Hello fellow farmers and welcome to Hive!
If you are interested in learning the fundamental aspects to start playing Farming Tales, well, you've come to the right place.
This guide will provide you with everything you need to become a successful Farmer 3.0.
You'll find tips, tricks and strategies to help you along the way.
THE GAME
If you never heard about it, Farming Tales is a simulation game where you can build and manage your virtual crypto farm.
There are animals, gardens and different structures that produce different products such as wood, fish, seeds and many others.
There is also a main city called New Waxchester where you can refine your raw products into new ones and then trade or collect them to complete various quests, there are different ways you can play this game and just as many ways to make profits.
THE WAX ECOSYSTEM
Since the game is built on the WAX Blockchain you'll need a proper wallet for interacting with WAX's Dapps, the most commonly used are Anchor Wallet and WAX Cloud Wallet (for security reason I recommend using Anchor that allows you to manage and keep your private keys, but also Cloud Wallet is a good option).
Once you have correctly configured your wallet you will need some WAX to be able to buy your first NFTs that will allow you to start your adventure on Farming Tales (note that in this game there is a need for a minimum initial investment in order to have some of the NFTs that are needed to play).
WAX is a cryptocurrency that can be purchased on various Exchanges such as Binance, Kucoin or Bitfinex, once purchased simply move them to your wallet and then you'll be ready to buy Farming Tales NFTs.
The main marketplace for trading NFTs on the WAX network is called Atomichub, it is very similar to the most famous marketplaces such as Opensea but since Wax is a platform designed primarily to host games on Blockchain, Atomichub is divided into collections, each collection belongs to a game and inside a collection you can find different sub-categories that are used to divide NFTs according to their type or use.
For example below we can see that the Farming Tales collection has different sub-categories such as "game.build" which contains the NFTs of various buildings, "game.animals" which instead contains the NFTs of various animals and so on.
A secondary market has recently been created where it is possible to buy and see all the listings present on both the Atomichub and Neftyblocks markets.
This is very useful for verifying the correct floor price of all NFTs and also solves a problem that occurred during the latest recipe update, essentially the old NFTs of products created before the update are not displayed on Atomichub.
Therefore, before buying your NFTs or implementing your strategies, take a look at this link.
STARTING THE FARM
Now let's look at some fundamental aspects to understand how the farm works, I advise you to always refer to the Whitepaper of the game in case of any doubts.
Beware that this section is very important and will be helpful to understand which NFTs you want to own and in what quantity based on your initial investment, do not worry that it is not necessary to have a large sum of money to start playing, obviously who can invest more can have a greater ease in participating in gaming activities.
The very first thing to understand is: what are all these NFTs for?
As previously mentioned there are different categories, the main ones are certainly animals and gardens.
ANIMALS
There are different types of animals and each of them produces a different type of product such as hens produce eggs while cows produce milk, also each animal can be common, rare, epic or legendary, the difference between them is their efficiency, a higher category animal produces a greater quantity of products with a lower consumption of food as well as a longer production time, therefore having a rarer animal will allow you to have an easier and more efficient management of your farm by lowering its consumption and improving the final profit.
My advice is to start at least with rare category animals but if you have a limited budget, don't worry that during the game there is also the possibility to upgrade the rarity of these animals through the blending function.
The basic mechanics of creating a product is the following: once you have the NFT of an animal and the NFT of the related building you must stake the building and the animal in the game, once this is done a timer will start that will be more or less long based on the type and rarity of the NFT, when the countdown has come to an end you can go back to the game and proceed to harvest the product.
Be careful, every time you go to harvest your product you will spend food points that the animal consumes to start its harvest process over again, each animal consumes a certain amount of food and replenishing the food points has a cost, I recommend therefore to study carefully the table of animals that you can find in the Whitepaper to better understand costs, times and profits that can be obtained with every type of animal.
GARDENS
Gardens have a similar mechanism but in order to start producing products they need seeds that can be obtained opening seed boxes.
Seeds and boxes are NFTs that can be purchased through Atomichub but if you want a free daily drop of new seeds you'll be interested in buying the Greenhouse that is a building NFT that give you 1 seed box every 24 hours.
Harvesting seeds can take up to 5 days and take also a lot of resources depending on the seed you'll plant but in this case you'll spend water points rather than food points.
As for animals, there are rarity categories, a rarer garden can host more seeds simultaneously, but there isn't any benefits other than that.
In order to start getting products you will need a garden and at least 1 seed, once done go into the game and stake the NFTs, a timer will start and after that you'll need to harvest the garden to get the product you've planted.
I suggest you to watch this video to learn how to stake NFTs in-game.
PETS
Dog and Cat are two particular NFTs because unlike other animals they do not produce any product but instead they have a weekly income of 260 SEST at the expense of a high water consumption.
In order to stake them go inside the game farm and find the dog's kennel, stake it there, for the cat instead enter the house and stake from there.
SPECIAL BUILDINGS
There are several structures dedicated to the production of rare products, their supply is limited, making them some of the most expensive structures in the game. These products are crucial for performing various activities, and there is a limit to how many of these special structures can be active on the farm.
One of these is the Greenhouse, which produces seed boxes daily and is ideal for those considering investing in gardens.
Another significant structure is the Lumberjack, which produces wood that is necessary for building chests to sell farm products directly on Atomichub.
Another examples are the Fishing Pier, which produces fish, or the Hive, which produces honey.
It's advisable to carefully study the characteristics of these structures in the Whitepaper, keeping in mind that most of these structures have a high resource consumption.
If you already bought a Legendary Building you have to go in game and stake it on your farm in order to start getting products.
HARVEST ALL
For those who have many NFTs it can certainly be useful to know the use of the "harvest all" function, this allows you to collect all your ready products with just one click.
To make this function balanced, the use of "harvest all" involves a higher cost in terms of consumption compared to the manual harvest, so be very careful when using it.
This feature is located within your farm next to the tractor you use to place and stake NFTs of animals and gardens.
BARN
This is another fundamental building that will be used to store your collected products and to sell the refined ones for SEST, depending on the rarity of your Barn there will be more or less space available, each player will have a common Barn for free which can contain a maximum of 100 products, if you want a better Barn you have to buy it from Atomichub or you can also upgrade rare Barn thanks to blending.
Recently a new function has been introduced that allows you to upgrade the rarest Barn, now you can get a Barn with 1500 slots that can be further increased through the next quests that will come out.
FOOD AND WATER
As previously mentioned, food and water are resources that will be consumed daily for production, all players have a free common silo for food and a common water tower that have 100 points each, once they run out of points it will be necessary to fill them up to continue production and this will be done using the game token called CBIT as a payment method.
To fill your silo you will need 5 CBIT while for the water tower 50 CBIT, keep in mind that you have the possibility to buy in-game and from Atomichub the structures for food and water with higher rarity, this will allow you to have more points available (max 200) and therefore having to spend fewer times the CBITs required to fill resources.
GAME TOKENOMICS
To be able to have a profitable farm you need to study well the logic and economy of this game.
Farming tales is based on 3 tokens which obviously have different purposes and functions:
SEST: is the main token, it can be earned through the sale of products in game and can be used to upgrade the farm, participate in NFT auctions and other activities. SEST has a supply of 100,000,000,000 and are generated regularly based on player activities, any coins that are used for NFT sales or upgrades are burned or returned to the main pool which distributes the earnings. Sest can be staked and this will serve to provide you with the daily CBITs needed to feed your farm
CBIT: is a secondary token that is mainly used to pay for food and water needed for the production of your farm, also CBIT has a supply of 100,000,000,000 and they are generated daily based on the water and food needs of all the NFTs staked on users' farms.
AUREUS: this token will serve as the main currency for New Waxchester activities, since the city has been active for a relatively short time, the coin has not yet been activated, however it is already possible to obtain it through a weekly drop in which you can participate by staking SEST and CBIT in two special pools.
Both SEST and CBIT can also be traded for WAX via Alcor, a decentralized exchange built on the WAX blockchain, as soon as AUREUS is launched there will be the possibility to trade this as well.
To get a profitable farm you will have to pay attention to the amount of CBITs you will have to spend to keep production active and then consider buying and staking SEST to receive enough CBITs to pay for food and water.
To make your life easier I suggest you take a look at this GigaChadCalculator where you can enter the amount of NFTs you have in your farm and thus obtain the daily income net of expenses in details, plus other helpful tools you'll find in other pages (needs to be updated with new SEST value for product).
NEW WAXCHESTER
New Waxchester is the hub of game's activities and serves as the main city where users can engage in multiplayer experiences and carry out various useful operations.
The city is home to various buildings that allow players to refine products and increase their value, each of these buildings has its own recipe book that enable players to create new products using the ingredients stored in their Barn.
Some structures, such as the Bank, serve special functions like allowing players to stake SEST and CBIT to earn AUREUS.
The Trader instead is where players can complete weekly quests, craft NFTs or get other products that can't be farmed normally, to interact with it you have to go near the Trader building and in the menu you will find tasks and quests with the list of the relative products you'll need to use to complete them.
Near the entrance of the city there is also a building dedicated to CPU rental using CBIT (CPU is needed for WAX blockchain operations).
In future, the city will see the introduction of exciting new features like tractor races and mini-games, which will bring in the AUREUS system, in addiction other buildings will be activated, such as the town hall and game partners' buildings.
An important thing to know is that many of the active buildings have been bought in auctions by some users individually and they are receiving a fee from each product that players refine in their buildings.
However, some buildings are intended to be community-owned and the sales of the shares for these buildings have recently begun.
They are divided into 50 NFTs, each entitled to 2% of the fees accumulated from production.
The current conditions to participate in the NFT drop include spending 60,000 SEST and completing a dedicated Quest
You can find all the structures with the related recipes in the Whitepaper, so you can also see how much products are worth.
Recently recipes have been updated and expanded, all the info can be found on this Medium article
CHEST SYSTEM
The chest system has been activated for a short time but it has quickly become one of the points of interest of the game.
Chests are used to remove products from the Barn and transfer them in form of NFTs to your personal wallet so that they can be traded.
This system is fundamental as it also serves to be able to access resources that you could not have without the relative building that produces them, so through Atomichub you can go and buy the products you are missing to complete the quests.
To build a chest you have to go near the red van that is on your farm, open the menu and you will find a list with all the products available, if you have enough to fill the chest you can start the process.
There are 3 different chests: small, medium or large and to build them you need to use 1, 2 or 3 units of wood respectively, a larger chest contains more products in relation to the wood used than a smaller chest, so always evaluate the cost of wood as it has become a precious resource now and it can affect your profit.
To bring the products from the chests to your barn, simply burn the NFT of the relative chest using the burn option on Atomichub.
CRAFTING SYSTEM
The crafting system is used to obtain new NFTs that will serve to expand your farm, you can create new animals and their related structures together with gardens and other buildings useful for reducing resources consumption.
This feature can be used both by the Trader and in the internal marketplace of your farm which is located near the main house, however there are differences between the two places.
In the marketplace of your farm you can craft the structures useful for housing your animals and those that manage food and water resources of the game, here you can choose whether to craft common, rare or epic structures, obviously the rarer the structure, the more SEST you will need to craft.
Inside the Trader instead it is possible to craft common animals and common gardens in exchange for certain products, for example to craft a common hen you will need 707 chicken eggs, for a common sheep 252 units of wool, for the gardens instead you will need to consume any 2 plants or 4 if it's blueberries.
Remember that there is a deflationary system in action useful to lower inflation of these NFTs over time, in fact every month the products required to craft these NFTs undergo an increase of 5.947% which will make upgrading your farm more and more expensive.
BLENDING SYSTEM
This system allows you to upgrade your farm's NFT through the use of dedicated vouchers that can increase the rarity level of animals, gardens and other structures.
Recently this feature has been updated and many more blending options have been implemented to allow all players to be able to access this function.
Vouchers can now be crafted within the game in a special structure in New Waxchester called "Voucher Market", there you can find common vouchers and rare vouchers that can be obtained in exchange for different products, obviously rare vouchers are more expensive because in most cases they will allow you to enhance the single NFT directly, while with common vouchers you will have to use 2 or more NFTs of the same type together with the vouchers to obtain the desired improvement.
I give you a reference example: to obtain an epic stable through vouchers we can operate in two ways, either with the blend of 2 rare stable + 2 common voucher or with 1 rare stable + 1 common voucher + 3 rare voucher, as you can observe the use of rare vouchers allows you not to have to use many rare stables anymore and this can be useful for those who just want to improve the NFTs they already own.
To get a more detailed overview of all the possible options, I suggest you take a look at this Medium article which details all the possible combinations that can be used for blending.
A first difference that can be seen in the tables is between animals and building/gardens, in fact animals are blended only with the respective animals of lower rarity together with the common vouchers, no rare voucher is necessary in their blending recipes, while for buildings there are several recipes that can include both vouchers.
Some blending options that have been implemented do not require any vouchers, this is very interesting and increases even more the utility cases of the products in the game.
IN-GAME WALLET
On the top right of the game screen you can access the wallet menu where you can manage and move your in-game tokens.
Here you can deposit or withdraw SEST and CBIT from WAX wallet to in-game wallet and vice versa, there is also a section to stake SEST in order to get the CBIT daily drop.
Remember that to stake SEST, if you have not earned them from your farm, you will have to deposit them from your WAX wallet to the one inside the game, deposits have no fee, withdrawals instead have a fee of 2% for CBIT and 5% for SEST.
NEFTYBLOCKS
Neftyblocks is a website that is used for some features of the game and to participate in Drops of new NFTs released by the team.
This website can also be used like Atomichub to sell or buy NFTs but another function that can be performed is opening the seed boxes which can be done through My packs section.
TIPS & TRICKS
There is no certain and safe method to have a constant profit, but you can try to adopt different strategies, to start it could be a good idea to have a farm with different animals, but nobody forbids you to concentrate your production on a few types of animals or plants.
However, if you're interested in quests keep in mind that they require many different products, so it is wise to try to have as many as possible so as not to have to buy them on the marketplace.
To optimize your profits, upgrade your Silo and Water Tower, which significantly reduces expenses.
Also, regularly monitor your Barn, as overflowing products will be wasted.
The chest system is also very useful in this aspect and having a Lumberjack is a great help whether you want to sell products or want to keep them, it is also present in several recipes so it is certainly one of the most useful structures to have.
For any decisions on the trading of products it is always good to wait and consider the nature of the quests that will exist, based on them there will be growing demand on the relative products that can be useful if you are trying to sell them.
Keep in mind that there are different ways to sell products, you could sell raw products through chest system or you can refine them before selling, the refined products can also be sold in your Barn within the game for SEST, so consider market prices for tokens and NFTs before making any decisions on the most profitable move.
When you need to buy NFTs to start or expand your farm, remember that there are different ways to get NFTs, always calculate very well the possible expenses you will incur, it can be very useful to compare the costs between WAX's marketplaces and the crafting function of the game, based on market conditions it could be cheaper to buy SEST or products to be used in the game to create the desired NFTs than to buy them directly from Atomichub.
You should also consider blending which usually allows you to save money on certain NFTs instead of buying them.
Thanks to the latest update, the recipes that can be made in New Waxchester have increased dramatically, with a careful eye and a quick hand it is also possible to find profit opportunities simply by buying products on Atomichub to refine and resell them on the market.
The huge number of products tends to confuse less attentive and poorly informed users, leading them to resell a product below its actual value, especially when there are various quests involved, and this is how many smart users exploit these errors to make a personal profit.
So keep an eye on the various marketplaces on a daily basis to study market trends and find profit possibilities.
Last but not least, there is an app that can be used to harvest your farm from mobile without having to log on the website of the game, it's called Taco and it's free to download but you'll need an NFT that unlocks the ability to harvest.
This NFT can be bought on Atomichub under the Taco collection, it is called Farming Tales sauce and once obtained you can log into the app and harvest or check the products inside the barn and also perform some operations that can be done in the game wallet menu.
There are a few nice links that will help you do the math at the bottom of the page, go check them out!
DISCORD
Maximize your learning and prepare for the latest news and quests by joining the Farming Tales Discord server.
Here, you will have access to comprehensive guides and informative videos to enhance your understanding of the game mechanics.
Engage in lively discussions and ask questions about the game.
Additionally, participate in exciting games like Trivia with prizes, and compete on the leaderboards as one of the most active players.
This is not mandatory but I highly recommend it!
In conclusion I really hope that this guide was useful and understandable, I know very well that Farming Tales is not an easy game and has so many things to do, but that's also why we like it so much, step by step I'm sure you will manage to find your strategy to play this game.
USEFUL LINKS:
https://farmingtales.io
https://nodo42.gitbook.io/farming-tales-the-game/
https://neftyblocks.com/collection/farmingtales
https://medium.com/@farmingtales.nft
https://wax.atomichub.io/explorer/collection/wax-mainnet/farmingtales
https://wax.alcor.exchange/
https://www.greymass.com/anchor
https://wallet.wax.io
https://calc.farmingtales.io/
https://market.farmingtales.io/
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