Absolutely the first thing you should do when you get an EC is grow crops!Don't spend your money on boxes, bedding, pets, staff or anything else - use it to buy fields, seeds and manure. This may sound weird but there is method in this madness...
Crops = cash!
Spend the first few weeks that you own your EC growing and harvesting crops to build up your equus reserve. Then, once you have a good amount of money, you can start to buy the boxes and employ the staff that you'll need. And you'll be able to afford much better quality. Which means your EC will get off to a flying start.
The seasons that you can plant crops (and how long they take to grow are shown below):
Carrot seeds - spring - 9 days
Wheat seeds - summer - 9 days
Barley seeds - spring - 10 days
Oat seeds - spring - 11 days
Turnip seeds - summer - 7 days
Pass seeds - autumn - 30 days
Apple seeds - autumn - A harvest every Fall
Flax seeds - spring - 8 days
The best things to grow are Flax in the spring and Turnips in the summer - these will bring in the most money when you sell them back to the store.
We'll explain about the other crops that you'll need to grow in a future post.
So it is true - sometimes money does grow on trees (well on crops anyway!)
Lucy
what if its winter... what to i grow htne... i just restarted my EC and i have no customrers or crops... that only thing i have is a small fertile meadow... what to do...?
ReplyDeletealso... i dont know how to get my EC so that others come to it... can you give me some hints??
ReplyDeleteTry dragoniys page on the AU Howrse. On other versions, check mods pages.
DeleteIf it's winter you can only grow things in a greenhouse. Wait until spring if you don't have one.
ReplyDeleteAs we say in the post above, don't bother about trying to get boarders yet. They won't come until you're more established. Grow crops, get money (and carrots) and then you can pay for the things you need like boxes and staff. Only then should you worry about getting boarders.
Actually, I've found that for summer crops, you'll tend to get a much better profit from growing wheat, not turnips, because you can sell both the wheat itself, as well as the bedding.
ReplyDeleteWhat does each crop produce? Like for example, I know wheat gives me straw bedding and wheat oats. I think that's what they're called anyways. But what about oats and barley?
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty self explanatory. Barley seeds produce barley, oat seeds produce oats etc. Flax produces flax for mashes and also for bedding.
ReplyDeleteMy ony question is how do you grow them...
ReplyDeletehow do you harvest?
ReplyDelete@Lastest Anonymous If they are ready to harvest it showed say awaiting harvest. Click on the plus button and harvest it. I hope this helps :)
ReplyDeletehowrse has been updated and how do you get a green house its nereing winter
ReplyDeleteHow many of each crop can you get in each size field?
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