Quality Sprinkler
| Quality Sprinkler | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Farming Level 6 |
| Sell Price | 450g |
The Quality Sprinkler is the sprinkler that frees most farms from the watering can. It waters the full ring of tiles around it every morning, corners included, in a neat three-by-three square. That is twice the coverage of the basic Sprinkler and fits far more easily into a tidy field. The recipe comes at Farming level 6. It stays useful long after, because a Pressure Nozzle can stretch it to cover even more ground.
The in-game description reads: Waters the 8 adjacent tiles every morning.
Recipe
Reaching Farming level 6 teaches the recipe. Each one takes an Iron Bar, a Gold Bar and a piece of Refined Quartz. Smelting the right ore with Coal in a Furnace gives the bars. Smelting Quartz in a Furnace gives Refined Quartz, and a Recycling Machine turns Broken CDs and Broken Glasses into it as well. Gathering enough of all three for a whole batch at once saves repeated trips to the Furnace.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Bar | 
|
1 |
| Gold Bar | 
|
1 |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
1 |
Use
A placed sprinkler waters its eight neighbouring tiles at the start of each day, so crops in its square never need the watering can.
Spacing decides how well a field is covered. The best layouts place sprinklers so their squares touch without overlapping, which wastes no water. Four of them, each in the middle of its own three-by-three square, cover a six-by-six plot completely. Laying early crop plots out in three-by-three squares from the start makes it easy to drop a sprinkler into the middle of each one later.
Sprinklers do not work on sand, so the sandy parts of the Beach Farm still need hand watering. In the Greenhouse, only a handful are needed to keep every crop watered, which leaves just the harvest to do by hand.
Notes
Two attachments from Qi's Walnut Room on Ginger Island upgrade any sprinkler. A Pressure Nozzle widens the reach by one tile in every direction, turning the Quality Sprinkler's square into a five-by-five block. An Enricher holds a stack of fertilizer and spreads it automatically on any seed planted within range. Both are bought with Qi Gems, so they belong to the late game.
The Quality Sprinkler also doubles as a light post. A Torch can sit on top of it, which lights up the field at night without using another tile.
It is the natural middle step between the basic and Iridium sprinklers. The basic Sprinkler covers too little ground to be worth mass-producing. The Iridium Sprinkler covers much more, but it needs Iridium Bars and Battery Packs. Quality Sprinklers sit comfortably between the two and often carry a farm right through to the late game.
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