Crop progression

[molav]

How often does a crop have a chance to progress to the next stage?

[Sterbehilfe]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe one “tick” is every one day in game.

[molav]

So every 12am game time?

[Sterbehilfe]

Time specifics I honestly do not know the exact answer to that. But yes, I would imagine it would tick each night around that time.

[molav]

Cool so potentially I could grow multiple crops a day if I micromanaged them?

[Sterbehilfe]

I would assume so, yes. If the crops base time for growth is short enough, you fertilize it, and the rng gods are on your side allowing growth each game day.

Should add that I’ve had Oortian rice that missed every tick and looked like I had just planted it, where all the others around it were completely ripe. Then, I fertilized it and about ten RL minutes later, the stinker was full grown. No idea how that worked,but it’s happened more than once.

[molav]

Thanks for the information

[Sterbehilfe]

Anytime friend!!! I’ll continue to dig around the forums and double check to see if my answers were 100% correct.

[Sterbehilfe]

@molav

This is from the dev:

@lucadeltodecso

The gui should really say ‘expected’ or ‘average’ time to ripen, the crops have only a few stages, but tick once a day, so to achieve growth times more than 2-3 hours it works on a poisson process, each day they have a probability of advancing to the next stage (so if the growth has expected time of say 80 days, and the crop has 8 stages, it has a 10% chance of advancing each day, so most days wont do anything, some days might advance once or even twice (and very very rarely 3, 4 or even all 8 stages at once), but the ‘average’ time to ripen will be 80 days, with some being slower (maybe much slower) and some being faster (maybe much faster)

Hope this helps a little more

[molav]

Thanks I’ll read it

[molav]

So how does the poisson curve work for goo? Is it best to harvest early, or best to use fertilizer on the stragglers?

[Sterbehilfe]

Ah jeez, I’m not sure. But @wakeNbake or @Dupix might have a good answer for you. I’m just diving into the goo-sicles now actually.

[Sujimichi88]

I believe mayu did some maths on that and (from the top of my head) the most efficient time/pigment harvesting was at roughly double the initial average duration

[molav]

Awesome thanks, I think that puts it at 4 days? I usually have 1 day and 21 hr when planting.

[AeneaGames]

Earthyams and starberries have like 3 hour real life grow time, the other variants of these can also still be harvested more than once a day, longest is 9 hours I believe…

[Sujimichi88]

If you’re talking unfertilized goo on rock/raw gleam, then yes, i believe it’s roughly 3-4 days
I’ve tried to find the post, as @Mayumichi definitely did the math on this. But i can’t find it anymore.

[Kal-El]

Even fertilizer is not a guarantee that an plant will progress. It just increases the chance. For the expense it just was not worth it to me.

[Mayumichi]

It’s this one I suspect?

Kindling farming

Yup the growth time is a bit misleading, at 100% the expected growth time, only ~60% of the crops will be ready. To maximize the average crops/hour, you should harvest at about 120% the expected growth time. At that point about 90% of the crops are ready and the crops per hour starts falling. The data below is a simulation of a 2500 crop field, with an expected growth time of 100 hours.

Data

1 / 100 expected growth hours | 0 / 2500 crops ready (0 %) | 0.00 per hour 2 / 100 expected growth hour…

[molav]

Right, just thinking of catching a few of the slow ones. Not spraying the whole goo farm that would be way to much fert. But maybe at expected time hit some slow plants or something. I’ll probably have to try it out

[molav]

Thank you.