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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 14 - It's Traak eh!?
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Welcome back to The FarmRPG podcast! This month we have ANOTHER one of our farm hands joining us and it's our resident Canadian, Traak! It's June, the weather is warm, the cicadas are emerging from the forest and we are all easily distractible. Hope you enjoy this month's episode as much as we enjoyed recording it! SQUIRREL! Thanks for joining us for another great episode! Best of luck with the swear jar!!! See you next month!
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Transcript
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um are
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I don't what I'll say.
Introduction of Hosts and Podcast
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I hope you're ready because I already pushed go and it's already started. You wouldn't dare. it I did. You know, I had to do it to you. Sorry, bud. But anyway, welcome back, everybody, to the Farm RPG podcast. Yes, we're constantly abused by boobun.
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It's true. It's true. abuse you on purpose ah because it is um joyful for me to do so. But um I am your I am one of your hosts. My name is Bubon.
00:00:43
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I'm here with my ah faithful companion and co-host. Faithful companion. I'm a dog. Hello. I'm Forced Path. And we also have a special guest here as per usual. But this week, or month, excuse me, we don't do this weekly. i would literally, ah I don't know what I would do. But welcome to our special guest.
Special Guest Appearance and Canadian Accents
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Go ahead and introduce yourself. Hi, it's Truck from Spoilers. It's Truck from Spoilers. Spoilers, Truck. It's truck. Oh, the Canadian. Truck, truck. You have a Canadian accent. That's the real thing. I know. think we'll find out during the podcast, eh?
00:01:23
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A little bit. i Is this sort of like Kuban has like a minorly Bostonian accent? Minor. it's extremely It so comes out when I say popcorn because it says... like For some reason, people pointed this out, but when I say popcorn, it sounds like pup.
00:01:37
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And that's, I guess, yeah, that's a Boston thing, I guess. I had no idea. So my question is, what makes a Canadian accent, aside from like the obvious things, right? You got like OOT and A, which I feel like are maybe over. We don't say ABOO. Yes, exactly. So I feel like those are stereotyped.
00:01:53
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What would actually indicate a Canadian accent in your esteemed opinion track? I'm not sure what it actually is. I've i've always thought of it as just not American. Yeah. I think we're to have to. don't know. Apparently a lot of voice actors and things, they've actually sought out Canadian voice actors because they're one of the more neutral accents.
00:02:13
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I've always felt like I have a neutral accent from being from the Midwest. I've always felt like a neutral accent. Yeah. It's still American, though. like there's There's like a definite difference. like I can hear the Canadian.
00:02:26
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I would say that you're just generic American there. I thought she was about to call me generic American we were about to have an issue. No, God, You definitely sound Canadian. Interesting.
00:02:38
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It's really funny to hear what people think Americans sound like, though. I was watching one of my favorite YouTube channels called a Top Dead Center. They like car content and they were doing it of their British people doing American accent. And it was it was something else.
00:02:52
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and I did not realize we sounded that bad. Yeah, no, it's rough. It's rough. But anyway, welcome back, everybody. Oh, yeah, we have a podcast, too. This is a podcast.
Discussion on Farm RPG Gameplay and Appeal
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If you didn't know what this podcast is about, it's about Farm RPG, which is a text-based farming MMO ah where you can click your number go up on your phone or on your browser. Wow. Well, I'm glad you're here. It's so fun and good.
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Thank you for joining us. I love it when my number goes up I love Number Go Up. Let me tell you, it's my favorite thing. can't wait to tell you guys about a game that I found with a number that goes Is called Numbers Go Up? It's not. Oh, boy.
00:03:29
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Well, we'll have to talk about that in the... That game exists. I bet it does. No, number... NGU, it's good. Yeah. Oh, wow. NGU, I don't... But this isn't the game that I'm thinking of today. Oh.
00:03:40
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Well, we'll have to hear about that. I'm excited to hear about a Number Go Up game. forgot that NGU was a number go up. Um, but yeah. Oh, and I just hit, um, did you hear it? It was probably like one of the first ones of the, of this episode.
00:03:52
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Yeah. I mean, that's going to be the password for someone to make tons of gold. Yeah, this is true. Making that, that secret password. That's not what we use the secret password for. That's a swear jar. Oh, speaking of the swear jar. If think the secret password is, um, with some long number of M's though, that would be extra fun.
00:04:11
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I actually think that would be fantastic. I don't know if you guys have noticed, but we're trying something new about the with the password stuff. So, you know, maybe maybe you'll have to listen to the the episode to figure it out. but It won't because there's a transcription, right? And then so they'll see password and they'll go control F to the next password. That's true. They might have look for like somewhere where craft or says like the password is.
00:04:34
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Right, right, right. That would make it hard. Yeah. I think having to type in passwords so many times or search for password and password is and the password is and tracks password is going to be um is going to be really, really tough for you transcription folks. Password arms, tracing, and weird pronunciations of made up names. Who knows?
00:04:59
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Who knows? Yeah. I mean, who knows? and We haven't even gone through all the different. i think like I think we may have. Speaking of ah the swear jar, which I mentioned briefly. did you just uh as well as um?
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I ummed, yeah, which is fine. I think that's okay. We're not counting uhs as far as I was aware. It was just ums. um Anyway, there's an I'm right there.
00:05:22
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Cool. So on purpose, you're welcome. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have that swear jar winner. It's Ruffic, which is R-U-F-F-I-C.
00:05:34
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So get at me, Ruffic. You are going to win like a sweet 200 and something gold. I don't know how much it was. It was a specific amount of. Cuffer backwards. Kind of. It's like cuffing people. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So you have won that swear jar. Please get at me. ah But yeah, that's it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Because if don't get back, then the gold just disappears.
00:05:57
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And who isn't happier than watching real monetary fiscal value like Farm RPG Gold?
00:06:06
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who correct just poof away it's just going into the void sorry i just have i just podcast a professional podcast this is a professional podcast and i will i will not accept this kind of perfidy i'm gonna call him out fire stream sent me a message and i just have to respond i'm so sorry right i'm gonna ahead and message fire stream now and say please stop interrupting the podcast oh my god don't do that i'm doing it right now no please No, he sent me a message 11 minutes ago, which I missed because we started recording.
00:06:40
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Anyway, anyway, anyway. back Back to it, back to it, back to it. So let's do the ah the updates, the updates.
May Updates and Fourth Birthday Event
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What have we done in the last month? Last episode came out right around the beginning of May, May 9th, I think. We had the first ah May 1st update.
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We had the May 1st update. and We talked about... did we Did we actually read the May 1st update last time? don't recall. I think we did, actually. Okay. But maybe not. Do you want to recap I've slept since then.
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I don't want to recap it because then I would have to read it in the style of the Fantastic Four, and I'm just not capable of that. as much as Well, it was a big one, too, because it was the it was announcing the birthday.
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There was a lot in there. Yeah, we announced the birthday bash, and we had the May starter pack, and we had some other rocking updates. May was a big month. Yeah, that's right. Some air quotes if you're watching the video.
00:07:33
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We love an air quote. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, no, we're good. So that was for the fourth birthday. There was a whole bunch of stuff. We had, you lot of things back. The pinata came back. Yay. Ooh, with a new design. With a new design. There was a new design. Can we about how people voted for the tower?
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Who saw that coming? I didn't. Did but you see that coming? Yeah, Trock, did you see it coming? I did not see that one coming. I was totally caught off guard by it. I was too. i was I was a little saddened, honestly, because i was like, how am I supposed to draw the tape?
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I really liked Rick falling out the bottom, though. That was a lot of fun. I had to do it to him because, really, just wanted to hit Rick with the stick. I just wanted to keep swinging once he popped out. Last year with the corn, we all felt for the corn. It felt really sad, and I really wanted to stop swinging. This year, Rick pops out the bottom, and I just want to step it up a notch.
00:08:25
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Yeah, and keep swinging at it. Maybe next year I'll get to make Rick a pinata. I just thought that was funny. I'm kind of really hoping that we do this every year now and every year i figure out what one you really want to draw and then advocate for something else in the chat. I didn't do that this year, but I'm thinking about it for next year.
00:08:44
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That works for me. I mean, I i like to to draw random things. also maybe You're very talented at drawing random things. I don't know about that. and don't know about that. um well I think everyone that listens to this podcast should send a message to BooBun about how great of an artist she is because she is pretty good.
00:09:02
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Well, I would like to say that I'm skilled and not talented because I put a lot of effort into ah honing this and Just saying. So if you want to call me skilled and not talented, I would appreciate that. Thank you.
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But it is a
Challenges in Designing Custom Emblems
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lot of random stuff you're asked to draw. Like when the new staff comes, you're like, hey, I'll make you a custom emblem. What do you want? and Yes, this is true. Like you get some really random stuff. I was like, I just want to leave. I got a simple one, but then you get like, what was it? O-line?
00:09:28
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Like his is some random symbol with like some kind of golden eagle or something? Oh yeah. It's, I think it's a Marine Corps. Like how do you even describe that logo to somebody? He can, he sent me, he sent me an image to base it off of. So like, ah yeah. he kind of like I had to make it like cartoony.
00:09:45
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What's hard is when people want me to do something with Halloween. like I think I had i like made a spider on there like for his on Halloween because it was just too much. But anyway, that like yes.
00:09:56
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ah Emblems. and some ideas without I want my fox to be on a moon, but kind of looking over the shoulder. And you're thinking, is he is he kind of shy or excited? like Really get nuanced requests. don't know how you're going to do this. Here's the thing. That one was tough because Luna...
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wanted she already had a icon for me with a box on the moon when she was a player and then she was like i want a new one but but kind of the same vibe so i had to do like i did like the overall look thing anyway back to the updates you know that's enough about me drawing emblems which i'm trying to get back on my again again everyone message don't message how talented and skilled she is skilled message her with what the password is Yeah, the so the password is not what you need to be messaging me about. But what you can message me about is reminding me about your emblem request, but don't send me any new ones.
00:10:48
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This is opening the floodgates. just You should probably mute that. Yeah. ah You know what? don't Don't worry about it. If you message me about it, just know that it might not get done ever. You are so scared.
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but I know I'm sorry. It might not ever get done, but if it does get done, you'll be so happy with me. And that's all that really matters. I did like four. I did like four this week. It's only Tuesday.
00:11:11
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So like, count me some slack. i I took like a good like six month hiatus from drawing emblems. I'm so sorry. Sometimes a girl gets busy. I just want to point out that let's say the, how many people listen to our podcast, by the way, thank you faithful listeners. But isn't it like least three, isn't it like in the thousands sometimes like somewhere between 800 and 1500, like on any given episode. Yeah. Yes.
00:11:36
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It's probably more like, like 2000 people listen to this, which is, yeah so, I mean, like, let's say that, you know, 75% of people decide they want their own unique chat emblem. You can't get through all it. If you're doing two a day, you're not going to get through all that. I'm not going to get through of them.
00:11:50
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No, there's no way. there That's why me a math. There's no way i can do them all. And the thing about it is if it's very of interest, interest if you request an animal, nine times out of 10, that's getting done.
00:12:03
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If you request something that isn't an animal, there's like, um there's like a, you know, a very slim chance it's going to happen. I'm so sorry to say, but what about a concept? Can I request a concept?
00:12:17
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Depends on the concept. Well, if you request it through interpretive dance. yeah I was going request it as an interpretive emblem for the idea of silly chaos. What about the password is as an emblem?
June Updates: Pets, Raptors, and Improvements
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That's a really good one. Mm-hmm. The more creative you get with asking for your emblem, also you may that may also you know sway me a bit more. So like be creative, I guess.
00:12:43
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but Make it like a prom invite. like up You are just like, Bubun bu and is like i got i I'm throwing my shovel away, I'm getting an excavator. yeah Because we are going deep.
00:12:53
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Make it like a prom invite. Like, Bubun, please do my my custom emblem. Listen, I do these for free for fun, so like you gotta to make it worth my while.
00:13:04
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I feel like this is counterimposed to what you just said, which is, I'll just draw your emblem, and now you're, like, qualifying it. Yes, qualify it. Keep her talking. She's going to, like, offer do three months. No, at Can we do the next?
00:13:15
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Go to the next one. Go to the next update. Let's go. Come on. Are you snapping at me? Get out of here. Come on. Let's go. don't even know which one we're on. We're on the 6th. The 6th.
00:13:27
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You're on the 6th. You've read it since you're on the 6th. and ah ah We had the ah birthday event. We had the birthday event where you could enjoy so many bonuses. it was so cool.
00:13:40
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Also, the event the event calendar had had it listed on there. We need to use that a little bit more. So basically, the every single event or not event, every single bonus occurred for the this fourth birthday event.
00:13:57
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Not every single one, but it was a lot of bonuses though. let's not gone not When did we miss? There's no same time. That's dealt. Okay. Yeah. you can't do those both at the same time. It doesn't make, i miss know want there are people in this game that will call you out for saying such nonsense. Don't they know for a fact that I, I just like say stuff. So don't take anything I say with like any kind of like solid.
00:14:24
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I'm, Let's be real. Are you going to read the updates or are you just going to jab her? I'm just jabbering. My new goal is just to distract you. We've got to get her off track this whole podcast. yeah That's exactly what he's doing. It's okay.
00:14:36
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Anyway, there's lot of new changes. At the Farm Supply, we had the Pine Boost. I'm talking over you. The Pine Boost to double the rate that your pound boards are produced.
00:14:47
Speaker
Wow. Cool. ah The quick give perk now allows you to reset the dropdown to nobody, which is very handy because it stops you from giving away. Instantly cutting our tickets in.
00:15:01
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Yes, truly. That was really, that's like a perk for us. Let's be real. ah child So the town has some Borgen stuff going Borgen has his own district.
00:15:13
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So he's in his own little section, his Borgen section. The player search has a bigger search button. ah Home refresh icon has been updated. Buddy's profile now has his Buddy Jack stats, so you can go see how much that dude wins, because it's a lot.
00:15:29
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The corn theme you can get. So the corn theme from April is now available at the ah art gallery. So you can have that cool corn theme, that corn RPG theme from April. all year round. if you I actually ran it until ah until I was looking at it one day why is my farm RPG yellow? and It's a lot.
00:15:48
Speaker
It was just one of those things where I think I had Stockholm Syndrome. I was just like, alright, well I guess my game's yellow forever now. And then one point was like, oh wait, I don't have to do this. No, you don't have to have the corn in the background for the rest of your life. Maybe your game should slowly go more yellow while growing for every corn you grow. So eventually you've like mega mastered corn and you don't even realize what you've done, but you're just living yellow.
00:16:10
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It's like when Cookie Clicker goes crazy and you start seeing like the cookies spawning in the background. Eldritch Horrors. Yeah, it's like that, but with corn.
00:16:20
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ah There was some bugs squashed in here, and the bottom bar where you see the silver, gold, and ancient coins are now like linked together. And the silver, if you click on it, will take you to the bank. The gold will take you to the buy gold page. And the AC will take you into town. So you can click on them separately and they will take you places, which is pretty cool. I haven't really... pleasantly surprised with that quality of life update.
00:16:46
Speaker
I've been clicking on those all the time. I didn't even know I needed That's really funny. I feel like I have such a specific way that I interact that even though I know that it's there, I don't use it. it's really interesting to hear how other people kind of view some of these
00:17:02
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Mm-hmm. It's good. i I like all these new quality of updates ah quality of life updates that we've been like popping off with. When I say we, it's like not me. It's the admin team.
00:17:13
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I didn't pop off with any of these. You did, too. you suggested some things you're part of the team I'm part of the team. No, but we're all on team boobun today. You're listening. Dream work, boobun.
00:17:24
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this is I guess this is true. This is true. We are on team boobun today. Okay. May 12th. I'm not going to ramble on. I'm just going to say it was an update. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
00:17:35
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Wow. You can ramble or you don't have to ramble. Don't be like me. ah You know, I'll be rambling later. Monkey seed does not mean monkey do. right
Fourth Anniversary Celebration
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um meji Farm RPG turn four on May 12th, 2025.
00:17:48
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Very exciting for all of us. I am still shocked that we're on this adventure four years later. Really, it's a little longer than four years because the original version hit the internet on April 20th, I think. April 21st. Something like don't think I've ever played any mobile game this long.
00:18:05
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Me either. well no Same. Yeah, that's true. Same. Ooh, that was a big, um, that was, that was, um, with some anticipation.
00:18:17
Speaker
So I just want to take a quick moment in the middle of these updates to thank everyone who's ever played Farm RPG, uh, new old, just, it's so cool to be a part of this community for four years and watch the game grow, watch the community grow and change.
00:18:33
Speaker
spoilers didn't exist when we started there was only one chat channel it was global everyone was there it was chaos we had custom chats it was a different life and it's really interesting to see the culture of the game change over time the way that you progress the game changes over time and i look forward to keeping doing it and I can tell you that Firestream is so unbelievably grateful for everyone that plays the game and supports the game and so are we. So thank you guys.
00:19:02
Speaker
ah That's just a little aside ah but what actually happened is we had the birthday event on May 12th turn on We had our first double sale which was inventory and mailbox cap at the same time. Wanted to see how that worked. That was pretty cool. So mostly that was just an update ah to let you know that the game turned four.
00:19:24
Speaker
It's true. The game did turn four. ah Then on the 20th, there was a lot more quality of life updates. well So claim all mastery rewards. hit which is bomb so if you're like doing a lot of masteries all at once you can click claim all and get all those bad boys all at the same time when new items are released because you get like the 10 100 and that you get all these little masters for a bunch of new items you're going to get clear them out yep so now you don't have to keep spamming that claim claim claim claim claim you just do it one time and it's done yeah that easy reducing those clicks
00:19:59
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Then, we also also reducing clicks, you can now do multi-use with the claws for the raptors at the ah the Raptor Fight Club, which we don't really talk about. We're not supposed to talk about it.
00:20:10
Speaker
Sorry. so you Forget you heard any about this. but and Man, that was such a bear to do. so So awesome that it's there. Yep, it's great. So now you can really spam those claws at your raptors and really get them leveled up.
00:20:25
Speaker
the My friends got a ah UI update, which allows you to search at the top, which is very cool. um The top of my friends has been condensed so that there's some panels that you can open and close now.
00:20:38
Speaker
And the list of friends online or offline has been cleaned up a bit. So there's some cleanup happening there. So it's a little bit better, easier for you to view your friends and see them, see when they're online, et cetera, et cetera.
00:20:50
Speaker
And some other small changes is the refresh messages icon ah has been changed to match the home refresh icon. And when searching for a player, the button text changes when you hit tap slash click. And there's some minor tweaks and bug fixes. So like just some more bug squashing.
00:21:08
Speaker
on our side of things. Ooh, I get to talk about this one. Yeah, this is a good one. May 28th, 2025. Grape juice fat. So good. Okay, so I have to be honest with
Introduction of the Grape Juice Vat
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you. When we first talked about the grape juice fat, I was not a fan, guys. I was like, is this really necessary?
00:21:27
Speaker
i use it every stinking day, and it is lovely and wonderful. And so if you haven't been beta, haven't had a chance to check it out, check out the grape juice vat page on the library.
00:21:39
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But legitimately, it uses all of your daily grape juices at once. So you don't have to click plant, harvest, plant, and then harvest all and then plant, and then harvest all. You don't have to do the whole shit. Well, it's plant, grape juice, harvest, plant, grape juice, harvest.
00:21:54
Speaker
Yeah. Feels like not a lot, but. Well, I think the bigger change for me was I don't forget to use my grape juice now because it's part of my daily routine. When I go into my farm and click on my little things, it's just another one of them in the list.
00:22:07
Speaker
And I don't think I've missed a day of grape juicing since getting it. I would forget know it's all the time. It's so good. It's again, one of those things where I saw it and I was like, man, i i don't know how i feel about this.
00:22:18
Speaker
Got a chance to test it out on Alpha. And I was like, if you take this away, I'm dying on this hill. Yes. no in Instant buy. Good perk. Instant buy. It's extremely good. Saves those clicks, too. Like, you're really not clicking like a thousand times anymore. It's an expensive perk, though. That's a good you could good one to use your voucher for.
00:22:36
Speaker
It's definitely an expensive perk. Probably something that we realize that newer players may not care about as much as players that have been around and built up a bit of a stock in.
00:22:49
Speaker
So just kind of, that's a little tougher to balance, but we we do our best. So other updates, and I do have an additional update that is podcast only update.
00:23:01
Speaker
but Y'all are getting a special update after this. ah We have a new merit badge for all the Borgen belts. We here the Farm RPG admin team love our Borgen belts. We love collectibles, even though kind of is bloaty and whatnot. We still love them. So if you collect 15 Borgen belts, you're going to get a merit badge. And there's probably going to be more Borkenbelts, probably more merit badges, just like a our spoiler.
00:23:26
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ah We also, um at the bottom of my inventory, added some new inventory stats, which is fun to see people link, you know, how many unique items you have, how many items you have total.
00:23:37
Speaker
I've been trying to get Firestream to add one for pets because I love the fact that I have like almost 4 million items in my pets. Oh my God. i don't know. ah kill many.
00:23:49
Speaker
That's so many items. There's no good reason for it. Are you collecting using the single collect ever? Or no, you're just letting them hold up. Oh yeah, the single collect, I wouldn't collect for my pets without it.
00:24:01
Speaker
Right. Because it would just be too much of a nightmare. ah But the single collect has been... has been clutch for me personally. And I know others have used it. And then we've also gotten some more stats and daily chores about your current streak.
00:24:15
Speaker
So leading into that, I've got actually two special updates for you guys today. I'm not going to go one. I'm going to go two. I'm going to put myself on on a ledge here for this one. Number one, i want to tell you, dear user, we're going to figure out how to deal with this current streak situation. And if you miss it,
00:24:34
Speaker
like on the 30th or 31st, because you weren't able to log in. We're going to figure that out. I force path pledge to you right here. And right now we've talked about it. We're going to come up with something and I'm not going to let it go. I'm going to be a dog with a bone because I know how passionate that streak is for you guys.
00:24:51
Speaker
So don't worry. We're going take care of this. That's spoiler number one. i I care about that streak for you guys. I personally am bad at streaks. I just, I will forget for like six days in a row and I'm totally honest about it.
00:25:06
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So anyways, Update number two, which we didn't put in the update notes, but you will see in July 1st and things that are going to happen around Farm RPG, we actually built over May a new item scheduler system where we can now put in items in the game and take items out on a daily, hourly, and monthly basis automatically without needing anyone to kind of go in and do it manually.
00:25:33
Speaker
You will see in June rise the of the cicadas. And that leads us into June 1st.
June Starter Pack and New Pet
00:25:41
Speaker
That does lead us into June 1st, which has all of our regular normal June 1st stuff, which is new ah monthly pack, starter pack.
00:25:50
Speaker
which has some fun items in it, which is Buddy's Beach Bag. So like, that's the name of the starter pack. There's a pet treat, which can be given to any single one of your pets, and it will give you ah instant items. So basically it will, I think it's a full, is it an hour?
00:26:05
Speaker
and think it's believe it's an hour. It's an hour's worth of items from any pet that includes seasonal pets. Even if they're out season too. Even if they're out of season. Even if they're out of season. We wanted to make it a little unique. I think there was some debate about the time. I think we stuck with an hour for now, but who knows?
00:26:21
Speaker
I mean, it could it could be different. It could change. so But if you're really dying for some items from one of your pets, you can use that. and it's Let's say you're a completionist and you can't wait till next spring. You can now go into Trade Chat, get yourself a Hummingbird pet, and then generate yourself all the Hummingbird items.
00:26:37
Speaker
You're welcome. Yep. Yep. It's very, very cool. ah There's speaking of a seasonal pet, there's um there's a monthly pet this month for for June and July.
00:26:48
Speaker
It is the tiger shark. You need the shark jaws from the pack to get it. um So go ahead and trade and trade chats for that bad boy. You can get that um there if you if you haven't bought the starter pack already.
00:26:59
Speaker
Oh, oh, oh. One moment, please. I need to know, everyone, what was your shark name? I was just going to ask you that. Oh, I beat you to it. Let's go. I went with Bruce.
00:27:10
Speaker
Ah, classic. Yeah. Classic. nice some emo doesnin came to my mind yeah was so my Mine is Bubbles. Bubbles. Bubbles with shark. All right. I like it going a little anti-nomenclature.
00:27:22
Speaker
ah Very obviously Blue Steel. Oh, yeah. Why wouldn't you? Right? mean, it is Zoolander reference. Little Zoolander. Look at the cheese on that guy. He's blue. He is.
00:27:35
Speaker
He is got a he is cheesing it. He's got a big old grin on. Loved it. Loved it. Wonderful job on the art. Once again, everyone boob on is very skilled. Here's the thing is I'm i'm matching the old ah the pet art. so I didn't draw all the pets. I've drawn some of the pets, which I I'm sure you can figure out which ones they are.
00:27:53
Speaker
But yes, i'm I am matching the art, you know. Great job. Thank you. I appreciate it. Anyways, I think I do all right. Back to the updates. Yes, the tiger. the So the tiger shark is available uh as always you'll be able to get that buddy bag if you do the 28 days of chores so if you don't want to trade and you don't want to pay for the starter pack you can just get them at the end of the month you'll be able to do as long as you complete your chores so you know get after it uh there's a new raptor type to hatch which kind of ties into the the the the new pet
00:28:27
Speaker
Don't have mine yet. or haven't got there's a new it's my yeah I yet. I got one right away. I was shocked because last month it took me literally, i don't know, like two weeks to get all the Raptors ah because we had some newer ones last month.
00:28:43
Speaker
I also can't get the new chicken Raptor. I have no chicken contender Raptors to go for I don't either. That's the problem is like I wasted a couple of mine right at the beginning of last month because it popped off.
00:28:57
Speaker
Yeah, they all died. They all died they all died immediately. ah So i have nothing I have nothing good in the in the chamber here for music director. It's stinky.
00:29:08
Speaker
Anyway, what else? Is there new Buddy Doll this year? Yeah, there's two. Two new Buddy Dolls this month. It's not in the updates. I know. I think you forgot about it. It's okay. I missed it, too. I proofread all of these, and so does Tenfu, and so does Booba. No, I don't.
00:29:24
Speaker
We got Vacation Buddy Doll and Yoshi Buddy Doll. That's right. I knew that. i like how Yoshi Buddy Doll is actually does straight up a Yoshi. Yeah, he's Yoshi Buddy Doll. He's not a Yoshi. He doesn't have spikes.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. His spikes are missing. He's not real Yoshi. It could just be an angle of the camera. It could be, but... Actually... Actually, he's missing his spikes, so it's not actually Yoshi.
00:29:48
Speaker
ah So Nintendo can't come after us.
00:29:55
Speaker
What else? There's a new mailbox this month, which you'll be able to get via help request. It's not available yet. you cant under um But you can go look at it. It's beautiful. I i really, you know, I really, you know, put some work in there.
00:30:08
Speaker
ah The soap shop has been updated. oh also sea turtle migration is happening. So you can go right now. There's such so cute. They're so cute. and So you go down to Emerald Beach during June and you'll be able to, you know,
00:30:24
Speaker
catch some little little guys some little sea turtles are cute and i feel really bad catching them in all the fishing nets i know it's kind of sad from getting a few thousand of them but still right doing it yeah it's it a thought that counts right yeah right hey guys i'm sorry No, you're good.
00:30:42
Speaker
It's like you just scoop them all up and take them home with you. They're so cute. That's what you're doing. Don't think of it like you're stealing them from their home. It's more like you're taking them home to be loving pets that you're probably going to give to ah one of the quests at some point.
00:30:56
Speaker
soon so which It does say that that there will be some quests there for those. so Also, other notes, there's a buzzing sound happening, which I think we've already alluded to what that buzzing sound might be. Hmm, what could that buzzing sound be? Certainly not the thing that that I hear outside constantly right now that is so loud that I actually don't like being outside. and Yeah, the droning. Kind of fun. It's got me grinding in forest again to get some of those secret drops in there.
00:31:26
Speaker
grinding. I'm working with making nets and then going dumping the nets on the turtles like a really old school. That's what you'll use those for. Yeah, it does have the old school firmware. Kind of like a nice throwback, nostalgic grind.
00:31:38
Speaker
It's a little nostalgia. Forced to fishing, that whole loop. I'm going to post that video in Discord of just what it sounds like by my house, because I posted in admin chat, and the cicada nonsense is unreal, guys.
00:31:56
Speaker
while do Wild. Wild times. Unreal. i I've not experienced it. We only have we have annual cicadas here in New England. We don't really have like the broods that come up and are really loud and like cover your trees and stuff. We don't have that. We have like one cicada every once in a while. You'll hear it like buzz and then it's that's it. You don't you don't get the craziness. So I'm going to I'm going to take that and I'm gonna throw it in discord right now.
00:32:22
Speaker
So if you see this in the farm RPG discord, I'm just going to put it in the talk channel. And if you see this, you'll know that I was recording the podcast at the time of this. Anyways. so that concludes our updates.
Borgen's Treasure Hut and Player Speculation
00:32:39
Speaker
We've updated. For the last month. ah So hope you enjoyed that. Hope that you caught caught up and got some information about you know everything we've worked on in the last month or so. ah More to come in the next 30 about in the next podcast.
00:32:56
Speaker
Yes. There will be a a password in the next podcast too, right? Bonus spoilers for everyone. Oh, some spoilers. Borgen has a treasure hut.
00:33:09
Speaker
I don't know what's in there yet. There's lots of speculation though. Spoilers channel has some speculation as to what they think it is. And everybody seems to think in accident that it's Borgen's hunt.
00:33:22
Speaker
don't know why. People keep thinking it's Borgen's hunt treasure. hunt it's like a pizza hunt you miss one billion yeah The lemon seltzer and lemon cream pie are now in the flea market. is that yeah market Our effort to really try and make sure that people that don't use trade have an opportunity to get a volume of these items.
00:33:40
Speaker
So I recognize that maybe it's not the same price as trade, but you know, some stuff has to be maintained, but still this is we want people that don't necessarily use chat to still feel like they can be a part and have some of these cool items.
00:33:53
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. so you can get them. I work really hard on trying to price these out and and make it palatable. If it's not, you can DM me and we can talk about it. I may not agree with you, though.
00:34:06
Speaker
I'm pretty opinionated as a person. So just fair warning ahead of time. You know, it's a podcast spoiler I want from you, though, Force Path. Yes, what's up? There was a podcast. can't remember which podcast. It was a few ago now, though. And you said there's some undiscovered use of orange geckos.
00:34:20
Speaker
And it has been eating me alive ever since you said it. I've seen a couple of people talk about it. Brings me a smile. And I kind of actually think there's nothing. And you're just trying to kill me with suspicion.
00:34:32
Speaker
You'll never know. don't think anybody will ever. It's certainly not me that would know. And I feel like Spoilers doesn't find it in like half a second. It doesn't exist. See, you'd say that, but I can think of many things that we started that have taken spoilers quite a long time.
00:34:48
Speaker
Marief Crest being way up there. People could not figure out that their gold feather count was increasing for literal weeks. i Honestly, we were we were slow on the draw there. I wasn't impressed. I was part of that slowness. That was so much fun to watch. How did you pronounce that crest?
00:35:05
Speaker
It's the Marief Crest.
00:35:09
Speaker
But I think that some other people who might call it Mee-E. Is You say Borgen too, don't you? No, it's Borgen. You say Holger. He does say poulgar No, it's Holger.
00:35:24
Speaker
let's and i yeah I remember when I was moving, this was two years ago, I'm driving from my old home to my new home and my Discord is popping off. I get off at the gas station to find there has been a rebellion of people saying Holger and it's Holger.
00:35:42
Speaker
I thought Holger. It's Holger. It's Holger. Like, Folgers. Folgers in your couch. Yes, exactly. I say Folgers. I don't say it. It's Holger.
00:35:53
Speaker
Folger. That's like the same. You are so incorrect. It's Holger. I'm going to pronounce it the French way. Holger. Do it the Snoop cat way and random accent on it. There we go. Perfect. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee. Oh, man.
00:36:08
Speaker
that was a lot of updates. That was a lot updates. stuck some spoilers in there. so You did. No passwords in there, though. You didn't sneak any secret passwords in. That's because the password is a secret.
00:36:20
Speaker
That's true. But the password isn't secret. Isn't it It won't be secret. It could be secret. It's not that secret. It will be said at some point. Yeah, and people will rebel and be like, why do you ask us to engage with the podcast? You're just farming for clicks and blah, blah, blah. Yes, it's true. We are. That is what we're doing. That's exactly what we're doing. Now I want to make the class for a soldier with a phonetic J. I'm going to come after you.
00:36:46
Speaker
there's where where are you at it's time for a chat oh yeah he's gonna get him actually i know it it's it's not i wouldn't do that to you but i would chat ban koala corgi ory deserve let's be real you know what you did casey yeah oh as always got him got him anyways let's talk about troc a little bit yeah troc Tell us about you.
Truck's Journey: Discovery and Love for Spreadsheets
00:37:11
Speaker
We already know your favorite chat, so we don't... I don't need to know about that. I mean, you could talk about if you really want to talk about it. You know, I started, though, as a real help chat nut. Oh, your help chat nut.
00:37:23
Speaker
you You don't have access to spoilers right away. This is true. So I started in help chat. That was back when CodeRanger was starting, too. He was just a noob. Noob brainer. He was a noob who always knew more than everybody else.
00:37:35
Speaker
um Yeah, I started off in help chat, and then I wanted... like deep information on, on quest. Cause buddy farm didn't exist. And the library wasn't quite as robust as it was today. And there was all kinds of stuff I wanted. And then I found spoilers and other nerds with spreadsheets and it was wonderful.
00:37:53
Speaker
So many spreadsheets. There's so many spreadsheets. It's too many spreadsheets for me. All the spreadsheets. That's where I tap out on the, on the spreadsheet stuff. I seem to only like games that are best played with a spreadsheet beside you.
00:38:06
Speaker
Hmm. You seem to like that? Yeah, in general. I used to play like a lot of EVE Online, man. Some of my best spreadsheets. Okay, yeah. Very spreadsheet-y game. What other spreadsheet games have you been into in time? mean, managed end up coming up with reasons to make spreadsheets for a lot of games I play. This game, don't know.
00:38:24
Speaker
Well, I, you know, I would be interested in hearing more about your spreadsheets sometime, but maybe offline because, you know, some people don't like talking about spreadsheets. It starts to just feel like work now.
00:38:38
Speaker
So how did you get started with Farm RPG? So we know that you started and helped Chad migrate over spoilers in time. You've been here for a while. What had you find the game? Three and a half years. What's kept you around?
00:38:51
Speaker
think I found the game a from, probably from Reddit. I've always liked some little farming games. I've always liked incremental games. Saw somebody recommend this. It seemed right up my alley, so tried it out.
00:39:04
Speaker
It's certainly easy to get into. i like the fact it's got browser and ah and mobile support. Always get my fix. um No, and i i like i like I like the progression. like the grind.
00:39:19
Speaker
Peak farm RPG, right, is when you've got some big grind and you can eat some food and some like lemon cream pie and just open the tap and grow go crazy grinding away in somewhere for something. That's always fun.
00:39:32
Speaker
Tapping like crazy. Tapping like crazy. Tapping like crazy. um Yeah. Yeah. and um I like the quests. I always like when there's big new quests. So when you, I know not everybody likes the really hard quests and the late game quests only appeal so many people, but like when you dropped Distant Illusions, that was great.
00:39:49
Speaker
That was really fun for me. It's very fun. I love dropping the big quests. They're just, uh, Hamrats and Star Map were so much fun. that That was good. I like the ones where I have to actually kind of think and plan because they're actually challenging. Cause when you've been in the game for a long time, start to accumulate a lot of resources and it's It's harder for you to challenge those players.
00:40:08
Speaker
That's so true. It's lot work. and is a lot of work. Now, you like you like collecting all the items. What's your favorite item? What is your favorite item in the game? Like, if you had to pick one.
00:40:19
Speaker
there's so There's so many good items in the game. i really like a lot of the item descriptions, too. I feel like it's got to be some of the most fun that the devs have is coming up with these item descriptions because there are some good ones.
00:40:32
Speaker
Yeah. Someday I'll just go into spoilers and ask everybody what their favorite one is and all kinds of new ones pop out that I haven't noticed before. I think I really like the cornball.
00:40:43
Speaker
Oh, cornball's good. Because this is where all dad jokes eventually end up and just it's fitting. It's good. I like it. It's good. That is good. Yeah. That's a great one.
00:40:54
Speaker
Love the cornball. fan like I have the game open right now and I'm looking at chat and Koala Corky. We all just at the same time. You really blew him out of orbit there.
00:41:05
Speaker
I'm sorry. That wasn't subtle.
00:41:11
Speaker
sorry got cheese for but that wasn't subtle but I don't really act on subtlety. No, no, not at all. That's okay. You know, like, just earmuffs here for a second Force Path, but, but like, he's a really good mod.
00:41:26
Speaker
He actually works really hard. Yeah, we know. We know. Don't tell him I said that. It'll go to his little fuzzy head. We won't. We won't tell him. Sorry, you're good. You're good, Force Path. You can marry him. Yeah.
00:41:41
Speaker
I used to do that with my kids. My daughter would be like, Dad, plug your ears. And so I'd just convince her that I could plug my ears like I could close my eyes. So I'd be like, driving, I'd be like, okay. And she'd be talking to hear me and I just wanted answer.
00:41:52
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. And she'd talk to her brother or something. And I'd be like, can I open my ears yet? It was great. It was years before she was like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You can't hear me. can't.
00:42:05
Speaker
So we know a little bit about your most favorite chat. We know a little bit about how you found the game. We know a little bit about your favorite item, but what we don't know is who your favorite mod is. Oh man, this is. And it's, you've got to answer.
00:42:19
Speaker
You, you, you don't, you don't not get to answer. And I, like, I was thinking, i knew you were going to ask me this question. Like, I don't even know. Cause it's hard, right? Like, there's people I've, there's a lot of the mods are like my friends from spoilers, right? So like Wade and Nethy and G-Dubs and like Snoop Cat and are all, I've known them. They're all great people. They're my friends.
00:42:38
Speaker
There's other people I didn't know. Like, I'll be honest. So my wife picked up Farm RPG lately and i was back in the library using a lot more of the library for like early game stuff. She was asking questions about and digging through there.
00:42:50
Speaker
RKM and Koala Corgi have done an amazing job with the library since in the last like year or so. Like they've, That's really good work. There's just so many good people. There's a bunch of new people, too, in in like staff chat that I've gotten to know because I don't go to every chat all the time. Like the whole group who manages giveaways or really an impressive bunch.
00:43:13
Speaker
Jules is a great person. I never really knew her before. So it's it's hard It's a hard question to answer. but hear a lot of stalling right now. i know Yeah.
00:43:24
Speaker
I know. I was trying to think. on I will say I'm going to give an honorable mention to Okay. okay like and like buting with hand in a dude there was There was this story where my my son terrible teenage friends got into my discord, uh, where I had a kind of a chat but with some of the staff to deal with some stuff. And they said some horrible things and left the chat.
00:43:50
Speaker
And I had no idea this happened that they had kind of gone in our family computer and and done this. And so I'm at work doing work things. And I get a message on discord in the middle of the day from RKM and be like, Hey man, just want to check in. You're okay.
00:44:02
Speaker
I was like, he's and sorry him fine. was such a good du Honestly, it was really sweet. And we were like, it seemed like a bit of a weird departure from the chat because they said terrible things.
00:44:13
Speaker
And I just thought that was really thoughtful, empathetic thing for, for our cam to do. Our cam rules. Yeah. We do love our cam. My favorite mod, I think has always been lunar.
00:44:24
Speaker
What a great choice. And not someone that hasn't picked yet. As far as I'm aware. I can't believe like she's, i don't know. And it when I, when I want nerdy spreadsheet answers, she's always there.
00:44:37
Speaker
I before I was a mod, I needed some mod help once and she really got me out of a jam. She's also just a logical voice of reason for stand up person. And I could not think of a better choice in this moment.
00:44:51
Speaker
Honestly, i we love Luna. Luna is someone that I think is just such a stand up. Awesome. If you've ever gotten a chance to interact with Luna, She's going to hate it when she listens to this. Yeah, she hates being complimented.
00:45:05
Speaker
Hates it. Yeah, we love her. She's the best.
Favorite Mods Discussion
00:45:08
Speaker
great Now, there's an opposite side to this coin. Oh, but okay. That's valid. Least favorite mod. Wade, good choice, my man. Good choice. Good choice. it kid and I find that I was always, I was joking. was my least favorite mod because he would always tell me to do flexible spending and I didn't do it. I didn't didn't do it. And then voice of reason, Linda Riffick did it.
00:45:32
Speaker
And then Mr. Forest Path said, you're not going to regret that. That's a good idea. So since then, I've had to do flexible spending and now I can't hate. And I'll be honest. He's also like a good snack consultant. Like if you need to know anything about snacks, if you need a friend with ah an actual like industrial hot dog roller, he's got one.
00:45:52
Speaker
Yeah, the dude rules. Yeah. Also, like, he lives at Dollywood. like He really does. Loves Dollywood. my My wife pulled up some paper plates that she got ah in the States at Walmart, and it was, like, Dolly Parton paper plates and napkins. Like, ooh, I need to take picture of those for weight. we Send it to Wade, yeah. I send him i said him like Dollywood TikToks all the time. like Wade's the best. yeah I love Wade, but good choice on your least favorite. I've had Wade as the worst mod for a long time, but he's actually not. and i don't that they i think a group
00:46:23
Speaker
There's a more obvious choice, but I will accept Wade as your answer. mean, Koala Court, he's like too obvious. I'm not talking about Koala Court. You're way off base here. That guy's terrible. Everybody knows it. Why would you pick that mean, you asked least favorite. The worst mod?
00:46:37
Speaker
The worst mod is actually me.
00:46:41
Speaker
We love some self-deprecation. we do love Like, I don't think players, but like when we were, when mining was coming out, Firestream had had put it into the game because it big change, right? it was a whole new system.
00:46:53
Speaker
Firestream put it into the game and gave staff access so we go test it and poke it further and i really test it. We're finding all kinds of little bugs and stuff. But we didn't want people to know what was in the game. And so we were and like, guys, don't collect masteries or anything because then they'll know. like So we were kind of just trying to get quiet.
00:47:09
Speaker
And one day, ah tired long day at work, and I'm clicking away on green buttons on my screen and I go and I collect mastery for it. And every staff child's like, who collected the masteries? the whoops it happens we all make this game 0.3 seconds later everyone's spoiler like who got the mastery for us mine is in the game who's got mastery and we're like this is fire stream testing things yeah yeah that's the best excuse always so I love using the fire stream as testing things excuse new spoiler admins can't be on the mastery list so oh you just ruined it why would you tell him
00:47:47
Speaker
but truth tellinglling now i guess you that excuse next I can't tell a lot. I mean, I can, but I can't. so This is true. That's fine. that's fine oh the think this is the time, though. I don't know if you want to talk about your event.
00:48:04
Speaker
error think event Yeah, do your thing. Okay. So give us your phrase, your special phrase that our players can enter in and get a a little trinket.
00:48:17
Speaker
maple syrup oh two words or one let's do two words cool i can handle that perfect i actually just want that to be in the game my way of trying to manifest destiny i tell you what advocate for that again in approximately two weeks Yeah, because your new system is perfect for how it should be. Listen, i'm not this is not a spoiler. I'm just saying sometimes you just have to be the squeaky wheel, even if it's not fun and the other person hates you for it.
00:48:53
Speaker
It makes things happen. Do I need to make Force Path 8? Okay. Okay.
00:49:02
Speaker
Yes. So that's that is it. Maple syrup. You know, you know where to enter that in your mailbox. So go ahead and take care of that, y'all. um Now, should we talk about the password?
00:49:13
Speaker
We should probably talk about the password. Yeah, the password and what it was. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, that's all. It is a password number 256. Wow. so it up there We don't add as many anymore because... mean, you add. It was May the 4th.
00:49:31
Speaker
There was a May the 4th where you started add some Star Wars passwords, and Force Path must been bored that day because you just kept adding more, and then we would all be in chat trying to say, it's not this, it's not that, it's not this, and then Force Path would read down and go add ones we had already guessed.
00:49:47
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah, Firestream was doing the same thing. Firestream was doing that. that fire think that was a team effort. yeah It was a team. It was a team group. both been bored that was a funny day You know, I would say we all miss sometimes doing the more interactive stuff, but it's harder now.
00:50:06
Speaker
It's a smaller game. You can do goofier things and we'd all understand it was just a joke. Yeah. now you Now you can't do anything without making people angry. Yeah, that's the but the nature of... That's not 100% true, but yeah. That's not true. You added a new shark pet, and didn't see anybody get angry about it.
00:50:21
Speaker
No, nobody's upset about it. Well, that's because it's Bubun's artwork, and we have established that Bubun is very skilled as an artist. Skilled, yes, thank you, skilled. I appreciate that, thank you very much. Look at that. There you Oh, take skilled over over talented any day. Thank you, sir. Of course you realize that I'm now going to tease you and call you talented I know.
00:50:42
Speaker
That's fine. That's absolutely fine. Speaking of skilled and talented, my my friend, I know that you've written us a new segment. oh oh no. i i That we've discussed
Exploring Effectiveness in Farm RPG
00:50:54
Speaker
previously. So I would love for you to, again, I've read the script for it, and I think it's very lovely. So I think it's time for you to get into the, what was the official title? We don't have one.
00:51:08
Speaker
There's no time. It's like a deep dive with Force Path. Force Path Genius Hour? Deep dive. A deep dive. No, no, no, no, no. It's like a deep dive. No, it's not a deep dive. Okay, what is it? What are you calling it?
00:51:20
Speaker
This is just an opportunity to talk about a mechanic that people want to understand a little bit better. Force Paths Workshop. The mechanic. We're workshopping. I don't know. what We'll call workshopping.
00:51:32
Speaker
Okay, here we go. All right. So we're going to take a second talk about Force Path Workshop. And I've written a script for this. I don't know how this is going to go, everyone. ah Maybe this was a terrible idea, but I started looking at the different things that people have requested. Number one thing was the Raptor Fight Club.
00:51:51
Speaker
We're not going to talk about Raptor Fight Club. have, however, beseeched upon your behalf, dear listeners, for Firestream to talk about Raptor Fight Club. He also demurred.
00:52:03
Speaker
So maybe I'll talk about it in a week, a month or two. But we are um the other two things that came up a lot were exploring effectiveness and Arnold Palmer's versus Apple Ciders.
00:52:16
Speaker
ah That was a very big one. And the other one was um the apple pie situation and the farmhouse and how resting works. So today we're going to talk about exploring effectiveness. So I guess Force Path, take it away.
00:52:30
Speaker
Force Path, take it away. Here we go. Yes, you. Have you heard about exploring effectiveness? You probably have, but maybe you haven't. Let's chat about it for a second. Exploring effectiveness, it's actually pretty simple.
00:52:44
Speaker
On any specific exploring zone, you can click the little eye with a circle around it, which is called the information page. um You can see all the items that drop in a zone, so pretty cool if you didn't know that before. And if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, you will find exploring effectiveness.
00:53:01
Speaker
There you will find a statement saying you are currently using stamina every time you explore this location. This means simply that every time you use the explore button, that's how much stamina will be used per click.
00:53:15
Speaker
That said, a little history for you. Did you know that exploring effects and fists did not exist when Farm RPG started? When we started, we used our stamina one by one and we liked it. And times have really changed.
00:53:27
Speaker
That said, below that, you will see an option to pay a fee, which is simply a silver payment to increase your exploring effectiveness by one. Unless you're in Jumlin, that Jiki Robot wants corn.
00:53:38
Speaker
Maybe you're there, maybe you're not there yet. And I'm told the ethanol-based magic makes your clicks better. I cannot confirm or deny that. Anyways, in essence, especially for you early game farmers, you can burn through your stamina pretty quick with exploring effectiveness.
00:53:57
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That said, do want to mention it is per zone. So you will have to increase each zone individually, and it is a silver cost. And that silver cost increases by a factor of 10 every time.
00:54:10
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So it's going to get expensive pretty quickly, but it is kind of worth it. And let me explain why. There are some perks in the flea market called sprint shoes. They double your exploring effectiveness. So you can actually take your exploring effectiveness and get more bang for your buck.
00:54:26
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There's two right now, meaning when you buy both perks, you get a four times bonus to your effectiveness. So have you got all that? Because we're not quite done yet.
00:54:37
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See, what I haven't mentioned, which was actually in the middle of the page, is protein bars. Protein bars are a way to increase your exploring effectiveness without spending your silver.
00:54:48
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Which is pretty hype. So we had to limit that to three per zone. But then we realized limiting it to three per zone was kind of arbitrary. So we just figured you could bypass that by spending a protein bar and some extra gold on top of that if you just really, really, really, really like that number to go up.
00:55:09
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So that's about it, kind of. But there is one other thing i would like to mention. And it's too often that I read in the chat Hey, guys, can someone tell me what's better?
00:55:23
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Is it Arnold Palmer or is it Apple Cider? Guys, seriously, the answer is that they're both really good. let me tell you why. First, let's talk about Apple Cider.
00:55:35
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Okay. So did you know that Apple Cider actually uses stamina in accordance with the amount of exploring effectiveness you have in a zone? Okay. If you want to know the specific formula for that, you can look in the library. They have wonderful page on Apple Cider.
00:55:50
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That said, the long and short of it is if you want to get more stuff per click, increase your exploring effectiveness and use Apple Cider. Just keep an eye on your stamina because you will burn through it very quickly.
00:56:03
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But don't forget Meals exists. That nay is really good. So don't sleep on the nay. Secondly, let's talk about lemonade and Arnold Palmer. These items actually find a set amount of items for each click without consuming stamina.
00:56:21
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So some point, an Arnold Palmer is going to be outscaled in terms of the number of items you receive per click. That said, it does not change the odds of whatever item you're going to get.
00:56:38
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So depending on your amount of stamina or not stamina, one or the other can be better. So if you have a zone where you have less exploring effectiveness, you might seem to think you're getting more items with an Arnold Palmer when in fact you're getting the same amount always.
00:56:57
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So just remember, if you want to use and get the most items per click, increase your exploring effectiveness, buy the sprint shoes, And use apple cider.
00:57:09
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You will get a lot of items, but you will also burn through all of your stamina very quickly. Some of you have a lot of stamina. Some of you don't. But if you want a more consistent return on your clicks, use Arnold Palmer's. They will help you, especially when you want to measure exactly what you're getting per click.
00:57:27
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That said, there are plenty of players who have mathed out exactly which items they prefer to get exploring effectiveness in versus using an Arnold Palmer. You can ask in Help Chat.
00:57:39
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You can check out buddy.farm, do your own math. There's also some community resources. Don't feel like you have to do the math yourself, but if you want to my respect to you. So,
00:57:50
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All that is a very, very long explanation to say, check out the info panel on its own, increase your exploring effectiveness, and Bob's your uncle, you've gotten more bang for your buck, whether you're clicking with an apple cider or you're just clicking manual explore if you're early on in the game.
00:58:08
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I hope you've had an enjoyable time reading and listening about this. There was no reading, it was all on my end, but I'm tired of hearing my voice now, so enjoy. Thank you, course, Pat. That was lovely.
00:58:21
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i think that went really well. that was good. Now, which zone should I use my protein bars in? Because that's another question we see all the time. That is a great question. Go talk to the Help Chat.
00:58:34
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I will say that because I feel like a specific one size fits all answer is not applicable to this. It depends on what you're working on. It really does. And I feel like if you really, really care about it, go check out help chat. If you still don't know, message Koala Gorgi.
00:58:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure he'd love to help you. I'm sure he'd love to help you. But I think the takeaway from your thing there is to not overthink it because drop rate doesn't change. Drop rate is constant. same It's just about reducing how much clicking you're doing and the protein bars and the exploring effectiveness just reduce how much apple cider. So if you're going to go spend 5 million stamina, you just use less cider to go through it.
00:59:17
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Yep. It's about how much cider you want to be using. So true. Yeah. Well, I really appreciate that section that little segment there, Force Path. I think our our player base and our listeners will enjoy it as well. That was lovely.
00:59:31
Speaker
That's a lot of speaking. You're you're good. like I'll talk for a minute here. um We're going to fade into our beautiful tea time since we're running out on an hour here.
00:59:51
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So let's get a tea time. Yeah, already. I kind of rambled a lot in the beginning. So it's, you know, it is what it is. sometimes Sometimes it takes a half hour to get through the updates. You're distractible.
01:00:02
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bo on It's kind of fun. It's called ADHD. Okay. We live with what we have. We work with what we've got here. Where'd you get that button pillow behind you? That's from the Redbubble. We do sell these.
01:00:14
Speaker
I believe they are still up in our merch section. You can get it. It is a thing you can get. ah I love my buddy pillow. um Actually, I was actually sleeping in my office because my husband was sick.
01:00:25
Speaker
And this buddy pillow was in in my guest bed, which is like right behind me. And I like wake woke up in the middle of the night and it was like staring me in the face. I was like, this cannot be. Like, I cannot have this here. And I like threw it across the room.
01:00:39
Speaker
So... no i'm no i can't i so we're talking about the buddy pillow this is on topic okay listen
01:00:52
Speaker
what have i been working on this month nothing onto your truck what have you been working on in farm rpg this month oh god
01:01:04
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i In May, i was trying to get a lot some masteries and stuff done during the event because they were really good bonuses. um i got I've got some big milestones I'm close to finishing, some 99s.
01:01:19
Speaker
i met I'm at 98 cooking, and that thing, slow as molasses. Of course, yeah. I'm getting there. And then I'm at 98 friendship with Sid, which is my last townsfolk to get to 99. You're going to have to release Town Folk prestige levels and prestige cooking soon, huh?
01:01:38
Speaker
I do not want to do Cooking 99 all over again. but Are you sure? are you sure about that? but What if at Cooking 199 there was a really good bonus?
01:01:50
Speaker
A really good bonus. But i want I want some kind of amazing pie that takes me 8,000 days to cook. So then I get tons of experience for it. Well, that'd be cool.
01:02:01
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Be right back. Taking, adding a note. punch it Stealing that. Thank you. Oh, well, we'd have to disable fruit punch or something. out of the middle Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ah Not not a fruit punchable.
01:02:13
Speaker
A thousand tickets for the people that were like, I wonder if this actually takes 800,000 hours. Now I can't use my ovens. Right. Other than that, we're into June now. So i'm I'm trying to get turtles and cicada shells for now and looking ahead to the new stuff.
01:02:28
Speaker
ah guess the beach ball is coming back, which should be on the calendar. Right. But it's not. Well, not yet. We'll get it on there. I know someone who's supposed to be managing it and they're in this podcast. Yeah.
01:02:40
Speaker
ah is ah It's both of us, I guess. I really hope it's not me. yeah Well, guess what? It is now. It is now. Congratulations. You've been drafted. all in trouble. Voluntold.
01:02:52
Speaker
Voluntold. Get on that calendar. ah No, but we'll look into that for you. Get some calendar stuff going on for us. That's our bad.
01:03:04
Speaker
I know you just talked a whole bunch but I'm fine I've been working on DI I've also been working on a lot of i think I say this every podcast so it kind of feels a little blah I've been working on a lot of back end stuff I'm getting the the treasure hut I've been working on another different feature and i did some writing this month but i'd been i I love writing.
01:03:34
Speaker
I love it so much. It's just very hard to to write in such a way that you can make quests around it, and I feel like I've put myself in that box. That's something I think about a lot. But that will be the continuation for PSA. ah it's probably I've probably got another six or seven quests written. Hopefully...
01:03:54
Speaker
It doesn't take more than 20 or 25 more quests, but we'll see. The story's kind of long. feel like I meandered about in the first 16 quests, so we'll see.
01:04:06
Speaker
And that's an um for you at home, and a bonus um. We love it. We love an um. That's it. not um There's actually somebody who counts the ums, right? Like, is that a, is that a full time? Yeah. Thank you. it card Yeah. So it's on, it's the ums are counted by our video editor. Thank you very much. Video editor. I'm not going to call you out because I don't know if you really want everything you're doing. Like, is it on their LinkedIn profile?
01:04:30
Speaker
I don't think so. No, they get, they get, uh, you know, they, they are, they are given what they're needed for this. Uh, but they do count the ums. Thank you again. We appreciate you. Well, we love you very much. what Yeah, we appreciate all that work that you do. You are a king amongst men and I appreciate you greatly. You know you truly are.
01:04:52
Speaker
Not to besmirch our audio editor who is also amazing and we love you as well. oh miss I miss our audio editor. I do too. We gotta have him back on.
01:05:04
Speaker
Anyway, that kind of calls him out, but that's okay. He he knows who he is. He knows who he is. uh oh do you want to talk about your number go up game really quick i know we're kind of getting sure we've gone a little bit long tonight but i do want to take a special shout out to a little indie game that was released just over a week and a half ago called cauldron you haven't played it before um Take a look at it.
01:05:27
Speaker
Pixel Art game has five mini games in it, a couple puzzles in it. It's all about ah collecting resources, making your resources go up and then setting a little battle team.
01:05:41
Speaker
i played it for like 12 hours. I'm writing it down. it a scheme game? It is a Steam game. Plays really well in the Steam deck. Now you're selling me on it. Which perfect for me because, you know, as I'm spending time with my family and my child, sometimes I'll pick it up, play for 15 minutes, half an hour, and put it back down.
01:06:00
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So um if you haven't heard of it, wonderful little game. That's all I wanted to shout out.
Game Enthusiasms: Expedition 33 and Fantasy Life i
01:06:06
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Also, Expedition 33 is still really good. Slurmancer, still really good. during Night Rain, really good.
01:06:13
Speaker
I wish I had more time to play video games. and Speaking of games we're playing, I'm just going to shout out Fantasy Life i
01:06:21
Speaker
That is so good. You should play that game. It's popping. I love the original on the 3DS. This sequel is amazing. It's amazing, amazing, amazing. If you like a cozy like game where you can do life sim, but it's not even just ass like a life sim RPG,
01:06:40
Speaker
Holy crap, only get it. I've literally thrown like 40 hours at the thing already because I'm crazy and I love it. So please play that. That's great. Shout out to that game. That is the only game I've been playing.
01:06:53
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Switch two comes out in like two days, though. So who knows what's going to be happening there?
Balancing Gaming with Adult Responsibilities
01:06:58
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tra You been doing anything? Are you a video gamer? We don't know your hobbies. You don't have to tell us if you don't want to. Yeah, no, I like games. I definitely don't have as much time to play them as I once did. I've been playing Captain of Industry again. It had a big update, so I've been playing that again. was playing Civ 7 for a bit after that came out, and then kind got pulled back into Captain of Industry, which is fun. On my phone, I keep going back and playing a Idle Planet Miner.
01:07:28
Speaker
It's weirdly addictive. i've been I've been trying to get back into unnamed Space Idol, but I just haven't had time yet. I've got a long, long backlog that I just don't really have as much time to get to as I would like. so hard. It's so hard having so many games and then like not having enough time to play them all. Yeah, adulting takes time.
01:07:50
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It does. It is true. Truly. Truly.
Episode Length and Hidden Passwords
01:07:54
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But. Wow, we went long. and We did go long. It's okay. um Do you guys have anything else you want to say at the end of the episode here? I figure we should probably nip it in the bud here because we're getting almost ah an hour and ten. I'm not sure anybody needs to to listen longer than that. i think I'm impressed if anybody's been here.
01:08:12
Speaker
No, they like to listen to the end because you never know when the password is going to show up. It could be right here. Drop and another password right now. We could drop another password at the end. We're not going to. Well, it's really funny you mentioned that because I think I am going to do the um thing. yeah um That's a good idea.
01:08:27
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Good idea. I like it. Well, thank you for listening. may or may not see it pop up in the next couple going do it like as um or going be um? That's for him to know and for you to figure out, I'm guessing. There was a hidden password from a couple podcasts ago that made people really, really, really, really mad. that i i liked it. I totally missed it. like i so yeah you didn't Maybe I'll add it. Maybe I won't. But I'll tell you what I'm not going to do is release it before the podcast releases. So it may come out a couple weeks. may never happen.
Gratitude and Listener Appreciation
01:09:02
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may come out tomorrow. I love the chaos. It could be a secret for one of those people that goes back and listens to every episode like months from now. So true. So and it happens all the time. And I love you. Thank you for listening. If you're binging all of our listeners. Thank you. All of our listeners. Not even just the binging ones. The ones that are listening every week or every excuse me. I always say week every month.
01:09:22
Speaker
We don't do this weekly. i would literally i would literally pass away if we did it weekly. That'd be impossible. I'd be talking way too much. But anyway, I'm still talking way too much. I love you. Thank you for listening the Farmer Peachy podcast. Goodbye. Goodbye.
01:09:36
Speaker
Bye.