Next to useless boosters

I love boosters 😂 I will take all the help I can get, I always take the jam booster coz it comes with ice cream and another machine, I'm not a boater so I don't take the boating ones or the ones that speed up plants or bushes coz I have enough plants.

Not sure if I will buy a diamond package for extra boosters. But I am Glad for every booster and use them as soon as I get them so I always have free space n never use diamonds to keep them.

Only booster I might try n save is the tomatoes and potatoes one, coz it certainly helps much when I get a 320 cornucopia task. Other then that, whatever I get I use asap.🙊🙊

Also I caught onto the booster lasting for whatever is in ur queue, so I've always liked the production boosters 😊

So I have a 3star booster for the Jam, ice cream and soup maker. I just activated the card and took before/after pics showing the queue and the time remaining for the first item in the queue. (Hoping posting pic will work)

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Ok, we are now about 7 1/2 hours into the experiment. If you look closely you will see that there are 2 jams waiting to be picked up and the I have filled the queue completely. The last jam (blackberry) still shows the reduced time to cook. By the time the current jam is finished, the booster card will be expired. I will edit this post after that to show that the blackberry jam is still working at a reduced time and that anything put in after that will revert to the normal time.


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So what I have found is this. That at the end of the booster time only the item currently “cooking” continues on the reduced time, not all of the items in the queue. I am going to suspect though that crop, trees and bushes would not do this as they do not have to wait for 1 item to get done before it starts growing. So even though the production machine part of this experiment may not have produced the results we were hoping for, IMHO, the boosters are still beneficial. Use them, don’t. It’s your game.

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Originally Posted by Momscar

So what I have found is this. That at the end of the booster time only the item currently “cooking” continues on the reduced time, not all of the items in the queue. I am going to suspect though that crop, trees and bushes would not do this as they do not have to wait for 1 item to get done before it starts growing. So even though the production machine part of this experiment may not have produced the results we were hoping for, IMHO, the boosters are still beneficial. Use them, don’t. It’s your game.

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that is exactly what i thought. thanks for testing / confirming!

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Originally Posted by Momscar

I am going to suspect though that crop, trees and bushes would not do this as they do not have to wait for 1 item to get done before it starts growing.

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i think crops and trees work exactly the same way, actually. any of them that are boosted when a booster is active remain boosted for their duration.

if you mean that say trees / crops entered the boost cycle with variable time periods of completion - say your apple trees have 1, 2, 5 hrs to completion, the ones with 2 and 5 hrs don't revert to regular times, they remain boosted. the principle is the same. whatever is boosted when booster is active remain boosted.

Wow... I stand corrected then! I wonder if it used to be that way and they changed it?

i don't do many production tasks admittedly... I will be more attentive on my next one :smirk:

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Originally Posted by Momscar

So what I have found is this. That at the end of the booster time only the item currently “cooking” continues on the reduced time, not all of the items in the queue. I am going to suspect though that crop, trees and bushes would not do this as they do not have to wait for 1 item to get done before it starts growing. So even though the production machine part of this experiment may not have produced the results we were hoping for, IMHO, the boosters are still beneficial. Use them, don’t. It’s your game.

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Good to know -- thank you so much for the experiment! I would gladly have opened up the last four spots on my jam maker if it was true.... (You just saved me diamonds! Although what I'm saving them for I have no idea....)

I was actually quite shocked when this happened, as I am quite sure I have seen it the other way. I prep many items for the derby and use booster when I have them, but do not depend on them during the derby. So this hasn’t effected any of my tasks, but I can see where it might, especially on the loom where the time on the blue hats was (or maybe still is) close if you take the task and then start working it.

Shady, yes you are correct. Whatever is already working at the boosted time remains that way, whether it is trees/bushes/crops or product.

Rae, I was young and stupid when I opened those slots, but I rarely have to worry that the Jam maker isn’t working. I think having 3 or 4 slots is plenty, quite like the smelters.

So when I finally got to my farm, I checked my machines again. While the Jam maker was working at regular speed, my Ice Cream maker and Soup Kitchen were still giving reduced time for the items that were in the queue when the booster expired. Why? It’s anyone’s guess. But it actually happened. And it has been nearly if not over 12 hours that the booster expired. I will post additional pics of the Ice Cream maker to see if the other items that are in the queue get the boosted time or not. You can see in the Soup Kitchen the last item did. I’m just sad the Jam Maker didn’t work this way.


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