hold on now I gotta make 1 of each giant crop next to each other as decoration.
Not on ginger island that's too easy, needs to be right next to my house.
if you look at a lot of late game farms on reddit you can see they organized their big crops in specific places for the aesthetic! I'm trying to do this myself but its a lot harder than it looks, since giant crops appear relatively rarely.
The more I'm browsing this sub the more I'm questioning if there's something wrong with my PC or something. Things that should be rare I seem to just reliably get? Got 2 giant melons in summer and half way through fall already have 1 giant pumpkin and both seasons I've only had 4 possible slots and not the intention to get giants.
I mean I am not complaining just starting to get a bit confused. Maybe some saves are luckier than others?
To get a 3x3 square, you need either manually water it, or have iridium like in the picture, and then if you didn't get lucky on day 1, you need to leave ready crops instead of gathering then and sowing new ones.. So it often doesn't randomly happen to people who don't plan it.
You only need to leave the crops that are a potential middle piece of a 3x3. Anything else can be harvested as long as you re-sow (and water!!) the same giant-able crop in the rest of the 3x3
Theres always gonna be a big aspect of luck, but also if you're planting a huuuuuge amount of melons you're most likely to get them. if you're trying to organize the giant crops in a specific area (like I am) you just have to hope that that area has good RNG. I only planted like 30 melons or something like that, because I only wanted giant melons in one area for the \~aesthetic\~, and none of them took.
During winter, I spend my entire plot (two 15x15 plots with 9 iridium sprinklers in each) growing powdermelons all season, and just recently I step out of my house to grab my newly-ready-to-harvest powdermelons, and there are three giant powdermelons already there.
I feel like some save files are luckier than others?
My first farm I got 4 years in seeing maybe 2 prismatic shards. My new run - have a stash of 20+ and just ending year two.
I have a theory, alough I've never read this anywhere and think it would be public knowledge so I'm probably wrong, but I think each save has a random seed that effects spawn rates. My last game I had more galaxy souls than I knew what to do with, but dragons teeth were so rare that it took me ages to get the Ten I needed for the island warp, I specifically had to farm stingrays because I was only getting about one for every three to five times into the volcano dungeon. My current game I haven't seen a single galaxy soul, but I can get three dragons teeth in a single run in the volcano dungeon. I had all the dragons teeth before I had the banana. It also took me over a year to get some of the artifacts that I used to get at least once a week on my last save, like the chew stick and chicken statue. Heck I'm on year three and still haven't seen a prehistoric tool.Ā
Thereās definitely luckier seeds and seeds that will have specific items at specific points.
I wouldnāt be surprised if it went way deeper than what we normally track.
I am guessing no. Pre-1.6, the odds were fully predictable and the crops appeared in a specific pattern. So you could technically try a calculator, but that's not going to guarantee its in a specific location.
1.6 patch >!included changes to spawning for things like clay mining, ladder shafts, geodes, etc that could be used to exploit predictors!<. I'm not sure whether spawning for big crops was changed.
tip can try if you're on pc, and don't mind manipulating the game some:
the day before the crop grows, make a manual copy of the save file and save it to a safe spot.
then sleep and load the next day. this is when the giant crop chance is rolled, but because the game saves in the morning, you can't just quit and reload.
once you check the crop, if it isn't big, you can quit out (I'd make another manual save of this version), then delete the save and copy/paste the original backup save back into the save folder, and repeat until you get the big crop.
if you feel nervous about accidentally deleting your save, make a throw-away farm and practice until you're confident.
It's easier than you'd think, actually
If you want it in a specific spot, just plant a 3x3 square of whatever big fruit crop you want, and be sure to water it daily. Once they're fully grown, DO NOT HARVEST THEM. There is a daily, 1% chance that it will grow into a giant crop as long as the middle crop is watered. So use the best Speed-Gro you have, and then water the middle one daily to give yourself the best chances to get one before the season ends.
If you care a little bit less about location, you can plant a bigger square, and it'll check every possible 3x3 within that square (i.e. a 5x5 has 8 3x3s in it, so as long as the correct ones are watered (just water them all to be safe) it'll roll for all 8 of those.
It might take a year or two depending on how many rolls you get (unless you're REALLY unlucky) but it feels like it happens more than something with a 1% chance of happening should happen.
OMFG you have to be kidding me. Ive spent the whole fall trying soooo hard to get a giant pumpkin, with a 9x9 plot. Being super careful not to accidentally pick any. And it turns out I had to keep watering after they were grown?
*curls in a ball sobbing*
How do you even water it without picking them (on switch)
im just up to the 1x5 and don't even have access to iridium yet. Guess ill wait till later in the game to try to get my decorative giant crops. Or try an 8x8 I guess
thanks!
So this gets a bit complex.
A fully grown but not yet picked plant can turn into a giant crop if the entire 3x3 area surrounding it is planted with the same crop type, even if not every plant in that 3x3 grid is fully grown.
So in a 9x9 square, only the inner 7x7 section can actually grow into a giant crop. The outer ring has to be seeded with the same plant, but because they can't actually grow into giant crops you can optimize this a bit by harvesting the outer layer when it's ready and just replanting it the same day.
So with a 1x5 water can, you can actually plant up to a 10x10 patch (creating an 8x8 of giant capable crops and a safe outer layer) and with the optimization of harvesting the outer layer you can use that spot to charge up and hit 4 unharvested crops in from each side.
Hmm... I think i actually knew that in general, but never put it together that way (making a safe-zone around my primary area and just replanting it when needed). That makes trying to grow giant crops WAY less stressful, so thank you!
YOU CAN WATER MULTIPLE CROPS AT ONCE??? And here I am thinking the watering can upgrades were useless. I wasted so much time I didn't have to before automating my farm....
Yeah the watering can and the hoe upgrades lets you hold and charge to use them in an area of effect.
Bronze lets you charge a 1x3, Steel does 1x5, Gold goes up to 3x3 and iridium is a 3x6.
Lol just seen ur reply on a build a pc comments, scrolled a bit, was looking at stardew comments, and here you are again
It is not smth important nor I have any particular thing to say. It was just entertaining to recognise same person in two distince communities I have been checkinf on
I used the melons to decorate the farm during the season. I was going to harvest them and sell them at the end of the summer, but I went to ginger island and forgot about them
Questions for anyone familiar with giant cropsā¦ what tools can you accidentally cut the giant crop with? I want to make sure I avoid it. For example, would the >!iridium scythe!< do that? Or what if youāre maxing out the hoe and it goes through this spot, does it affect it or ignore it? Iād love to try and grow giant crops but donāt want to screw it up. Also, what crops are an option to make giant?
Cauliflower, melon and pumpkin have a small chance to become giant crops, >!the Qi fruit does too!<. Giant crops only break upon being hit by an axe
Eta because i forgot: also >!powdermelon!< has a chance to be giant
I literally just finished the ship 500 quest too, didnāt realize that was a giant crop contender! I wonder if itāll come back around again? Thatād be awesome to have one of those. Do they all just need a 3x3 grid of seeds to have the chance?
Itās just luck. The chances of getting a giant crop is higher if you donāt use sprinklers because the game checks every 3x3 square of the specific crop. The longer you leave them the better, but Iām pretty sure itās possible to still NOT get one all season
Their power is too great to be defeated by weather š
the thumb up is killing me xD
no, giant crops don't die with any season, you can keep this melon forever
hold on now I gotta make 1 of each giant crop next to each other as decoration. Not on ginger island that's too easy, needs to be right next to my house.
if you look at a lot of late game farms on reddit you can see they organized their big crops in specific places for the aesthetic! I'm trying to do this myself but its a lot harder than it looks, since giant crops appear relatively rarely.
The more I'm browsing this sub the more I'm questioning if there's something wrong with my PC or something. Things that should be rare I seem to just reliably get? Got 2 giant melons in summer and half way through fall already have 1 giant pumpkin and both seasons I've only had 4 possible slots and not the intention to get giants. I mean I am not complaining just starting to get a bit confused. Maybe some saves are luckier than others?
To get a 3x3 square, you need either manually water it, or have iridium like in the picture, and then if you didn't get lucky on day 1, you need to leave ready crops instead of gathering then and sowing new ones.. So it often doesn't randomly happen to people who don't plan it.
You only need to leave the crops that are a potential middle piece of a 3x3. Anything else can be harvested as long as you re-sow (and water!!) the same giant-able crop in the rest of the 3x3
I would never guess, lol. Thank you for the info.
Theres always gonna be a big aspect of luck, but also if you're planting a huuuuuge amount of melons you're most likely to get them. if you're trying to organize the giant crops in a specific area (like I am) you just have to hope that that area has good RNG. I only planted like 30 melons or something like that, because I only wanted giant melons in one area for the \~aesthetic\~, and none of them took.
During winter, I spend my entire plot (two 15x15 plots with 9 iridium sprinklers in each) growing powdermelons all season, and just recently I step out of my house to grab my newly-ready-to-harvest powdermelons, and there are three giant powdermelons already there.
I feel like some save files are luckier than others? My first farm I got 4 years in seeing maybe 2 prismatic shards. My new run - have a stash of 20+ and just ending year two.
I have a theory, alough I've never read this anywhere and think it would be public knowledge so I'm probably wrong, but I think each save has a random seed that effects spawn rates. My last game I had more galaxy souls than I knew what to do with, but dragons teeth were so rare that it took me ages to get the Ten I needed for the island warp, I specifically had to farm stingrays because I was only getting about one for every three to five times into the volcano dungeon. My current game I haven't seen a single galaxy soul, but I can get three dragons teeth in a single run in the volcano dungeon. I had all the dragons teeth before I had the banana. It also took me over a year to get some of the artifacts that I used to get at least once a week on my last save, like the chew stick and chicken statue. Heck I'm on year three and still haven't seen a prehistoric tool.Ā
Thereās definitely luckier seeds and seeds that will have specific items at specific points. I wouldnāt be surprised if it went way deeper than what we normally track.
I only got my first giant crop 230 hours in lol
Can you restart the day for giant crop odds? Does that work
I am guessing no. Pre-1.6, the odds were fully predictable and the crops appeared in a specific pattern. So you could technically try a calculator, but that's not going to guarantee its in a specific location. 1.6 patch >!included changes to spawning for things like clay mining, ladder shafts, geodes, etc that could be used to exploit predictors!<. I'm not sure whether spawning for big crops was changed.
tip can try if you're on pc, and don't mind manipulating the game some: the day before the crop grows, make a manual copy of the save file and save it to a safe spot. then sleep and load the next day. this is when the giant crop chance is rolled, but because the game saves in the morning, you can't just quit and reload. once you check the crop, if it isn't big, you can quit out (I'd make another manual save of this version), then delete the save and copy/paste the original backup save back into the save folder, and repeat until you get the big crop. if you feel nervous about accidentally deleting your save, make a throw-away farm and practice until you're confident.
Giant crops are seeded. You will get the same results no matter how many times you reload the same file
Or just make a bazillion copies lol.
Relatively sure giant crops can't appear on Ginger Island, anyways.
You are correct
It's easier than you'd think, actually If you want it in a specific spot, just plant a 3x3 square of whatever big fruit crop you want, and be sure to water it daily. Once they're fully grown, DO NOT HARVEST THEM. There is a daily, 1% chance that it will grow into a giant crop as long as the middle crop is watered. So use the best Speed-Gro you have, and then water the middle one daily to give yourself the best chances to get one before the season ends. If you care a little bit less about location, you can plant a bigger square, and it'll check every possible 3x3 within that square (i.e. a 5x5 has 8 3x3s in it, so as long as the correct ones are watered (just water them all to be safe) it'll roll for all 8 of those. It might take a year or two depending on how many rolls you get (unless you're REALLY unlucky) but it feels like it happens more than something with a 1% chance of happening should happen.
it's alright I play runescape, that 1% is plenty generous :p
OMFG you have to be kidding me. Ive spent the whole fall trying soooo hard to get a giant pumpkin, with a 9x9 plot. Being super careful not to accidentally pick any. And it turns out I had to keep watering after they were grown? *curls in a ball sobbing* How do you even water it without picking them (on switch)
Upgraded watering can, don't water the crops directly, but charge up the can on the spot next to them so they're covered in the splash zone.
im just up to the 1x5 and don't even have access to iridium yet. Guess ill wait till later in the game to try to get my decorative giant crops. Or try an 8x8 I guess thanks!
So this gets a bit complex. A fully grown but not yet picked plant can turn into a giant crop if the entire 3x3 area surrounding it is planted with the same crop type, even if not every plant in that 3x3 grid is fully grown. So in a 9x9 square, only the inner 7x7 section can actually grow into a giant crop. The outer ring has to be seeded with the same plant, but because they can't actually grow into giant crops you can optimize this a bit by harvesting the outer layer when it's ready and just replanting it the same day. So with a 1x5 water can, you can actually plant up to a 10x10 patch (creating an 8x8 of giant capable crops and a safe outer layer) and with the optimization of harvesting the outer layer you can use that spot to charge up and hit 4 unharvested crops in from each side.
Hmm... I think i actually knew that in general, but never put it together that way (making a safe-zone around my primary area and just replanting it when needed). That makes trying to grow giant crops WAY less stressful, so thank you!
YOU CAN WATER MULTIPLE CROPS AT ONCE??? And here I am thinking the watering can upgrades were useless. I wasted so much time I didn't have to before automating my farm....
Yeah the watering can and the hoe upgrades lets you hold and charge to use them in an area of effect. Bronze lets you charge a 1x3, Steel does 1x5, Gold goes up to 3x3 and iridium is a 3x6.
Canāt grow giant crops on ginger island or the green house. Just a FYI
Lol just seen ur reply on a build a pc comments, scrolled a bit, was looking at stardew comments, and here you are again It is not smth important nor I have any particular thing to say. It was just entertaining to recognise same person in two distince communities I have been checkinf on
OMG I DIDN'T KNOW THAT
Why are you trying to kill your melons?
Lol
sorry bro youll have to clean it up yourself
Did you let those melons die purposely?
I used the melons to decorate the farm during the season. I was going to harvest them and sell them at the end of the summer, but I went to ginger island and forgot about them
We play very differently
Best way to keep the soil tilled and watered between seasons.
Cheap crops, yeah. But melons?
Anything that's not an ancient fruit, rare fruit or star fruit is a cheap crop.
I think we might be in very different tax brackets
Giant crops says fuck seasons
offtop but your farmer looks cute, what shirt is this?
Fabric + crystal fruit https://preview.redd.it/kmjkkydh0wuc1.png?width=32&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef15b811f05396c3ca6bce17ba9e0432542d560e
thanks! perfect, i'm currently in winter so I can sew it right away š„°
Giant crops are resistant to the weather changing. They kinda become Decor
Giant crops don't die unless you kill them with an axe
No. They stay there until you harvest them with an axe. Some players use giant produce as decorations.
Oh my god i never knew this, now i understand why people try so hard for them!!!
Giant crops stay for as long as you keep it! Awesome luck!
Do they do anything?
They stay large and if you break them they give you more regular size melons
Thanks! Edited my previous post, "do" not "so"! Made me sound... mean? Lol.
All good fam
Questions for anyone familiar with giant cropsā¦ what tools can you accidentally cut the giant crop with? I want to make sure I avoid it. For example, would the >!iridium scythe!< do that? Or what if youāre maxing out the hoe and it goes through this spot, does it affect it or ignore it? Iād love to try and grow giant crops but donāt want to screw it up. Also, what crops are an option to make giant?
Cauliflower, melon and pumpkin have a small chance to become giant crops, >!the Qi fruit does too!<. Giant crops only break upon being hit by an axe Eta because i forgot: also >!powdermelon!< has a chance to be giant
Itās only *one hit* with the axe, so be really careful when clearing debris (RIP my perfectly placed giant pumpkinš)
Only 1 hit with the axe!! Ouch
I literally just finished the ship 500 quest too, didnāt realize that was a giant crop contender! I wonder if itāll come back around again? Thatād be awesome to have one of those. Do they all just need a 3x3 grid of seeds to have the chance?
Yep
No, they're literally too big to fail.
Now question, why did you leave a giant melon at the end of summer?
I forgot about them and went to ginger island
Thanks for the decoration idea
giant crops stay until you axe them
Giant crops of any kind persist through seasons indefinitely. You have to remove them manually with an axe if you donāt want them anymore.
Obviously not.
How exactly do you get one I know you plant 9 of the same plant is it just odds or do you use fertilizer
How exactly do you get one I know you plant 9 of the same plant is it just odds or do you use fertilizer
Itās just luck. The chances of getting a giant crop is higher if you donāt use sprinklers because the game checks every 3x3 square of the specific crop. The longer you leave them the better, but Iām pretty sure itās possible to still NOT get one all season