Well, I finally did it. Using the strategy I described in a previous post I wrote here, I hit farming level 50, allowing me to always get triple drops from all crops.
What a great achievement.
When I first started farming, I didn’t use any Farming XP Boost III potions. However, once I got more invested, I had my coop brew for me. He brewed the 54-minute farming XP Boost III potions with his Alchemy 50. When drinking the potion with a lv 100 Parrot and the Potion Affinity Artifact, the Farming XP Boost lasts for roughly 1 hour and 54 minutes.
According to my sky.lea.moe, I only harvested 4.2 million pumpkins and 11.7 million sugarcane to get to farming 50. Thanks to the Bonus 20% Skill XP bonus, the Rabbit pet, and Farming XP Boost potions. Because of those, I was able to get to farming 50 much quicker than previously possible.
I took this cool screenshot when I was 1 xp away from hitting farming 50.
Farming 50
I kind of messed up and didn’t hit exactly 4,000,000 xp, as there was nothing in the game that would give exactly 1 farming xp, as there was the 20% skill xp boost multiplier happening for the foreseeable future. So, I opted to break a potato in the farming island for 1.2 xp to achieve my farming 50.
I could have made more money if I used an Elephant pet to farm instead of the rabbit, however, I preferred to save time over the profit.
Currently, only 552 players have farming 50. I’m not sure how many people actually have farming 50, since the Skill rankings were reset on August 21. It’s been 2 weeks since then and of the 1.2 million players that logged in, 552 of them are farming 50. This means that I’m in the top 0.045% of players in this skill. Very epic.
While farming, I’ve learned quite a few things. First off, the captcha system that currently is in place is very buggy. The server stops you from moving, but the captcha doesn’t load, meaning that you’re trapped and can’t move. Additionally, when the captcha triggers, it makes you face downwards, meaning that you break the crops that you’re standing on. It’s annoying when you’re harvesting the sugarcane because then you’ll have to replant it. Furthermore, it always seems to stop me in the exact same row every single farming session I have. Around 34 minutes in, it’ll stop me. To fix this, I have to warp to the main lobby using /l and rejoin, or I would warp to the hub and back to get the captcha to load. It’s quite annoying and breaks my farming rhythm.
Another thing I discovered is that farming is actually decent for getting your taming skill up. On my journey to farming 50, I hit taming 46, which is actually very nice. I do believe that foraging for taming xp is slightly faster, however, farming requires less attention than foraging in the park, as you don’t have to aim super well or compete with other people.