Blender Bash

Jan 31 - Feb 5, 2019, 6 days long

Subtitle: insert brain, press pulse as needed... LOL!
I had to read this one a couple of times

Event Crop
Tumbler Lily
Time: 6h, Gives: 240 TEP?, 240/6= 40TEP/h
Plantable on Mainland & Green Meadow only? , 2 fields.
I suspect the TEP is a typo and we are supposed to receive EP since this appears to be a primarily Main farm event.
A lot of this event is random so difficult to predict Total numbers of crops needed plus we can keep going after we have fed all the foxes and penguins. My plan is to grow event crop during the day and sleepytime (long regular) crops overnight for drops. Adjust as necessary.

Event Drop
Blender Controller, gleaned from Mainland & Green Meadow when harvesting trees, crops, stables & workshops

Event Mill Products
Blender aka spawning Bear feed, reward one of the special blenders
200 Tumbler Lilies + 16 blender controllers, 1 min in main or tropical mills
Place Special Blenders in Magical Glades for blueberry or mango juice rewards or Crate O’Blender Bash. Don’t forget to open Crates!
Start with feeding the bears as frequently as possible to get the blenders and place them to start collecting from them as soon/frequently as possible. Does not appear to be anyway to speed them up so frequency is key. Roughly 3 times a day.

Blue Cocktail
aka Keira Fox feed.
10 blueberry juice, acquired from special blender that have been placed in Glade and harvested, 2 at a time! lol...
Total of 40 feedings needed to complete this part of event. 85 SC rewarded

Mango Cocktail
aka Paula Penguin feed.
10 mango juice
Total of 40 feedings needed to complete this part of event. 85 SC rewarded.

40 feedings for Blue/Mango Cocktails * 10 juices per feed = 400/2 per blender harvest = 200 blender harvests, the more blender harvests the quicker this is accomplished. Worst case scenario... 200 /3 blender harvests per day = 66.7 days! if using only one blender in the Glade. 6.7 days if using 10 blenders the whole time. The more blenders the merrier. This time frame speeds up if one manages to score Deluxe blenders or High-Tech blenders.

Rewards
Star Coins are rewarded and can be spent in Event Shop. Some prizes can be bought multiple times.
CR 10 SC + We Love Honey! 15 SC + Hidden Fruits 25 SC + Cool Shakers 25 SC = 75 SC. 170 - 75 = 95 SC to be spent on other prizes. Still debating if I want to use them for the Cocktails to get a jump start on things or extra givers. Probably givers.
Other prizes are also rewarded randomly.

This event should be more relaxing than past couple of weeks.

I joined an exercise class and Silver Sneakers to try to improve my health. So less time than ever for chitchat.

Best of luck, y'all!

 

I bow to SuzeeRabbit for your bravery and superior reading skills. THANK YOU for starting this thread.

My plan is to completely wing it on this one. Do what I can, reap whatever rewards I can and it's going to be good enough. This, in spite of a very nice cloud row. I just have so much to do in RL that farming has to take a back seat...

 

Making an attempt at some calculations although it's random what you get. The most important thing here is getting an early start and making sure to delete the colored Blenders once the charges are used and adding them back to the fields as Blender boxes.

To feed 40 foxes you need 40 Blue Cocktails milled from 400 Blueberry Juice.
The 40 penguins need 40 Mango Cocktails milled from 400 Mango Juice.
If necessary it's possible to buy up to 5 of each Cocktail from the Event shop using Star Coins gained in the event. This will not be considered in the following calculations.
To feed the spawning bears you need Blenders that each require 200 Tumbler Lilies and 16 Blender Controllers. These give out one of the special Blenders.
With only getting the special Blenders from bears:
If only getting regular Blue and Orange Blenders from the bears we will need 67 Blue Blenders and 67 Orange Blenders to feed 40 foxes and 40 penguins.
At the most 26,800 Tumbler Lilies and 2,144 Blender Controllers are needed.
If getting all Blender Deluxe we need 45 Blue Blender Deluxe and 45 Orange Blender Deluxe.
This means we would need 18,000 Tumbler Lilies and 1,440 Blender Controllers.
If only getting High-Tech Blenders we need 67 of them.
This means we need 13,400 Tumbler Lilies and 1,072 Blender Controllers.
If getting uneven amounts of the two colored Blenders we would need even more. In this case it might be possible to delete the extra blenders and get blender boxes that hopefully will change to the color you need more of. If they can change color after being deleted is somewhat unclear in the FAQ though. It says that the Blenders when deleted will be Blender boxes. These will turn into new Blenders, something that will cut down the amount of crops needed.

Remember that doing all three charges of each blender takes 21 hours in total if harvesting right when it's done. Therefore the crops need to be done at least a day before the end of the event. The event crops are grown on the main field and green meadow. This means having around 400 1x1 fields for use growing crops. With water the crops take 4h 48min. With CAC you can then get 1,200 crops each round. If growing them at night as well and harvesting 4 times a day this will be 4,800 a day. This means the most crops you can grow in the 5 days the event lasts is 24,000. This doesn't include the time needed to build up crops though, but that is less time than usual with only two fields. Also, since the last time(at least 7 hours, but best with last day for all three charges) needs to be spent waiting for the colored Blenders to be ready for harvest you can at the most grow around 19,200 crops throughout the event. Therefore the deleted Blenders turned into Blender boxes are likely to be needed to finish the event.

Adding the colored Blenders to the fields as soon as possible is important. Same goes for deleting them after the three charges are done. The first 24 blenders from day one can in theory be used 4 times in total by deleting them once they're done with all three charges and then adding the Blender boxes back to the fields. That means the first 24 account for 96 colored Blenders within the last four days. An early start is therefore important. The next 14 blenders from day two can be used three times. That gives 42 colored Blenders. This most likely is enough blenders to finish the whole event. With these we have 138 colored Blenders of different kinds. Since you probably need at the most 134 colored Blenders, a total of 7,600 crops and 608 drop items should be around what is needed IF GETTING STARTED EARLY AND HARVESTING ALMOST RIGHT ON TIME. These should be done within the first two days of the event. More crops and drop items will necessary if getting a late start or not getting the colored Blenders and Blender boxes harvested and placed as soon as possible. It will mean having to harvest all the colored Blenders three times a day throughout the whole event though. Therefore this is probably a MINIMUM of what is needed.

Please correct the calculations if I've made any mistakes.

Edit: Corrected some mistakes based on reading wrong fields for growing crops.

 

I busy making edits to the OP. Now I have to read Chaya's post...

EDIT:
Dumbunny, thanks!

OK after reading Chaya's... I had speed read the part about the blender boxes and missed the importance of putting them back out after the charges are spent and putting them back out in the Glade.

My numbers are roughly 600 crops per field per harvest using CAC. So 1,200 instead of 900 per harvest using both fields. So speedier results... I had forgotten how long 6h takes with water so thanks for posting. I should be able to do 3 harvest per day depending on RL. 3*5h = 15h. 24h -15= 9h, I'll probably end up using "refined" red roses overnight.

Chaya, it always fascinates me how many different ways there are to approach the same problem.

 

How many blenders do we need?

 

Thanks for pointing out the calculations Suzee. You're completely right about 1,200 per harvest. The mistake with the 900 per harvest was from reading the fields for crops to be main and magical glade first. Therefore basing it on 300 fields used for crops. I edited my post to get this sorted out.
I agree it's fascinating with all the different ways to approach the same problem.

Based on the calculations for the minimum needed I would say 38 blenders from the bears are necessary. This assumes you can harvest things on time. I would suggest going for more just in case though.

 

Thanks @SuzeeRabbit for starting the thread.

 

Thanks Suzee and Chaya for the start and overall info.

As a lot of randomness is involved (on type of special blender rewarded by the bears or blender boxes, # of juices rewared by the achieved blenders, how often you can harvest special blenders) it's near impossible to do exact calculations for event crops/drops needed.

I'll just go by the flow:
* Grow a bunch of event crops, get drops, mill blenders, feed bears
* Keeping some free space on the glade to place special blenders and boxes
* Keeping an eye on its type, swap them for others (by turning them into boxes) if too many of one type are recieved
* Harvest special blenders when playing the game, definately not setting an alarm. 7hrs harvest time .. grmbl grmbl
* Collect juice .. a lot of it, both flavours
* Mill coctails when possible, feed foxes and penguins when possible
* Admire any rewarded prize for the insame effort it took

Ideas:
* keep all Deluxe Blenders (provide 3 mango or blueberry juice each)
* you might want to try your luck on getting as many Deluxe or High-Tech blenders (provides a Crate O' Blender Bash, containing 2 mango juice and 2 blueberry juice) as possible. From the FAQ:

If you delete a special Blender, it looses all current charges, if there any are remaining and returns to your inventory. These then become Blender Boxes:


Place them on the Magical Glade and wait 10 minutes for them to turn into a new Blender or insta-finish them for 1 BB. Each harvested Blender Box rewards 500 EP.

* Regular special Blenders gained from the Blender Box can be turned into new boxes ..
* Boxes only take 10 minutes .. guess worth a try for an hour or more or so

Good luck all.. keep smiling!

 

I think im going to sit this one out I haven't been able to finish any of the events lately and it is really aggravating to start them and come within inches of finishing and not being able to I think I got one CR out of the last 3 or 4 events and that was only on one farm
besides I don't think this CR seems like its worth all the hassle but I do want to wish everyone doing this event all the best of luck hope you all get what you are going for

 

Thanks for the thread

Good for you!! Have fun and enjoy feeling better

 

Thank you Suzee for the sorting. My plan is to not pay attention to this event...growing SEVEN hour crops, feeding, spawning, certain fields, random chances, placing stuff here and there and building a blender? given the last few events of not finishing them..I'm afraid this really takes the cake. Is this the new normal? a Fellini movie acted out in an event?
When I read the specs I shook my head...I'm not in on the joke so it's a complete mystery what on earth are they thinking?
The creative director needs to calm down.

 

thanks SuuzeeRabbit and all other give out advices.
OK I know why I feel there is something confiused me when I read the FAQ,
those uncertainity on the blender and the crate of box!
BP game designer, what should I say for you!
You want to make something new and you achieve.
Will players enjoy and like this ?
Let time proved it.

 

Thanks Ms Wabbit and everyone else who has tried to illuminate what we have to do for this event. I'm still very confused but I suppose all will become clearer (won't it? ) once we get going.

I was of the same opinion as Marly and Saturnia - after the last debacle, sit this one out but I have decided to follow Habalala and just see how it goes.

I'm a little miffed that we can only put blenders on the Glade. I have just put mine back in some form of order (couldn't remember what was there before! ) so now something has to make way for 7 hour!*!*!*! blenders. Oh well, it's only a game ...

 

Not confused at all! ... I am just not junking right now. period!

There is something new. What I see has been done on purpose. POOP prices! Developers have played a lot with manure.

The first:

The opening manure price at the beginning of all other events was below the default price of 120.
At this time, the manure price on ALL markets I have checked is significantly above 120. <-------------------------------

Developers create demand which affects price and price movement.

The scheduling of recent events has been such that THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME BETWEEN EVENTS for the manure price to fall to its default price of 120.

Developers hope to control manure prices within a range. Loss of control is not good for them. So experimenting with a 7 hour crop is more conservative than experimenting using a 4 hour crop.

 

inital harvest got 160 drops(3 from magic tree)
Two field.....Good or bad?
unkown as this event got so many uncountable factor !
Just hope that :
After reading all advices....
I won't got loss over the random blenders, juices...etc !

 

Not playing this event, too tired after the Birthday Event.

 

OK I am in.
As timing seems to be crucial here, I gave EVERYTHING to my initial crops. Even a +1 event booster.
Mainland+wild meadow full with 2x2 fields=88 surrounding with 1x1 fields = 52. As I have lots of SG and SSG I could mill my first 5 blenders, leaving the fields still with 2x2 and 1x1 for another round with SG+SSG, so I can mill then another 6 blenders for the bears.
First 5 bears gave me 2 orange+ 1 orange deluxe and 1 blue + 1 blue deluxe, which will give me the first 12 juices before bedtime.
The next six blenders will be put out tonight and can be harvested tomorrow morning the first time.
We will see, how it goes.

Good Luck everybody, whatever you are doing

 

Doing about the same as clonahmon + swapping all regular blenders into better ones right away. It took a few tries with the boxes but made it to 6 deluxe blueberry and 4 deluxe mango blenders to start with.
It's weird to mill cocktails but I'll give it a try around midnight

Keep smiling!

 

I did my first 8 blenders and my result so far were 5 blue blenders, 2 deluxe blue blenders and 1 orange blender. This may be a pain if most of the ones you get are the same.

Edit to change the orange one to blender

 

My blenders are very well mixed...
21 in total at the moment. Thereof
4 blue
3 blue deluxe
5 orange
6 orange de luxe
3 hightech

This lot will give me a total of 171 juices (3 charges) plus when all charges are gone, everything the boxes will give me
Overnight planting will be longterm crop to boost drops.

Not a bad start I think