@James, After about 45 minutes not all crops are ready but I’ll harvest anyway.
Details on this field:
- 730 Earthyams
- All planted in Tilled Silty Soil
Firstly, I started by harvesting these plants, closest to the sand edge, the only part of this field that had the bonus sand next to the crop. In the debug info there was variance of the seed/produce yields even along this row.
The yield from the harvested plants in the following screenshot was:
22 Seeds | 66 Produce
Then, I harvested all other mature crops for:
249 Seeds | 994 Produce
Reaching a total of:
271 Seeds and 1060 Yams harvested.
However, of the 730 planted crops, after almost 4 hours, there were this many still in a state where they hadn’t grown to fully mature state:
This suggests there may be too much variance in growth time even under the 100% normal growth time modifier, as many of these plants were not ready well into an hour past the time they should be for harvest.
Note: I did inspect individual crops with the debug info before harvesting, and the crops closest to the sand did indeed have the best ratios stated in the debug; this was the best crop in the whole field, perhaps for having extra water near it besides the bonus sand:
The worst crop values I could find were:
Another note: It was very easy to accidentally harvest crops that weren’t completely mature in the same field, despite the majority of the crops being mature.
Conclusion:
The current balance for the yield of Produce, i.e. actual Yams, would feel fine at the moment, yielding between 1-3 under these conditions, averaging at about 2 per crop.
However, the yield of the Produce does NOT feel fine (to me) since the yield of Seeds returned was only around a quarter of the total Produce harvested. The remaining plants that haven’t matured yet will certainly not be able to yield over 200 seeds.
To me, the current ratio feels very poor without being able to turn the Produce back into seeds. If I could get back 1 seed from every single crop, getting even 800 yams out of the 730 crops would feel far more reasonable, since at least the process would be easily repeatable.
If I had actually gathered 730 wild seeds on my own, I don’t think that right now I’d be willing to go looking for another 500-ish wild seeds just to replant this entire field, which to me, feels like a small field, despite the proportionally larger time invested here.