Chapter 08 - Harvesting

Heddryin · #1 Sep 02 2009, 03:39 PM

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Heddryin · #2 Sep 25 2009, 05:21 PM

In fact, it depends on the type of seeds you sow.
The time it takes for each type of seed to be ready for harvest is shown in the store next to each bag of seeds.

Note: A "day" on Town Farm is 20 hours. The pineapples that grow in 3 "days" are actually ready after 60 hours, or 2 ½ days. They therefore go to waste after two and a half days. You have 5 days instead of 6 for harvest From the moment you have sown!

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Heddryin · #3 Sep 25 2009, 05:26 PM

If you do not harvest your fields in time, they go to waste.

The time you have to harvest your fields is equal to the time it takes for a seed to be ready for harvest.

Note that a "day" on Town Farm is 20 hours. The pineapples that grow in 3 "days" are actually ready after 60 hours, or 2 ½ days. They therefore rot after two and a half days, so you have 5 days instead of 6 for harvest From the moment you have sown!

When this happens you have to plow the fields to get rid of the wasted crops so you can replant.
Or if you don't like where the fields are, delete them and plow new fields.

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Heddryin · #4 Oct 01 2009, 06:54 AM

No, they can not.
They can talk with you if you are both on your farm at the same time.
They can also help you remove weeds, raking leaves and watering your farm. For each task they perform, they receive coins and exp.

The exception to this rule is if you have designated a neighbour a Super Neighbour. Please click the following link to go the Chapter about Super Neighbours to see details on that option.

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Heddryin · #5 Oct 01 2009, 06:56 AM

Because the counter stops at 99!
This number only reflects the amount you have in Harvest & Products storage. Once you reach over one hundred crops and/or products in stock, the number is replaced by ++

Note: The number of items stored in the Items Storage doesn't influence this counter. For example, If you have a hundred unused Items in your storage such as buildings/decorations but you only have 3 boxes of apples in storage, the storage will show "3", not 103.

To find out more details about storage read Chapter 14 - Storage

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Heddryin · #6 Oct 01 2009, 06:59 AM

Your crops, once harvested, will appear in your storage in the form of bags or boxes (depending on crop type).
If you hire someone to do your crops it will increase the sale price, this is marked with "Large."

Crops that you harvested yourself sell for less coins - these are labelled with the name of the product, not large.

It does not make a difference what size box the crop is, when used to make products in facilites. The order they are used in is regular box first, then large boxes, then if you have any from the gift page, those get used last.

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Heddryin · #7 Oct 01 2009, 07:01 AM

You do not earn more money, whether you hire one person or several to harvest your crops.

A field can be harvested only once by one person, and thus for this field you will receive a one-time price.

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Heddryin · #8 Oct 01 2009, 07:07 AM

This is possible now with the addition of Super Neighbors. You can add a super neighbor by clicking on their picture in the neighbor bar and selecting Set as Super Neighbor. You can also give them permission to plant crops or design your farm for you.

For full details on how to make a neighbour a Super Neighbour and what exactly it is you can give them permission to do please click on this link: Super Neighbours

We do recommend you use this cautiously as they will be able to harvest and plant for you without any input from you. The amount of crops you get is the same you would get if you were to hire a neighbor normally. The amount they get from working as your super neighbor is the same as what they would normally get if you were hiring them in the normal way too.

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Heddryin · #9 Oct 01 2009, 07:15 AM

You can sell your products at either Marketplace.

If you are only going to sell and not get hired or hire others please use the Trade Marketplace to sell.

The Job Marketplace is intended primarily used by those wanting to get hired or to hire farmers so that not everyone is in the same Marketplace and it's easier to see who wants to be hired and who is hiring.

To get to one of the Marketplaces, click on the Map, and then click on the Marketplace you want to go to.

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When you arrive at the market, a message will show up and offers you several choices. One of them is to sell your harvests or gifts.

When you click on "I want to sell my harvests or gifts" it will then open your Storage where you can chose what to sell from:
Storage - your harvests and products

Gifts - gifts in your gift box that you have accepted but not stored yet.

Items - where any decorations, tools, facilities, trees or flowers you have stored and not put on farms are. Please do NOT sell your Farm Cash tools even when you don't use them. When you buy a bigger size tool the game needs to see which tools you have already bought.

If the message does not appear and you are at the Trade Marketplace you can click on Tom, the NPC (Non-player character) who is always in the upper right of the market. The Welcome screen appears again, and you can select your option in the message again.

If you would like more details on how to sell from each section, those can be found by clicking on this link to go to How to Sell from Storage or your My Gifts section at The Trade Marketplace

You can also sell primary products and products from a super facility to other farmers:

Primary products (crops, fruit, logs, flowers, fish, eggs, wool etc) can be sold to anyone in the game that is online. The Buyer and Seller do not need to be friends, neighbors or buddies and all transactions can take place anywhere within FarmTown.

Selling "Extra Products from Super Facility" is a little different as some you can only sell to your neighbours and the rest you must be at the trade marketplace to sell to others.

To find out all details on how to buy and sell click on Buying and selling between farmers

For full details on both the Job Marketplace and Trade Marketplace as well as what the different colours on avatars names represent, please click on What is the Marketplace for?

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Heddryin · #10 Apr 08 2010, 02:11 AM

When your crops are harvested they are stored in your Harvest & Products section of Storage for you to use in your facilities or you can sell them at the Marketplace.

You can find out all about the different sections of Storage in Chapter 14 - Storage

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