90 farming

[craggyp]

here it is, 90 farming...

 

 

 

 

 

 

thanks to Echocut for showing up and supporting me. 99 here I come!

[ignafel]

nice 90 farm looks really on stats doesnt it :lol: ?

 

=D>

[Alexkintexas]

Buttwhoopchi is a jackass tbh.

 

 

 

10/10 for the level.

[Cup Lion]

10/10

 

 

 

I agree, Butt doesn't seem like a nice fellow.

[123_x_pac]

Maybe he didn't want to/was busy to come? Anyway, I personally find farming kinda annoying with all the time tables and stuff but 10/10 cause its pretty hawt when its high :twss:

[Dax]

One of my far away goals, took another step towards it yesterday. (Bought Fruit Trees for 75 :D)

 

 

 

10/10 Farming is awesome.

[D Jay99]

Very nice! Keep going, the cape looks so good

 

 

 

9/10

[Sjakie_1_1_3]

One of the nicests skills in runescape! Gratz on 90, and good luck on 99.

 

Just keep working on it steadilly, and you'll get 99 sooner than you think! 8-)

[Xanotex]

10/10

 

 

 

Lol at private

 

'Wanna come?'

 

'No.'

 

 

 

;D

[MonkeyChee]

Grats craggy, 10/10, I hope I get it soon-ish :P

[Ermy]

Wooooo 90 farming, nao u can't lies to Sylar!!!!

[craggyp]

thanks for all the support, and don't be too hard on butt, I asked, he elected not to come. 90 is good, but maybe he only takes time away from his own activities for stuff he deems to be truly worthy. I'm still proud, and I might have had a better turnout if I had given people more notice.

 

 

 

by the way, just so people know, I sort of follow a hybrid strategy. I buy herb seeds and sell the potions, I buy allotment seeds and use or sell the veggies, and I use my kingdom to get fruit and tree seeds. oh and I pick all bushes, calquats and cactus spines. I end up selling fruit seeds below curry and buying more curry seeds, and usually grow all trees. I'm basically trying to do this on the cheap, using all profits to buy more seeds. I manage to eke a small profit along the way, enough to keep a store of about 3m cash and various other stuff I use when I'm not farming.

 

 

 

I'm not hardcore about it, I do 1 run a day and hit all allotments, trees and fruit, plus troll herb spot, the calquat, cactus and I pick all bushes. takes me about 1.5 hours if I can do it uninterrupted and not cc too much. if I could afford to buy expensive seeds it would be a lot faster (all mages, palms and the calquat each day would be about 130k xp per day) so I guess, at my pace and with my level of dedication, I sorta see every level between here and the cape as pretty significant.

 

 

 

if anyone needs advice, here it is:

 

 

 

~ do Fairy Tale 1 as soon as possible, it got me from lvl 1 to lvl 18 without me lifting a spade. its nice to have access to some of the higher lvl crops early. growing potatoes gets old fast.

 

 

 

~ give it some time. early, a lot of things will die, it's easy to get discouraged. heck, at lvl 90, I still have tomato plots die on me, even with supercompost.

 

 

 

~ try to plant things that will help you with farmer payments for the stuff you'll get access to later. I hold into cactus spines, coconuts, oranges, apples, papayas, pineapples, curry leaves, etc. if you want, you can buy baskets and fill them with bananas purchased from charter crewmembers. this works well in catherby.

 

 

 

~ if you dont have fruit or bush seeds, don't chop down your plants, keep harvesting them. you still get xp and the crops, a lot of which are worth money (whiteberries, cactus spines, coconuts and other high-lvl fruit).

 

 

 

~ always use some sort of compost if you can't afford to pay farmers. crops dying is a huge waste. compost is better than nothing, supercompost is good, payments are the best. allotments are less important when it comes to this, but you cant afford to have trees or fruit die, since they're such huge chunks of xp. I pay for all trees and fruit, and watermelons. you cant pay for flowers or herbs, but herbs in "my arm's" spot won't die. keep tree roots, calquats, etc. for supercomposting, and you can gather pineapples very quickly from 5 spawns on karamja near the brimhaven dungeon entrance and poh portal. I alternate days, placing stuff in all the bins 1 day, then gathering them the next. I end up making more supercompost than I use, and so when I fill up my leprechaun (255 buckets) I spend a few days without bothering about making more.

 

 

 

~ try to get a good rhythm with your farm route. there are several teleports that are close to certain patches (most major cities, cabbage teleport, elven crystal, ectophial and especially gnome tree transports) and you can usually run to a few other patches from these, or more importantly to a bank.

 

 

 

~ for those who are curious, my route is something like this:

 

teleportation

 

plant

 

bank

 

trollheim tele, run to my arm's spot, elven crystal to lletya, fruit tree, bank, cammy tele to catherby allotment and fruit tree, bank, ardy tele to north ardy allotment, run to wild jade vine, bank, karamja ferry to brimmy fruit tree, gather pineapples, plant/gather calquats, ferry back to ardy, bank, run south to bush spot, run west of gnome maze to fruit tree, enter gnome village, tree tele to gnome stronghold, fruit tree, bank, tree, bank, up grand tree to glider, cactus in al kharid, home tele, run to lumby tree spot, run north to champs guild bush, run north to varrock tree, (83s can now use tree tele in the g.e.to get to etceteria and the bush plot, then back to the g.e.), bank, cabbage tele to south fally allotment, run to rimmington bush, cabbage tele, run north to fally, bank, fally park tree, run to taverly tree, ectophial to phasmatys allotment and harmony island allotment.

 

 

 

obviously, if you want to do more (hops, other specialty patches) or less, adjust as you see fit.

 

 

 

~ if you're in it for money more than pride, there is no better cash machine than farming's relationship with herblore. obviously, herbs are well worth the price of seeds, but there are also whiteberries, jangerberries, poison ivy berries, cactus spines and limpwurt roots, all of which (save the roots) are frequently re-pickable.

 

 

 

~ every 5 minutes the farm clock "ticks" and all plants advance a little bit. some plants take days to grow, some take under an hour. all plants that are re-pickable will grow an extra crop each tick, so if you harvest a fruit tree fully, it should be regrown with all 6 fruits after about 30 minutes. this is true of bushes (4 berries) calquats (6 calquats) and cacti (3 spines) and even willow tree branches in willow trees, though your tree will not start producing branches until after you "examine" the tree and gain the xp for growing it.

 

 

 

ok, I went on quite a bit. uh, in the end, thanks everyone?