Suggestion Improving Farmer?

Vynderunel · Feb 2, 2013

I know that farmer already gets exp from a lot of farming related things, but can't we improve it...? Just a little? Say, being able to gain exp from not just harvesting plants, but also from planting plants and tilling dirt. As a final touch up, do you think that you could add in a skill so farmers can sell passive mob drops? That would take out /skill sellwool but then we could sell other farm animals' parts via chestshop. Well what do you think? I hope this gets things changed, but if not, oh well I tried.

Thanks for taking your time out and reading!

WitchOnaRampage, Midnight_Storm67 I know you two were farmers for a little while, so what are your imputs?

Vynderunel · Feb 2, 2013

Everyone who wants to please reply to this thread and tell me what you think, but remember you'll be telling most of Herocraft too!

leftovers5 · Feb 3, 2013

This probably should be moved to the suggestions thread. Angyles

Vynderunel · Feb 3, 2013

leftovers5 said:
This probably should be moved to the suggestions thread. Angyles

Thanks leftovers5. I didn't know who to tag.

-Edit- It must be awful for Angy n the morning. "Good Morni- Oh poo, 5688608697 Alerts..."

And yet she replies to them all within a minute... Angy has well apparently that's why her cage is always empty, working on the forums...

Vynderunel · Feb 3, 2013

Just another reason I only play the game, not work on it...

WitchOnaRampage · Feb 3, 2013

I actually think Farmer does pretty well for exp ... and that's because I'd rather farm or log than mine...

Definitely would like to see Farmer be able to sell leather. Seems contrary to lore that they can't.

Isn't leather the only passive mob drop that Farmers can't currently sell? They're covered for wool and beef/pork/chicken food items. Also feathers, but I don't think there's much of a market for feathers. The few classes using bows could probs get feathers direct from farmers for making their arrows.

I'm gathering ideas about improving Scribe, and it seems to me that Forage fits better with Scribe than Farmer... which would be to take a skill away from Farmer but perhaps SellLeather could fit in there instead. (Ranger and Mystic both have Forage as combat class skills.)

Vynderunel · Feb 3, 2013

WitchOnaRampage said:
I actually think Farmer does pretty well for exp ... and that's because I'd rather farm or log than mine...

Definitely would like to see Farmer be able to sell leather. Seems contrary to lore that they can't.

Isn't leather the only passive mob drop that Farmers can't currently sell? They're covered for wool and beef/pork/chicken food items. Also feathers, but I don't think there's much of a market for feathers. The few classes using bows could probs get feathers direct from farmers for making their arrows.

I'm gathering ideas about improving Scribe, and it seems to me that Forage fits better with Scribe than Farmer... which would be to take a skill away from Farmer but perhaps SellLeather could fit in there instead. (Ranger and Mystic both have Forage as combat class skills.)

Well to me, I think that farmer should gain exp from planting and tilling anyway, it would make the levels go by faster. I don't know what it is, but to me it feels like the levels go by super fast if i know I'm gaining exp from doing something. My only concern is exploiting, say that person is a farmer and is laggy that day, so they go to farm. They start tilling gain .5 exp ... then oops! Lag caused their tilling not to save so it undos itself, normal grass is back. Then, that laggy farmer keeps gaining exp that way. Well there goes a honest way to gain exp...

Jasquan · Feb 3, 2013

BrisingrEpic said:
They start tilling gain .5 exp ... then oops! Lag caused their tilling not to save so it undos itself, normal grass is back. Then, that laggy farmer keeps gaining exp that way. Well there goes a honest way to gain exp...

I don't think you get EXP if this happens, because you were lagging, the tile didn't really do anything. You get EXP from the server, not the client, I think. Moderators ?

WitchOnaRampage said:
The few classes using bows could probs get feathers direct from farmers for making their arrows.

Or meet up with a ranger casting a few SummonArrow.

Vynderunel · Feb 3, 2013

Jasquan said:
I don't think you get EXP if this happens, because you were lagging, the tile didn't really do anything. You get EXP from the server, not the client, I think. Moderators ?

Or meet up with a ranger casting a few SummonArrow.

Nonono, that never happened to me, I was just using that as an example.

Jasquan · Feb 3, 2013

BrisingrEpic said:
Nonono, that never happened to me, I was just using that as an example.

And I was giving an example of why it wouldn't happen.

Angyles · Feb 3, 2013

BrisingrEpic said:
-Edit- It must be awful for Angy n the morning. "Good Morni- Oh poo, 5688608697 Alerts..."

And yet she replies to them all within a minute... Angy has well apparently that's why her cage is always empty, working on the forums...

Just 11 this morning =]

lioIIoil · Feb 3, 2013

I don't think they should earn exp for planting/tilling because some people could plant/break and repeat that a thousand times.

Jasquan · Feb 3, 2013

Johnbaur said:
I don't think they should earn exp for planting/tilling because some people could plant/break and repeat that a thousand times.

You can break/replace with any block too...

lioIIoil · Feb 3, 2013

Jasquan said:
You can break/replace with any block too...

Yeah but they give 0.01 exp. You would have to break/place the block almost 11 million times to master. What he is asking for is to make farmers easier to level. This would not even really be worth adding to farmers. Because 0.01 exp is soo small. If it is big than it is might be exploitable but if its not that than its not worth it

Bob_de_Blastoise · Feb 3, 2013

How bout? Here it is! Summoning wolves for either farmer or ranger

Jasquan · Feb 3, 2013

Johnbaur said:
Yeah but they give 0.01 exp. You would have to break/place the block almost 11 million times to master. What he is asking for is to make farmers easier to level. This would not even really be worth adding to farmers. Because 0.01 exp is soo small. If it is big than it is might be exploitable but if its not that than its not worth it

Glowstone gives 2 XP, and bookshelves give 1 XP. Of course it requires a silk touch pickaxe, but it's still possible.

Haxnn · Feb 3, 2013

Jasquan said:
Glowstone gives 2 XP, and bookshelves give 1 XP. Of course it requires a silk touch pickaxe, but it's still possible.

You also have to wait a while after placing the block.

awsumguy75321 · Feb 3, 2013

Jasquan said:
Glowstone gives 2 XP, and bookshelves give 1 XP. Of course it requires a silk touch pickaxe, but it's still possible.

Obsidian would take a long time, but you get 2 exp from it and don't need a silk touch pick.

Jaw895 · Feb 3, 2013

I was thinking this last night i think planting crops should givr .1 or .5. That would help the slowness of farmer.

Jasquan · Feb 4, 2013

awsumguy75321 said:
Obsidian would take a long time, but you get 2 exp from it and don't need a silk touch pick.

0.2 EXP. I was looking at the wiki when I posted that.