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farming discussion

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:03 pm
by eplawsl
From what I hear they can only be obtained from dungeons, and reproduce slowly/inefficiently. This is a problem for me, as i require approximately 144 melon plants. Help me acquire these copious amounts of plants and I will reward you. Once you get a plant you can hit it with a hoe to get 1 or 2 seeds back, so the amount of available melon seeds will spike after some time and they will lose alot of value, but i need alot of melon seeds FAST, so be sure PM me very early in 1.8 with offers on seeds (PM in game or on forum, im on both very often).

^^^old OP, ignore^^^
New OP:
Anyone have any knowledge they'd like to share concerning farming in 1.8?

Also can we get this moved to chat please? I would but I think that's a mod only thing.

Re: Buying melon seeds (when 1.8 survival is up)

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:14 pm
by BSGSamuel
To create more melons:

- Plant seeds
- Melon grows to block adjacent to planted seed
- Harvest melons (you get 8 slices or so)
- Put slices in workbench and convert to more seeds (8)
- Repeat

You'll have infinite melons within a day based on the growing rate on the dev server.

Re: Buying melon seeds (when 1.8 survival is up)

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:25 pm
by eplawsl
BSGSamuel wrote:To create more melons:

- Plant seeds
- Melon grows to black adjacent to planted seed
- Harvest melons (you get 8 slices or so)
- Put sliced in workbench and convert to more seeds (8)
- Repeat

You'll have infinite melons within a day based on the growing rate on the dev server.
Thanks for the info, this will certainly speed up the process of filling my farm. So, I will now only require a single seed, if the dungeons i found in 1.7 in public land are still there then i should be able to get the first seeds from them in minutes.

Re: Buying melon seeds (when 1.8 survival is up)

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:27 pm
by BSGSamuel
Your welcome.

Chances are the dungeons you found will be gone in 1.8 but you never know. I found the melon seeds failry quickly on the dev server though.

Re: farming discussion

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:42 pm
by eplawsl
yea i hear they are more common / easier to find due to abandoned mine-shafts.