Sprinkler
| Sprinkler | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Farming Level 2 |
| Sell Price | 100g |
The Sprinkler is the first machine that waters crops by itself. Every morning it soaks the four tiles directly beside it, in a small plus shape, so those crops never need the Watering Can. The recipe arrives early from the Farming skill and costs only one Copper Bar and one Iron Bar, which makes it cheap to build in bulk. Its reach is small, so it works best as a stopgap until the Quality Sprinkler and the Iridium Sprinkler take over. A Pressure Nozzle from Ginger Island later stretches a basic Sprinkler to the size of a Quality Sprinkler.
The in-game description reads: Waters the 4 adjacent tiles every morning.
Recipe
The recipe unlocks at Farming level 2. Each Sprinkler takes a Copper Bar and an Iron Bar. Both come from smelting ore with Coal in a Furnace, Copper Ore for the first and Iron Ore for the second.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Copper Bar | 
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1 |
| Iron Bar | 
|
1 |
Use
A Sprinkler goes onto a free tile of the field, and the crops go around it. Each morning it waters the tile above it, the tile below it and the tiles to its left and right. Only tilled soil gets wet, so the ground around it needs hoeing before planting. It cannot stand on sand, which rules out the sandy parts of the Beach Farm.
Sprinklers also work inside a Slime Hutch. Placed next to one of the water troughs, a Sprinkler fills it every morning, which saves a daily chore for anyone raising slimes. They do not fill a pet's water bowl or water crops growing in Garden Pots.
A square grid of basic Sprinklers leaves dry gaps in the corners between them. A staggered layout works better: each Sprinkler sits one row down and one column across from the last, so the plus shapes lock together like a checkerboard. Hitting a Sprinkler with the Axe or the Pickaxe picks it up again, ready to move.
Notes
A basic Sprinkler can take one upgrade at a time. The Pressure Nozzle adds a tile of reach in every direction, so the Sprinkler waters a full three by three square. That matches a Quality Sprinkler without the Gold Bar. The Enricher instead holds fertiliser and spreads it onto new seeds planted in range. Both upgrades are sold in packs of four at Qi's Walnut Room for Qi Gems. Picking up the Sprinkler drops its upgrade back into the inventory undamaged.
The upgrade path is clear. Reaching Farming level 6 brings the Quality Sprinkler, which covers twice as many tiles. Farming level 9 brings the Iridium Sprinkler, which covers a five by five square. Basic Sprinklers are worth replacing as those recipes arrive, and the old ones can still serve on small patches or around a Slime Hutch.
A Torch can sit on top of a placed Sprinkler. It gives a little light over the field at night without taking up a tile of its own.
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