Get into the game

There are many ways to get into Farming Tales. The cheapest way is, with 36.9 Wax, you can get a Common Geese Shelter (10.9 Wax) and 2 Geese (26 Wax). A Common Goose gives you 1 egg every 2 hours and consumes 9 food, which equates to 10.8 CBIT if you have a default Silo.

Food and Water Consumption

As explained in my previous post, the refill cost for the food silo and water tower are the same no matter the size. If we upgrade to a Rare Silo, the above food cost becomes 7.13 CBIT and comes down even more to 5.4 CBIT if we have an Epic Silo. Therefore, you should get an Epic Silo and/or Epic Water Tower when you decide to give this game a proper go.

Getting daily CBIT for food

To get 5.4 CBIT a day, you would need to stake roughly 51k SEST (465 Wax). This is done inside the game.

New Waxchester

Raw materials like eggs, meat and wool need to be processed at different buildings in New Waxchester before you can sell them for SEST or use them as ingredients for higher tier crafting. For example, 12 goose eggs make one scrambled egg which sell for 27 SEST at the barn.

Upgrade path

I am going to explain how you can expand from 2 geese into a full size farm. In order to expand, you can either get more livestock or you can upgrade your current ones to a higher tier. There are many ways to acquire new animals and buildings. You can either Buy, Blend, Craft or Discord Auction.

Buy

The quickest way is of course to buy from Atomic Hub. Buying from AH is usually the cheapest way to get Common buildings but this is not the case for the higher rarities.

Craft

From the marketplace inside your Farm, you can craft buildings for SEST. As part of the economy update, this crafting cost is reduced by 6.67% per month. Until this has gone down far enough in a few months' time, this is not the cheapest way to expand.

Blend

Those of you familiar with Wax games will be no stranger to the concept of blending. The idea is you take a few NFTs and turn them into one (usually better) NFT. As you can see from the screenshot above, you can upgrade animals and buildings, food and water silos and make vouchers necessary for the blending. For example, you can blend 1 Common Goose and 4 Common Vouchers to make a Rare Goose. There is even a 2% chance to get an Epic one. Or you can go from 4 Common Goose and 4 Common Vouchers to an Epic Goose with a 2% chance of landing a Legendary. Blending is usually a cost effective way to improving your farm at a steady pace.

Discord Auction

You miss out on a lot of helpful information if you are not on Discord, not to mention the Discord Auction on the #auctions channel. Frank holds regular auction for SEST and you could really get a bargain here if you pay attention.

Diversification or Specialisation?

Although in theory, it is possible to just raise one type of animal or plant one specific crop, it is easier and quicker to complete quests and other crafting tasks if you have most of the ingredients on hand. We have been given a rather big personal farm for a reason. Specialising means you would have to spend a lot of time trading for what you don't have and this may or may not fit in with your daily schedule.

Time Saver

Although no physical labour is involved, managing a virtual farm is just as time consuming as running a physical one. Here are some tools which you will no doubt find invaluable.

Taco App

Whether you have just a few animals or a fully equipped farm, the Taco App is invaluable. It helps you manage your farm when you are not at your computer. You can unlock the app by paying 60 TACO (102.3 Wax) or after acquiring a Taco Sauce (19 Wax), you will be able to harvest on your mobile when you are away from your computer.

ChainFLEX Tool

This is a brand new tool offered by Roy at ChainFLEX.io and it does much more than harvesting. You can harvest, plant, box, craft (including Vouchers) and complete Trader's Quests too. This is a paid tool but you get some free actions every month. Check out the whitepaper to see if this suits your need.

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This tool also let you craft, sell, monitor and box.

Official Calculator and Overview

This spreadsheet gives you all the recipes in New Waxchester and all the blending possibilities.
There is also an Overview which you can track your staked earnings. Make sure you replace yourwalletid with your wallet id in the url.

Summing up

For roughly 500 Wax (US$38), you can start with one building and two animals. Your staked SEST will generate enough CBIT for the food needed to harvest the animals. With time, you should turn all the common animals into epic as it is more cost efficient. From here, you can expand by acquiring other buildings and animals or even plants and gardens. Information about harvesting quantities and times can be found in the whitepaper.

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Notes:

• All prices are correct at the time of first posting.