DemiserofD
Planter
A big part of what holds fruit trees back is that they don't produce ANYTHING for so long, but cost so much! Buying a Pomegranate Tree and planting it in the summer means you won't get anything for a full 28 days - which is kinda crazy! It also means you can't get some fruit AT ALL until year two - by which time things like Apricots and such are really hardly even worth it!
So what if we change how fruit trees grow? I'm thinking that in their juvenile stage(stage 1)
they still produce nothing, but in stage 2,
they produce a fruit every 3 days, and in stage 3, they produce a fruit every 2 days,
and in stage 3 they produce a fruit every single day.
BUT they can't actually STOCKPILE any fruit at this stage(perhaps the stage 3 can stockpile 2 fruit to make it not quite so tedious?), so you need to go harvest them regularly. But tbh that's no big deal early on, really. But anyway, if you plant an Orange tree in summer 1 year 1, you would get 0 fruit in the first week, 3 fruit in the second week, you get 14 fruit over the season! Of course, that's only worth 1400g, but if you then make preserves from them, you are up to 3500g in year one! Not QUITE enough to pay for itself? But at least enough to be a wash, right? And if you make orange wine, you're looking at 4200g!
Certainly a whole lot more appealing, yeah?
Another change that'd be pretty neat to see is if the lower-quality fruit especially, instead of producing higher quality produce, produced MORE produce as time went on, and could stock more on the trees themselves. Apricots, for example, it doesn't really make all that much difference what quality the fruit is? An iridium star apricot is still worth just 110g at most, versus apricot preserves at 220g with artisan.
So what if instead, silver star trees could hold 4 fruit and had a 25% chance of each one producing a duplicate? Gold star could hold 5 fruit with a 50% chance of a duplicate, and iridium star would hold six fruit with a 100% chance of a duplicate. So you can go twice as long between harvests AND you get twice as much fruit overall. Same net value, but far more amenable to processing!
I think that'd make fruit trees way more appealing on the whole!
So what if we change how fruit trees grow? I'm thinking that in their juvenile stage(stage 1)
BUT they can't actually STOCKPILE any fruit at this stage(perhaps the stage 3 can stockpile 2 fruit to make it not quite so tedious?), so you need to go harvest them regularly. But tbh that's no big deal early on, really. But anyway, if you plant an Orange tree in summer 1 year 1, you would get 0 fruit in the first week, 3 fruit in the second week, you get 14 fruit over the season! Of course, that's only worth 1400g, but if you then make preserves from them, you are up to 3500g in year one! Not QUITE enough to pay for itself? But at least enough to be a wash, right? And if you make orange wine, you're looking at 4200g!
Certainly a whole lot more appealing, yeah?
Another change that'd be pretty neat to see is if the lower-quality fruit especially, instead of producing higher quality produce, produced MORE produce as time went on, and could stock more on the trees themselves. Apricots, for example, it doesn't really make all that much difference what quality the fruit is? An iridium star apricot is still worth just 110g at most, versus apricot preserves at 220g with artisan.
So what if instead, silver star trees could hold 4 fruit and had a 25% chance of each one producing a duplicate? Gold star could hold 5 fruit with a 50% chance of a duplicate, and iridium star would hold six fruit with a 100% chance of a duplicate. So you can go twice as long between harvests AND you get twice as much fruit overall. Same net value, but far more amenable to processing!
I think that'd make fruit trees way more appealing on the whole!
