The Hay Day Scorched Earth Challenge (ver 2.0)

[VickyD]

every available item in the game, and will take at LEAST 24 DAYS of constant production (but probably longer)! As an additional incredibly difficult challenge, you can only buy fruit trees and bushes with money earned from selling items created DURING the challenge. This will take a little bit of book keeping on your part unless you want to spend all of your cash before starting (not recommended, seriously, that's just crazy talk).

I read this as you can choose to start with no coins to make it even harder. Is this correct?

Have I made a mistake already by using my coins i had to purchase some trees and bushes

I have emptied my barn and silo of everything except one crop of everything (14 crops). I have removed all bushes and trees to corner and I'm treating as not there(full of fruit that I won't touch for duration of challenge) I have empty machines, hungry animals, no town folk, no fishing tackle.

i have a bee tree and about 100 nectar bushes! I can't just ignore them as bees will automatically go to all nectar bushes regardless of where they are.

Would you say I'm ok to start utterly ridiculous mode? If you have to pretend that you have no coins before starting i need to remove all the nectar bushes and start from 1 bought from money generated via crop growing.

Thanks for advice

[00becker]

every available item in the game, and will take at LEAST 24 DAYS of constant production (but probably longer)! As an additional incredibly difficult challenge, you can only buy fruit trees and bushes with money earned from selling items created DURING the challenge. This will take a little bit of book keeping on your part unless you want to spend all of your cash before starting (not recommended, seriously, that's just crazy talk).

I read this as you can choose to start with no coins to make it even harder. Is this correct?

Have I made a mistake already by using my coins i had to purchase some trees and bushes

I have emptied my barn and silo of everything except one crop of everything (14 crops). I have removed all bushes and trees to corner and I'm treating as not there(full of fruit that I won't touch for duration of challenge) I have empty machines, hungry animals, no town folk, no fishing tackle.

i have a bee tree and about 100 nectar bushes! I can't just ignore them as bees will automatically go to all nectar bushes regardless of where they are.

Would you say I'm ok to start utterly ridiculous mode? If you have to pretend that you have no coins before starting i need to remove all the nectar bushes and start from 1 bought from money generated via crop growing.

Thanks for advice

You can start with no coins, but you don't have to. You don't have to stick to any of the rules - this is a player-devised challenge and it's been done with so many variations exactly because it won't work for each player in the same way. If you want to keep your coins, bee production, or anything else, if you want to add or subtract any part of the challenge, go for it. Typically, any personal adjustments to the challenge are noted in the first post of your narrative for the benefit of those following along, or in the first post after you've made a change. And if you scroll through the thread you'll notice a lot of adjustments get made, either at the beginning or further along.

The point is to challenge yourself, and hopefully gain a new appreciation of the game and how it works now as opposed to when you started playing. Do you learn anything about your game play or the interplay of the production and consumption aspects of the game? Do you find you can enjoy an aspect the of game that previously frustrated you? Have you achieved something you previously thought was impossible? Are you having fun? Make the challenge work for you. And let us know how it goes - we all like to live a bit vicariously through every challenge.

[VickyD]

You can start with no coins, but you don't have to. You don't have to stick to any of the rules - this is a player-devised challenge and it's been done with so many variations exactly because it won't work for each player in the same way. If you want to keep your coins, bee production, or anything else, if you want to add or subtract any part of the challenge, go for it. Typically, any personal adjustments to the challenge are noted in the first post of your narrative for the benefit of those following along, or in the first post after you've made a change. And if you scroll through the thread you'll notice a lot of adjustments get made, either at the beginning or further along.

The point is to challenge yourself, and hopefully gain a new appreciation of the game and how it works now as opposed to when you started playing. Do you learn anything about your game play or the interplay of the production and consumption aspects of the game? Do you find you can enjoy an aspect the of game that previously frustrated you? Have you achieved something you previously thought was impossible? Are you having fun? Make the challenge work for you. And let us know how it goes - we all like to live a bit vicariously through every challenge.

Thank you for your advice. I will now post how im starting

[VickyD]

Well it's day one of my challenge. It was very hard to get my head around the idea of selling off everything that I had built up but once I got started it was ok. My NH were certainly very happy about my sudden urge to purge my barn and silo!

So These are my starting stats....

level 104. 403855
coins 1'215.320
diamonds. 20
barn. 2150
silo. 1700
fishing spots. 12
5 smelters

I removed all my trees and bushes to the other side of my farm as I didn't want to use about 400 tools to remove them. I have decided to use my coins to purchase new trees and bushes (3 of each to start with) I have kept my nectar bushes. I had about 100 and even if i moved them the bees would have used them and as I was starting with coins I would have purchased them anyway.

tool box empty, machines empty, town empty, fishing empty, animals hungry.
I will be keeping any mining tools gifted to me by pets but will sell any mining tools won on WOF.
I have kept my BEM & SEM as well as axes and saws but apart from that barn is empty.
One of each crop kept (14)

Since starting I have already made good progress. I started crops off first and now have a healthy supply of corn, wheat, carrots and soy beans. The others are gonna take a while! I have not grown wheat for ages so enjoying the change. All feed for animals now made and I've already harvested more eggs in the past few hours than the past year!
Machines in use/products made
pasta maker...... Fresh pasta
sugar mill
honey extractor..... Honey
bakery....bread, cornbread
popcorn pop.....plain, honey
juice press.... Carrot
bbq grill..... Pancakes
pie oven....fish, carrot
sauce maker.... Soy
fishing area.... Lobsters, fillets
Smelters ....1 silver bar, 1 gold bar (this might be a long challenge)

So thats it really.... I will update in a week. Thanks for reading

[CheddarLimbo]

You can start with no coins, but you don't have to. You don't have to stick to any of the rules - this is a player-devised challenge and it's been done with so many variations exactly because it won't work for each player in the same way. If you want to keep your coins, bee production, or anything else, if you want to add or subtract any part of the challenge, go for it. Typically, any personal adjustments to the challenge are noted in the first post of your narrative for the benefit of those following along, or in the first post after you've made a change. And if you scroll through the thread you'll notice a lot of adjustments get made, either at the beginning or further along.

The point is to challenge yourself, and hopefully gain a new appreciation of the game and how it works now as opposed to when you started playing. Do you learn anything about your game play or the interplay of the production and consumption aspects of the game? Do you find you can enjoy an aspect the of game that previously frustrated you? Have you achieved something you previously thought was impossible? Are you having fun? Make the challenge work for you. And let us know how it goes - we all like to live a bit vicariously through every challenge.

What a really excellent answer.

[VickyD]

So here is week one update......

I am listing how many items I have LEFT to produce on a machine. I am counting a loaded item in machine as being completed as it is ready to go or in production.

BAKERY.
Frutti Pizza x10
Spicey Pizza x 9
cheese Pizza x 10

(thats a lot of cheese to produce)!

CAKE OVEN
Lemon cake x 9
apple honey cake x 1
strawberry cake x 1
cheesecake x 3

BBQ GRILL
baked potato x 3

PIE OVEN
casserole x 2

LOOM
Making fabric for products (top hat, pillow and blankets)

SEWING MACHINE
blanket x 10
pillow x 9

JUICE PRESS
ALL DONE

HONEY EXTRACTOR
beeswax x 10
(making honey for products)

CANDLE MAKER
Raspberry x 2

JAM
strawberry x 9
Cherry x 8
apple x 5
(raspberry and blackberry in production for jelly beans)

COFFEE KIOSK
mocha x 8
raspberry mocha x 5
hot choc. X 10

ICE CREAM MAKER
strawberry x 3
chocolate x 4

SOUP KITCHEN
fish x 2
pumpkin x 8

CANDY MACHINE
caramel apple x 5
toffee x 5
jelly beans x 5
lollipop x 8
chocolate x 3

SAUCE
making all sauces, oil and curd for products!

SALAD BAR
pasta salad x 2
seafood x 4
BLT x 9
feta x 4

SANDWICH
bacon toast x 6

HOT DOG STAND
tofu x 5 ( only because tomatoes in use for other things)!

SMOOTHIE MIXER
yoghurt x 1

PASTA MAKER
making pasta for products

PASTA KITCHEN
lobster x 6
veggie lasagne x 10
gnocchi x 6

HAT MAKER
sun hat x 3
top hat x 10 (lack of coal proving hard)

SUSHI BAR
sushi roll x 5
egg sushi x 5

JEWELLERY MAKER
bracelet x 7
necklace x 9
iron bracelet x 8
diamond ring x 10!

Sugar and dairy in constant use!

I think That although I still have a lot of products to make I fell I've made good progress. Things slowing down the challenge as expected is the whole mining to get ore. I have spent time wheating but I don't seem to be getting the tools dropping so I can actually mine the ore! I was told this was the main time consuming issue with the metal illness or ultimate mode. Only time will tell if I carry on after completing the candy stage. I am going to keep any coal for the top hat now rather than using it in jewellery for this reason. I expect to have everything done in the next few days week except for the jewellery, jam and candy
I have to say though.... Really enjoying the challenge so far

[Plummy]

Hi everyone,

My friend and I have decided to take on the Scorched Earth challenge (2nd time for my friend). We decided to create a new neighborhood for the challenge and have named it Scorchies. If anyone else is keen to take on challenge with us feel free to join us. Our start date is 14/5/16. Really hope to meet some new people and have some fun.

Plum

[VickyD]

Hi everyone,

My friend and I have decided to take on the Scorched Earth challenge (2nd time for my friend). We decided to create a new neighborhood for the challenge and have named it Scorchies. If anyone else is keen to take on challenge with us feel free to join us. Our start date is 14/5/16. Really hope to meet some new people and have some fun.

Plum

That sounds like a great idea! I must admit it's been hard not having much interaction with my NH while scorching. Good luck with the challenge

[grfields]

Thanks Vicky
I m looking forward to doing the challenge again 😊

[Plummy]

That sounds like a great idea! I must admit it's been hard not having much interaction with my NH while scorching. Good luck with the challenge

Thank you Vicky and good luck with yours 😊