No crows too early.

[KelseyOppa]

No crows until farming level 1 or have an easier way to get scarecrows, as my parsnips being eaten day 2 is really annoying.

 

[Ereo]

You can avoid crows by planting less crops. The limit is 16, so you could plant all of Lewis parsnips without encountering one.

 

[Freizeitfarmer]

Crows are mainly a problem in multiplayer games where EVERYONE gets 15 seeds.

 

[Quirinea]

Could that be avoided by planting patches of 15 crops? I tried once in a starting game, and either it counts all the crops in the farm or there is a minimum distance (what is it, on the latter case). I usually have problems at the start as I have the parsnips and in addition plant the mixed seeds I find

 

[Ereo]

Could that be avoided by planting patches of 15 crops? I tried once in a starting game, and either it counts all the crops in the farm or there is a minimum distance (what is it, on the latter case). I usually have problems at the start as I have the parsnips and in addition plant the mixed seeds I find

I'm pretty sure it's just the overall amount on the farm. For every 16 crops, you have a chance to get a crow and it's a maximum of 4 crows each day.

 

[Lenora Rose]

I think, for game balance reasons, delaying crows until you can make scarecrows sort of renders the purpose of having crows as a mechanic at all pointless.

Although playwise I find the buggers annoying especially if they grab one of my few cauliflowers. Those are #$/&$# expensive that early on!

 

[Lew Zealand]

I think, for game balance reasons, delaying crows until you can make scarecrows sort of renders the purpose of having crows as a mechanic at all pointless.

Although playwise I find the buggers annoying especially if they grab one of my few cauliflowers. Those are #$/&$# expensive that early on!

Agreed, they're part of the (occasionally annoying) learning process of the game mechanics. However I wish the Crows would eat from the outside in like Bruce does to your raft in Raft, so you could sorta close ranks on the valuable Cauliflower with the Parsnips running point and the Mixed Seeds serving as chum or caltrops to distract and slow the enemy.

And.

I mean, come on...

If you get the Golden Lewis statue, that thing is the mother of all shiny objects. It should attract Crows like nothing else, working like a super-Rarecrow to protect the entire Farm from them like a junior Golden Clock. Though over time it should slowly become more degraded and covered in increasing geological layers of Crow droppings to eventually become a lumpy, misshapen echo of its true nature as a unholy monument to excess, now reacquired by Mother Nature. Slowly being drawn down into the Earth to be reunited with the layers of the past from whence it was spat many years ago.

 

[Lenora Rose]

Now that would be amusing, especially if there was a mechanic to clean it...