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Ultima Online Fan Board => UO-Related Tutorials => Topic started by: Coragin on January 21, 2010, 04:02:17 AM
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Hold on need to refill my coffee...
So you are thinking about plants or you already do them now, but you dont do much or want to learn how to do more? Maybe you are just getting into it and doing just 10-30 plants isint what you had in mind? Maybe the thought of doing 400-2000 plants is so overwhelming that it makes you nervous? Or maybe you just want to make a ton o cash? What ever your reason, that is why I am writing this guide.
DISCLAIMER: A lot of the info in this guide is just that, info, info that I found here and other places. I dont remember all the places and people, but this is a collection of info from my own studies that other people suggested and I put it all together for you.
Getting started:
Well first you may be asking yourself, why so many plants? What can I do? How is this gonna bring a profit? Well...
1. The new dyes are done with plants.
2. Orange petals are done with plants.
3. Green Thorns are done with plants.
4. Seeds of renewal for imbuing mana regen, hp regen and sta regen are gotten through plants.
So how much can you make? Tons if you do it right. Lets get your supplies ready first shall we? Here is a list of thing you will need.
1. A chest with potion kegs and a water pitcher. (Greater Poison, Greater Cure, Greater Strength, Greater Heal) Its best to have a GM alchemist for your plant tender.
2. A lot of seeds, you can start with a few as every plant will give up to 8 seeds, so whatever the number you start with, times it by 8 for your next run. But try to get a few hundred.
3. Room for lockdowns for each plant. 1 lockdown = 1 plant.
4. Wooden Create, one for each 100 plants.
5. A water Trough.
6. A few large stone tables.
See the attached images for how I do my setup then do something similar. I am currently doing 1500 plants, each bowl you see is 100 plants stacked.
I will not go through how to take care of plants ect in much detail as that is not the point of this guide.
Okay, first things first, lets get your area set up.
1. place a chest on the ground where your water trough will be, secure it. Now use a house deco tool and raise it enough so you can place the water trough underneath it. Then you can lower the chest back down to make it look like its on a table or stand after you place the water trough.
2. Place your large stone tables around each side of th water trough, if your trough is east, your tables should be south, ect. Make it so you can walk inbetween the two tables and up to your water trough as if they form a "U" with a single square pathway as the center. (see pics)
3. Put your pitcher of water and potion kegs in the chest on top of the water trough.
Okay now we are ready to place your plants. If you havent already, get 100 plants ready, or how ever many you will be using per stack. Now take all those plant bowls (make sure you already put dirt in them and watered them and put your seeds in them) and put them in your wooden create. Place the wooden create on your large stone table and use an axe to break it. All of your plant bowls will drop out into a neat pile that looks like a single plant bowl. In essence it is 100 plant bowls, but it only looks like one. Now you need to lock them all down. There is a script here on SUO to do this, so find it first!!! Search is your friend. It was made by C2, so that should help your search, also you might search for QLI, which is a plant bowl.
Okay now they are all locked down. If you have more you can do another 100 on top of the stack you just did, or you can do like me and do stacks of colors so you dont get them all mixed up. Just follow the same steps. Remember you will need a lot of potion kegs, the more plants you have, the more kegs you will want. I have 6 of each kind in mine, which is good for 400-1500.
Now, what you need to do is run hort o matic once a day, when you have done that, you will want to set it to Tend plants, Harvest Seeds, Maximize Plant Health. You will want to uncheck prevention or it will use a greater strength potion on every plant, sometimes two.
Hort O Matic will ask for you to click on your work chest and place a seed container ect. When your plants start making resources and seeds it will put them in the bag.
Now from here you have a couple options...so ask yourself these questions.
1. Do I want to make dyes?
If the answer is yes, then you will want to set all plants to deco mode once they are done giving resources and seeds. You will also want to research how to make different colors, they have a great guide on stratics. White and Black come from mutated plants. Other colors come from different combos. Research the plant guides on stratics for the colors you want.
You will put each plant that is in deco mode in your pack, cut it with "clippers" made from a tinker and it will give you "<color> plant clippings" which is used in making dye. I will not go into a step by step process for making dye, there are nice guides out there for this, so read up on how to do it.
2. Do I want to sell deco plants?
If the answer is yes, then its simple, when a plant is done producing seeds and or resources, set it to deco then put it on your vendor! Or deco your house or whatever.
3. Do I want to sell my seeds and or seeds of renewal?
If the answer is yes, hort already placed your seeds into a container, so price them on your vendor and sell them. 10 Seeds of renewal at the time of this writing go for 2m on ATL.
4. Do I want to sell or collect resources such a green thorns and orange petals?
If the answer is yes, you will need to cross pollonate different plant types to get a specific color and a specific type of plant. Again there are guides for this on stratics, look them up. This guide is all about how to do plants en mass and how it can make you money.
Well thats it! Its actually pretty easy, if you know how to setup your garden and I hope this helped you in figuring out how a lot of people are doing this. If I missed anything or you have something to add or questions please feel free to post.
At the time of this writing myself and a couple others are working on a SUO version of hort o matic that works more fluidly and works 100% for now you will have to use hort until it is finished, but there is a started script with a menu to lock down the plants, water the dirt and plant seeds and other tools, you can find that here in the script section, SUO AIO Plant something something...
Below is the screen shot of my garden...
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Nice write up!
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I am interested in making a prophit with my plants, I think? I just do not know what that is right now. Currently, I make a "Profit" on them... :D
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haha
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I have never even thought of growing plants, but now that I want seeds of renewal and they seem to be a hot item I might just set this up and see how it goes. Is there a certain plant that will give more or less of seeds of renewal or is it just a random item? Great Read!
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Nope its a small chance from any plant
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Good work on the plants period and good work on this write up. Plus one Karma from your old buddy.
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Very nice write up Cor.
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Thanks guys, I hope it helps some of you to make some extra coin, just dont try to undercut me or I will dust your crops with pesticide!
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I am interested in making a prophit with my plants, I think? I just do not know what that is right now. Currently, I make a "Profit" on them... :D
Ok, sue me but I couldn't take looking at that topic everytime a new post made it so I fixed the spelling!! I'm sorry for such a blatent misuse of pwer but I couldn't help it!! ;)
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Ah, one of the PERKS of being a staff member!
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You have to grow the right plants to get the title "Prophet" ;)
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u wouldnt happen to have any bright orange seeds would u
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u wouldnt happen to have any bright orange seeds would u
Not yet, just did the correct pollenation to make orange, need to wait till my next cycle to get bright orange seeds, then the following cycle to get petals.
Gonna make a big Prophit here!
(ps the above was just for 12x)
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u wouldnt happen to have any bright orange seeds would u
Not yet, just did the correct pollenation to make orange, need to wait till my next cycle to get bright orange seeds, then the following cycle to get petals.
Gonna make a big Prophit here!
(ps the above was just for 12x)
Hehe...
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If I ever grow a plant in UO, shoot me. Please. :)
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Grow them on your boat while your fishing.....
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Grow them on your boat while your fishing.....
Will they grow in a boats hold?
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Grow them on your boat while your fishing.....
Will they grow in a boats hold?
Cerv, look at what you've started!
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If I ever grow a plant in UO, shoot me. Please. :)
I have a similar set up to this guide. It really doesn't take all that long once you get into a rhythm. I absolutely love decorating in Uo and plants are a vital part of it. I have never used it to make gold but I can see the potential for it.
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That was one of the biggest draws to UO for me was the items and the ability to decorate/hoard. Gotta love that!
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If I ever grow a plant in UO, shoot me. Please. :)
I heard Twinkle McNugget was starting to grow Plants, so we need to shoot him! :D
I much rather harvest the Seeds of Renewal myself, then have someone else sell them to me for 150-200k each.
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I'm going to quote one of the greatest movies of all time here. "Now I'm not sayin I'd grow plants, but if I *DID* grow plants, I wouldn't tell nobody about it! I'd be embarassed as a *BLEEP* man!" :)
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If I ever grow a plant in UO, shoot me. Please. :)
I heard Twinkle McNugget was starting to grow Plants, so we need to shoot him! :D
I much rather harvest the Seeds of Renewal myself, then have someone else sell them to me for 150-200k each.
I started growing 64 plants in my backpack, not all on the same day. So far I have 70 regular seeds and 0 seeds of renewal. I'd rather buy them at this point lol
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Nice. I just wasted 100 seeds and about an hour because none of the scripts you mention works. :/
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Nice. I just wasted 100 seeds and about an hour because none of the scripts you mention works. :/
Wow, so when you followed the instructions in the first post the scripts mentioned there didn't work for you?
Did you happen to notice the date on that post? Correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe he posted that in January of 2010
So, to summarize this...
You fail to ensure that you are working with current data.... then you post with some kind of attitude about wasting all of 100 seeds and an entire hour of your life?
Here's a little advice for you. Check your sources to ensure that they are current, if you have a question regarding whats posted - ask. Don't come after the fact and complain. The reason for this fail is entirely on you.
Shiny?
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alot of information here mate good job makes me start to consider growing plants
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Nice. I just wasted 100 seeds and about an hour because none of the scripts you mention works. :/
Wow, so when you followed the instructions in the first post the scripts mentioned there didn't work for you?
Did you happen to notice the date on that post? Correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe he posted that in January of 2010
So, to summarize this...
You fail to ensure that you are working with current data.... then you post with some kind of attitude about wasting all of 100 seeds and an entire hour of your life?
Here's a little advice for you. Check your sources to ensure that they are current, if you have a question regarding whats posted - ask. Don't come after the fact and complain. The reason for this fail is entirely on you.
Shiny?
I didn't meant to come off with an attitude - I apologize, I'm just frustrated from spending hours trying to get some of this stuff to work to no avail.
But, its the same error over and over with several different scripts and I have no idea how to check anything. I think maybe it's a pathing problem but I have no idea how to fix that. When I try to run the scripts, it says a certain file cannot be found, please check to make sure the file is in the correct folder - which it is.
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Yeah, that's the way it came over.
Plant tending has been a thorn (heh) for scripting for a while. People were really happy with the Hort-O script over at EUO. Then, gumps changed and the author wasn't updating it. Other things changed and suddenly the script was a few patches behind and still fixes.
It would be an awesome idea for someone here to run with that. Either fix the Horto since the author is MIA, or to rewrite something.
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Wise thing to do when testing something is not using 100 the first time. Try 5 instead until the kinks are worked out.. I happen to have started plants last week. My guild leader is a plant nut and i got some supplies to get started. I cant wait to try out this method though. I started with intentions of getting orange petals to sell and use. My first 12 plants i got 5 seeds of renewal so far lol. I guess i was lucky. I still have 3 seed days left and have my second and third batch planted. Ill save a ton of seeds and try this method when I can.. Thanks again
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I feel kinda bad doing crops of 5k. :( hehe My only problem is if I run out of clippers. I don't have it coded in to make more yet, which is funny cause it's like 20 lines of code. My backpack fills up with plants and I have to restart the script. haha You'd think I'd write that in especially since I just finished auto bowl buying and dirting, with auto locking down in house. :) Sorry I had to... heh
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I feel kinda bad doing crops of 5k. :( hehe My only problem is if I run out of clippers. I don't have it coded in to make more yet, which is funny cause it's like 20 lines of code. My backpack fills up with plants and I have to restart the script. haha You'd think I'd write that in especially since I just finished auto bowl buying and dirting, with auto locking down in house. :) Sorry I had to... heh
Twinkle McNugget i thought i rember reading that you would never do plants lol guess it comes full circle in the end
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I feel kinda bad doing crops of 5k. :( hehe My only problem is if I run out of clippers. I don't have it coded in to make more yet, which is funny cause it's like 20 lines of code. My backpack fills up with plants and I have to restart the script. haha You'd think I'd write that in especially since I just finished auto bowl buying and dirting, with auto locking down in house. :) Sorry I had to... heh
Twinkle McNugget i thought i rember reading that you would never do plants lol guess it comes full circle in the end
I don't do plants. I don't have to touch a key to do ANYTHING that has to do with plants. :) My account might do plants, I'm not sure...
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Think im gonna give this large volume method a go. The script you mentioned for lockdown of plants, does C2s plant security setting script do that in itself or was there something else i was needing.. thanks
NM i found something thats gonna work fine... :o
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sorry for bumping but i was thinking about getting started on this
does anybody have scripts that works?
thanks :)
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This one from NEO works pretty well and is FAST as hell!!
http://www.scriptuo.com/index.php?topic=8268.msg71084#msg71084 (http://www.scriptuo.com/index.php?topic=8268.msg71084#msg71084)