Introduction
The manor (Shroomie farm) will be unlocked on day 3 of the game after you have completed the Normal 5-10 stage, and the Prayer Statue will be unlocked at the same time. These two features are closely linked.
In the manor you can grow plants that give you fruit.
You can find 3 kinds of seeds and 2 kinds of fertilizer here.
The seeds:
Basic Seed: you get them daily always in the quantity indicated.
Each greenhouse level provides 1 additional seed per day.
Seed: You can buy this seed from the red gems.
Premium Seed: You can get this seed from the other features.
Common Fertilizer: 20 seeds per day for free on a fixed basis, and an additional 2x from ads depending on the level of your greenhoused.
Fertilizer: You can buy it from red seeds.
You can also get all of the above seeds and fertilizers from multiple features.
You have 6 plants. The 1st one unlocks immediately upon opening the manor.
2 = Manor lvl 5
3. = Manor lvl 10
4. = Manor lvl 18
5. = Manor lvl 25
6. = Manor lvl 35 (This plant can also be bought for money and can be unlocked immediately)
In the prayer state you can use the fruits to pray to the statue, and it gives you bonuses in return. You can have 5 buffs at a time.
These bonuses can be locked with a padlock if they are right for you. If you lock a bonus that is right for you and you want to keep it, the cost of praying increases as follows.
0 locked bonus cost = 100 fruit / pray
1 closed bonus cost = 300 fruit / pray
2 sealed bonus cost = 600 fruit / pray
3 closed bonus cost = 900 fruits / pray
4 closed bonus cost = 1200 fruits / pray
Manor upgrading
Whenever you have the opportunity always upgrade greenhouses 2 levels more than lawnmower and scarecrow. You’re simply better off, even if the right xp curve isn’t so optimal, since the greenhouse has extra seeds and affects both the harvest quantity and growth speed bonus. Whereas for the same bonus, lawnmower and scarecrow require 4 manor levels, greenhouse only require 3, and you can even collect extra seeds throughout the day. Second priority is the scarecrow for harvest quantity bonus.
Fertilizer tactic
This will be the rush event that we as f2p players should focus on the most, as this is where we can harness the power of the community, and where paid players can’t gain a huge advantage.
But what do I mean by community power?
You need to ask every player for 5 fertilizer help per day. This may sound like a bore, but with enough time and kindness it can be done, even if it doesn’t seem like it.
Post in world chat that you accept fertilizer help and try to keep it visible at all times.
Contact each player on the server one by one and ask them for fertilizer help.
Most players on the server will be new to the game for the first time, so give them a description of how they can do this straight away.
Eg: Please click on profile->click on manor menu->click on one of the plantations->click on help fertilizer button, then use the fertilizers.
Believe me, most players will do it and will be grateful that you showed them this feature, as most players don’t discover it on their own. Encourage them to do this every day, and add them as friends to increase your intimacy.
Later in the game, especially after parking starts, offer protection in exchange for fertilizer help. Many weaker players farm, so you can make a mutually beneficial deal for both of you. To be precise, you can’t set up to protect them, but you can make life difficult for the players who attack/rob them. Focus on parking, retrainer, arena and manor raiding to farm players who are attacking players under your protection. Do not let them park or retrainer. Do this for 1-2 days and then contact them afterwards so that if they leave certain players alone, you won’t attack them either. In most cases, they will come forward themselves because they will be fed up with you not leaving them alone. With that, I got fertilizer help from about 20 players a day.
Partner
Choosing the right partner will be very important for a number of reasons. My suggestion is to come to the server in pairs if you can, and try to find a player with similar activity level as you.
If you increase the intimacy with your friends, the time of the fertilizer will also increase. The more intimacy you have, the more time your friends can speed up their plants.
Your partner will also play a big role in helping you use super harvest most effectively, but I’ll explain that a bit later, let’s go in order.
The first rush event
If you apply all the things I mentioned above, you will be first in the first rush event, I think there is no doubt about that. I got 2x as much fruit as 2nd place and my manor got the highest level, even the paid players can’t compete with that. This will set you up to win prayer events in the future for sure, because you gain an advantage that they can’t catch up.
If you get enough help from the other players you will definitely run out of seeds, so my suggestion is that until the end of the first rush event, the first priority from the family shop should be 5 seeds a day. If you can achieve that, then you can buy tools for mining.
Buy 5-8 seeds per day and 4 fertilizers per day from the manor shop. With these two you can keep your seeds in balance. Use fertilizer only if you have to, otherwise use only the free ones per day. If you do it right, you can stack fertilizers.
Do not spend more fruit than you need to get to the first place. Save as much as you can for the next rush event, this will further increase your advantage.
For low spenders I highly recommend Joyful farming, a great battlepass for early game.
After the first rush event
The next big change comes with the arrival of parking, when the super harvest becomes available. To complete the 3 super harvests per week, you will need 90 large seeds, which are difficult to manage early in the game. If you have the chance, try to save them during the first rush event. What else you can do to help yourself is to try to make a big plant from medium seeds, and start the super harvest by making the first few and last few from medium seeds. With a bit of luck, this can be enough to get up to 60 large seeds to maximize your reward.
Family prayer
At the second prayer rush, the family prayer rush event arrives. Here the total fruit spent by your family counts. This is another point why it is important to have your own family if you are a really hardcore player. The family leaders are also rewarded with rush emblems here, with the winning family leader getting 3 of them. If you calculate that you are “full” in a year and you need 440 rush emblems in total, this 36 emblems is almost 10% of the family rush!
Here you can see the difference between member and leader rewards.
Super harvest + Partner
To make the most optimal use of super harvest, it is best to start it before midnight with 20 small fertilizers stacked to the max. But why?
Let’s look at an example:
You start the super harvest at 22:30. If you want to do it in the most optimal way, by this time the plants below are already big plants, and they will finish around this time, so without fertilizer you have already solved some of the 30 plants you need to use for super harvest.
So at 22:30 you’ll be at 24/30 if all 6 of your plant slots are resolved, if you’re not there yet, you’ll obviously have as many plant slots as you have.
Then plant again and ask your partner to fertilize 5 plants for you. If you have reached the right intimacy level, he will immediately make it for you, so the super harvest is already at 19/30 and we haven’t even used fertilizer yet!
If you did everything perfectly, you have 19/20 or 20/20 small fertilizer here. The next step is, reduce 5 of your plant harvest time to get them ready after midnight. Try to time the completion of these plants to happen soon after midnight so your partner can go to rest earlier.
You use these up and take 2x free fertilizers out of the ad. Let’s assume that you currently get 14 fertilizers from the ads.
So you are now at 48 small fertilizers.
48 fertilizers = 24 hours speed up.
If we calculate it this way, that might be enough to speed up a few more plants, depending on where you are in manor upgrading. Speed up your 6th plant until you get 2x small fertilizers from the ads. You are now at 17/30.
You probably also have some fertilizers left over from the previous 48, calculating with the start time and the harvest time, you will have 10 fertilizers left. Crossing midnight, we arrive at the time when the next plants are ready. You are now at 12/30 with the super harvest.You then plant again and ask your partner to fertilize 5 more plants, leaving you with 7/30 of the super harvest left. Speed up 1 more with small fertilizers, so you can stay at 6/30.
You have the 14 small fertilizers left over from the day before, and you pick up 2×14 small fertilizers again today. This will give you 42 fertilizer again, enough for 21 hours of speed up. this will be enough for 6 more plants, amd only 6/30 left. You still have 1.5 hours left from the super harvest to help you out, and you can also fit in some large fertilizer use if needed.
As you progress, and your manor gets higher and higher, you won’t need a big fertilizer at all. If you solve the remaining 5 with just large fertilizer, because you are not at high level at manor that’s also good.
There is one more thing you can do to reduce your use of large fertilisers to 0.
That is, when you start the super harvest, you can write in the world chat that you are happy to accept any fertilizer help for the next 3 hours. Since the super harvest is still going on after midnight, I’m sure if you have your own family, have helped players a lot, and are a known person on the server, there will be players who will help you. I even have a little fertilizer left over in most cases even at lower levels using these.
Save your fertilizers from battle pass, for your super harvest.
If you want to be the most effective, use super harvest in the next few days’ pairings to get your manor as high as possible. Tuesday<->Wednesday Thursday<->Friday Saturday<->Sunday. This way you still have a chance on Monday to make some improvements to your manor and/or grow plants faster and/or get more fruit for them.
There’s one more thing you can do to super harvest, and that’s if you go offline the timer doesn’t go down. In my opinion it doesn’t work as it should and is probably a bug, but considering you go offline just to solve without fertilizers you don’t get any better because you lose time.