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The FarmRPG Podcast: It’s Back!
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Rising from the ashes like a phoenix, the FarmRPG podcast is back, with a fresh coat of paint and a bit of a different upload schedule! Join boobun and Forcepath as they recap the last 14 months since our previous podcast and set some goals about future podcasts! Thanks for tuning back in and we hope you enjoy!
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Transcript
Podcast Revival & Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey, welcome to the Farm RPG podcast with me, Bubon, and with my co-host, Forest Path. Hi. Well, so we're bringing this back. It is been a while since we've had a podcast that was run previously by Belligan, who is taking a little hiatus. So we figured we'd take this over because people missed it. So we're back.
00:00:27
Speaker
Um, if you drag me in and I dragged you in, you had to come with me. Yes, you had to come with me. It's important. I need support. I need like an emotional support animal. I'm here to support you. Thank you. But I'm going to need the support. I have a feeling. Yeah, that's okay. We'll support each other. It'll be, it'll be a mutually exclusive, like a mutually, you know, mutually exclusive support system.
00:00:51
Speaker
Anyway, if you're new here, this is a podcast about a game, a mobile game called Farm RPG. It is a, how would you describe it there, Forest Bath?
00:01:03
Speaker
Oh, oh, okay. Give me a descriptor. It's a mobile farming game that is text-based. It involves things like farming, exploring, fishing, crafting, increasing your levels. Later on, there's cooking. We have new features coming. You can quest. You can talk to other players and chat. Oh, yeah, the community.
00:01:26
Speaker
there is quite a bit to do. So if you are watching this podcast or listening to this podcast and you haven't played it, you should check it out. Check it out. Yeah. All right.
Hosts' Introduction & Podcast Expectations
00:01:39
Speaker
Well, thank you for, thank you for explaining the game. I'm not very good at explaining the game. So a little bit, I think more about our, about ourselves. Oh, sure. You want to, I'll go first. I'll take the pressure off. Ladies first. Ladies first.
00:01:53
Speaker
I'm Bubon. I'm one of the admins in the game. I am the social media. Fresh. So fresh. It's like two weeks. So fresh. It's okay. I've been on staff for like a year and change more than that, a year and a half.
00:02:08
Speaker
Um, it was like October 2022, I think. Um, I know a long time. Um, and, uh, I do the social media coordination, which is why I'm here mostly because, uh, you know, this is social media talking to people. Um, and I draw a bunch of stuff also. So that's cool.
00:02:29
Speaker
A really good artist. Oh, thank you. A really good artist. Oh my goodness. I commissioned a piece from Buba. You did. That is true of Kirby. Yes. It's a thing that happened. What about you? Who are you? Why are you here? I am Forest Path, also one of the admins in Farm RPG. Long time. Yeah, I've been around since the start.
00:02:54
Speaker
Well, close to the start at least. So early April of 2021, I've helped with content creation, with game balance, some community management, not like super good at it. I do love people, but I just kind of, you know, do what I can. And I'm just mostly just kind of try to be the Swiss army knife of help. Yeah.
00:03:22
Speaker
Do it all. Gotta do it all. A little bit of everything. I've written probably a third of the quests in the game, and you probably don't like some of them, like corn quandary. I like that one. You heard any of those? All these corn ones. Listen, corn wasn't even a meme when I started the game. Corn quandary became the meme.
00:03:44
Speaker
Yeah. You created the meme. I created a meme. The meme master, really. Well, I don't know if I go that far. Of the game, probably. Let's be real. Let's be real. I don't like talking about myself, but that's a little bit about me.
00:04:00
Speaker
Hey, I think you did pretty good. That's pretty good. But listen, we're going to get there. All right. All right. All right. But that's who we are. So welcome. Thank you for joining us. And so what we want to do is, you know, we're going to set a little bit of expectations here, what you're going to expect from this podcast. So what do we want to do with this podcast?
00:04:23
Speaker
Um, I think it's, uh, for me personally, I want to reach out to the community. I want to talk to our community members via, you know, voice and video. If you're watching us on YouTube or watching us on whatever streaming platform you've chosen, uh, whether it's, uh, you know, just audio and you're hearing just our beautiful voices or video, you can look at us. Well, come on. Both of us have nice voices.
Hosts' Motivation & Swear Jar Concept
00:04:47
Speaker
We're all right.
00:04:48
Speaker
Both of us have faces for audio though. That's okay. You can watch us a video if you want to. You can see my insane-o room behind me. Anyway. Pink has exploded. It has exploded. It's true. But what else do I want to do with this podcast? I feel like just answering some questions for the community and just enjoying time, chit-chatting with my buddy.
00:05:14
Speaker
about a game I really enjoy and enjoy helping make. So I think that's personally what I want to get out of this. What about you? What about you, FP? FP, oh man.
00:05:28
Speaker
I joined because I really wanted to help you out first and foremost. Oh my goodness. Number two, I really love talking about Farm RPG, like probably to a detrimental degree. So if there is an opportunity for me to just chat about it in a casual setting, like
00:05:46
Speaker
I mean, I play farm RPG most of the day. And I don't really have anyone to talk to about it. Like my wife is like, dude, you play too much farm RPG. So, yes, you know, what do I want to get out of it? I just want to chat about farm RPG. And the goal would be to get to know community members and
00:06:09
Speaker
Hopefully they can get to know me, us, and just keep building that piece of the community that, you know, there's so many people I don't know. And I would like to know them at some level because people are cool. People are cool. And you know, this might reach people that may not chat, they may just like see the podcast on the
00:06:30
Speaker
You know on the site on the farm RPG itself and say hey Yeah, we can put on the banner you could see something happening, you know Admin abuse is true But you know a couple other things I want to try to get in here is I want to do some staff interviews So you guys can get to know the rest of the moderation team because some of them are very mysterious
00:06:51
Speaker
Um, you know, um, maybe we could have another admin on maybe we could have the big man himself on Oh man, they're so cool too. I really want them to I know they i'm sure we can pull them in we can convince them i'm very convincing i'm a very convincing very very That's how i'm here. That's how you're here. I convinced you I dragged you into this I need the morsel board but um
00:07:16
Speaker
You know, another thing I'd like to do is, you know, just also chit chat about the game. I do also love to talk about it. My husband's sick of hearing me talk about it as well. So this is a great opportunity. I can talk to you. I can talk to community members. I can talk to staff. And I like talking out loud. I'm an out loud talker. Chatting, I do very well. As you all know, I do very well. But
00:07:39
Speaker
One-on-one shit chance. I'm like, you know very good at I love that very comfy very comfy vibes Hopefully player interviews, right? I mean, yes, I want to get to player interviews I think that's something I win a's Q and a's I would be awesome What I mean, here's a question I have for the for whoever's listening to this to our yeah, whatever What do you guys want to hear? I think we're gonna be setting up a page
00:08:03
Speaker
So you guys can comment you could DM us directly in game if you're scared of doing that We will set up the library page where you can comment but you know
00:08:14
Speaker
Get after us, get after us out via DM. Let us know what you want to hear. What's some stuff you want to hear us talk about? Do you want to hear us talk about dev stuff? Do you want to hear us talk about, you know, community stuff? What do you want to hear? Game lore. Talk about game lore. Oh my gosh. We'll have to get you and Tenfu on together to talk about game lore. Because I feel like you guys are like the lore masters here. I mean, he's truer the lore master most of the time.
00:08:44
Speaker
I'm just allowed to play in the playground. Yeah. He just lets you in. Right. He just lets me in. And then I come up with a crazy idea and he goes, OK. I love that. Tenpoo, great guy. Love that guy. Great guy. Super great guy. We've got to get him on the podcast. If he will, I hope I hope we can get him. I'm sure I'm sure if a little convincing. You're saying please and saying, please, please come on and talk to us.
00:09:10
Speaker
um um oh we should talk about the swear jar because we haven't swore yet um i want to do a swear jar so if we accidentally swear we are gonna bleep it out just like or blam it out we're gonna do a blam i think that yeah do we have a blam sound yet i don't know we can record one or you can record one or you could just look for some free effects a blam all right and we'll record a blam so we'll record a blam
00:09:31
Speaker
But we want to start it. So if you want to be um, what what we're going to do I should get i'm getting ahead of myself Is every time we swear so i'm going to swear right now i'm going to say blam It's going to get bland and every time we do that We're going to have five gold go into a jar. So that's five gold from me right there um, and At the end we're going to tally it up and you know
00:09:55
Speaker
what we can do is we can pull the listeners and see like if you listen to it maybe you leave a comment or maybe you like message us say you listen to it and we can draw you a new hat and we'll pull your name the next round and you'll get the last weeks or the last month's swear jar.
00:10:11
Speaker
I think it's a good idea. I mean, I think really, really good at not swearing.
Listener Engagement Strategies
00:10:16
Speaker
Hopefully. Hopefully. I mean, if there's no swears on episode, I mean, so I guess maybe, maybe if there's no swears, it should just be like a default, like a hundred, a hundred gold. That's fine. We could do that. Like we, we did, we did good.
00:10:32
Speaker
We did do good. We're doing good right now. We did good. But it's like 11 minutes in. So like, how good really are we doing? Now that I have a child, I don't swear nearly as much as I do. Oh, I don't have kids. So being blessedly childless, I can swear all I want. And I swear all the time. And my dog doesn't understand swear, so it's fine. That you know of. That I know of. I mean, she kind of does. But.
00:10:57
Speaker
Regardless. Yeah, so a support jar is going to happen. Oh, this is something I forgot to talk to you about before we started recording, but I can talk about it to you now because why not? This is the setting expectations section. We're going to have probably a password, right? We wanted to do a password at the end of these. So we'll probably come up with some nonsense word that we can put at the end. So listen to the end and then you'll get a password. I don't know. We'll probably brainstorm what it is. If you want to brainstorm what it is, what we put into it, now we can.
00:11:25
Speaker
I mean, sure. What do you want to put in there? I don't know. Just brainstorm it. What do you want to put in there? Let's put some popcorn. Let's put popcorn in there for the first one. So a bucket of popcorn. A bucket of popcorn. What is the password going to be? I don't know. We have to do that at the end.
00:11:41
Speaker
We have to do it at the end? Yeah, because we want them to listen to the whole podcast. Yeah, but what if they just all skip to the end of the podcast with a password? Oh, we're going to have to hide it in every single... We're going to have to hide it, right? Okay, yeah, so the password section. This is password section. What do we want the password to be? We can make it, I listened to the podcast. I listened to the podcast. Yeah. All one word, all lowercase. All lowercase, all one word.
00:12:05
Speaker
OK, I listened to the podcast. I listened to the podcast. Write it down because you'll have to add it once you like upload this and we get it up on the thing. So I mean, we could add it now and then people could be even more confused. Oh, they'll hate it. They'll get so mad. We can't do that. Really, really dislike when we do that. Yeah, I know they do. So I mean, it's up to you how evil you want to be. Feel like I should do that.
00:12:29
Speaker
So we're recording this just to like break the break the wall, the fourth wall. We're recording this on the 13th of March. So depending on how long it takes for us to get this edited and put out, I mean, it could be in there for, you know, I feel like you've put a clock on this now, because you're gonna like,
00:12:48
Speaker
If you're saying the date that we did this, if this takes months to get out, it's going to be really embarrassing. That's okay. That's okay. I'll be embarrassed for the both of us. I plan on having one of these out a month. That's another thing at setting expectations. I'm planning on trying to get one of these out a month.
00:13:06
Speaker
So, you know expect at least one a month. We may do some supplemental like 20 20 minute 10 minute Quick ones in between just to like if something cools happening Yeah, I think that'd be fun but again, this is just like our this is our session zero of rebooting the farm RPG podcast so
00:13:28
Speaker
Which is D&D parlance for those of you who are not D&D nerds. Yeah, sorry. Session zeros are kind of more like introduction sessions. Yeah. Come on, let's not use that parlance. Are you going to knock everything over? I'm going to knock my cup over. I know. People who haven't just like shocked myself. I hit it with my elbow.
00:13:49
Speaker
So we covered this very briefly, and I'm sorry to derail, but for those of you who can't see and are not watching on YouTube, Buban's room is like a literal explosion of pink. There are
00:14:05
Speaker
just like in a quick eye scan, like at least 100 curbies. There is paraphernalia that worships Nintendo. It is a very glorious sight, but it is also a distracting sight. Oh yeah, I'm sure for you it's really terrible. And so if you're not watching,
00:14:33
Speaker
maybe we'll put a picture of her room on the podcast page. Yeah, I think you can see it. So you can see what it looks like. Because it is glorious to me. It's insane. Also, it's a dump right now. Like, I have to clean it. So we could put some pictures up of, I mean, either a screenshot of this, or I could just photo some actual photos of it, like decent ones. Listen. But yeah. And what's behind you? You have, what is that, a lamp and an air purifier or a fan?
00:15:04
Speaker
I got a fan over here. I got a lamp right here and then that's a humidor. Oh, okay. I used to be a lot more into cigars. I used to be very in devices.
00:15:20
Speaker
It's just sort of landed there. So we moved and this is not my permanent office. I see. We're redoing our basement. Ooh. Basement office. Ideal. Yes. But, you know, you got to do it slowly. And when the money comes in, I'm like in a bedroom right now that I've converted to my office until I've moved.
00:15:40
Speaker
That's what this this is a bedroom. This is the second bedroom of my house Vinnie has the basement So he's got a much bigger office space than me, but he uses it as like a man cave on top of it I have a guest bed back here, which I am NOT going to show you because it is literally covered in junk So strategically place I am strategically placed right now. You can like that's arcanine. I have the giant Pokemon arcanine right there. That's his like main you can kind of see him He's on the bed
00:16:06
Speaker
Other than that, that's like that's all I'm going to show you because it is literally just covered in like stuffed animals. It's like but not in a good way. Like in an absolute like it's a you know, this is an ADHD doom pile room. It's just like doom piles everywhere. It's fine. It looks fine from from what you're seeing from here. I don't mind it. I don't look good. Good. Good. Because it's it's great. Sorry. That was a derail moment. It was a complete derail.
00:16:34
Speaker
That was because that is probably going to be my contribution to this. No, that's fine. I like a little derailment I feel like that is what like keeps it a little, you know, it's like you're talking to your friends. You're we're buds We're just like chitchat about about the whole thing. We're homies so Getting back to whatever we were talking about. What do you guys want to hear us talk about? Let us know
00:16:57
Speaker
I'm not laughing, but that was like a five minute. It was like a five minute like derailment. It's fine. We were allowed to do that. It's our podcast. It's our podcast about a phone game. We're still learning. We got to put us in perspective. Okay. Perspective it. This is a farming text based phone game and we're making a podcast about it. So like get on the level, get on the level. Right.
00:17:21
Speaker
All right, I'm with you. We're fine. We're fine. I'm dialed in. We're getting there. We're getting there. So some people have listened to the podcast before when it was done by Billigan. And that had stopped in December of 2022. So that was a while ago. Long time ago. Long
2023 Farm RPG Updates Recap
00:17:37
Speaker
time ago. It's a year and two months or three months. Excuse me. You're in three months. So let's go over the stuff that's happened since that podcast came out.
00:17:49
Speaker
And I'm not I'm not. Yeah, let's see what's happened now. All right. I'm just going to put myself on mute for like an hour. I can't I can't hear this just myself. Let's see. I just want to give a shout out to Nico or Nicho, however you say it. I think it's Nico, but I don't think he's confirmed whether it's Nico or Nicho. You know, I don't think I've ever asked. We're really, really great admins. So great.
00:18:17
Speaker
but he made a lovely library page called Welcome Back Guide and this is for people who have like you know they're coming back after not playing for a few months or playing for a lot of months or playing for like a couple of weeks and they want to see what kind of cool updates have happened so
00:18:34
Speaker
That's what I'm using. I'm using it for the recap here of stuff that has happened since we did a podcast last. So January, 2023, we added a merchandise store, which I am going to be revamping a little bit as part of my admin duties. So eventually I'm going to have some fun act by fun merch. That's not just like Buddy's face and like the logo eventually.
00:19:01
Speaker
What's wrong with Buddy's face? I love Buddy's face. I have the pillow. I bought it. I bought the red bubble pillow. I have it. It's back there. I should put it behind me while we're doing the podcast. So you're just saying you're adding to it. Yes. Subtracting. Oh, very good. No, I'm not going to be subtracting. I'm going to be revamping. I'm going to be doing a little, you know, we're going to be jujing it up a bit, adding some stuff. You're going to jujit. Jujit. I'm giving a jujit. How do you spell that? I don't know. Neither.
00:19:25
Speaker
I'm sure there is listeners. How do you spell? How do you use it hit me up? Yeah 50 gold if you can spell Jewish This is gonna come out of my budget I have a budget I have a gold budget you have a gold budget. I'm allowed to I'm I can give stuff away I don't know if you have that but as a social media coordinator, I have a budget I
00:19:51
Speaker
Look at you, you're so fly. I'm so cool. Just so cool. You are the coolest. I, um, I wouldn't say that. I'm just like, I'm like, of the admins, I feel like I am lowest level, but I, there are no levels to me in my, in my view, I don't have like the cool skill knowledge that y'all have about like game creating, but, but, but.
00:20:14
Speaker
I I have a social prowess. I have a social prowess and we needed it. So that's what I'm here for. Anyway, continuing on for the recap, we finished January really was a merchandise shop and some new craftables. I'm not going to go like beat by beat here because I feel like we'll be here all night if I do this. OK. It looks like in February of twenty twenty three, we added the temple, which is a huge update.
00:20:41
Speaker
Yeah, I love the temple too. What was your favorite? You've made most of the temple chains, haven't you? You're like the temple, one of the temple guys. I have made more than my fair share of temples. That's true. Which one's your favorite? Tell me. I was a big fan of the boot one.
00:20:58
Speaker
For gold boots? For gold boots. I definitely have really enjoyed the additions that have also helped accessibility, right? So a big concern from a lot of the players that have struggled with accessibility is that gold boot felt way out of reach for them. It's really cool to try to come up with game mechanics that
00:21:20
Speaker
Um, are good for everyone, but they definitely reach an audience that needs it the most, or at least that's the intent. Obviously that it's not perfect. Well, it's a mercy system. So technically like, so something like that, if you know, it's bad luck protection sort of situation. So if you're having trouble fishing manually, it's there for you. I mean, it's needed for a lot of quests. So I thought, so yeah, you asked me which one of my favorite is that's probably that one or maybe the gold feather one.
00:21:48
Speaker
That's, I mean, the Gulf other one is very cool. I cannot do it yet because I'm still cracking through, you know, the, the PAM rats. I, I, hey, listen, I finished our map. So don't even get me saving for tea time.
00:22:01
Speaker
Yeah, we'll save it for tea time. Anyway, and it looks like also the pies got added, the cookable pies that give you the high experience, the red berry pie and the conquered grape pie. Great for experience for cooking, still slogging my way through cooking. Let's see here. Oh, it looks like in March of 2023,
00:22:23
Speaker
We added some greeting cards. The greeting cards got added like the fun. Oh, yeah, those are just like the fun social ones. A lot of new collectibles. And actually, March 2023, it's not on this is when I started doing the Raptors. That's when I took over all the Raptors. I drew them all. Yeah, it was March 2023 because I started to feel biased. It is a little biased. It is a little biased by yourself. You also did the green cards. I didn't know I didn't do all of them.
00:22:50
Speaker
You do most of them. I didn't do most of them, actually. No, I've done like really maybe five. Well, never mind. I'm sorry. Listeners. Clearly, my memory is shot. Yeah, he's just coming from my neck. That's OK. Oh, my word. That's the dynamic here. You're going to come to my neck constantly. I'm just going to be defending myself, defending, defending my neck. I'm going to protect my neck. OK, let's see. April. Yeah.
00:23:19
Speaker
I got it.
00:23:36
Speaker
in April the egg hunt and also buddy that was also the fun all the fun April stuff it's not on this list but I remember it because it's very fun all the new chat commands and stuff that is only for um April 1st those are fun yeah that was a lot of fun I love making the April Fool's jokes yeah it's very very good oh and crunchy omelets
00:23:58
Speaker
crunchy omelets and hickory omelets. Those are fun. Oh, yeah, the omelets. There's a good time. It's one of my very first balance ideas. Oh, that was original right now. See, this is all the info I'm getting now that I'm admin and I didn't know. Now you're filling me in. So let's see. May. May. Oh, there you go. You want to do May?
00:24:23
Speaker
Sure, I pulled it up. Oh, look at you. Yeah, look at that. I'm contributing to the podcast. You're contributing, a contributor. So May was Hot Potatoes, brought the Hot Potato event back. We had delayed it because April 2023 was our two year anniversary. We did Hot Potatoes at two years. We brought it back a little bit later. We also brought in the Borg and Mercantile at that point. Oh, the bucks.
00:24:50
Speaker
Yeah, boarding books and board and mercantile. We got iOS crop notifications. Ooh, that was the best. I mean, and getting on my watch.
00:24:59
Speaker
I don't use them, not because I don't like them, I just don't play on my phone. Don't tell anyone, I'm like a PC only player. Oh my god, you're one of the 2,000 PC only people? I'm like one of the three people that plays on PC. Oh my god, at least you don't use light mode. It's true. The only actual important note here is that Corn of Interest was released in May of 2023.
00:25:24
Speaker
That was you. Now it's a Force Path podcast. It's a Force Path podcast. It was all you. I loved making Corn of Interest. I had come up with this silly idea. I'd been rewatching Person of Interest and I'd come up with this silly idea of taking the intro for Person of Interest and remaking it and just decided to build a whole quest line around it because the game needed some more middle to end game stuff.
00:25:53
Speaker
you know just how inspiration works i mean it hits you when it hits you so and there was a couple more craftables too uh we added the single gold boot because that was a part of the gold boot uh temple chain so the single gold boot it looks like the double gold boot
00:26:10
Speaker
Oh, the pair of gold boots. What the heck? I forgot that there was a pair. Oh, man. So many fun. Well, that was a good month. There's a lot. We did a lot here. There's a lot of things that happened. OK, let's see. We got then into June. Oh, my God. House of Cards finally opened in June. I used for those cards, baby. Look at that.
00:26:34
Speaker
Buddy Jack. Really fun. Buddy Jack. I could play Buddy Jack all day. In fact, I just played a lot of like Bellario or whatever it's called. Bellario. Bellatro. Bellatro. There it is. I just got it tonight. So like cards are on my mind. Cards are on your mind right now. I do love me some Bellatro. It's good. It's good. But yeah, House of Cards opened. It looks like we had a couple new craftables that month. We don't have to go over the craftables.
00:27:00
Speaker
Probably true. Otherwise, we're just going to talk about we're going to talk about craftables all night long. Oh, July is another boob on heavy month. Let's hear it. The mailbox shop. Actually, first off, three hundred thousand players, which now like let's go. But like now, you know, we kind of we kind of bypass that very quickly. But we'll talk about that later. Yeah. When we get there.
00:27:25
Speaker
But the mailbox shop opened up, which if you didn't know, I drew them all, but that's not it here nor there. Thank you. Hey, it's wonderful. I'm glad you like them. It's just a nice cosmetic thing that you can have on your profile. It doesn't, it's good. I love it too. I'm a big fan. I'm a big star map one all the time. Oh yeah.
00:27:42
Speaker
Start it's not star map. That one is flexible spending my guy. Oh, yeah, that's right the flexible spending one. I'm spending holy moly. Let's not talk about Bad my memory is that's okay. I mean you've written them you wrote them That's what makes it worse
00:28:01
Speaker
I guess so. It's kind of bad because you're the one who wrote those. But actually, speaking of, I think Star Map came out that month, too. So it's a it's a boob on and Force Path. Happy month. Oh, July 2023, Star Map came out. Oh, no. Yeah. And another craftable. But who cares about that? That's for those of the players that aren't at Tower 199.
00:28:25
Speaker
Star map is kind of like our first attempt at making something uber long and uber hard from a quest shape perspective. So if you haven't gotten there yet, you have something to look forward to. It's tough. It's a big one. It's a rough quest. Really rough. It's good. I love it. I just finished it. I also like the thing you get at the end. It's good. It's a good thing. Helps you with the PAM rats.
00:28:54
Speaker
The Pam rats after. Yeah. So but yeah, July. Good month. Good month. Good month. August. Not much there. Looks like just like another event we had a back to school. And one thing I don't see on here that I want to mention is called Red Book Adventure. Oh, yeah. The school Red Book Adventure came out and I'm mentioning it mostly for self-serving purposes. It was my very first adventure. That's a big one. And it was huge too.
00:29:23
Speaker
Yeah, I put so much time into making the schoolhouse. Yeah, so that happened during the back to school event.
00:29:31
Speaker
That's a big one. I don't know why that's not in there. We got to put that in there. We're going to have to yell at Nico. We have to yell at him because he obviously forgot some things. Absolutely. Forgot some things. If you're listening to this, Nico, we're coming for you. He probably either one won't listen or two, we're not coming for him at all. Probably. Oh my God. Here, do you want to take September because it looks like it's another you one. Come on. Call yourself out. Listen.
00:29:59
Speaker
You know, you got to celebrate yourself a little bit here. OK. Celebrate yourself. Come on. September 2023 was Apple Pie Month. So we came out with Apple Pie, which has everybody's favorite item. Everybody's favorite item. Just a very popular item. How many do you have right now, by the way? Thirty two. OK. A couple. A couple.
00:30:27
Speaker
And then there were a ton of new craftables that month, and we also released the companion to Star Map, Pameratz. So... That's another big one. Both of those were important to move the lore forward in that time area, and then also some nice endgame quests with some pretty good rewards. Yeah. That was when...
00:30:54
Speaker
Borgen bags came out, too. Oh, yes. Not noted in September. I love a Borgen bag. Got nothing beats a Borgen bag. Let's let's be real here. OK, well, October. We had a spooky pie, you know, spooky pie trick or treating and the trick or treating with the ghosts. Come on. The ghost hunting was so fun.
00:31:17
Speaker
When we all, we can thank Code Ranger for that. It was his brain trial. Also, he did a wonderful job. What wasn't listed here is we got Crop Confetti then too because of the Ghost Confetti, remember? That's right! It's so good, the Crop Confetti. Who made these notes? I don't know. Nico, we're coming for you. Oh my lord. Okay, well. He's in the chat right now. Is he? I'm not even looking. He's in spoiler chat right now. You could get him. Just ban him.
00:31:47
Speaker
All right, just being right now you go on i'm gonna ban him. All right, you ban him i'm gonna go to november Um mega mastery was added. Wow. This is a big month. Um, so mega mastery One million of an item that's a big boy thing. Uh, whoa
00:32:01
Speaker
Big. Big. Yeah. The good old Mega Mastery. And then some new craftables. We add new craftables every month. So, you know. Try to. Try to. December. We had that Christmas event. Great time. But the frozen fishing. Another Code Ranger special, I believe. Yeah. That's correct. Yeah. Yes. Code Ranger is, he comes a lot of really cool ideas. Just neat. Very grateful to have him helping out with these. Gameplay and... Mm-hmm. He's a smart guy.
00:32:30
Speaker
Yeah, very cool guy, really really cool code Ranger what an asset to the team. Just just a great job I and the freezing mechanic was like, I really enjoyed watching players like first try to figure it out and then like
00:32:47
Speaker
people would be like, let's plan to do this. And then it was like 10 people. And then the other 5,000 people that were playing did not do anything like that. No, no. But yeah, no, it was a great event. Definitely just unique. So unique, more unique than like the last few events have been just like the most unique events that we've had.
Early 2024 Updates & Host Progress
00:33:11
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Then January 2024, this year we're coming up to the end here, but we had 500,000 registered users. So a half mil.
00:33:22
Speaker
We got to a half million registered users. So that's huge. And this is where our little, we have little issues. We had some, you know, we had a little issue for a little bit. We got a little laggy out here because we're, you know, got a little crunchiness, but hey, it's under control now. Was a, was a stressful time. It was very stressful. Yeah. We were struggling. So for, for comparison in July, 2023, we had 300,000 and in January, 2024, we had 500,000. So we,
00:33:51
Speaker
increased our player base by 66% in six months. It was jaw dropping, humbling, for sure. Crazy. Like wacky, wacky go nuts, even. Wacky. Yeah, it was tough. It was tough, but we're through the woods now. February, 2024. Knock on wood. Knock on wood. You know, you never...
00:34:18
Speaker
Okay, tower levels got released. That was like, you know, 200 to 250 got released. So that's another big one. That's another good update. I don't think we had any tower levels like, you know, in that whole full year until then. So excellent. And some crafts, some crafts. And then we fixed the lag.
00:34:42
Speaker
That's what happened in February. And what's happening in March? Nothing. It's like only 13 days in. So we have a, we have an event starting tomorrow, but by the time this comes out by day. Yeah. By the time this comes out, I'll probably be over. Let's be real. I don't know. Maybe I'll have it edited and uploaded tomorrow. Wow. I don't expect that from you. That'd be really impressive. I don't know. I get a raise. Would you get a raise? What do you want? Like five gold to pop?
00:35:09
Speaker
Two popcorn. I could I mean, I can't make that happen. Actually, I could make that happen. I could make that happen, but you could put two popcorn as the password. And then when you redeem it, because you'll be able to. Yeah, just make it two popcorn. Only if I get it done tomorrow. Only if you get it done tomorrow. And if you don't, it's only one popcorn. So you'll know if you got it done in time by how many popcorn you get from the password.
00:35:38
Speaker
It's a good mechanic. But that's pretty much everything we've done in the last 14 months. It only took us like 15 minutes to talk about it. I'm shocked. It was a lot. I thought it was going to take a lot longer than that, but I'm happy with that.
00:35:54
Speaker
It's wild when you sit and go through everything that happened in a year. It feels like years. It does feel like years. Like I can just think about all the stuff that, you know, staff was going over during all of that time and all of chats were going over during all of that time. And, you know, I just think back to all of it, all of it happening all at once. It's a flat circle.
00:36:18
Speaker
It's something. Yeah, it's true. I'm just I'm just I'm just making references out here times a flat circle where this is like a that's a true detective.
00:36:26
Speaker
Oh my god, you should watch at least the first season. It's very good. Maybe it's it doesn't have any continuous Continuity like continuity between all the seasons. It's all right. It's like a you know, detective new art I'm not gonna get into it in the podcast, but you should watch it if you can watch television Okay, so
00:36:51
Speaker
We have a couple more options here. We could, we could just continue to talk about the game or we could do a little outro. What do you feel like? I don't know. I mean, we did say we would do like practice some tea time. We can do a little tea time. We're bringing back tea time. We're bringing back the tea time. So just as if you were, if you're new to this podcast, tea time me and, and one of the former members of the podcast used to just, you know, chitchat about the game, talk about what we're working on.
00:37:16
Speaker
talk about, you know, stuff that's happened in chat. You know, just like little things. So we're gonna just do some talking about the game. What are you working on right now in farm RPG there for Spaff?
00:37:30
Speaker
Oh, well, I'm buying as many apple pies as I can for fun. I am mega mastering stuff for tower levels, so I didn't have ladders or iron cups or yarn. And I think garnets. Mm hmm. So darn it, really? Yeah, listen, OK. I'm very. You didn't have garnet.
00:37:57
Speaker
I'm very inefficient. I mean, I, I classically suck at this game. Like, I've said it many times. I am like one of the most inefficient players. I mean, I GM canoes but I have an MM garnets because I just like don't do that stuff. I don't think I've touched canoes like with a 10 foot pole.
00:38:19
Speaker
There was someone in one of the chats challenged me to to beat me to GM canoes. And as soon as you challenged me. Yeah, you're competitive. Somebody challenges you and you're just like, OK, I'll do it. Yeah, I mean, so yeah, those have been my main focuses. I keep thinking about finishing doing all my vault passwords, but then I don't.
00:38:46
Speaker
Yeah, I'm there with you. I'm at like 800 and some odd and I just like you're way ahead of me. I think I'm at like 200.
00:38:54
Speaker
That reminds me. I got one, two, three, four like yesterday on my first try. And it popped up. I took screenshots of everything. I just forgot to send it to everybody. But I got one, two, three, four. And I was like, I didn't post on the Reddit. I should have. Oh, maybe I still will. I took screenshots. I like screamed and I ran downstairs and I told many. I was like, look, I got one, two, three, four. But he doesn't do one, two, three, four first.
00:39:19
Speaker
Whoa, that's a madness. I'm like, why aren't you doing it? That's like the one way to get it like messed up, my guy.
00:39:25
Speaker
He doesn't do one, two, three, four. So just as a tip for everybody or just as a fill in, my husband just started playing like the game like two weeks ago. He just started like at the end of February. It's literally been two weeks. And this took literal years for me to convince him to start playing like literal years, like two. How long have I played this game? I'm almost got my third star.
00:39:50
Speaker
It's coming this year, right? Really? That long? I started in August of 2021, bro. Oh, okay. You're old schooler. I'm old school. I'm old school. For some reason, I thought you were newer than that. No. Here's the problem. What happened was I downloaded the game. It was right at the end of August, and I was getting married a week later, and I got a puppy the next day. I got my dog the next day.
00:40:17
Speaker
Okay, so like I put the I put my the game down and I didn't look at it again for like two months. Wow. So you're lucky I came back. That's all I got to say. Every everyone here should just take a moment to thank our lucky stars. Just thank you. Know who you actually have to thank? Steph sticks in game. She's the reason I picked it back up because she's the one who recommended the game to me. So if you see her and shout out to her, she literally messes under the center. Do you say hey, thanks. Send her some gold.
00:40:50
Speaker
She'd probably be like, why? When I'm taking this to my. Yeah, just going to make it square out your nose. That's what that's like that. But no, that's the reason. And then I saw her playing it again. I was like, you're still playing that. Let me pick mine back up.
00:41:04
Speaker
And yeah, no, I picked it back up and it was like the end of November. So I missed like, I missed Thanksgiving. Like, so it was from August to the very first Halloween event too. I missed the very first Halloween event, um, because I, I just hadn't played. And then, um, I got my first Raptor like right after I got on, I think January 1st of 2022.
00:41:29
Speaker
So that puts it in perspective where I was like, I got like, you know, 499 January, 2022. That's wild. I know. I know it is old school. Um, but what was I saying before this? What did I, why did I segue to this?
00:41:47
Speaker
Oh, because of the because of the vault. Oh, the vault. Right. The vault. Yeah. But I got one, two, three, four on the ball. This was about what are we? This is what Tea Time is about. This is like it's it's called. It's just like, you know, I do appreciate it's like, you know, you just got to follow the threads where they take you.
00:42:05
Speaker
My brain will go wherever that ADHD is strong. Oh, it hits hard on I listen if as you can tell by looking around me people who cannot see this like picture me swimming through my my environment. My my my office is an ADHD nightmare zone. This is like the product of the chaos of my mind, but
00:42:30
Speaker
What am I working on? Thank you for asking. ADHD zone right here. I got the old fidget spinner. Oh, you got a fidget spinner. I've had it for years. It's wonderful. I have so much on my desk. I can't even pick anything up to show you because it's too much, but I could show you this little, you know, do that. It's a cockatoo. So what are you working on in Farm RPG?
Quests & Challenges Discussion
00:42:51
Speaker
Oh, thank you so much for asking. What an awkward transition. You're welcome.
00:42:56
Speaker
Thank you. I'm working on Chum Mega Mastery right now because I felt like it was the one that was going to take me the longest out of all of these from the pile of Mega Masteries that I need to hit Tower 250.
00:43:12
Speaker
Um, but I do need like a ton of them, like so many, like at least five or six before I get there right now. What, where am I at? I am, um, I'm terrible. Two 34. I'm working harder than me. Yeah. I'm, you know,
00:43:26
Speaker
Which is weird. It is weird. Because I think I had to push for my tower levels to do a quest that you wrote. Oh, oops. Remember that? I pushed to 199 because you wrote a quest that was a time-locked quest for 199. And I was like, I can't miss a quest because I have a problem.
00:43:49
Speaker
um a lot of people feel that way but that's why we bring these quests back i know but listen i could be dead in a year who knows but the whole okay i'm not here for a long time i'm here for a good time okay i don't think if you're dead in a year you're going like on your desk you're gonna go i will man i miss that t199 quest too
00:44:11
Speaker
The whole point is that you're not supposed to stress about it. It's coming back. Listen, you're not missing anything, man. The FOMO is real. I get that. But I don't want you to feel that FOMO. I know it exists. I just don't want you to feel it. I'm going to feel it. I feel like a lot of players are going to be like that, too. It's it's not you. It's OK. I get that. It's not you. Sometimes I just want to be like, guys, it's going to be OK.
00:44:34
Speaker
It's going to be OK. It is going to be OK. You're going to make it through, I promise. It's going to be it will come back. And this is, you know, I I should practice what I preach a little bit because I do tell people to chill out and touch your ass and like go outside all the time. That's like what I do. But like, you know, I don't leave my house. So I got to get these these quests done. But if it's a time locked quest, I'm getting it done before it's gone. Still, I'm still a little flabbergasted that you're farther in the tower than me.
00:45:03
Speaker
Um, it's just because I'm way cooler than you. Um, it's because I've been silver locked. I finished flexible spending in the end of January. I haven't touched that crappy quest. Sorry, I ain't gonna give my money up to Cecil. Listen, I, I don't want to, I don't, I don't appreciate your tone. Cecil can't have my money. Well,
00:45:27
Speaker
You know what? Fair. Fair. I don't really have a rejoinder for that currently. You know, I do want the mailbox, though, so I'll probably have to do it sooner than later. A personal mission of mine is to not use my foreknowledge on what we're working on. So like, I knew the tower was coming out, but I knew I had been working on flexible spending, so I spent all of my money, and now I can't climb the tower because I have been silver locked.
00:45:56
Speaker
And, uh, no, it wasn't. I didn't, I didn't do it. I didn't. I said, Oh, are you referencing one of the other moms? I could. How I would like to, um, I don't know how he pronounces his name, but it's for, for, for, for, for me. Yeah.
00:46:18
Speaker
I just say F. F. What else? What else are we working on? I think that's really it. The tower is really all I'm working on and PAM rats. I want PAM rats 10 and these bugs. These bugs are killing me, man. I really shouldn't smile when you say that because it makes me look like a jerk. You are like a sadist.
00:46:41
Speaker
This is it's like a it's like an absolute horror show. I love the quest like it's great. It's great to have something to work on. But like literally I can crank one out a week at best. That's like that's this pace I'm taking it at. Yeah. And I think that's kind of the goal really is like take your time. Like I finished both of them and I can tell you I feel empty inside. Like I don't have those. You have nothing else to do. I don't have those big quests and I want one.
00:47:10
Speaker
Hmm well time to write a new one then but listen get to it no spoilers No spoilers don't tell anybody anything. I'm just telling you you gotta write a new one. Oh fair What if it's already written who knows I'm not telling I mean, how would you know how I mean? I'm I'm in the dev chat, bro
00:47:31
Speaker
I would know you think I say everything there. I know maybe not hiding from you. Okay, good. Somebody can't watch me all or just, you know, I can't have eyes on everything. So understandable.
00:47:48
Speaker
Fair. Yeah. What else is new? I'm just trying to get through my emblem backlog. That's another thing I'm working on. Don't request an emblem right now just because I mentioned emblems people, but I am working on my emblem backlog. So if you did ask for something, I'm going to try to get to it eventually. I I crank a couple out every weekend, but they come in every time I do a new one, I get like three, three. It's a it's a damn Hydra's head. Well, first of all, swear jars. Is that a swear? I mean, technically it's considered a swear. Is it?
00:48:20
Speaker
Is it blammed in game? Is damn blammed? It's I don't know. I can't so bad that I don't know. I have no idea. I don't know. Look at us. We're professional admins for farm RPG pros. I live in the Northeast. Dam is not a square here. So well, all I'm saying is I watched Dropout. Sam says three. And that was a word that got put in the swear jar.
00:48:45
Speaker
Oh, OK. So I'm just saying. All right. Well, that's ten gold for me then so far. I don't know. I feel like the users like, OK, but the users decide. OK, let us know if you think the if you think damn is a swear. I'm saying it. That's not going to count towards a swear jar. If we determine it's a swear. Yeah, it's one. It's one thing. It's one thing of damn that gets it added.
00:49:10
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, yeah. Just let us know. I mean, maybe we should just add it just so that it's like we have 10 gold to give away
Swear Definitions Debate
00:49:17
Speaker
for the next time. I mean, if we don't do any, then we give away 100 gold. So I just feel like. That's true. I just feel like I'm like trying to root in the maybe we need to start swearing more.
00:49:26
Speaker
Or maybe it just starts at 100 gold. Oh, good plan. That's probably a good plan. 100 gold base. Yeah, because it would feel kind of bad if we just slipped one in there just so it was five gold instead of 100. I kind of like that. OK. That's fine. I got a budget. I got a budget. I got a budget. I can give out 100 gold. That's fine. I love that. It's like, you know, you listen to this and you got added gold. Can I have a gold?
00:49:54
Speaker
You could give yourself 100 gold very easily. No. Wow. Wow. Let's see how it is. I mean, I'll give you 100 gold. I don't care. I don't have 100 gold. Wow. What if you win the swear jar? Are you going to put your name in for it? Isn't that like illegal? You can't win your own raffles, right? I don't know. That's kind of shady. Is it?
00:50:15
Speaker
I mean, I guess I'm going to enter myself because like if we have zero people that listen, then you got 100 gold make it out of the budget. True. I'm the budget. The budget is the budget a thing now. I don't know. We can just make that we can make it a thing. We can make a thing. All right. Well, you know, we're we're almost running out on an hour here. So maybe we should wrap it up, wrap her up. Well,
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah, well, thank you everybody for joining us today. Thank you Forest Path for keeping me company and chatting with me for the last hour or so. Wonderful. Yeah, it was a good time. I hope to have everybody come back again and start listening to the podcast again because it's been highly requested for this to come back. Shockingly, I can't believe it. I'm glad you guys wanted it back so bad, but again,
00:51:00
Speaker
listening to my nasally dulcet tones didn't seem like a high priority, but it is. So we're we're back. So thank you. We can end it like we used to end the podcast, which is just saying bye. Oh, OK. Yeah, sure. OK, are we going to like count into it or no? No, just just going to just go by to say bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Yeah, there it is. Bye. Bye.