Something to look into...(and something to rejoice): A G14 Farming Topic.

• Osayidan wrote on 2011-01-19 00:29
  I have 34 characters right now, I doubt I'll get that many farms. If I played like crazy I might, but at best I'll have time for 4 or 5 max. I might even just do one gold/mana and one bloody/base, I don't plan to sell anything from this since everyone else will and the economy for potions will suck, I just want my own supply and that's enough.
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2011-01-19 00:51
  I want my own supply too.
  Also because I'm stuck at potionmaking 8 and herbalism 6.
  Otherwise I wouldn't be bothering much about the system and just plant some mana herbs and enjoy some other features.
  I'm kind of greedy for farm space and really want more if possible. Hopefully level 7 is not the end.
  (Maybe underground dungeon farms anyone?)
  
  Though maybe for potionmaking multiple rafting is a better option here.
• Zid wrote on 2011-01-19 05:49
  Pets can be summoned onto the farm, I believe.
  
  Other than that, stay tuned. I'm hoping for more things besides herbs. Like nearly-hassle-free web/wool farm.
• Cryosite wrote on 2011-01-19 07:09

  Quote from Zid;296348:

  Pets can be summoned onto the farm, I believe.
  
  Other than that, stay tuned. I'm hoping for more things besides herbs. Like nearly-hassle-free web/wool farm.

  
  
  Emain macha is already pretty hassle free for wool, truth be told. Herding sheep can even be fun!
  
  I would love a "hassle free" spider farm, but I kinda doubt nexon would give us passive, immobile, and condensed groups of spiders to gather from, with 0 interference from newbies. The most we could probably hope for is some kind of spider pen... and having to go from pen to pen... a lot of moving around and probably not as convenient as tir graveyard is naturally (without luring spiders into a factory setup). We can hope though. With how awesome the herb patches are... maybe they will give us every dream we could have...
• Jovo wrote on 2011-01-19 07:12

  Quote from Cryosite;296425:

  Emain macha is already pretty hassle free for wool, truth be told. Herding sheep can even be fun!
  
  I would love a "hassle free" spider farm, but I kinda doubt nexon would give us passive, immobile, and condensed groups of spiders to gather from, with 0 interference from newbies. The most we could probably hope for is some kind of spider pen... and having to go from pen to pen... a lot of moving around and probably not as convenient as tir graveyard is naturally (without luring spiders into a factory setup). We can hope though. With how awesome the herb patches are... maybe they will give us every dream we could have...

  
  
  Creating a spider factory in emain is not too difficult. Takes about 4-5 minutes maximum. I can show you if you'd like.
• Cryosite wrote on 2011-01-19 07:19

  Quote from Jovo;296438:

  Creating a spider factory in emain is not too difficult. Takes about 4-5 minutes maximum. I can show you if you'd like.

  
  
  I know how to, especially easy with elf assistant character. Over by the pond with the tree. I still have memories of incredible amounts of rage when some jerk newbie comes up and windmills the factory though. Even in Emain Macha. A hassle free version involving the farm would be the ability to make/have such a factory on your private farm with no newbies to wreck it. I'm just stating that if we did get spiders to gather from on our farm, knowing nexon, they'd be in individual fenced pens or something... meaning you'd have to walk into one, grab a few webs, leave that pen (perhaps close a gate) go to next pen... i.e. not hassle free, just newbie free.
  
  Something super awesome though would be like... each "patch" of land has 3-5 spiders (and a farm completely devoted to spiders like the above mana herb farms would therefore have 64*3-5 spiders at lvl 7), but is otherwise flat ground. and you could herd all the spiders into one spot to gather from. :U
• TinyMo wrote on 2011-01-19 13:07
  Question. I used my main dungeoning character for herbalism since he came across patches(obviously). My old character is my potion maker, not much herbalism. Does this farm stuff mean that herbalism on my dungeon character is moot now? My potion maker can do it all himself now right?
• Herro wrote on 2011-01-19 13:31

  Quote from TinyMo;296764:

  Question. I used my main dungeoning character for herbalism since he came across patches(obviously). My old character is my potion maker, not much herbalism. Does this farm stuff mean that herbalism on my dungeon character is moot now? My potion maker can do it all himself now right?

  
  
  actually it means you got the best of two worlds lol. You can set a farm up for both chars, and have he herb char handle harder herbs (mana and up) while your other char handle base.
• Justified wrote on 2011-01-19 13:41

  Quote from Herro;294641:

  I feel like I somewhat set the armies of magekind on a blissful rampage.

  
  
  Until I remind them that everybody will want the awesome looking Hebona Robe, and those who actually want the set bonus will have to shell out of their ass for the gold to get one with good stats.
  
  Curse Fashionogi!
  
  But on topic, I'd be happy if I was patient enough to actually pick herbs. I get bored just picking base herbs to make a small amount of MP pots as it is.
• TinyMo wrote on 2011-01-19 14:26

  Quote from Herro;296778:

  actually it means you got the best of two worlds lol. You can set a farm up for both chars, and have he herb char handle harder herbs (mana and up) while your other char handle base.

  
  
  Spiffy :awesome:
• Zid wrote on 2011-01-19 15:40

  Quote from Cryosite;296425:

  Emain macha is already pretty hassle free for wool, truth be told. Herding sheep can even be fun!
  
  I would love a "hassle free" spider farm, but I kinda doubt nexon would give us passive, immobile, and condensed groups of spiders to gather from, with 0 interference from newbies. The most we could probably hope for is some kind of spider pen... and having to go from pen to pen... a lot of moving around and probably not as convenient as tir graveyard is naturally (without luring spiders into a factory setup). We can hope though. With how awesome the herb patches are... maybe they will give us every dream we could have...

  
  
  Yes, but I'm one of those players that don't have a pet wolf. Nor do I like it when maintenance resets the sheep and I have to wait on somebody. That's just me though. It'd make sense either way, actually.
  
  The farm system has a lot of potential, and I believe devCAT is just barely scratching the surface. That is, if they want to keep the game as "Fantasy Life" and go after the Rune Factory theme.
• Archibald wrote on 2011-01-19 16:18
  Ya I want a penned in area with 4-6 sheep that don't move please!!
  
  and a area to keep spideys
• Cryosite wrote on 2011-01-20 10:16

  Quote from Justified;296792:

  But on topic, I'd be happy if I was patient enough to actually pick herbs. I get bored just picking base herbs to make a small amount of MP pots as it is.

  
  
  Well, I am certain if you advertise "B>base herbs x-gold/stack mail" you could probably encourage some newbies to patiently pick base herbs from their plentiful personal farm patches, and mail them to you post herb haste. X probably wouldn't even have to be that high, since supply would be up.
  
  

  Quote from Zid;296907:

  Yes, but I'm one of those players that don't have a pet wolf. Nor do I like it when maintenance resets the sheep and I have to wait on somebody. That's just me though. It'd make sense either way, actually.

  
  
  I used to not have a wolf, but I already intended to buy a black wolf+persian when they came out to have both day and night WM pets. Side benefit black wolf can herd just as well as gray. :3
  
  That said, a personal farm offering something anywhere near as convenient as emain macha can be after a proper herding session would be excellant for non-nx players and/or simply not interested in a wolf.
  
  It still can be rather fun to herd sheep though. I think that is a nice perk of owning one of those pets... sort of a minigame.
  
  

  Quote from Zid;296907:

  The farm system has a lot of potential, and I believe devCAT is just barely scratching the surface. That is, if they want to keep the game as "Fantasy Life" and go after the Rune Factory theme.

  
  
  No clue what Rune Factory is, but I do agree the surface only has little scratches on it. Tiny ones. With how amazing it seems the herbs are going to be... I find it hard to really be too pessimistic about things like sheep and spiders... They may end up being far less awesome, but you never know... we could get like one or two sheep per square... don't move around, and hold 50 times as much mp/wool as wild sheep do. Same with spiders.
  
  Maybe... just maybe... we can have snake/goblin pens to get... leather. :3
• Herro wrote on 2011-01-20 13:01

  Quote from Cryosite;297924:

  No clue what Rune Factory is

  
  
  Harvest moon (its the DS set)
• Zid wrote on 2011-01-20 15:55

  Quote from Cryosite;297924:

  I used to not have a wolf, but I already intended to buy a black wolf+persian when they came out to have both day and night WM pets. Side benefit black wolf can herd just as well as gray. :3
  
  That said, a personal farm offering something anywhere near as convenient as emain macha can be after a proper herding session would be excellant for non-nx players and/or simply not interested in a wolf.
  
  It still can be rather fun to herd sheep though. I think that is a nice perk of owning one of those pets... sort of a minigame.

  
  
  Found out Ballad of Lure could work. Need testing, but... that's a non-NX solution.
  
  Still, a fantasy farm's not a fantasy farm without the means to succeed in fantasy life, right?