More Farming Suggestions

[roanlo]

Hey there, here's some farming expansions that i thought would be helpful, and would GREATLY expand the current farming. Which stops at level 85 (level 95 in Daemonhiem; although, there's absolutely no use for it in the real Runescape).

 

This isn't finished, and is basically a rough idea of what i'd like to see in Runescape. Post your own suggestions and i'll add them as i can!.

 

 

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SPECIAL LOTS

Elder Trees - Of course, a play on the "evil elder trees". These are a special allotment tree

Level 85

Grow Time: Two weeks (336 hours/20160 minutes). Time could vary about 4 hours. Extra grow time happens if you don't follow the farming guidelines.

Seed: One of each of the current tree saplings (oak, willow, maple, yew, magic).

How to grow: The tree patch is very large (4x4 square) and has brown weeds (something to resemble 'old'). You must have all 5 tree saplings in your inventory in order to plant it. Using 3 buckets of super compost is a nessessity. Without it, the tree will require an additional day to grow (one day for each missing super-compost bucket)

Normal compost will not work, as the soil is too pure/ancient for it to have any affect.

Alternatively, creating an extreme, concentrated compost (below) and using '1' bucket on it, can reduce the grow time up to 36 hours.

 

Protection Cost: 5 magic pyre logs, 2 yew tree roots, (suggestion for a 3rd item?)

I chose yew roots in order to give these high-level roots some use

Protection Person: Elf or magical in tuned npc

Location: One would be located in the elven territories, possibly in Idsfar, alternatively, near the magic trees south of the elf town (one you can teleport too :-X)

 

Uses: These work in a similar manner to the evil trees. These trees supply a random array of logs (ranging from normal-magic). If you have any suggestions for further use, post

EXP: Around 120k-160k for the 2 weeks worth of growing. FYI: IF you grew a new spirit tree every 3 days; in 2 weeks, you would gain about 90k farming exp for the 4.6 trees grown.

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Spirit Trees - More accessibility

Level 83- Can plant one Spirit Tree

level 92-Can plant two Spirit Tree

Level 98/99 - Can plant in all three Spirit Tree Patches

Seeing as though the seeds are technically already buyable via Vine Sweeper, they should have some option of selling/trading these seeds.

Especially for those players who obtain them from birds nests and have no intention of using them.

So: Either making them tradable via players, or sellable to a particular gnome for a large price due to their 'rarity'. I was thinking around 499k each.

 

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ALLOTMENTS/FLOWERS

 

Another "patch"- Vine wall. used to farm grapes

 

Grape Vines

 

You can make these in a quest, so why not in Real Runescape farming?

The quest where you actually pick them (name of quest please?) is a requirement, and is how you learn to farm them.

These should be a mid-level plant (allotment/speical) with no protection ability

 

Red Grapes - Same as quest (i think that's around level 36)

Location: All allotments , A long line, possible adjacent to the compost bin (to not get in the way of regular farming)

 

White Grapes - Level 61a

White Grapes should not be confused with white berries, these as a grape, are an alcoholic bonus.

When added to Breweries (the big chunky things that make skill boosting beers), to boost the strength of the beer. All beers will be matured (if they actually live), and you have a chance to get (sm) beers. They boost the relating skill by an additional 1-3 of the mature beer.

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Allotments:

Use for strawberries+watermelon. Both can easily become part of a fruit salad!? Strawberries themselves are a pretty cool healer (a basket of them heals 250LP), so having them as a cooking thing would be good.

 

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TREES

These are hard to add, as the only high-levelled tree known is an elder tree. Those are inappropriate to place in a normal tree patch, simply because they are 'elder'. Which means, they should be a decent age; which i have suggested as two weeks.

If you have any suggestions for trees above level 75, please tell.

 

How about all those other random trees you see in runescape?

Name: Alchey Tree

Level 24

Use: To cut alchey logs in order to make arrows/bows for chompy bird hunting

 

Name: Cursed/Undead magic tree

Level: 94

Use/Requirements: Idea is shifty, but something similar to the magic/cursed magic tree found in the wilderness. Which is found/used via Jenna's Ring (Spirit of Summer quest)

 

Name: vine Clump

level: 72

Use: Exact same as the Ivy Vines found on walls

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FRIUIT TREES (could literally be any type of frut, that grows on trees):

 

Mango - Level 77

Exp for checking: 15k exp

Protection cost: Suggestion?

 

Peach - Level 89

Exp for Checking: 19.5k exp

Takes 3.5 more hours to grow (so appropriately 17,5 hours)

Protection cost: suggestion?

 

 

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HOPS

 

More useful hops, and a better way of making beer (to increase demand of hops)

[To be added]

 

Random ideas:

 

These stop at level 28! These are baby plants, despite that the allotments are meant to be the 'baby' plants.

So, here's some further ideas for them. Names are completly random.

 

Name: Red Drops

Level: 40+

Use: Can be used to male the ale/beer, 'inferno bites', which is a fire-making boosting drink.

 

Name: Wardonian

Level: 55+

Use: Can be usd to make the ale/beer, 'frantic splasher', which is a runecrafting boosting drink.

 

Name: Elviarian

level: 70+

Use: Can be used to make the ale/beer, 'lightfoot stormer', which can temporary drop your overall weight (works like anti-fire potion with a timer), in order to run longer

 

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COMPOST & Disease rates:

 

First off; i think jagex should publish a litteral percentage sheet of how large the chance is for your hops/plants to get Diseased with/without compost.

So is it you have 60% chance to become Diseased without

40% chance to become Diseased with regular compost

20% chance to become Diseased with Super Compost

5% chance to become diseased with Extreme/concentrated Compost

 

Extreme/Concentrated Compost:

I've used this a few times, but this is possible. This should require at least 50 farming in order to make/use. This is also untradable.

2 suggested ways to make: Same items as super compost; except they require a magical enchantment, or an extreme compost potion to be used on a full box of super compost.

The other way is: Using only very high-level items (magic-elder tree roots, (refer to new fruit trees, fruit) or dwarf weed/Torstrol.

 

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OTHER UPDATES:

I think farming should work in the same way woodcutting, mining and fishing work; as you level, you gain the object faster. Having a better 'tool' also, helps you gain the object faster.

In terms of farming. Compost is the tool, and i've added my own suggestion on that above.

 

With levels, by level 50, you should not ever, or, very rarely be able to have a 'potato allotment' die.

For example: At level 99, with the current plants, a normal player should have a much smaller chance of things dying. Snapdragons, for example should not die by level 99. Compost will only affect the time it takes to grow, and how many herbs you gain from it.

 

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This is my current set of suggestions. There's plenty more suggestions that could be added. So please suggest them. I'd like this to become a community thread for farming. So everyone will be suggesting different changes, and i'll be added them to the list. I'll try make this thread more attractive in due time.

[Skeptical]

Good ideas.

 

It's started to feel a bit "dead" if you know what I mean: you can grow herbs for cash, and then waste the cash on buying other seeds.... =/

[Slayer_Jesse]

agreed, farming really needs a major update.

[roanlo]

What i'd like to see with farming, is more use for the produce it makes.

Like, what exactly do you use tree roots for? Only magic roots are used, and that's for a single necklace. The rest are pretty much compost.

 

Fruit: Apple- no one needs

Banana-only need if your planting higher level fruit trees (so creates a paradox). Plus there's the banana plantation

Curry - Does anyone make curry?

Pineapples - So much easier via stores/karajma

Papaya - Far cheaper+more quanity via fruit bats

Coconut - The only one where you MUST get from farming, and it's undervalued due to herblore being so expensive in the first place.

 

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So yes, that's basically what farming is cooldog08.

If you've got any suggestions, i'd love to hear them. I'd like to make an entire new 'farming guide'. Although, will be unlikely to be released, i'd like to see what can be imagined.

[Tempest_Mike]

Spirit Trees - Move the right click teleport option so it's not right down the bottom. >.<