FAQ Edelweiss Valley - Alpine Gardens

Edelweiss Valley - Alpine Gardens​

Alpine Gardens comes available from Edelweiss Valley level 8.​

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1: Crafting station
2: Warehouse
3: Alpine Gardens help comic
4: Converter
5: Assistants
6: Alpine orders and customers
7: News layer
8: Ingame shop
9: Currently from Alp level 8 opened Alpine Gardens field
10-21: Open more space for your crops via levelling up
22: Alpine Gardens II (Coming soon)
23: Alpine Gardens III (Coming soon)
24: Alpine Gardens IV (Coming soon)​

 

Crafting Station


Here you make your Alpine crop seeds.








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Now after reading the instructions, let's see what exactly to do.​

Crafting Station

1a: Alpine Trees - craft trees for Northern Woods
1b: Alpine Crops Seeds - craft seeds for Alpine Gardens
2: Blueprints - choose which tree/plant you want to craft
at first you will have Alpine Apricot available
3: Sort you blueprints
4: Available blueprints (chosen one gets a glow around the card)
5: Unlock new trees by playing
6: Production time of the tree crafting
7: Requirements to crafting
8: Start crafting
(choose up to 10 at one slot for multiple item production)
9: Started crafting will be shown here
10-11: queue plots for crafts
12: Collect finished craft - single slot collection
13: Collect all tree or plant craftings ready for collection
(won't collect when warehouse limit would go over)
14: Improve trees/plants via skillpoints

black square: Forwards to Skillpoint node layer
Blue square: advanced recipes opened via skillpoints will be found here
Red square: Choose max 10 items to be produced at one slot
Green circle: Time the slot is still available will be shown here

In the upper right corner (3) you can find drop down search menu:


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Crafting a Crop


Choose a blueprint which you wish to craft.

If you don't have yet all the ingredients for that,
you need to use Converter to get the missing ones.

Start crafting, the crafting slot looks like this, when production is in progress:


After production is ready, collect the seeds.
Please keep in mind to have enough room for the crop seeds you collect.




Extra free slot for production
With Alpine Gardens release we also get one extra free slot for production




What are these weird items in some of the recipes?

They are drop items. These mainly drop by chance from the related Category of Playfield items (for Alpine crops these will be specific crop-related items dropping from crops on harvests).

Alpine Crop Drop Items

Garden Spade

Harvest Alpine Crops to collect these drop items.
Needed for crafting for example.

Garden Rake

Harvest Alpine Crops to collect these drop items.
Needed for crafting for example.​

 

Converter





More information >> HERE <<.​

 

Assistants







Gardener Assistant: 12 BB for 48 hours - crop assistant - daily bonus not included
Gardener Assistant, single purchase: 3,49 € for 30 days, no automatic renewal and daily bonus included
Gardener Subscription: 2,49 € for 30 days, with automatic renewal and daily bonus included


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Harvest Hand	Crop Planter
Fertilizer specialist	Weed supervisor

Harvest Hand
- collects all ready for harvest crops at once

Crop Planter
- Plant all free plots with crops



A: Compact layout, plants to every row
B: Optimized layout, plants to every second row to maximize plant buffs
C: Apply your chosen way and seed
D: Favorite-bar

Fertilizer specialist

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Sprout-A-Crop	Sync-A-Crop	Power Sprawl
-20% of the growth timer of the plant	syncs all the plants into the lowest timer (ready-to-harvest is the lowest possible)	Plants one more alpine crop if there is enough empty plots in the line. Cannot be used, if no more crops can be planted.

Sprout-A-Crop


Sync-A-Crop

Cannot be bought via ingame shop.
You might get some via payment packages though.

Power Sprawl


Weed supervisor

You can either remove all plants at once
or
choose a type of crops to be removed.

NOTE!!! If you remove unfinished plants you won't get anything at all, those plants will be lost.
If fields have ready-for-harvest status, you will get as many plants from the harvest as there is free capacity in your inventory.

* Daily bonus Consumable Gift

During a running Gardener Assistant subscription (bought via payment), you can collect one special gift per day.
That is a random set of crop-related fertilizers. The gift can be collected in the helper via button.
There will be a highlight on the assistants on the playfield, showing you the availability of this special gift until you collect it.
The collectible gift is refreshed every 24 h (at 00:00:00 CET) and gifts don't stack in care they were not collected in time.

Possible daily bonus gift options
* 3 Sprout-A-Crop
* 4 Sprout-A-Crop
* 5 Sprout-A-Crop
* 1 Sync-A-Crop
* 2 Sync-A-Crop
* 3 Sync-A-Crop
* 2 Power Sprawl
* 3 Power Sprawl
* 4 Power Sprawl
* 2 Speed Boosters
* 1 Sweet Swap​

 

When you begin with Alpine Gardens you have small area open where to plant your crops.



More space can be opened by playing.
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Area	From level	Plots available	Unlocking costs
1	8	30	--
2	11	41	1 Horticulturist Badge Level 1
3	17	55	2 Horticulturist Badge Level 1
4	23	67	2 Horticulturist Badge Level 2
5	29	80	2 Horticulturist Badge Level 2
6	35	91	3 Horticulturist Badge Level 2 3 Horticulturist Badge Level 1
7	41	104	2 Horticulturist Badge Level 3 2 Horticulturist Badge Level 2
8	47	115	3 Horticulturist Badge Level 3
9	53	126	3 Horticulturist Badge Level 3 2 Horticulturist Badge Level 2
10	59	138	4 Horticulturist Badge Level 3 2 Horticulturist Badge Level 2
11	65	140	5 Horticulturist Badge Level 3 3 Horticulturist Badge Level 2
12	71	150	1 Horticulturist Badge Level 4 1 Horticulturist Badge Level 3
13	77	164	3 Horticulturist Badge Level 3 3 Horticulturist Badge Level 3

How to plant an Alpine crop?

Seed menu (opens when you click on an empty plot to plant seeds)





Consider Chicory as an example:



The seed menu provides information regarding category (Sunflowers), growth duration (each bed increases in grow time), and a number of beds needed for sprawling (4), and buffs that have been unlocked via the Path of Wisdom runes.


Clicking on a plant bed shows harvest yield, time remaining to harvest and active buffs.






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Alpine Gardens Crops

When planting seeds, crops will instantly expand (sprawl) to multiple plots. Sprawling occurs in the same row from left to right. Each seed has a predetermined amount of plots it will take up to create a plant bed. If there are not enough empty plots, the seed will take what is available. Applying any fertilizer impacts the entire bed.

Each plot will have its own shifted growth time meaning they will be ready at different times. This growth shift is a multiple of the crop's base time.

For example: Alpenrose has a base time of 22 minutes 30 seconds and sprawls 4 plots. The first plot would be ready in 22 minutes 30 seconds with the 2nd plot ready to harvest in an additional 22 minutes 30 seconds (45 minutes from planting) and so on. Final (fourth) plot would be ready 1 hour and 30 minutes from planting.

Both seeds and crops can be used in Recycling.

Plants


Alpenrose Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 8
Time to craft: 5 minutes
Components:
1 Basic Lumber, 1 Basic Humus, 1 Fuel
Seed Value: 347
Crop Value: 12
Growth Time: 22 minutes 20 seconds
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Heathers



Alpine Edelweiss Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 11
Time to craft: 60 minutes
Components:
1 Basic Lumber, 3 Basic Humus, 5 Fuel
Seed Value: 516
Crop Value: 84
Growth Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Sunflowers



Boletus Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 14
Time to craft: 30 minutes
Components:
1 Common Lumber, 1 Quality Humus, 2 Fuel
Seed Value: 1990
Crop Value: 33
Growth Time: 1 Hour
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Fungi



Alpine Bluegrass Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 17
Time to craft: 20 minutes
Components:
1 Basic Lumber, 1 Quality Humus, 2 Fuel
Seed Value: 580
Crop Value: 54
Growth Time: 1 Hour 30 minutes
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Grasses



Lady's Slipper Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 21
Time to craft: 30 minutes
Components:
1 Common Lumber, 2 Deluxe Humus, 2 Fuel, 1 Garden Spade
Seed Value: 3480
Crop Value: 90
Growth Time: 2 Hours 15 minutes
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Orchids



Mountain Cowslip Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 25
Time to craft: 5 minutes
Components:
1 Basic Lumber, 1 Basic Humus, 1 Fuel
Seed Value: 347
Crop Value: 16
Growth Time: 30 minutes
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Primroses



Chicory Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 29
Time to craft: 50 minutes
Components:
1 Common Lumber, 3 Basic Humus, 4 Fuel
Seed Value: 501
Crop Value: 61
Growth Time: 1 Hour 52 minutes 30 seconds
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Sunflowers



Girolle Seeds
Crafting - base recipe
From level: 33
Time to craft: 25 minutes
Components:
1 Common Lumber, 2 Quality Humus, 2 Fuel, 1 Garden Rake
Seed Value: 2655
Crop Value: 71
Growth Time: 1 Hour 45 minutes
Plant Bed Fields: 4
Plant type: Fungi​

 

Crop Properties

Plants will sprawl their predetermined number of plots unless they are blocked by another plant or the end of the row.

The sprawling range can be increased by opening runes on the Path of Wisdom, buffs of other plants adjacent, or Power Sprawl.

Plant Buffs

Plants can have buffs that improve adjacent neighboring plants. Most buffs will be unlocked via Path of Wisdom runes. The benefits only apply to neighboring plants that are different than the one giving the buff. Consider planting the same plant on different rows in order to maximze the benefits. Only 2 buffs per plant bed are in effect at one time (does not apply to weather buffs)

Buffs:
Reduce grow time
Additional use of fertilizers
Increased harvest yields
Increased sprawling range
Weather buffs (coming soon)

Plant Buff Slots

The first tile of the plant bed (the one the player clicked upon for placement) determines the order in which buffs are applied:

 this tile would check for neighboring plant beds first
 it checks the tile above first, the tile below second
 if there is no or only one neighboring plant beds with buffs, the next tile (to the right) of the
placed plant bed checks for adjacent plant beds and so on until the last tile is reached or all slots
are full

 

How to get the advanced recipes open? What is Skillpoint?

The Base node of each skilltree always unlocks the related Base recipe.

The node-system pretty much resembles the Tree of Wisdom, having interconnections that branch from the base node.

To be unlocked each node requires, that previous point has been unlocked and defined type and amount of Horticulturist Badges to be paid in.

Nodes can have these effects when being unlocked
* playfield traits such as

• reduced growth timer
• additional uses of the Sprout-A-Crop
• increased yield amount
• reduced crafting timer
• field buffs for neighbor plants

* Yield traits such as

• increased yield equivalency value

Where do I find this skillpoint-thing?
Open Crafting Station-building and there you find button to Path of Wisdom.


Path of Wisdom Runes

* Alpenrose

#	Crop	Level req.	Node	Node requirements
1	Alpenrose	8	recipe	unlocked from lvl 8
2	Alpenrose	8	Weather bonus: Rainy - reduced growth time	1 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
3	Alpenrose	8	Adds weather bonus to neighboring crops	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
4	Alpenrose	8	Weather bonus: Windy - 1 additional plant bed fields	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
5	Alpenrose	8	Increases the exchange value by 10%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 1

* Alpine Edelweiss
* Chicory

#	Crop	Level req.	Node	Node Requirements
1	Alpine Edelweiss	11	Unlock base recipe	1 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
2	Alpine Edelweiss	11	Weather bonus: Sunny - increased harvest per field by 1	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
3	Alpine Edelweiss	11	Reduces growth time of neighboring crops by 10%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
4	Alpine Edelweiss	11	Reduces growth time by 10%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
5	Alpine Edelweiss	11	Reduces production time for this crop by 50%	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
6	Chicory	29	Unlock advanced recipe	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
7	Chicory	29	Weather bonus: Sunny - increased harvest per field by 1	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
8	Chicory	29	Increases harvest of neighboring crops by 1	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 3
9	Chicory	29	Reduces production time for this crop by 50%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 3
10	Chicory	29	Increases the exchange value by 10%	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 3

* Boletus
* Girolle

#	Crop	Level req.	Node	Node requirements
1	Boletus	14	Unlocks base recipe	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
2	Boletus	14	Increases harvest of neighboring crops by 1	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
3	Boletus	14	Weather Bonus: Rainy - reduced growth time	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
4	Boletus	14	Reduces production time for this crop by 50%	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
5	Boletus	14	Increases the exchange value by 10%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
6	Girolle	33	Unlocks advanced recipe	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
7	Girolle	33	Weather Bonus: Cloudy - 1 extra use of Sprout-A-Crop	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 3
8	Girolle	33	Reduces growth time by 10%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 3
9	Girolle	33	Applies 1 extra Sprout-A-Crop	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 3
10	Girolle	33	Reduces growth time of neighboring crops by 10%	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 3

* Alpine Bluegrass

#	Crop	Level req.	Node	Node requirements
1	Alpine Bluegrass	17	Unlocks base recipe	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
2	Alpine Bluegrass	17	Weather Bonus: Sunny - Increased harvest per field by 1	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 1
3	Alpine Bluegrass	17	Applies 1 extra Sprout-A-Crop	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
4	Alpine Bluegrass	17	Increases harvest per field by 1	3 Hoticulturist badge lvl 2
5	Alpine Bluegrass	17	Adds weather bonus to neighboring crops	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 2

* Lady's Slipper

#	Crop	Level req.	Node	Node requirements
1	Lady's Slipper	21	Unlocks base recipe	2 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
2	Lady's Slipper	21	Weather Bonus: Cloudy - 1 extra use of Sprout-A-Crop	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
3	Lady's Slipper	21	Reduces growth time by 10%	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
4	Lady's Slipper	21	Applies 1 extra Sprout-A-Crop	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
5	Lady's Slipper	21	Adds weather bonus to neighboring crops	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 2

* Mountain Cowslip

#	Crop	Level req.	Node	Node requirements
1	Mountain Cowslip	25	Unlocks base recipe	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
2	Mountain Cowslip	25	Weather Bonus: Cloudy - 1 extra use of Sprout-A-Crop	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
3	Mountain Cowslip	25	Applies 1 extra Sprout-A-Crop	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 2
4	Mountain Cowslip	25	Applies 1 extra Sprout-A-Crop to neighboring crops	3 Horticulturist badge lvl 3
5	Mountain Cowslip	25	Increases the exchange value by 10%	4 Horticulturist badge lvl 3

 

How do I get Horticulturist Badges?

By doing them in the Path of Wisdom

Choose tab "Craft Badges"


Choose from dropdown menu "Crops"


Now you can choose which one you want to craft.
Naturally at first you will be able to craft only
Horticulturist Badge Lvl 1.


Click green + and choose what you want to pay in.


When you have enough Alpine Crop yields (seeds cannot be used), you can convert them into badge.

Horticulturist badge Lvl 1

Level req: 8
Requirement: 9 500 CC worth of heathers and primroses

Horticulturist badge Lvl 2

Level req: 18
Requirement:
* 10 500 CC worth of fungi and orchids
* 1 Horticulturist badge Lvl 1

Horticulturist badge Lvl 3

Level req: 28
Requirement:
* 3000 CC worth of orchids and primroses
* 2 Horticulturist badge Lvl 2

Horticulturist badge Lvl 4

Level req: 55
Requirement:
* 13 500 CC worth of fungi and heathers
* 3 Horticulturist Badge Lvl 3​

 

Assistant slot

There are assistant slots in both Crafting Station and Converter (lumbermill).

By hiring Sawyer you will unlock those slots.

Productions can be filled for as long as the related assistant is active.

Production will not be cancelled when the subscription for the current slot ends.

A subscription adds an assistant slot to all available Crafting Categories at once.

Unlock Slot

To unlock another extra slot in the queue, you need 10 Master Keys.
For that you get 72 hours on unlock slot.

Master Keys

can be obtained via purchase,
as a drop item or
as a customer reward

Like with assistant slot, the production will not be cancelled when the temporary unlocking for the current slot ends.

Each Crafting Categories possesses a separate Slot and each of these Queue Slots is unlocked separately.​

 

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The Alps Plants Weather System​

The weather will be a global state on all Alpine Gardens playfields that CAN give bonuses to certain plants on the playfield while weather state being active.

This means that every single player will have the very same weather at any given time.
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The Weather Station and Horizon
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The Weather Station can be found from the Alpine Gardens. Current weather is also visible on the horizon.​

Weather Station shows current weather and forecast for upcoming weather
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How weather buff is shown on the plant beds?​

Effected Plants show icon on plant bed fence
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Weather States and Effects

There are multiple changing weather states with one of them being active at a time. Weather can have the following effects on plants. Each weather has always the same effect on eligible plants:

Cloudy:

Additional uses of Sprout-A-Crops: +2 times
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Rainy:

Reduced growth timer: -20%
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Sunny:

Increased yield amount: +1
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Stormy:

Increased sprawling range: +1
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Snowy:

Will be related somehow with Events, more information follows when it's time.
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Plant Affinity

Plant can have one or more affinities for weather states. This means that a plant gets a buff while suitable weather state is active.
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How buffs are applied?

Once applied buff will stay active no matter if the weather is still active.

As soon as player is online and a plant with the related weather affinity is on the playfield (harvest ready or still growing) while that weather state is active, the plant will get the connected effect.
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There is weather on but my crops don't show that, what is wrong?

Also weather buffs needs to be unlocked via skill points. Maybe that is still locked or then that particular plant has no affinity for the weather state currently on.

Please remember to plant different crops next to each others. That way you can maximize buffs as plant bed cannot give buff for neighboring plant bed which is the exact same crop.​