Enricher
| Enricher | |
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Qi's Walnut Room; 20 for 4 Enrichers |
| Sell Price | 200g |
An Enricher is a clip-on upgrade for a sprinkler that spreads fertiliser without being asked. Qi's Walnut Room sells them four at a time for twenty Qi Gems, which makes them one of the cheaper things on that shelf. Loaded with a stack of fertiliser, the Enricher treats each tile in its sprinkler's watering range the instant a seed is dropped there, so the usual three-step routine of hoeing, fertilising and planting collapses into two. Only one kind of fertiliser can sit inside at a time, and the stack has to be deep enough to cover every tile the sprinkler reaches. The catch is that a sprinkler can wear an Enricher or a Pressure Nozzle, never both, and on a large field the extra range from the nozzle is often the better buy.
Overview
Fitting one is a two-part job. The attachment goes onto a sprinkler that has already been placed, and the fertiliser is then poured into it in much the same way a chest is filled. Loading has to happen before the seeds go in the ground, because the Enricher only acts at the moment of planting. It does not wait for water either: the fertiliser lands on the tile whether or not the sprinkler has watered it yet.
Counting matters more than it first appears. An Iridium Sprinkler reaches two dozen plantable tiles, so two dozen units of the chosen fertiliser have to be inside the Enricher for the whole patch to be treated. Anything less and the back rows go without, which is easy to miss until harvest day shows an uneven mix of qualities.
The Pressure Nozzle is the competition for every sprinkler socket on the farm. That nozzle widens the watering area by one tile in each direction, which turns an iridium sprinkler's reach from a five-tile square into a seven-tile square and lets a greenhouse be covered with almost no planting space wasted. An Enricher saves effort instead of adding coverage, so the usual split is nozzles in the places where space is tight and Enrichers on the open fields that are replanted from scratch every season.
Two places make an Enricher close to useless. Fertiliser in the greenhouse never needs replacing, so the attachment does its job once and then sits idle. The same is true for crops that keep producing year after year, and especially for anything planted on Ginger Island, where crops survive the change of season and the fertiliser under them is never disturbed.
Buying is not the only route. Monsters in the mines occasionally drop an Enricher while the Danger In The Deep order is running, after the Shrine of Challenge has been switched on, or during the Skull Cavern Invasion order, which are the same conditions that shake loose the other Walnut Room gear.
Notes
Qi Gems are the currency of the island's back room, earned by trading surplus Golden Walnuts at two gems a walnut or by finishing the hard quests on Qi's own board. Reaching the room at all takes a hundred walnuts, so an Enricher is firmly a late-game convenience rather than an early-game shortcut.
An Enricher can be sold, but the price is so far below the value of the gems that paid for it that shipping one is only sensible for a true spare.
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