trellis: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Flower: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Green Tomatoes: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Harvestable
Total Time: 5.5 days (11 cycles)
((Plant on Spring 1st before 2:00PM and your first Tomatoes will be available to harvest Spring 7 12:00am))
Watermelon
Seed: 22 hours (2 cycles)
Sprout 36 hours (3 cycles)
Tiny vine: 36 hours (3 cycles)
Big vine: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Yellow Flowers: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Watermelons of Deception: 24 hours(2 cycles)
Harvestable
Total Time: 7 days (14 cycles)
((Plant on Spring 1st before 2:00PM and your first Watermelons will be available to harvest Spring 8 12:00pm))
Strawberries
Seed: 10 hrs (1 cycle)
Sprout: 24 hours (2 cycle)
Three Leaf Sprout: 36 hours (3 cycles)
Six Leaf Sprout: 36 hours (3 cycles)
Flowers: 24 Hours (2 cycles)
Budding Fruits: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Harvestable
Total time: 6.5 days (13 cycles)
((Plant on Spring 1st before 2:00PM and your first Strawberries will be available to harvest Spring 8 12:00am))
Potato
Seed: 22 hours (2 cycles)
Sprout: 36 hours (3 cycles)
Many Leaves: 36 hours (3 cycles)
Bigger Many Leaves: 48 hours (4 cycles)
Flowers: 24 hours (2 cycles)
Harvestable
Total time 7 days (14 cycles)
((Plant on Spring 1st before 2:00PM and your first Potatoes will be available to harvest Spring 8 12:00pm))
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Let me know if this is helpful to anyone else. I'll update this post if need be and probably make this into a little series :3
((Also apologies if there's formatting issues, made this post on Mobile cause I'm on vacation))
