The Mystery of Herbs II

The Mystery of Herbs II
21st of February 2019 - 27th of February 2019
Difficulty: Hard​

• There will be two special event drops:

Glue Pot

You will get these drops when harvesting your crops, stables and workshops
on the 3 main lands only!
Broken Glass

You will get these drops when harvesting your trees, stables and workshops
on the 3 main lands only!
You have a chance of receiving either drop with each breeding process.
Special mill product:
Portable Greenhouse

Ingredients: 16 x Glue Pots + 13 x Broken Glass
Time: 7 minutes and 30 seconds
It can be produced in the main mill - Events feed tab.

• There will be a special mini-game. Each game played counts towards the main progress bar to earn the event items:

Each player will receive 1 x Portable Greenhouse to try the mini-game!.
The event has 2 parts -

1) Each Game played, counts towards the "Played Games" Bar to earn rewards. Each game played earns you Crates O' Herbs to win the special seeds to grow.
2) Sow the special seeds to harvest Herbs to donate to the "Task List" and earn rewards.
The Crate O' Herbs can be opened from the tab on the Game layer or in your "Consumables" inventory.

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  • There are three special seeds:

Water berry seed


Valley rose seed


Prickly fungus seed


Note: Only seeds won from the Crate O' Herbs can be planted on your fields.

Water berry seed planted

Time: 4 hours
Gives (2x2): 156 EP

Valley rose seed planted

Time: 6 hours
Gives (2x2): 280 EP

Prickly fungus seed planted

Time: 8 hours
Gives (2x2): 432 EP

Plantable on the 3 main lands only!
Once harvested, the seeds reward Herbs that are then able to be donated to the Herb side of the Task list.
For Cloud Rows:
1. You need to play 36 mini-games.
Requirements to mill 35 Portable Greenhouses:
Glue Pots: 16*35=560
Broken Glass: 13*35=455
Note: Each player will receive 1 free Portable Greenhouse.

2. For CR2, you need to do 50 tasks.
Prickly fungus plants: 1225
Valley rose plants: 1380
Water berry plants: 1380

B.P. issues a special warning: The EP and Event crop buffs start as soon as they are won.

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FAQs: https://board-en.farmerama.com/index.php?threads/the-mystery-of-herbs-ii.34768/#post-217189
SOS: https://board-en.farmerama.com/index.php?threads/sos-the-mystery-of-herbs-ii.34796/#post-217336
Thanks @joanc123

 

Thanks, Nala777 for crunching numbers for all of us.
I will not be stripping my Glade for this one, will be happy to reach 36 games and get sufficient seeds out of crates to go up to 50
I quite like the mini game!
Good luck all!

 

You don't need to, @kibsnfebs We'll get drops harvesting EVERYTHING: trees, stables, workshops and crops.

 

Thanks Nala for starting thread.

To me too confusing at the moment to try and work my strategy, im sure it will become clear as mud once I start.

why have we got manure as a reward, didnt we have an event recently where they had manure as a reward then eventually they recinded on this stupid reward heres hoping it happens again but Im not holding my breath.

Good luck to those who are participating and to those having a break enjoy the down time

 

Yeah it was manure alright. You know it's going to be hard going when the specs for the event is a full page and a half long and those buffs that start immediately? why can't we save them?
All I know is I don't know. just wing it, not expect to finish, spend no money, and not lose sleep. I'm hoarding my SG from my trees and spins and I've passed on the last four events just because I needed a break from them and it was good to get up to par on all the crops and animals I was low on.

 

wise words.

I'm not too thrilled, but the farm is prepped. The workshops and trees are back in the magic glade. We'll see how it works out. If not, well, life will go on and there will be new events in the future.

 

I'm going to give this one a miss. I'll fill my fields full of trees.
Good luck to all participating

 

I'm in only b/c of my terrible case of EFOCD!!! But, oh how do I wish we could have a simple grow and throw event!
3 different crops etc. So much thinking, strategizing!!!! I need simplicity....from my relaxing farm game! LOL

 

I'm out. Time to just farm and restock my barn. The last event wore me out, but I finished it. Finally, there be ahuehuete tree on my farm.

 

Thank you all for numbers and strategy ideas

Tomorrow another event is starting with drops needed, so 3 drops to keep in mind when sending gifts to neighbors.. SERIOUSLY???
When will BP ever listen to us?

I think I will still be in with this one, as we have had it before and I quite liked it.

Good luck to everybody, whatever your decision will be

 

After trying this a bit, I came to the conclusion I only need 1 field devoted to planting event stuff. So hello trees, welcome back to the daylight

 

Last event did me in. I got the tree, but totally disgusted with the way the events are any more. I will just sit back and have some farm time. I probably will drop premium subscription and let my harvester go in a couple months after what I bought runs out.

I can't understand this event and really don't like the mini game at all.

 

I got 122 glue pots & 177 broken glasses in my first harvest.

 

A few additional numbers...

To complete all 75 tasks:
3115 prickly fungus
3100 valley rose
3110 water berry

To complete 100 games:
99 x 16 = 1584 glue pots
99 x 13 = 1287 broken glass
+ 1 free game

 

I like some of the minigames but I agree this one is not my cup of tea AT ALL! It's to hard to understand.

 

Has anyone tried to see what happens if you reload the page / close the game window after you start playing the game but before you find the treasure? Usually if you're taking too many turns you can try again.

 

Yes. If I don't find the treasure in the first two tries, I close the game window and start the search again.

 

Yes, I'm doing this and quite successfully getting 9 crates for every game played.
Thanks @squigglegiggle for these helpful numbers.
Wow @12ss12 drops look quite reasonable.

You have to play the mini-game to get the treasure/crates. The crates give seeds. Hope it helps.
Thanks @joanc123 for the SOS thread. You always do this for us.

 

Is anyone else having a hard time getting broken glass? I have my glade set up with trees and stables and I only got 24 broken glass. That means I could only mill one greenhouse. I'm not sure how I can increase my drops. Has anyone found some stables give more than others or trees?

 

I have more broken glass than glue pots. I have kept my storage facilities out. On my 2nd farm, I have a mix of crops, trees and stables on mainland, crops on green meadow and trees in glade. I had more trees on green meadow but removed them in favor of crops. Plots are 1x1. I have a total of 11 greenhouses in the mill, including the free one. My crops have been approx 10 hour crops watered, manured due to appointments during the day and a long crop overnight. Used foxtail millet on 2nd farm and emmer on this one.

I will wait until I have more greenhouses before I play the mini game in order to time the bonus harvest amounts from the rewards to ensure the maximum amount of crops.

I went to the archives and reviewed strategy from last time to help form my plan. While there are some nice rewards in the prize list, I'm not fretting over trying to reach 100 games. I'll be happy to reach Cloud row 2 and anything above that will be lovely.

Last edition of this event, I was able to do 75 games and that was working hard and all the way up to the end, so I do not have a reasonable expectation of being able to do 100 games.

Good luck!