Hey guys, I don't know if this is widespread, but I wanted to share with you how I grow my plants.
You all know that you can put 125 plants inside a breakable crate, put the crate on the ground, and brake it, to get 125 plants on 1 tile right?
Coragin made a great plant tutorial telling how to do this, amongst other things. You can check it out here:
http://www.scriptuo.com/index.php?topic=4103.0Well, what I want to show you is the way I do this, just bringing this idea a little further.
So, if you put 125 plants inside a crate and brake it on the ground, you get them all in 1 tile. What you could do is put say 5 breakable crates inside that one breakable crate.
Now you put the crate that has all the others inside on the ground, and break it with an axe, getting you those 5 crates on 1 tile. The idea now is putting 125 plants inside each crate, then breaking them all, and voila, you get 625 plants on 1 house tile.
You can of course expand this idea to how many plants you'd like to grow on this same tile. I usually grow around 1500 plants at a time. Adjust this to your liking.
The problem is, since all crates are on the same tile, it can be a little frustrating and time consuming selecting each one, then move your bowls with seeds inside them, etc.
To make this job easier I've added a sub-section to the tools menu of my plant tending script, especially designed to help out doing this. You can find this from script v0.5 on. This is the url where the script can be found.
http://www.scriptuo.com/index.php?topic=8268.0
So, you can prepare your bowls, water them and plant seeds in them, all using the tools menu from the script or however else you'd prefer. Once you get a bag full of bowls with seeds in, you can navigate to the 'Mass Plantgrowing Preparation' section of the script, and use it to move the bowls to each separate crate, and then brake them all. As you can see from the picture, there are several other options here as well, like securing your crates, so that they don't decay if it takes you a long time to gather all the plants. You can also view each crate individually, open them up to manually put/remove stuff. There's also a lockdown plant sub in this script, courtesy of C2, so that you can lock down all your plants quickly, once you have them all on the ground.
Have in mind that I set the script to only adds crates that are within ONE tile to the list. If you're not standing close enough, the boxes won't be added. This is done to avoid you accidently adding other crates of the same type to the list, other than the ones you intend to use for this.
Anyway, I hope this has been clear enough, and I hope you guys can find this information useful and improve the way you grow plants, like I have!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to add them here, I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Cheers!
Neo
