HaleyRocks
Farmer
And if so, in what scenario?
Are enrichers of any real use?
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Maher
Farmer
IRL, it's called fertigation and it saves having to fertilize stuff by hand.
In SDW, I can't imagine a use case unless it allows you to apply fertilizer to crops that you didn't fertilize at planting time. In that case, I could see it being a real boon.
VampireCake
Farmer
It only puts down fertilizer when you plant seeds, sadly. It does save time though, like when you're setting up for a new season and want to get everything planted quickly to get maximum harvests. It's one less pass over everything.
Njin
Planter
I'd suppose it depends on what your growing and if you are looking to save time by adding fertilizer without having manually do it. I play very late game and wouldn't really consider the enricher as an option in comparison . I use speed grow on the Island and greenhouse & deluxe retaining in pots using fertilizer like that you don't need much but for a 1 time use. I don't really use fertilizer on the main farm area as it really only lasts a season but that would be the place to use it if you were going to. Weighing the pros and cons of each pressure nozzle comes out on top. Can't really think of cons for each except for fertilizer in some cases can be more trouble than it is worth. Pros of the pressure nozzle would be more space for crops. Clear winner if you ask me:)
Bawby
Farmer
That would be suh-weet, but unfortunately it only automatically applies fertilizer to seeds laid down. And that's basically what it's for, saving the extra step of laying fertilizer yourself. If you have many sprinklers all with enrichers it could save several hundred steps of fertilizing. And, if you're like me, you could miss a few crops fertilizing manually.
Bawby
Farmer
Apologies @VampireCake for saying pretty much the exact same thing. Slow phone. Did not mean to be a copycat!
VampireCake
Farmer
Haha no worries. Great minds and all that.
FilthyGorilla
Local Legend
They aren’t amazing but not are pressure nozzles from a mathematical standpoint.
I’ll use ones I find from the danger mines but you don’t really need to fertilizer much so at most it gives you an additional day. Do note that you’ll want speed gro early as possible in some cases which the enrichers can’t supply.
Overall I’d say it and pressure nozzles are far more balanced than people make them out to be, both are ok options, may as well use it if you have it.
I’ll use ones I find from the danger mines but you don’t really need to fertilizer much so at most it gives you an additional day. Do note that you’ll want speed gro early as possible in some cases which the enrichers can’t supply.
Overall I’d say it and pressure nozzles are far more balanced than people make them out to be, both are ok options, may as well use it if you have it.
stardew_luv
Farmer
They can save half a days work by the time you have a large enough plot outdoors but by then you start shifting to the greenhouse or ginger island so not sure it matters much by then. And you don’t unlock them until 100 walnuts either so the pressure nozzles that extend your sprinklers are best. I’d get the horse flute (invaluable if your don’t have warp obelisks yet), 6 or so junimo chests (adds almost a row to your inventory), and Pierre’s stock list first (all seeds year round but at a premium for out of season ones). If you get really lucky extra mini shipping bins are always handy, but come at a huge price. So if you aren’t great at the quests then do the nozzles.
PoppyForPenny
Farmer
I've never used the enrichers, but I really love pressure nozzles!
Could you use the enrichers just the first day, then switch to pressure nozzles?
Could you use the enrichers just the first day, then switch to pressure nozzles?
chemster
Farmhand
That's a great idea! I'd think you would be able to -- once something's fertilized (or watered), it doesn't become unwatered until the next day (or you hit it with a pick axe), ditto for fertillizer (except obviously next season, not next day).
imnvs
Local Legend
The problem is that they only enrich in their reach... and then you change the reach. Unless you're overlapping, you're still going to have stuff that needs fertilizing. It just saves you about half of the fertilization work (at best).
KeySmasher
Farmhand
I'd say it depends on what you're growing and where. With the island and green house, crops that continue to bear fruit only use speed grow once and have no benefit after that. If you plan to turn the crops into wine or anything else, then quality does not matter either. In that case, having extra distance between sprinklers means you waste fewer plots on sprinklers and have more crops growing.
However, crops that grow only once may benefit from fertilizing if you plan to sell, gift or show off (in your grange display) your crops as higher quality then counts for something. On ginger Island where you might repeatedly plant the same crop over and over, skipping the manual fertilizing will save you some time in the day and allow you to plant more seeds. On the standard farm however, time is short from season to season and very few crops can grow across two seasons. If you have to use these enrichers anywhere, it would be on the outside soil on the farm.