I wish I had the space to stock up on items. My barn and silo are at 600 (at lvl 39). How big are some of your barns and silos?
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I wish I had the space to stock up on items. My barn and silo are at 600 (at lvl 39). How big are some of your barns and silos?
Mine are 1300 each. I'm only just getting enough space to keep a stockpile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew4545
I only stockpile items that are hard to find in the DD. Jewelry, jam, juice, cakes, sugar, cheese, cream, etc. No point in stockpiling sweaters or bacon and eggs.
I try to keep 10 of each item. Maybe more of items that get used to make other items (like sugar, cream, syrup). I keep less of things that are really quick to produce, like coffee products.
I'm struggling to find enough BEM and SEM items to continue to upgrade. Usually I can get one per week if I'm lucky. Any tips on getting more of them so I have room? Every day I feel like I have to empty out space. I've tried farming the fast growing crops but I may get one item every two or three clears and it's rare to find them in the newspaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janilee
Maybe I just play this game way too much, but I find a lot more than 1 per week. Unfortunately, they are often the wrong ones. I kept count for a few days, and I was finding 20 bolts a day. So I sometimes use the trade thread to turn my bolts into planks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew4545
It is rare to find them in the newspaper, but I find them many times each day. And sometimes you'll luck out and find a lot. Sometimes people put 30 or 40 or 50 expansion items in their stalls all at once.
Some people recommend disconnecting Hay Day, then reconnecting. This forces the newspaper to refresh, so you get first dibs on fresh ads. I don't bother to do this, but when Hay Day crashes, I use the opportunity to check the DD first when I re-start it, no matter how badly the cows need milking or how urgently Greg is waving.
And check all the ads you can. Often, expansion items are hiding behind seemingly boring ads for bacon and eggs or corn.
I don't bother "wheating," but I do gather my produce as often as possible, even if it means putting feed in my RSS and selling 70 eggs to Greg. More produce means more expansion items.
And get pets, if you can afford them. They give you expansion items as gifts.
I also search for mystery boxes while doing my newspaper trawls (using the tips in the toolbox thread).
There's nothing to do to get specific items more often, you just have to increase the instances of item generation.
Pets, running machines to produce lots of items quickly (loaves of bread instead of muffins, for example), harvesting crops that have shorter times to mature, etc.
Since the expansion items and other rewards are generated based on the number of instances of an action happening, you want to make that action happen as much as possible. That's why Wheating is effective, you are creating a lot more instances of the action of harvesting. So when you turn that wheat into chicken feed, and the chicken feed into eggs, you are creating lots of instances, and increasing the number of times you will get items.
I also agree that in a pinch the trade thread is a good place to look. Chances are good that you will find someone who needs what you have if ou are willing to put in the time to arrange the trade.
I just assume I have bad luck when finding the materials. They're usually gone before I get there. I'll keep trying though :)
Thanks for the tool box tip. I never knew how they worked.
Barn 2100 silo 2050. Both usually stuffed full. I need to clear them out. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Drew4545
I'm stockpiling LEMS ATM hoping when the update happens we will get more fishing or land areas.
They sell really fast. They're usually gone when I get there, too, but if you keep trying, you'll get there first sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew4545
I've found that I have better luck at odd times of the day, probably because local traffic is lower and so my connection to the Hay Day server is faster. Like, 2 am or 5 am. (I don't wake up just to check for planks, but occasionally I get home really late at night, and do a trawl before going to bed. And I get up early for work, and usually do a quick check then.) Rush hour is also pretty good, I assume because people are driving and not Hay Daying.) "Prime time" (after dinner and before bedtime) is not a good time.
When the paper refreshes, I scan through it as quickly as possible, looking for expansion item ads to try and get there first. Then I go back to the beginning and click on the other ads.
If you find a stall where expansion items are grayed out, it's worth it go back and check it a minute or so later. Sometimes the owner puts out more.
And make sure you have lots of room in your barn before beginning your newspaper trawl. There is nothing more heartbreaking than finding 10 duct tapes in a stall, still available, only to get the dreaded "barn full" message when you try to buy them.
That's happened to me several times. At level 39 with 600 storage for each, am I behind on that? I wish I had items that I could trade :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Janilee
It depends on how you play the game. There are people at much higher levels than you who have barns and silos about that size. If you make most of your coins selling fruit, you don't need a lot of barn space. And if you decide you don't want to expand any more, and sell all your expansion items, that usually frees up a lot of space in your barn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drew4545
Me, I like expanding my barn and hunting for the materials to do that. It's probably the most fun part of the game for me. I don't trade as much as some people, because I've found the hunt is more satisfying than trading (though when things get really out of balance, I do trade).
Do you have one item you get a lot more of than others? Most farms do. You can speed up your expansion by trading the item you get a lot of for the others.