Comments on my farm layout

[AnnonOMous]

Hi. Spent the day reading an old 24 page topic on here about 2 guys who designed farms for other members. Got loads of tips and combined it with my own experience. Is there anyone else able to make any suggestions/improvements to my farm?

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/f3j8c (Preview didn't show image, so here's a link)

I picked up the 2 rows of crops thing playing HM:FoMT, haven't tried it properly on HM:DS yet but it should work the same. For those interested, it would take 32 seed packs to fill every crop space indicated, so this would work best for crops that regrow. For 1plant-1harvest solid blocks the size of the max watering can area would be better, but I'm still in Spring Y1, so a better watering can is way off for now. (So is this whole layout, but I wanna start building slowly and ASAP). BTW, how to I get Ore for tool upgrades? I can't find any rocks or stairs in the cave near the waterfall (taking this from FoMT, don't know if getting ore is the same for HM:DS)? Oh, if there are any crops that can't be touched, let me know. Think all of these can be watered/picked up.

2 of each tree (total of 10). Easy enough. Despite only being in Spring Y1, I've already experimented and found that grass won't grow by fully grown trees. Figure I could plant grass when I plant the trees, and when the grass dies I'll know the trees are fully grown.

I don't know the animal buildings cap (apparently its 7 but I couldn't confirm that) so I went with 3+3. Gonna Start off with a 5+1 until I unlock Woohoo THEN make the 3+3. The 2 temp poultry buildings can just go where an animal building is until I'm done with them. If I can fit more buildings without losing too much crop space, let me know.

Apparently, adult animals eat 1 fully grown grass per day, per animal, with grass needing 11 days to regrow. So I figured I'd need 11 spaces of grass, per animal. 3 buildings with 4 animals per building = 12 animals. Times that by 11 and I figured I'd need a field of 132 squares of grass. The 3 buildings made a row of 18 squares, so I worked out I'd need 8 rows (18 x 8 = 144). That would leave 12 spare grass patches. Harvested a 1 per day, that gives 80 spare fodder in time for winter (first 10 days of spring you can't harvest because the grass isn't grown yet), plus all the grass harvested from the Poultry pen (31x8 harvests a year = 248), plus the grass planted for pathways (72x8 harvests a year = 576), should all equal more than enough (80+248+576=904) to see out winter and the occasional storm (12x30=360 needed for winter food), plus more than a few hurricanes in Summer.

Of the 6 smaller buildings, I don't know which are really needed long term, so planned for all 6.

I've put a lot of thought into this (mostly copied from the thought-work I used for FoMT) as you can probably tell. I'm autistic and this level of calculation is "fun" for me, but I'm guessing alot of people reading this will think I've wasted my time.

Thanks in advance for any feedback. I'm gonna hit the sack soon so look forward to reading your comments in the morning. (23:30 local time for me, so you'll have about 8 hours before I come back).

PS: Looked around for a rules topic or similar, but couldn't find one. If I'm breaking some rules with this topic, I do apologise. I'm using my past experiences of forums in general as a rule-set for now.

[Chime9]

I think how much time and math you put into all this is incredible and awesome haha
I really like your design a lot.
Just be prepared to have some crop space eaten up while trying to unlock sprites like woohoo and other annoying animal ones though.
oh and for stuff like turnips, once you have upgraded your watering can, you won't need to leave so much space between them, so you can have more crop yield! :)



You need to dig up ore in the mines, I think it's the first mine- which is also the easiest.
Once you get your tools to mystrille, you can find blessed tools in the 3rd mine.
There is also a mythic stone in the 3rd mine which allows you to upgrade your mystrille to a mythic. You need to have all of your tools blessed before it appears though.
It's pricey but mythic is the best out there.
There is more info on the main site about all of it :)
http://www.fogu.com/hm6/

The excavation site also contains 4 hidden mines. To unlock the first mine you need to visit the site in the hours when nobody is in the excavation site, either very early in the morning or after 9:00 pm. Carter will be in the site by himself, and he is in need of your hammering expertise. When you hit the wall as Carter instructs you will open up a doorway to the first mine. All of the mines will need to be unlocked by Carter and your Hammer.

so make sure you have met Carter and that you have a hammer with you :)

[rainbowcupcakes104]

Wow, your farm is awesome~ I wish I could do it to my farm XD

You just started and you want to build that.. IMMEDIATLY? OMFHG.. You're a real farmer..
/shot

Okay, ores can be found on the Northern East side of Valley. There's a tent and a cave, you can find the ores in the cave. In the cave, there's 4 hidden cave again that you can unlock if you visit the cave early in the morning or reaalllly late in the evening. But, be sure that you already introduce yourself to Carter. Mystrile can be found in the first mine, though. Just click the link Chime9 give you for more information.

The cave near Waterfall is for Super-Soil field, it can be unlocked if you got the Legendary Sword from the 2nd mine.

I hope someone will give you more opinions and informations, though..

Good Luck!

[Rainbow Curry]

How are you going to get your animals to and from the barns for the festivals?

Also, I've heard that barn animals actually have to eat two patches of grass per day. I'm not sure, but it's worth checking out.

[Muffy Princess Moon]

Yours is awesome! Mine is really unorganised!

[Rainbow Curry]

Oh, yes. I didn't mention that I love your layout. I just hope you didn't think it through all that way to have trouble with it.

How did you make that layout? Is there a specific program that lets one do it?

[Rozalynd17]

I don't seem to be able to view the image of your farm... but I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who likes to meticulously calculate the set up of my farm!

EDIT: I can view the image now! Not sure what the problem was before. It looks really good, you've utilised the space very well.