Retaining Soil Rework

[MrYeet123]

Currently the basic and quality retaining soils are kind of useless compared to every other fertilizer. They're meant to help you save time, energy, and farming space, but since they only have a chance to work, it means you still have to spend plenty of time scouring your fields to check what hasn't stayed watered and using up energy watering anyway.

So I propose a buff/rework for the retaining soils:

Scrap the chances for retaining soil to fail and replace it with a set amount of days it can hold water. My proposed day count is this:

Basic: 3
Quality: 9 (possibly 12)
Deluxe: 27 (possibly 28 if there's no desire to nerf it's forever water)

 

[EXD__Vex]

Nice idea

 

[Freizeitfarmer]

just for reference, there are some other nice ideas regarding Retaining Soil:

https://forums.stardewvalley.net/threads/could-retaining-soil-please-either-all-work-or-all-not-work.47004/

https://forums.stardewvalley.net/threads/retaining-soil-simple-change-make-it-all-work-or-not-depending-on-nighttime-humidity.22172/

https://forums.stardewvalley.net/threads/water-retaining-soil-should-retain-or-not-retain-as-a-group.8765/

anyway I am with you, Retaining Soil needs a rework...

 

[dragonflySky]

That is a good idea. And I'd like it if we could put the next level retaining soil over the top instead of having to get rid of the lower one first. So if you have Basic just put the Quality over it without destroying the Basic first. Same goes for Speed-Gro where it would be good if you could put the Deluxe Speed-Gro over the top.