Beckylee wrote:Thank you so much for the guide! I'm now working on making my areas prosperous... I have three done so far plus my grass factory, but I'm having trouble maintaining those four areas. Answers and advice from you runey vets would be wonderful!
1. What's the purpose of the water runeys in the grass factory? Before I made my grass factory I had 2 full stacks of water runeys. After a week of trying to keep up the factory, I'm down to 8 spares and have to spend a lot of time sucking up extra water runies out of my prosperous areas. Why do you need 60 water runies to keep the factory going? What would happen if I only had grass runies in an area?
2. What happens in the winter, when you can't grow crops? Does the whole system collapse, so you have to start over in the spring?
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1. Basically, instead of eating other Runeys to raise their population, Grass runey population rises based on the amount of other runeys. Basically if there are a lot of grass runeys and not may other types, Grass runeys will go down. And there are lots of other runeys and not much grass, usually they'll steadily grow (except if there's tons of trees, then they'll just get eaten).
The Grass Factory works based on this principle. Although you'd get more grass runeys the next day if you put 60 water and 60 stone (trees just eat grass so it won't work using tree runeys), that's irrational because you'd have to suck up a lot to replenish it the next day. So instead, water is used. I've never actually tried it with just Stone runeys but my guess is that it'd work just fine. I'll test it when I can get on.
To maintain your grass factory, it's key that you do it every day. If you wait another day, Water will drop down to 30 and Grass only goes up by 2-3 (because there are less other runeys and more grass, so they won't increase as much). So you'll have to replenish twice as much, without actually getting many more grass runeys. I don't find it that hard to find water runeys; usually you only need about 16 a day. During my morning rounds of the village I suck up any big groups of runeys I see and release the other types. Usually by the end I have enough water runeys to replenish the area. And it only takes about an hour or two to take the grass runeys out of the factory once you get the hang of it.
2. I'm not in Winter. But as long as all your areas are in prosperity by then you'll have no problems at all. Remember that crop growth only affects Homestead population, and Homestead population can never decrease. So, all other areas will continue as normal. The only affected area is your Homestead, which will stop producing runeys. It might actually lose runeys in Winter (I doubt it) but if this happens you can always just suck up runeys from areas that are in prosperity, and use those to replenish your homestead
Vortex138 wrote:I think I can answer number 1. The purpose of the water runeys is to prevent wood or rock runeys from building and in the case of the wood runeys, eating your grass runeys. I think you can throw in a couple of rock runeys tho into the area to slow down the death of your water runeys. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
As far as two, from what I can tell all the areas build as normal(except for your fields not producing runeys the way they would if you had crops there).
Other than the purpose of the water runeys you're completely right. Also, you bring up a good point - if you have extra stone runeys you can throw 5-10 of them in your Grass Factory (along with the 60 water) and it'll produce more grass because of the proportional thing that grass runeys rely on.
As for people having trouble maintaining your other areas, all I can suggest is taking other runeys out of Prosperity areas and feeding those into the areas that are in trouble. You don't need a ton, just enough to keep it going until you can push it into Prosperity. I've noticed that usually it's the Grass Runeys that I require the most (not just for refueling the prosperity areas but also getting other areas into prosperity, since I can't take Grass from my prosperity areas). So don't forget to use your Homestead too and steal some grass from there if needed.
