Strategy: Midnight Race

FAQ: Midnight Race
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I think this type of event is pretty well known so just for anyone who is not familiar, there are three types of fuel to move your plane along, one takes you one step forward, one takes you three steps forward and one takes you one step forward (if there is a prize at the next step) but gives you double the prize (excluding the Cloud Row). Each one has a different milling requirement.

As far as figures go, it all depends which fuel you use and how many of the XXL (double prize fuels) you use. I counted 298 steps in total (but we all know how my maths goes!)

To give some idea:

Using base fuels:

298 x 74 = 22,052 Creepy Camelias
298 x 4 = 1,192 Fuel Cans
298 x 6 = 1,788 Dracula Orchids

Using all XLs: 298 (say 300 for ease of calculation):

100 x 200 = 20,000 Creepy Camelias
100 x 11 = 1,100 Fuel Cans
100 x 8 = 800 Dracula Orchids

For each XXL fuel you use:

360 Creepy Camelias
26 Fuel Cans
12 Dracula Orchids

I will definitely be trying to grab as many prizes as possible and double up the best ones. I still have quite a lot of SG but very little SSG so may do a few CFs overnight. Nice prizes along the way, especially Race 5. I may just see how many event crops I can grow before I decide on any definite strategy!
Milling only takes 15 seconds so I could leave it all till the last couple of days ...

Just to bear in mind, this event is linked with the Nether World Sage Event and, thanks to Dumbunny for pointing out the following:

You need to use the Luminous Fuel XXL to receive the exact amount of Plane Tokens needed to open all the tiles for Plane Tokens in the Nether World Saga!

Good luck all!

 

Is the cloud row really only 4 hours?

 

I know! My teeth nearly fell outta my head when I read four hour cool down time on the CR!

You know my farms are in as far as they can go... May the prize wheel be kind to us all with harvest bonuses... and if you still have any left, use your Jack O' Gifts for this one...I have one use left on this farm from my last one. Really hoping they offer them again someday.

 

Thanks for the strategy Aces high is my favorite event and also the first one I fully completed
Good luck to everyone!

 

What does Jack o' Gifts do dumbunny?

 

It gives a +2 harvest on crops.

Well this is going to be interesting. I have 31 dracula orchids in the bank because I have been focusing on getting the mushroom forest open in the very minute MM times we have had, so haven't been working on them at all (still only on the first quest of that). Haven't done this type of event before so not sure what to expect.

Thanks illy for starting the thread. I was so tired yesterday I couldn't understand any of it. Even went to bed without replanting baha..

 

Hmm. So what is the strategy after this information? So what should be done step by step?
Example: step 1, reproduce the plant
Step 2 make XXL fuel or the other
Step 3 ........
I could not understand much from FAQ. I think when the event starts, I will fully understand and define a strategy.

(Thanks illy for starting the thread.)


Edit : I determined my strategy. Just sow and move on

 

Yep, sounds like a plan.

232 fuel can drops from rose hip and the few trees around the edge.

 

cloves gave 177 drops..

The second phase of the sowing strategy.
This is my favorite image


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Edit : 2. Sowing is complete. It's time to empty one of the gold slot. Terrible bouquet instead of Fruit cake

Note: The reason I wrote these stages is for low level players. Maybe they'll have an idea. If there is a problem, I can delete it.

 

I just got a message from Northy, who can't post here, who has crunched some numbers for everyone, based on the quickest way through, without changing lanes to pick gifts. Thanks Northy.

 

Northy's a fellow BFG player...that's why he can't post here. (And now you know why dumbunny's farm was made and how it is that I am here blabbering all the time instead of sewinglady). Appreciate his number crunching...saved me loads of time.

Now I have to go harvest the farms - honest to pete, where does the time go?

Edited to add: Just used turbo mulch on my MM trees - with all the buffs, including the newest CR that affects turbo mulch, got my grave candle cactus trees down to 105 hours! That's why I was excited to see that CR...grave candle cactus...doesn't take much to excite me.

 

Why 1x2 fields? My first phase: 10 2x2 fields with all possible "spices". My second phase: as many 2x2 as fit in both areas, as many 2x1 as fit and when those are seeded with all "spices", I add small fields and seed what is remaining and last small fields are seeded whatever is ready at same time. Now I have small fields in both areas.

 

Thanks for the tread Illy!

My advice: after Race 1 is done and 2 plane tokens are in the pocket (opening the 2nd Witch Brew); continue with Race 3 to gain another 2 plane tokens (to open the 3rd Witch Brew). After that, if you want to, do Race 2 and Race 4 (no plane tokens) and finish with Race 5 to get the last plane token and it's prize.
This way you'll get the max Witch Brew -provided you harvest those in time-

Another tip: use a long timed crop overnight on 1 field during a few nights to prevent a shortage of Fuel Can later on. On my farm 1 field with the event crop provides only about 30 drops.

Stay safe & keep smiling!

 

I was thinking the same thing - on at least one field, a longer overnight crop... drops are going to be the issue - especially since the special MM gifts are so nice to share around with our neighbors.

 

Thinking over my cunning plan to take it nice and easy, mill all at once, has one vital flaw. I won't get other Witch's Brews until nearly the end of the event! Silly Illy!
New strategy: try to do each plane ride in one go, working out and milling what I need as I go along!
Look out tomorrow for my next/newest strategy!

 

You are right . I'm doing that shape too. Since the previous activity was in one area, that shape remained in my mind. This is my strategy of planting 1 field. There were only 176 losses. It came to my mind in the third planting and I fixed it.

 

anybody knows when the
Midnight Race will start?

 

the event is running all the time.

 

It started yesterday.
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