Another silver slot for alchemists brews

We currently have 4 silver slots and I have found that the best use of these is for the 4 potions that give an additional 10% in drops for the various ingredients needed in the artisan village, i.e. salt, sugar, floral wire, and herbal elixir. Therefore I use a pretzel, an obatzda, a summer bouquet and a lemongrass smoothie in these 4 slots.

Now that the alchemist will also require a silver slot, couldn't you add another one so we don't have to choose between using a drop recipe or an alchemist brew in order to get better crop times?

Ideally, it would be perfect to get 2 more silver slots and have the alchemist create a brew that gives an additional 10% drop on mandrakes. As far as I know there isn't a concoction for that yet. Too much to hope for...?

 

Great ideas Saiana...I am still confused about the changes to the alchemist. I was hoping the alchemist would just go away and something else put the there...like a jewelry making store, an ice cream shop...so many things could have replaced it

 

Yeah I hear ya elimeno, I often regretted getting the alchemist after I figured it out. The gnomes took up too much space and saving 4% of time wasn't worth the loss of crops so I didn't use it. But I recently went through all the available crafting items and realized there was nothing there that would decrease crop growing times. The gnomes still weren't worth the space but now that they've done away with that I'm very excited about the new change! I think it's something that is very much needed and is perfect for balancing out the artisan village. I think it will definitely increase the value of the alchemist hut and hopefully those items will be able to be sold as well which can make for some good income for those who don't necessarily care to use them. Thank you for your comment elimeno!

 

Good words, another slot would be nice for a new add to. Already have to pick way too much for actions on the slots.

 

Agree with elimeno 100%, I don't understand why BP would put any work into the trade at all.
Gnomes or no Gnomes, why would anyone use 100,000CC worth of product into something that's going to save 5-10 minutes grow time?
If we were talking 10-20% time savings that would be one thing but as is I still wouldn't use the Alchemist, I'd much rather have the 100K and wait the few minutes.

 

I got to wondering about your comment dixiefarms and you make a really good point. Being terrible at math I never worked out the numbers but gave it a shot on carnations which are the longest growing crop at 18:54 and realized (if my math is right) that 4% would only save in the vicinity of an hour of growing time. That is pretty horrible compared to the cost of the ingredients to make that kind of recipe.

I'm thinking it's gonna be something only people who have too much cc's and nothing else to spend them on will be using now cuz I sure won't be investing that kind of coinage into something that only saves me a very small amount of time. Thank you for pointing that out dixie, you've made a believer outta me!