Farming.

[Noxx]

Well after finally being able to buy ALL the planks i need for 99 Con, i can finally start saving up for some other things again. Next on the list of buyables is going to be Farming. I'm not saying i want 99 (yet), but i would like to get it a bit higher. At a current level of 75 (almost 76), what would be the most cost efficient way for me to go about leveling this up. Please notice that i am asking for the most COST efficient. I do not have 2 cents to rub my ass with right now, but i'll have a few mill again in not too long.

Right now all i am doing are Cadantines. These i find the best because the seeds are like 1.8k a pop. Trees and Fruit Trees... no clue what i should be doing. Also i was never really bothered to do Trees seeing as i dont know how the groth perdiod really works. Is it x-amount of hours of logged in time? Or x-amount of time from the time the seed is planted?

 

Anyway thanks in advance for the help.

[Zaaps1]

It's x-time from when the seed is planted, but it's a little more complex than that.

 

From my farming guide, which can be found in the AoW here: http://forum.tip.it/topic/242787-mother-gaia-an-in-depth-manual-to-farming/

 

You see, farming is calculated by real life time (the seconds standard). It's calculated by "ticks". These ticks mark the growth of your plant. A tick occurs every couple of minutes (roughly 1-3, hard to pinpoint exactly), and a certain amount of ticks must elapse before a certain plant can grow.

 

When you see a plant, you can divide its growth in visible "stages". In other words, if it looks bigger, it's more fully grown than if it's smaller. Pretty simple. However, these stages are further divided into invisible "substages", each being the length of a tick. These ticks are synchronized to the server, which is why a plant can seemingly grow right as you plant it, since you planted it just before a tick. However, there is one CRUCIAL fact about ticks. IF YOU LOG IN OR LOG IN FROM THE LOBBY BEFORE A TICK IS COMPLETED, YOU WILL RESET THE PLANT'S GROWTH FOR THAT TICK. This means people who do a lot of world hopping will find their crops growing slower. Be sure to plan for this, so if you are going rune mining, check your herbs after 2.5-3 hours, instead of 1.5.

 

As far as cost efficiency goes, the cheapest trees in farming are always the most cost efficient in terms of the gp/xp ratio.

 

For herbs, I highly recommend at least planting snaps if not torstol. Not only do they benefit the most from juju farming potions and the scroll of life, they also give high amounts of farming xp, which is worth quite a bit as well.

[Noxx]

Wow that explains a lot then. Would something like Willow Trees be a good way for me to go? Or should i be doing at least Maple? I don't have a ton to spend right now, but i'm not shy to throw money at a skill if i enjoy it. I just need to make that money first. I'll go through your guide and see how far that gets me.'Thanks!

[JPMC Mate]

Wow that explains a lot then. Would something like Willow Trees be a good way for me to go? Or should i be doing at least Maple? I don't have a ton to spend right now, but i'm not shy to throw money at a skill if i enjoy it. I just need to make that money first. I'll go through your guide and see how far that gets me.'Thanks!

Willows would be very good to grow as the seeds don't cost as much and it is skill about 2.95k xp when you check its health.

[Zaaps1]

Wow that explains a lot then. Would something like Willow Trees be a good way for me to go? Or should i be doing at least Maple? I don't have a ton to spend right now, but i'm not shy to throw money at a skill if i enjoy it. I just need to make that money first. I'll go through your guide and see how far that gets me.'Thanks!

 

Personally this is what I recommend.

 

Maples and Pineapples if you want to level farming, but don't want to spend too much. I use this as the baseline case. If you don't want to level farming (just farming casually), I'd go lower. If you don't mind spending more, I'd go higher.

[Noxx]

I dont mind spending money. Like at the moment all i had sitting in my bank was a ~65m cashpile and very basic Slayer gear (Fury, Serker and Prossy). I spent whatever i had on Construction. So this should give you an idea of how much i vallue money.

Personally if i had 100m in my bank right now, i'd not think twice before spending it all on Farming.

So i guess i should go with the cheaper option for now, and then spend whatever i make to 99 Slayer on Farming.

Guesstimation of how much 75 - 99 will be?

[Zaaps1]

I will say that 83-99 cost me 130m+ before herbs, not sure what it costs now, though.

[Hamstie]

And that was using what kind of trees/fruittrees?

[Zaaps1]

Alternations between coconuts, papaya, yews, and maples. Maybe a few mages, but definitely no more than about 10. Oh, calquats too.

[Sinkhan]

I would really only suggest you "power farm" up to 85 and then switch to a more casual approach, doing only cheap trees like willows and pineapples.

 

Once you get to 85, there really isn't anything left useful in the skill except for a few applications in dungeoneering that aren't even that necessary. Unless you're really gunning for that farming cape, which I'll admit is something I've been after for a while, I'd take farming nice and slow and let the cash pile up from herb runs.

[Gwasha]

If you don't want 99 farming in a rush, I recommend maples and pineapples. Good balance between cost and xp. As mentioned earlier, don't forget calquats.

 

As a side note, I wanted 99 farming fast. Magics and palms were beast xp.

[Quyneax]

I would really only suggest you "power farm" up to 85 and then switch to a more casual approach, doing only cheap trees like willows and pineapples.

 

Once you get to 85, there really isn't anything left useful in the skill except for a few applications in dungeoneering that aren't even that necessary. Unless you're really gunning for that farming cape, which I'll admit is something I've been after for a while, I'd take farming nice and slow and let the cash pile up from herb runs.

 

I'd do this, just torstol all the way from 85 to 99 and make a nice bit of cash to fund pretty much any 99 you want (or a few of them).

[Robert_R]

I would really only suggest you "power farm" up to 85 and then switch to a more casual approach, doing only cheap trees like willows and pineapples.

 

Once you get to 85, there really isn't anything left useful in the skill except for a few applications in dungeoneering that aren't even that necessary. Unless you're really gunning for that farming cape, which I'll admit is something I've been after for a while, I'd take farming nice and slow and let the cash pile up from herb runs.

 

I'd do this, just torstol all the way from 85 to 99 and make a nice bit of cash to fund pretty much any 99 you want (or a few of them).

Don't mean to hijack but I have to ask this. How much are you making each herb run with torstol? I finally got juju potions so I might just switch to torstol for some decent xp.

[zotto]

I had 4 lousy runs of torstol now. Still 1.3M profit for the 4 runs in total. It included one run with only 28 herbs.

 

 

 

But in the long run the profits are slightly better I think.

 

Not bad for 4 x 5 minutes = 20 min work.