Iridium Sprinkler
| Iridium Sprinkler | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Farming Level 9 |
| Sell Price | 1000g |
The Iridium Sprinkler is the best sprinkler in the game. Every morning it waters a full five-by-five square of tilled soil around itself, three times the reach of the Quality Sprinkler. A handful of them can keep a large field watered with no help from the Watering Can. The recipe unlocks at Farming level 9, and Krobus sells a ready-made one in the Sewers once a week. With a Pressure Nozzle attached, its square grows even larger.
The in-game description reads: Waters the 24 adjacent tiles every morning.
Recipe
The recipe arrives on reaching Farming level 9. Each sprinkler takes one Gold Bar, one Iridium Bar and one Battery Pack. Gold and Iridium Bars come out of the Furnace, smelted from ore with Coal. Iridium Ore is found mostly in the Skull Cavern. Battery Packs build up in Lightning Rods during thunderstorms, and Solar Panels also make them over runs of sunny days.
Buying is the shortcut. Once the Sewers are open, Krobus sells one Iridium Sprinkler there every Friday for a large sum of gold. That is an easy way to add a sprinkler a week without spending a Battery Pack or bars.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Bar | 
|
1 |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
1 |
| Battery Pack | 
|
1 |
Use
The sprinkler waters every tilled tile in the twenty-four spaces around it each morning. It only waters soil that has been hoed, so it can sit among crops without wasting water on grass or paths. Rows of Iridium Sprinklers placed edge to edge cover a field in neat blocks without gaps or overlap.
The gap between the tiers is large. The basic Sprinkler waters only the four tiles touching its sides. The Quality Sprinkler adds the corners for a ring of eight. The Iridium Sprinkler adds a whole second ring on top of that.
Upgrades clip on top. A Pressure Nozzle widens the reach by one tile on every side, turning the five-by-five square into a seven-by-seven one. That doubles the watered area to forty-eight tiles. An Enricher opens like a small chest and holds a stack of fertiliser. It spreads that fertiliser onto any new seeds planted in range. Both are sold in packs in Qi's Walnut Room on Ginger Island for Qi Gems. Slimes in the dangerous Mines also drop a Pressure Nozzle now and then.
Notes
Sprinklers only work on tilled soil, so sand on the Beach Farm still needs the Watering Can. Garden Pots also need watering by hand, since no sprinkler can reach them.
Each sprinkler uses up a Battery Pack, so a field full of them needs a steady supply. Several Lightning Rods around the farm catch more packs from every storm.
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