[JapanMS] Farming!

I posted this on my blog, but I figured I'd save you guys the hastle of going there by sharing it with you here!



Now, I haven't messed with this much. I only went into my farm for about a minute, looked around, and left. I'll tell you what I know so far, however.

There is a UI that you can press a hotkey for that will warp you instantly to your own, personal farm.




Once you've pressed that button to warp to your farm, it'll give you a pop-up asking for reassurance that you want to go to your farm. Then, you get ported to a small size map with two platforms. On your farm, there are many spots where you can plant things. When you hover your mouse over the "click" icon, you see a yellow box with a grey blob doing a farming motion. If you click it, it brings up another user interface.





As you can see, you can buy a multitude of things to plant - you can customize your farm in just about any way. It's more or less your own, personal ore/herb farm, which is amazing. Some of the items cost a good sum of mesos and the rest cost "FP," or "Farming Points." Now... from what I can tell, Farminig Points are only available in the Cash Shop - I COULD BE WRONG. There may be other ways to obtain Farming Points, but at this moment, I don't know. I would assume you could get stuff via farming and setting up your farm and stuff like that, but I haven't explored this content enough yet to give any confirmation.

To leave your farm, simply press the same hotkey you used to enter and it'll give you a menu with a bunch of options, such as even inviting people to come to your farm or changing the theme of your farm!




When you go to plant something, there are limitations. For some items, you must have a free space to the left or right of it, or both. I bought a Brown Ore Vein to test it out (it cost me 168k Mesos to plant it). Once I did that, an image appeared of a rock, as if it were part of Perion or something. I put my cursor over it and it said I had to wait 60 minutes before being able to mine the vein.





To the left of it, I have another kind of option. I can plant something to increase my chances of being successful when mining for ore or digging up herbs. For herbs, you have these bags, I assume they're bags of soil or nutrients. However, since mine is an ore vien, I need dynamite :





Of course, I don't need these - they're not a necessity - they're just there for support. They cost Farming Points, which I still haven't discovered how to obtain other than via Nexon Points. The dynamite, depending on which one you choose, gives up to 2x the amount of product produced. After the 60 minutes have completed, the Ore Veins grow and you can mine them.





Unlike normal veins, however, they're all a single item. When you mine it, you get a ton of items from it, similar to the Heart Ore Vein.




After you’ve mined the spot, you have to wait 60 full minutes for them to grow back. All of the items used for farming last 7 days. After 7 days, they expire and you can use those spots to plant other stuff.



See this thing here? You can use it to forge plates from ores and potions from herbs. Also, there are a variety of NPCs you can put in your farm, such as the storage NPCs, Profession town shop NPCs, and even Cygnus, Resistance, and Dual Blade specific NPCs! Unfortunately, I don’t know what most of them do and they’re off limits at the moment, so I can’t find out.