Major increase in ancient seeds from star fruit
- Thread starter Rhiannon
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Salty1
Planter
I blame the bat mummies. Might seem trite, but it's been bonkers on my new farm lately too. Not only did I not have nearly as much trouble getting my first bat, but on my last trip to the ginger volcano I ended up with five tiger slime eggs and four mummified bats before I left. I used them to make a monster penatgram on the farm - Switch is just wild sometimes.
BlaDe
Farmer
RNG is the same on all platforms except for switch.
There seems to be something about the platform which is causing very similar results for its calls. Which would explain people not finding mummified bats for ages, then finding a whole heap at once. Same for your tiger slime eggs.
Unfortunately I dont have the source code for the switch version available...
There seems to be something about the platform which is causing very similar results for its calls. Which would explain people not finding mummified bats for ages, then finding a whole heap at once. Same for your tiger slime eggs.
Unfortunately I dont have the source code for the switch version available...
Rhiannon
Farmer
PC
BlaDe
Farmer
Huh.
Ancient seeds from seed makers have a predictable pattern. Was this happening all on the same day? How many seed makers do you have, and how are they aligned?
Rhiannon
Farmer
Yes it happened in the same day. I have 6 seed makers and they are lined up together.
Boo1972
Farmer
That is very weird. I rarely use my seed maker so I think I’ve only ever gotten a handful of ancient fruit seeds that way over 4 farms.
@BlaDe, would horizontal placement affect the number of seeds? My seed makers are horizontal and I’m averaging 2x the number of seeds returned almost exactly. For the Qi fruit challenge.
@BlaDe, would horizontal placement affect the number of seeds? My seed makers are horizontal and I’m averaging 2x the number of seeds returned almost exactly. For the Qi fruit challenge.
Elenna101
Farmer
An average of 2x seeds returned is normal, that's what the RNG intends.
@BlaDe is referring to the fact that there's a specific pattern to when you'll get ancient seeds, which depends on the location of the seed maker and the time when you put the seed in (as well as the seed number of your file and probably a few other things). Since it has to be a specific time and location, it would be fairly hard to do it by accident, but I guess easier if the seed makers are lined up vertically.
If you're curious about this, you might want to play around with Blade's predictor app. Set the app to seed maker mode, pick any location, and choose "Ancient Seeds" in the settings (as shown in the screenshot), then the picture below will list times on each tile. Those are the times when a seed put into a seed maker on that tile at that time will give ancient seeds. (You can also upload your save file (if you're on PC), or change all the settings on the left side to match your save file, then the results will be correct for your particular file.)
There's a bunch of other fun stuff in the predictor if you want to play around with it.