Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Wizard101 "Operation: Cleanup" "Subject: Gardening"

Ever since Double Gardening Rewards were introduced into The Spiral, I've been sitting on a nasty little problem -- pages and pages of King Parsley and Evil Magma Pea Seeds.  I mean, it was a problem before since King Parsley used to love to reseed like crazy, but now it's just out of control.


Now, thanks to the Seed Vault where I can stash those extra one-off seeds and thanks to the ability to simply force feed Lady Dexter Parsley by the truckload, I think I may finally reclaim some of my bank space back that was all kinds of overstuffed. Woot!


How many people would like a mass feed to pet button for feeding multiple items to a pet at once?  I mean, it was kind of cool seeing if Lady Dexter was going to spit out 180 gold or gain some experience, but there's gotta be a way for me to more easily clean house when I'm in the mood to clean house, amirite? (Who will come forward to tell me they've been saying that for years?) (Which programmer will come to me and yell DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING?!)

Anyway, it's a good time to clean house because . . . I need money and Lady Dexter needs some XP! (She got 10 percent of the way to Ultra on King Parsley alone. LOL.)


Why do I need money? Because of the evil Roger the Shrubber!!!


300,000 for that Plant All spell . . . dang . . . Time to Farm (farm, not garden . . . get it? Oh, it's not that funny whatever.)

. . . or start up a Stinkweed Garden . . . I hear those make a lot of money and sellables. THE GARDENING STRUGGLES ARE REAL, PEOPLE!

Happy Dueling!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Amber!

No, silly! Not Amber Deathsong! I'm on a quest for Amber reagents! If you don't know what that is, it's a high high end crafting component in Wizard101 that (besides causing a fuss) is really only used (as of now) in crafting unique spells and the housing games, at least that's what the wiki is telling me. I've been lucky enough to pull a few of the leet spells from hoard packs, but the rest evade me.

Where does one get Amber? Two sources. One is gardening. The other is a thick transmute receipe involving 5 Merle's Whiskers, 5 Amber Dust, 15 Sunstone, and 10 Golden Pearl . . . to one Amber.

I choose Gardening!

To those ends I've been growing a lot of King Parsely. My buddy Gary at work is doing that too. He made a good point that King Parsely was a good route to go because it's a crown plant that reseeds plentifully. In fact, you can get a couple reseeds from one King Parsely plant over the course of its life.

Here I am standing in front of my elder Parsley Patch this morning.


YAY! I pulled four Amber out of that elder harvest, and from what I understand . . . I'm lucky!

How do you guys get your Amber?

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Happy Holidays . . . Whoa Boon Tree Gives Pets!

So, I harvested my elder Boon Trees, and guess what? Not only does the Boon Tree give Snowman decorations, but it also gives snowman pets as well! That's right, the Boon Tree is one of the only plants to EVER give a pet as a reward (The Holidaisy has a chance to give an ice elf pet).

Since I planted four of these trees (yeah, I was feeling festive), I ended up with a couple of Ice Elf pets, a Frostman pet, some rank 8 (lower end) mega snacks, a lot of Christmas housing items, four candy cane 7-day mounts, and a metric ton of Happy Holidaisy plants.



In fact, overall, I'd say that the main payout of the Boon tree through regular harvests and the elder harvest is the Happy Holidaisy. Unfortunately, I've never been too fond of the Happy Holidaisy plant. :/ Perhaps one of my pets would like to eat them though (I don't know if you've noticed, but it seems that feeding your pet crown items can result in a few points of experience for them).

. . . and for me, with the harvest of the Boon Trees this morning and with relatives vacating our house, it feels like the holiday season is almost over. :/ At least I have my virtual Christmas decorations to keep the season going in a room at some random house LOL.

It's been a fun Christmas at our house. The kids got a Kinect and a 3DS this year from Santa and a few other games like Disney Universe and Skylanders. Diapermancer has been going nuts with the Skylanders portal of power lol! He loves that thing.

Santa even left a game for me! Yup, Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword was poking out of the top of my stocking this year. woohoo!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, or whathaveyou! As I briefly mentioned over on my previous post, please let me know if you got (or gave) any fun gifts for the holidays! I love hearing about the loot! :)

I'm thankful for a lot of things in the real world, mainly my awesome family and all of our blessings. I'm so thankful for the great community of Wizard101. You all make this game fun to play.

"Happy Dueling to all and to all a good night!"

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Buh Buh Buh Boon Tree!

As always, the people of Wizard101 Central are right on top of things, and have uncovered five likes for the new Boon Tree crown plant that came as a part of the 12 Days of Wizard celebration.

I had some evil magma peas go elder today, and I was feeling festive, so I bought a couple of these things. I remember the awesomeness of the giving tree from last year and decided, WHAT THE HAY! MERRY CHRISTMAS THOMAS LIONBLOOD!


I wonder if the natural rewards of the boon tree are good enough that I'll want to slow down its growth. If they are, I'll be sure to re-plant that despairagus I dug up and remove the likes I have now . . . If I'm not all that impressed, well, I'll plant a Holidaisy next to them and get this show on the road!

Happy Dueling!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Ivy League Plants Growing Up!

I snapped a picture of the snobby fellas. Look at that one to my left giving me a dissatisfactory grade.


I have yet to harvest these (I'm a day behind those who bought them out the gate), but people on Central are starting to confirm the Ivy League's regular drops are a treasure card, a couple of gems, and some gold. Treasure card harvests so far have been reported to be as follows:

- Insane bolt
- Sacrifice
- Guidance
- Triage
- Availing Hands

. . . now the wait is on to see if the final harvest is a big mega-snack payout or not.

Happy Dueling!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Plant-a-Palooza

As the patcher states so boldly, it is plant-a-palooza season! You can read all about it here. Basically it's an "up to" 50% off sale on those awesome crown plants, and they've introduced a new plant, the Ivy League, and brought back the Happy Holidaisy (where's the giving tree! ;))


Awww, just look at these little ivy league babies!


Here's a list of their likes that have been found so far (minus pixie).


I don't know how many people out there know what these things drop as a harvest . . . they're too new! But with the price they're going for, my money is on Hambrosia. ;)

That'd be great wouldn't it?

I currently have my garden as half Evil Magma Pea and half Ivy League. All I had to do was plant my boom shroom a few paces away in the opposite direction of the Ivy League. That'd be a no-no since the Ivy League don't appreciate the subtleties of exploding mushrooms. Pffft! At least magma peas don't care about fickle pickles and despairagus.

I'll let you know if I find anything out and vice versa, k?

Happy Dueling

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Evil Magma Harvest Time!

Evil Magma Harvest Time makes me do the Peanut Butter Jelly Time dance!


haha! If I had more time I'd do a YouTube video swapping out Peanut Butter Jelly with Evil Magma Harvest and have one Thomas Lionblood dancing around, because yes! I woke up this morning to this awesome site in my garden!


Evil Magma Harvest time! Man I love Evil Magma Peas. I'm not sure if a lot of people know about how awesome they are as a plant. Surround those with a Boom Shroom, a Garden Gnome, a Jimbe Drum, and an Egg Basket and you'll be harvesting an elder crop of Magma Peas in just a few days. The regular harvest is fantastic by itself with its rare reagents like Sunstone, Pearl, and Scrap Iron, but it's the final harvest where this plant's awesomeness just goes over the top.


Do you see all those Mega-Snack packs? That's just such an awesome reward for a limited amount of effort. It's like getting a free mega snack pack every few days and especially since (as per normal) the peas always return their seed in the final harvest as well.

It does take quite a bit of energy to tend to this plant, but they never get more than rank 2 pests, so it could be worse; although, I'm pretty sure most people use one character to train pets and another character to garden and then just switch things between characters with the shared bank when needed. Know what I'm saying? "Yeah we do, Friendly!"

Happy dueling!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Angus's Server of Choice? Gardening Tips?

Question from Nitasu987:
Heya Friendly! I've got a few questions (No duh) Ok so i was wondering, what realm do you usually play on as Angus??? I have a lv 36 Death guy ( Cole ShadowThorn) and maybe we could fight some bosses sometime. and also, do you have any tips for gardening? I'm rank 3 and i have a moderately sized garden.
Thx a lot

- Nitasu987
YO Nitasu! Thanks for the note and thanks for the kind offer to play Cole side-by-side with Angus. Angus is kind of a loaner (and a rebel) since I'm trying to solo this whole gosh darn thing without none no clothes on.



If someone runs into my battle, it's no big deal, but his friends list is pretty much closed. He usually hangs out on the Unicorn server (he is a UNICORNpants after all), plays early early in the morning, and basically tries to avoid contact with other wizards . . . if you happen to see him, SURE, run in and say hi. :)

Tips for gardening?! Hmm, well I wrote this up a little while ago; although, I gotta say that the new placement of the circles has me a little thrown off.

I had a cool system for growing plants in a circle, and now KI has gone and removed the "snap to" feature from gardening. All I used to have to do was run into the middle and put my mouse over the snap dragon in the middle. Now you just hover your mouse anywhere to cast with no "snapping." I was tending to my frozen fly trap garden this morning and totally missed one of my plants because of this new method! GRR!


I wish they'd make "snap to plant" a toggle option for gardening instead of just removing it. meh. I'll get used to it. /rant off

Pink Dandelions will take you a long way in the early ranks of gardening. Spending any amount of time farming bosses in Krokotopia will yield a number of them. If you can shift to Silver Trumpet Vine to level up at rank 4, then you've hit gold. I'm sold on leveling up gardening with crown plants. It just goes so much faster.

I avoid growing more plants than my energy can handle, and I clump them all together in a nice circle. Uber wife is under the impression that you can skip the middle gardening spells and save yourself some money, and she's pretty much right. I've only used the medium-sized plant circle for situational reasons, like three or four plants near each other with an odd similar like.

The main thing I tried to do is try to get as many liked things to surround my plants as possible so I get that elder harvest faster! I've heard of some people planting stinkweed near their garden to slow everything down so they "maximize their rewards" as it were, but I'm not a proponent of that. The elder harvest is the harvest you want!

I'm working on a spreadsheet for gardening like I have for the pets and housing items that I may add in the future.

For you, Nitasu, at rank three, Rye Bread Bushes, Helephant Ears, and Baby Carrots are your best bet for the "free" plants for leveling (or at least the ones with the most exp rewards).

Kevin Battleblood has a good series of gardening guides going over on his blog, that are an interesting read. If you're interested in Wizard101 Gardening, you'll find some interest there for sure. (Note: Some of his older information involves floating plants, which I believe no longer works.)

I'm sure my readers will have lots of tips as well. :)

Thanks for the note and questions!

Happy Dueling!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

New Frozen Fly Trap Garden!

Just a quick picture today of my new Frozen Fly trap garden. WOOT! (snap dragon and evil snow pea plant in there too for "like" purposes)


You know, there has to be another hidden like other than the Snowflake Obelisk and Garden Gnome. Anyone have any ideas of other furniture items that might be a hidden liked item? None of the other pictured "icy" things were liked . . . hmmm.

I was wondering if the other fly trap hidden likes might work on the frozen fly trap plant . . . might need to farm the Vault Protector a few times or so. ;-)

Happy Dueling!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Insect Tablet and Status on Amber and Kyle

Heya Super Friends,

So Thomas got his Insect Tablet!


. . . not by farming mind you, although the extra 30-40k worth of loot from trying was nice. No, Destiny Mistshard played benefactor for me and had me snipe one from her reserves. THANK YOU MOTHER MISTSHARD!

Now my Prickly Bear Cactus should zoom with three likes (and hopefully four likes if one of those will get a pixie--all the others went elder).


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So we've been getting a number of questions about the status of Amber and Kyle's characters in Celestia. Sigh, see, as a gaming parent you want to give your kids ample opportunity to level their characters on their own if they want to, and we have, but they just seem far too caught up in other stuff right now to want to level their characters.

Amber was kind of like, yeah . . . just go ahead and level mine for me *skips away*

It seems like Kyle kind of doesn't even consider Kyle his main character anymore. If he plays Wizard101 he'd rather just level Sean Ogrehead, his ice character. It's still his character though.

On the other hand, we've got a healer and a storm character right there just waiting to be leveled. ;)

So Bailey and I are going to be leveling Kyle and Amber for a bit and then once again, turning the keys to the car back over to the REAL Kyle and Amber when they're leveled. (And then borrowing them whenever we need DPS or heals hehe!)


Long story short . . . Amber and Kyle (and Myrna too) are currently hanging out in The Grotto. Expect to hear more about those characters leveling up to Legendary in the near future.

Happy Dueling!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Crit Gear and Pixies Galore

Uber Wife loves Crit Gear. It's kind of her thing. She wants to craft the Celestia Crit Gear for all of our characters, so I am definitely not gonna hold that lady back! GO BAILEY!

Crit Gear basically doubles my crit chance numbers and triples my block chance numbers, so it's definitely fun and high on fun for farming sake.


My only guff is that you lose a bunch of power pip chance. I have to swap out my Briskbreeze ring (which I wear for the +death damage boost) when I wear this crit gear to bring my power pip chance up a little higher; a +21% power pip chance ring seems adequate for that--life is good.

I had to stitch the outfit though; I'm just not really a fan of the hood, sports bra, armband, and moon boot look. /shiver

Seriously, did they fire the guy who originally came up with the outfits for Wizard101 because I'm having a hard time falling in love with the Celestia looks. In fact, I'm not really a fan of the Grizzleheim look either. KI, WHERE DID YOU HIDE YOUR OLD FASHION DESIGNER?! Lack of awesome new fashion is my new number one rant. *snap* *snap* & *snaps that Z*


Making any guy wear a sports bra is a crime. (or would you call that the armored tankini? Either way, I'm not wearing that to the beach . . .)

ANNNYYWAYYYY . . .

You can kind of see my new stitched crit gear look in this picture I took to show off my newest pixie friends that have joined my prickly bear cactus garden, which is progressing to elder super fast.


. . . still don't have that insect tablet . . . .

Happy Dueling!

Friday, February 4, 2011

Out with the Old Vines, in with the New Cactus!

Here's what my final haul for my Silver Trumpet Vine Garden looked like:


Not bad . . . not bad.

And now I think I'll try my hand at some Prickly Bear Cactus. :) PLANT OF THE DAY!!!


Let's see if I can get some of those mega snacks! I've put a Gnome and a "pile of sand" down by them since I know they like those. I also found out that I need to find a Krok Insect Tablet as well to add to the growth speed. KROK INSECT TABLET HOUSING ITEM OF THE DAY!! ;-)

So guess what? It's time for me to put Manu Narini in the Throne Room of Fire on farm status! I guess that also means a Fire Salamander pet or two in my future as well. ;-)


Looks like there are still a few talents to find on him over on Petnome as well. PET OF THE DAY!!!

Happy Dueling . . . OF THE DAY!!!!! ;-)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

GM Gardener WOOTS!

Hey look at that!


Level up!

haha! Yeah, a garden full of Silver Trumpet Vine will do that for you REEEEEAAALLLY fast like. :)

Happy Dueling!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Can you Juggle a Plant in Wizard101 to Keep it Forever?

Question from Luke Goldhorn:
Hey Friendly,

So, I have a question. And I thought, "Who better to ask than the all-knowing Necromancer himself?" So, here it is:

When you "neglect" your garden, your plants will start to wilt, and eventually die. I've had a few wilting plants that I saved, an they went back to the sapling stage (I believe that is the teen stage of gardening). I can't remember what stage it was before exactly, but would you mind checking this out? If this is true, it'd seem like an awfully big flaw in the system, since people could just buy the crowns plants and keep reusing them. I would conduct a test myself, but I am currently on break. Thanks so much for your help!

From your's truly,

Luke GoldHorn

P.S: You're blog isn't covered in awesomesauce. IT'S BURIED IN EPICSAUCE!

HELP! THROW ME A LADLE! I'M DROWNING IN EPICSAUCE!



Once again, I am proving to you that it's not what you know, but who you know.

I asked Greyrose, who then passed the question on to Justin Wingard, who also is buried in epicsauce--much more than I am.

Here was his response:
Elder plant harvests for crown plants should also guarantee a seed drop to players so essentially a crowns plant will never completely vanish on you.

Hopefully, we made the rewards high enough at the elder stage such that players are encouraged to keep growing through the whole plant life cycle as opposed to just bouncing plants around between life and death.

Now, the one exception to this is The Giving Tree. The Giving Tree doesn’t give off a seed at Elder. The only way to keep it alive is to juggle it at the lower stages, but in doing that you’re missing out on its elder stage rewards which are really really awesome!

Thanks Greyrose and Justin!

For some reason I have a nagging feeling that others may have some insight into this as well. I know uber wife was saying that it had appeared to her that some of our daughter's plants went elder even though they had needs, but that would seem to be a bug right? Any of you all have some insight to share??

/scratches head.

Pretty awesome that crown plants pretty much guarantee another crown plant seed, right? YES! Maybe that's why I never seem to run out of pink dandelions.

Happy Dueling!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

A Large Soil's Amount of Gardening Questions

Whew, I have a lot of gardening questions that just came in over the past few days. let me see if I can't answer some of these.

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Whitestorm has a couple questions
(1) How often do you need to check your plants?

(2) I moved out of one house and into another recently...but couldn't figure out how to pick up my pots containing plants! Is there a way to do that?
1- You should check your plants daily. Once a day is plenty, and twice a day is fine, but your plants will have needs every day.

If you have a number of challenging plants or just a large number of plants in general, you'll probably want to visit them three times a day and break up tending to them as your energy allows . . . it's easy to get carried away with gardening and you spend your energy a lot faster than you do with pet mini-games. Taking care of the pests will probably be the most important thing you do.

I personally decided to try not to grow a garden that is too big. I'm limiting myself. I'm really in no rush to get to rank 10 in gardening. One plot of pink dandelions and a giving tree is all I have. That's got me up to Rank 5 so far (mostly because that giving tree is SO GIVING!).


2- Unfortunately, no, there's no way to pick up your pots or plants after you've put them in the ground. Even if you say you want to put everything in your attic, it still won't pick up your pots or plants.




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Chris has a question:
I have been trying gardening recently, but for some reason I can't harvest my mature plants. They have no needs or pests, so could you pleasse help!

A lot of people on the test realm were under the false impression that you can harvest a plant as soon as it's mature. That isn't the case. Each plant has a slightly different harvesting schedule. Luckily (unlike how it was on the test realm) if you open up your gardening tool and mouse over any plant, it will tell you when you can harvest your plant next.



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Jacob Ashweaver has SIX questions:
Hi again Friendly!

I had a question(s) about gardening:

1) How can you make sure the plant you plant will face the right direction? Can you rotate it when it's a seed?

2) Will placing a plant in a pot give the planter benefits (harvesting, less pests, etc.) ?

3) Can you create something like a chart for the harvest rewards for each plant, elder and mature?

4) How do you get a gardening treasure card?

5) Can a plant die of age of something even if you take perfect care of it?

6) Has kifreegames.com updated with gardening rewards?

I had one other that I forgot... I'll come up with it later.
Wow that's a lot of questions!

1- I haven't found a way. It doesn't seem to matter which direction I'm facing, and it doesn't seem to matter what plant I'm planting, I just can't twist and turn them. Fortunately when they mature, they react to people and bend or shy away from them, right?

2- The only benefit you get from planting in a pot is that you can put it inside your house and you have access to medium enchanted soil earlier than you get the spell to make that soil.

3- That's going to have to be a community effort, and in fact, I do believe that work has already begun on Central. Possibly other locations. Maybe in the future I'll put something like that here. :-) Good suggestion!

4- You buy a pack of Moolinda Wu's Green Thumb cards from the crown shop, which are ridiculously priced now, btw.


On the test realm those cards were much cheaper. I don't know if I'd waste my time with them now. I'd probably just buy an energy elixer or two if I had too many plants than energy in a day.

Luckily you can *rarely* find a gardening treasure card as a drop! Here's a thread on Central that's tracking it.

5- Nah, at best it'll turn Elder. You don't have to harvest your elder plant. At that point, it's like a ghost plant . . . there until you harvest it away and no need to tend to it.

6- I have not heard of KIFreegames.com updating their rewards to include seeds yet, but it's a good question. I'll forward it on to Greyrose and see if I can get any answers for you.

Hope that helps!

Happy Dueling!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Where are the gardener moles in Wizard101?

Here's a question from Destiny DawnRiver:
Where are the other gardening moles: Harley, Farley, and the other two?

Why, Charley and Marley of course!

Here's a quick collage for each gardener with their location, the items they sell, and the spells you can train from them. (You can click on these to enlarge them if needed.)





Interesting how there's no Dragonspyre, Grizzleheim, or Marleybone gardeners. Dragonspyre and Marleybone I can see, but you'd think Grizzleheim would be an awesome spot for a gardener. /shrug. (Barley, Carley, and Sharley? Hey! They should have a contest for naming the next mole!)

I think they should have made Harley's neckerchief blue instead of a darker version of Farley's neckerchief. I like typing the word neckerchief. (Seriously, how cute would a girl mole named Carley with a purple neckerchief in Grizzleheim be?)

Hope that helps!

Happy Dueling!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Gardening and Celestia Furniture goes live!

It's official! Gardening has arrived in the spiral! I'm patching all my files as I type. The update notes for gardening can be read here. It's a very lengthy read that does a good job giving a player an overview of the system.

There were a few things I discovered while messing around with Gardening in the test realm, but the main thing I learned was . . . don't grow too big of a garden and be careful how spread out your garden is.

LOL

At the end of my test realm experience I was using a couple energy elixirs to tend to all my plants' needs, and I didn't have any energy left over to play with my pets . . . and this was AFTER they upped the max energy I could have. It seemed very easy to get carried away.

But, hey! I really do like this new element that's been added to our player housing. It now feels like there's something to do at your house now instead of just decorating and showing it off. Props to KingsIsle for improving on an already great housing system.

Just as a side note, the test realm already appears offline. I'm kind of bummed I never got to see my frozen fly traps mature to elder!



Ahh well. It was fun! Hope you all also had fun on the test realm and are ready to take your green thumbs to the spiral now. :-) Thanks!

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Well, I'm done patching! Time to go play Angus some more. :-)

Happy Dueling!

Friday, December 3, 2010

Stinkweed = Gobbler!

I had to laugh last night when I discovered the true identity of my stinkweed:


LOL! No *wonder* it's called stinkweed. :-)

Here's another picture from the test realm this morning.


OOPS! Looks like I wasted too many of my play crowns to try out those new crown shop items and seeds.

There's one other thing you should notice in the bottom left hand corner. Congrats! Your energy globe just shot up to 70 points (it shows 67 because I had spent 3 on a little plant tending this morning)! Whew. I'm glad they raised that up a bit.

Happy Dueling!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Test Realm: Disappearing Plants!

Before I begin with my post for the day, it's good to see Fred Howard out and about spreading the word about Gardening yesterday. There was a one/two punch from MMORPG and Massively. Both are great articles that you should read. (a special mention to Fallon from Diary of a Wizard in the Massively article btw.)

Anyway, what I really want to talk about today is the infamous Disappearing Plants Bug. Anyone involved in the test realm for Gardening will tell you that the number one irritant has to be this bug. I've already given most of my complaints, but the disappearing plants thing is about 180 degrees opposite on the fun scale as playing with the real-life disappearing plant (used to mess with these back in my Botany class at the University) Mimosa Pudica. (*insert excuse to show you this youtube video of Mimosa Pudica*)



Careful there, mister! There's a sticker on those plants if you get digging too deep. (touch 'em too much and they'll die . . . real-life glitch! ;-))

At one point my Wizard101 garden was going GREAT! I had five plots of lush plants growing: my happy garden, my desaparagus garden, a plot of about five or six snap dragons, a plot of stinkweed, and a plot full of helephant ears and baby carrots. In this picture you can see me looking at my desparagus plants from over in my helephant ear and baby carrot garden.



What ended up happening was I harvested a bunch of dandelion elder plants and all my elder desparagus and my snap dragon and baby carrot/helephant ear gardens POOFED like magic. POOF! As you can see in this picture all that remains is a clump of dirt. yay.


It kind of sucked the fun out of the test realm for me especially since at this point I ran out of money and crowns. (I spent most of my crowns discovering my Jellyfish's hidden talents were crafty, death-shot, death-giver, and pip o plenty.) But that's what the test realm is all about . . . finding the bugs and annoyances and fixing them before it goes live. (although I have to say my favorite thing about the test realm is, yes, finding out my pets' talents in advance. It's such a time saver.)

The best advice I've read came from Amber Unicornflower's blog . . . don't harvest your plants until all of them have turned elder. Her dad works at KI, so when she says, "Kingsisle is going to fix it soon," there's no doubt that Kingsisle knows about the bug and is working to fix it. Apparently she also found a way around the bug and is going to report her trick sometime in the near future. (I'd pay attention to her blog over the next couple of days my dear test realm people. She is an expert gardener after all.)

Hopefully I can catch the fire to garden on the test realm some more here soon, but for now I feel like I've bug reported or complained about as much as I could at this point (One more though that comes from a discussion over on Twitter with @uppoppedafox . . . seriously, they need to make the gnomes non-collision so we can run over the top of them--ANNOYING! :)).

Let me know about your bugs and complaints with Gardening! I'm interested in hearing about it.

Happy Dueling!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A Few Gardening Questions

I've got a few questions about gardening over the past couple threads or so, so let me see if I can answer them.

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Anon asks:
HI there, I'm confused about how to harvest. MY plants are adult, but I cant figure out how to harvest them!

When your mature plants are ready to harvest, they'll let you know. :-) You'll see something that looks like this.


It appears that Gardening is something that you just kind of have to have patience with I guess. I wanted to loot those things as soon as they turned mature as well, but it took a while until they were ready to give me some gold. If I remember right, one of my Dandy-lions didn't give me anything at mature at all. All I got was the reward at the elder phase.

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flash33 asks:
Do you know what it means when the plants eminate a yellow aura, because it's kinda confusing me.

The only two glows I've seen are when the plants are elder and when the have a bug infestation.

If it looks like this, then you're ready to harvest an elder plant or two:


If it looks like this, then you have a bug infestation:



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Jacob asks:
By the way, can plants drop crowns? Also,my friend said something about KI doing some crowns giveaway around Christmas or something. Is this true?

Plants don't drop crowns, but DANG that would be nice if they did!

I haven't heard any direct plans to do a crowns giveaway around Christmas, but DANG that would be nice if they did!

I'll see if I can't Greyrose to drop by this thread and see if she has a better answer on the Christmas Crown giveaway. :-)

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Eric Darkblood asks:
Not sure here but do you have to be a certain level to start gardening?
When you hit level 12, you'll get a notification from Moolinda Wu that she wants to talk to you about gardening.

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Thanks!

Happy Dueling