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[timferius]

I may have missed it here, but what's up with the derelict building on your farm plot?

[BigD145]

I may have missed it here, but what's up with the derelict building on your farm plot?

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greenhouse

[Lucidvizion]

Not everyone can leave things running like that in the long term. Imagine a house with small children running around. The baby cries, the toddler screams, and you aren't going to have time to play again for at least a few days. You might be surprised how common a situation this is. It's not always feasible to just leave it running. And really, the idea that the only solution to the lack of basic functionality is to leave everything running until you have time to come back is just kind of ridiculous. I'm really extremely surprised and disappointed to see that a developer who put so much thought and effort into the little things somehow managed to miss such a major issue. Gamers aren't all teenagers these days. People have things to do. It is never a good idea to punish the player for having a life, unless the only players you want are the ones who have no life. And that's a much smaller demographic than most people might think.

Sounds fair enough.  I just figured that (at bare minimum) it was a better option than quitting without saving. 

I am sad to see that you feel personally slighted by indie developers making business decisions like this though.  To him it was more like "do I eat bread and water rations for another X months writing save anywhere code or do I try to finally get a paycheck after years of working on a single product".  That kind of time is worth tens of thousands of dollars to someone that could just quit making games and get a job in private industry.

It's perfectly reasonable to be upset when devs don't include a feature that's very important to being able to play the game.  Everyone understands there are tradeoffs involved in development.  We can still be sad and upset that things we really want/need to enjoy a game aren't included. 

There's no need to dismiss what someone else is saying by implying that they're overly-sensitive and ignorant (which is what you're doing).

That is not at all what I meant, but thanks for your input.

[variablenonsense]

So, GeDoSaTo is pretty cool, and also made me realize how completely run down and shoddy my farm looks. 

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I'm rearranging over winter to just use quality sprinkers next year, since I don't know when I'll actually get the next tier, and ...

Woah, wait up, is that a giant mushroom? What the hell. I knew about the meteorite (can't break it) but giant mushroom??

[Mephisto]

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Woah, wait up, is that a giant mushroom? What the hell. I knew about the meteorite (can't break it) but giant mushroom??

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According to some people, you can tap it to get mushrooms. I chopped one down before I realized. It was kind of out of the way and I already chose to have the scientist guy install mushroom growers anyway so losing one mushroom every x days isn't a big deal.

[variablenonsense]

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According to some people, you can tap it to get mushrooms. I chopped one down before I realized. It was kind of out of the way and I already chose to have the scientist guy install mushroom growers anyway so losing one mushroom every x days isn't a big deal.

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Oooh, thanks! I'll try it out. If so that's awesome, because I elected for fruit bats _{though I wish I hadn't now...}

[Gabeux]

So, GeDoSaTo is pretty cool, and also made me realize how completely run down and shoddy my farm looks. 

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I'm rearranging over winter to just use quality sprinkers next year, since I don't know when I'll actually get the next tier, and ...

Woah, wait up, is that a giant mushroom? What the hell. I knew about the meteorite (can't break it) but giant mushroom??

Cute! 
Oh so that's how you take huge screenshots, hmmm.

Here's mine on Year 2 Fall 23. This made me realize really how lazy I am...haven't finished upgrade half the fences, and haven't patched up the missing pathways (or even finished them, for that matter)..didn't place all the lamp posts.. so I guess I have some fixing to do.. I didn't even notice there was a mushroom there, what the..
Damn, why did I take this screenshot? 
PS: Beware of minor spoilers like repaired buildings, decoration, rarecrows, upgrades, and all that.

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Spoiler: Poorly decorated Farmhouse with bonus photobombing baby (click to show/hide)

[Djohaal]

You are thinking you are being lazy? My farm is not even half of that.  How did you take the huge screenshot? Manually and stiched in photoshop?


Anyone figured out the secret of making animals preggo?

[Gabeux]

I googled the software variablenonsense mentioned and ended up finding this very handy guide. You basically install it, change like 3 lines of configuration, and it allows you to play the game on huge resolutions while the software downsamples it to fit your screen.

The dev said he's gonna try to code and release the 1.05 update today with the scale/zoom feature, so maybe (depending on how much we'll be able to zoom out), it won't be necessary.

I still have no idea how to make animals pregnant, it seems to be just a rare random occurance that happens as long as you have space in your barn.
I don't really plan on having more animals (and going through the winter will cost me like 35k in hay already), so I guess I'll never see the miracle of digital pixelated animal birth.

EDIT: My god my typos are insane today

[Wiles]

Nice farms guys.

I wish I had planned mine out before I started building stuff, mine looks pretty haphazard. I think a big part of my grass problem is I didn't leave enough room for a big pasture where my animals are.

[variablenonsense]

Oh! Sorry about not posting the guide, but yeah, it's really easy to use. You have to crop the big image afterwards but it takes a nice image of the farm!

I hope the zoom works well, I'd like to zoom out a bit, though I'm pretty comfortable playing how it is normally.

I need to figure out where to put my barn before I build any more ...

[BigD145]

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Woah, wait up, is that a giant mushroom? What the hell. I knew about the meteorite (can't break it) but giant mushroom??

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According to some people, you can tap it to get mushrooms. I chopped one down before I realized. It was kind of out of the way and I already chose to have the scientist guy install mushroom growers anyway so losing one mushroom every x days isn't a big deal.

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I have one of those mushrooms plus a sapling of some mysterious sort that started just before winter of 1st year. I'm not sure what it is yet but it's kinda looking like a baby palm tree. It's not maple, oak, or pine.

Aside from less trees and grass, my farm is not much different from day one. I only recently built walls and a coop in early winter year 1.

[Gabeux]

Wiles and BigD145 post your farms dammit. For some reason I spend a lot of time looking at large farm screenshots, it looks so good. 
A friend that's playing too said "Nice farm, all you have to do now is make it look good". I'd get mad if that wasn't true.

I wish I had planned mine out before I started building stuff, mine looks pretty haphazard. I think a big part of my grass problem is I didn't leave enough room for a big pasture where my animals are.

Haphazard makes interesting designs sometimes. I'm kinda glad I had to build around the buildings I placed in the wrong place, otherwise I'd just build it like I used to build in Sim City and Factorio..always rectangles..always grey..always boring. It takes me a load of effort to make something that looks less squary.

But can't you extend the pasture somehow by changing the layout? I was having a lot of trouble with grass until I made the 3 pastures (Coop, Stable, Barn..don't ask me why I had a pasture for the horse) into one. I also find it funny how in front of my barn there's usually a clearing on the grass. I keep replanting it, but the barn animals go through all the grass there in a few days, then they start heading towards the chickens..which is probably scary for the chickens.

[variablenonsense]

I just hit lv 80 in the mines and ...

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Holy crap everything hits like a truck. Those black things are kind of creepy, too. I like the music, though, when it plays.

[Neyvn]

My Farm at the start of Year 2

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