The Great Cheese Mystery event strategy

Please check my numbers
1150 sunflowers
65 chickens, rabbits, ducks,
80 sheep
500 orchids
800 lettuce
400 cucumbers
600 carrots
1000 wheat, hops, oats, cornflowers
1400 sorghum
400 corn
50 goats
100 horses, cows, pigs
40 frogs, dogs, cat
2000 blackberries
40 goat milk
1000 fennel, rosemary, strawberry, basil, peppermint, watermelon, cranberries, blueberries
2200 violets
100 detective tools
2700 event crops plus 10k for mill item

 

correction of above:
1,000 wheat, hops, oats and cornflower
2,200 violets

 

thank you Browndoggies, Ive only got 10 fingers and thumbs so had trouble counting up requirements. You are star for adding them up for us.

I know others will disagree but to me another barn clearer continuing on from animal barn clearer last week. How long is it going to take a middle level player to restock if they intend to do event.

Good luck to those who are doing event,

Im still undecided even though Ive got plenty to complete event is it worth my time and effort after building up my barn

 

We do not need to do all and every step as the FAQ states we can continue with connecting tiles, which I take as up/down and left/right.

Here is my route to the CR and its givers. There are other routes possible but this one seems the most attractive to me.

Major Update:
My routes below might not be 100% accurate as it seems there are a few obstacles and other navigation tricks along the way I didn't expect. Sorry for any inconvenience! Pity it's not being this easy. It is a Mystery detective afterall

I'll try to figure out the correct paths later on today and post a new message when done.

I consider most of the Cheese Wheels as optional and thus marked those and requirements with a *
Just over 10k of the Event Plant is needed, main concern are the drops: 3500 Soot and 1100 Magnifying Glasses are needed. That's a lot!

Depending on which other prizes I like to pick up I might open additional steps.​

Preparation = only 1x1 plots filled with longest timed crops.
During event = nuke Powder Puffs on 4x4 plots, get enough to fill 3 fields with 1x1s, gather just over 10k. Use 2 fields with 1x1 plots for long timed crops. Hopefully this will do the trick for decent drops.

Good luck everyone!

City
1
6
5
4 Access Milkshake bar
15 Access Brosty's Factory
8
9 Access Post Office
10
11
21 Giver

* 7 Cheese Wheel #1

50 Sunflowers
40 Sheep
1500 Powder Puff
25 Ducks
1200 Violets
20 Detective Tools (2000 Powder Puff, 700 Soot, 220 Magnifying Glass)

* 200 Powder Puff

Milkshake Bar
1
5
6
12 Giver

* 10
* 11 Cheese Wheel #2

1000 Oats
100 Horses
20 Detective Tools (2000 Powder Puff, 700 Soot, 220 Magnifying Glass)

* 75 Cows
* 200 Powder Puff

Brosty's Factory
1
8
9 Giver

* 6
* 5 Cheese Wheel #3

40 Chickens
40 Rabbits
20 Detective Tools (2000 Powder Puff, 700 Soot, 220 Magnifying Glass)

* 40 Dogs
* 200 Powder Puffs

Post Office
1
12
13 Giver
19 Cheese Wheel #4
18
20 CR

* 16
* 15
* 9 Cheese Wheel #5

1000 Violets
1000 Watermelons
40 Detective Tools (4000 Powder Puff, 1400 Soot, 440 Magnifying Glass)
200 Powder Puff
1000 Blueberries

* 1000 Gooseberries
* 1000 Cranberries
* 200 Powder Puff

**Edit** FAQ update, Soot amount adjusted.

 

SOS thread has been posted.
Thanks browndoggies, annaquinn and habalala. The FAQ update made the CR more appealing. It added 300 EP x farm level.
Best of luck to all, may the drops be with us! I am going to stick close to habalalas strategy!

 

I believe I'm going to sit this event out I still have a lot of stocking up to do in my barns and the CR doesn't really appeal to me so good luck to all who will be doing this event and please don't send my farms any drops send my daily gift to those doing the event thank you plus my baby is getting married so that's where ill be for a few days ill try to be on here when I get a chance to get my daily gifts ect and check in here too

 

Thank you Browndoggie for starting the thread and doing the totals. I'm a bit hmm, but ofc I'm in. I love cheese, and a good mystery. I haven't prepped farm, so I'll be winging it. Have a lot of stables out, so will replace them as the day passes and go for the crop. Think I'll go for Habalala's strategy, at least that is the idea today.

Good luck all of us, event or no event. Can never go wrong with good luck.

 

Thanks to all for the number crunching! I'm looking at following habalala's plan and going just for the CR. I'm not sure about the whole cheese timer things will be worth it. I guess it depends on how many drops I get along the way. I've been lucky to hit the harvest bonus on the farm wheel several times recently so I'm well stocked for this.

Good luck to all who go for it.

 

Those Cheese Wheels only require a little extra Powder Puffs, both #1 (rewards extra EP every 6 hours) and #2 (rewards 5 PF every 12 hours) are very easy to obtain early into the event. I think those are definately worth getting.

The event runs for 5 days, drop totals needed for CR:
3500 Soot = 700 per day (about 30 per hour!)
1100 Magnifying Glasses = 220 per day (about 10 per hour!)

Wishing all of us are able to get it without spending a single BB or dime.

 

I hope everyone has plenty of goat milk because the price was already sky high in the markets...with this event, astronomical will be the only appropriate adjective.

 

I will be doing this event. As they just improved the rewards on Cloud Row. This event is set for Medium, I have an inkling it will be bit on hard side, it is not the amount of Magnifying Glass total of 1100 of them, It is getting 3500 soot, that is very high number as we need to allow some lost idle time on our farms.

As we need to Maintain a good drop rate of both drops. Growing the required Power Puff plant for this event should not be a problem if you happy to use all 5 Fields for them. There is two Strategies either focus reaping as many Power Puff plants asap, so grow these using only two or three fields. The other two fields to get maximum amount of drops you can as we cannot give Magnifying Glass to our buddies during this event.
I have prepare my farm for this event. Plus well stock of Animals, Crops, Products. as for me hoarding my crops does pay off from time to time.

I would suggest to build up stock of Power Puff plants using nuking tactic on Baha, since no Baha Stuff is needed for this event, such as crops, animals etc !!

 

Hi everyone! 1st Good Luck to all doing this Cheese Mystery Event and may the drops be with you!
I am sitting this one out as I am stocking my barn for future events that might need crops, animals ect! Also doing FSQ's So any event gifts can be sent to other farmers doing this event instead of to my farm! thanks and have fun! almost forgot Thanks to all who posted numbers and strategy's
you all always make the event fun!

 

Of course I will be giving this event a whirl But it is becoming rather tiresome using my barn stock for these events It's becoming a challenge to stay ahead Good luck everyone and may it rain drops

 

Thanks everyone on the awesome number crunching. RL distracted me and I missed this one coming up! I am in.
I am way short on violets and trying to get some in before I plant the ever amazing carnations.
Going to try to keep all those stables and trees I have out on my one half fields and use try to baha for the event crop. I hope that helps with the drops. I may keep planting carnations on the half field. Lets see if the strategy works!

Good Luck everyone! Saving gifts for event start. Possible snow delay - so I may be able to gift at beginning of event! Yeah!

 

I'm a crop hoarder, so no problem for that part. The pf opportunity is appealing, as are some other items I would like, so I'm doing the event. Thanks to the number cruncher wizards and best of luck to all participating!

 

I mostly hoard anything, mostly crops. I make good cc from Crops most of the time. As it helps to indulge into the markets with cc you can spare, As our farm not got the space or time to grow everything needed for events, FSG's,producing products. So stocking up stuff from the markets does help, especially to re stock barn stocks or either to buy market stuff to donate to FSG's or even to make CC Profits by reselling stuff.

As there are some market players still around such as me ?? not see Broke posting here like before. With many market stuff going up faster than Farmerama Inflation Rate. Nothing is cheap anymore, that why i try to keep making CC no matter what as it helps to have good barn stock.

This event is asking for fair amount of barn stocks. I cannot imagine what going through you mind, wishing to take part in events, having to decline due to lack of Barn stocks. As we have to adjust to our style of game play, to ensure our upmost best not to miss out the fun in events. This cheese event sounds like lots of fun. I have empathy on my buddies who have more than one farm, who struggle to restock multi farms. God knows how hard that can be.

Those of you not doing this event. Even if you are restocking your Barn, You will be gaining Drops of Soot and Magnifying Glass. No matter what you reap on your farms. It would make bit of sense just to do part of this event at least.

We have farm wheel spins and party spins. I would grab a chance to win +1 or 100% Harvest, when you have the chance to win it on Farmerama wheel. As you can always win back some party spins as you can gain 8 party spins plus +1 party spin from Post Office every 12 Hours, this can be reaped sooner by donations of Power Puff Crops.

Using all 5 1x1 fields using CAC can reap 2880 Power Puffs per harvest, if you lucky enough to win +1 then add 960 on top of that comes to 3840 event crops we can harvest x 4 per day providing we use water on these crops.

Without doubt manure prices will go sky high very quickly. I just use manure for nuking so i can make a good head start. Then is just water until this event ends !! we have to keep our fingers cross to see how the drops treats us during this event, Hope farmerama will be generous to us

 

Initial harvest, Carnations and Honeydew. Soot 606, Mag. Glass 128. Good luck all!!!

 

Wow! I've got only 376 soots This event should be classified as difficult! Thanks very much for the numbers and the hints Good luck to all of us!

 

Initial harvest Rose Hips and Honeydew, soot 785, magnifiers 156

 

I was just looking over the FAQ's again and I come up with 2,000 cranberries instead of 1,000 and also 1,000 Gooseberries which I didn't see listed in the first posting. I could very well be wrong Everything else looked good!! Thanks for the number crunching I am pleased with my initial harvest of drops but I plan on keeping 1 field for longer crops just to be safe