Farming Ladder

[Foodfight13]

I've had this idea for awhile. You know how you can get a farmer to watch your crops by giving them a certain item? I was thinking maybe by starting with a couple(maybe more) buckets of compost, you could grow crops to give to a farmer to grow more crops to give to another farmer to grow even more crops!

 

 

 

Example:

 

You grow some Barley (3 buckets of compost per crop).

 

Using the Barley Malt, you grow some Jute Fibers (6 Barley Malt per crop)

 

Using the Jute Fibers, you grow some Sweetcorn (10 Jute Fibers per crop)

 

Using the Sweetcorn, you grow an Apple Tree. (9 Sweetcorn to grow an apple tree. You don't need to grow more than one because the apples grow back. This works with all fruit trees).

 

Using the Apples, you grow a Banana Tree (4 Baskets of Apples(20 apples)).

 

Using the Bananas, you grow a Curry tree. (5 Baskets of Bananas(25 Bananas)).

 

Using the Curry leaves, you grow some Watermelons(10 Curry Leaves per Watermelon Crop).

 

Using the Watermelons, you grow a Pineapple tree(10 watermelons).

 

Using the Pineapples, you grow a Papaya tree(10 Pineapples).

 

 

 

Note: That example takes 68 farming to go all the way to the top. You don't have to do it all to benefit from it.

 

Note: You may need to grow more than 1 crop per "step." You may need to grow 3 crops of barley to get enough malt to get enough jutes to give to a farmer so he/she will watch your sweetcorn.

 

Note: If you can collect certain items from respawns(like cooking apples), you can skip certain steps, but you will recieve less farming xp than by taking all the steps. If they don't respawn, you could possibly buy from another player.

 

 

 

This works great if you have all the seeds and the required farming lvls. If you are a skilled farmer, you can do multiple farming ladders at once. I don't know all the combos, or how to even format the "farming ladder." Note that some ladders aren't as long as other, and some are only a few steps. You can use apples to get a farmer to watch your willow tree, but farmers won't accept willow logs as a token to watch your crops. You can't get a farmer to watch your nasturtium so you can give to another farmer to take care of your wildblood hops. I'm hoping the great minds of RuneTips and other scapers will use this!

 

 

 

-Foodfight13-

[Ks_Jeppe]

moved by me... Please read the descriptions under the board names to see what the different boards are for, it keeps it much easier for everyone if you post it the right place :D

[sligo]

The idea makes sense in a way, but what I'm missing is how you get experience with all this. If the farmer is doing all the work, then you don't get any benefit from it - i.e. no experience.

 

 

 

If the idea is you go and give a boatload of seeds to a farmer, leave and come back a couple weeks later and receive a huge load of produce and experience, I really don't think it's a good idea. Experience comes from activity. Otherwise I'd want to gain exp from the work my peasants produce in Miscellania.

 

 

 

- Sligo

[brave]

Paying farmers to look after your crops is only useful with allotments and hops. This is because no experiance is gained by checking these crops.

 

 

 

Crops like bushes, fruit trees and trees give you experiance for simply checking their health and if you pay a farmer to look after these you will lose on this experiance. The additional experiance more that makes up for the losses to disease when not looked after by a farmer.

[asassin917]

Paying farmers to look after your crops is only useful with allotments and hops. This is because no experiance is gained by checking these crops.

 

 

 

Crops like bushes, fruit trees and trees give you experiance for simply checking their health and if you pay a farmer to look after these you will lose on this experiance. The additional experiance more that makes up for the losses to disease when not looked after by a farmer.

 

 

 

Ditto that.

[Traver]

Paying farmers to look after your crops is only useful with allotments and hops. This is because no experiance is gained by checking these crops.

 

 

 

Crops like bushes, fruit trees and trees give you experiance for simply checking their health and if you pay a farmer to look after these you will lose on this experiance. The additional experiance more that makes up for the losses to disease when not looked after by a farmer.

 

 

 

Errr, no? You get exp for checking health even if you paid a farmer to look after it for you.

[Foodfight13]

Paying farmers to look after your crops is only useful with allotments and hops. This is because no experiance is gained by checking these crops.

 

 

 

Crops like bushes, fruit trees and trees give you experiance for simply checking their health and if you pay a farmer to look after these you will lose on this experiance. The additional experiance more that makes up for the losses to disease when not looked after by a farmer.

 

 

 

Errr, no? You get exp for checking health even if you paid a farmer to look after it for you.

 

Yeah, you do get xp. I don't know why they would think you didn't.