Some crops grow faster/slower than others (no fertilizer)

At least I'm consistent! haha

 

Actually, not according to the wiki. They are on the edge, but still inside the zone. That's why it confused me so much.

 

Yep, those circled spots are the ones I've experienced that behavior. I remember getting only flower honey on Spring 8 and then getting wild honey on Spring 12 and 16 from those spots. Maybe I misremembered and they actually never yielded flower honey in the first place.

 

I hate to bring this back to the topic, but...
The slow crops thing is real. I've seen it a lot. Not every game, but many. It seems to be more common at lower farming levels.
This is day 2, and everything was watered, with no fertilizers, the night before. I wake up and find this...

That Parsnip in the corner will always be a day behind the others. I've come to call them soggy spots. To me it does seem more common near objects like the stump or pond, but that might just be confirmation bias, because I have seen them all over the place.

 

Still on topic...
I watered everything on day 2. Then day 3 it rained. On the morning of day 4 I see that above and to the left of the one I pointed out earlier is another one that's a day behind.

Out of the many times I've seen these slow growers, I've never seen one growing faster than the crowd, or catching back up after getting a day behind.

 

You beat me to the screenshots! I had exactly the same thing with the 10 parsnips I planted this spring. 'Soggy spots' is a good name, as they appear wet the next morning.

 

My farming level is 10 and I'm on year 3, but it still happens to me occasionally it's pretty annoying, especially when you have to wait an extra day for that one potato that didn't grow yet.

 

If this is working the way I think it is, you might get spots growing ahead on occasion if you use retaining soil.

Basically, I think these spots are missing the day update because of the way invalid things are getting cleared from the map, but this would simultaneously cause other spots to get updated twice. Affected crops don't grow twice only because the first day update cleared the water and unwatered crops don't grow.

 

Interesting theory, but the picture @BentFX posted, clearly doesn't have retaining soil.

I've experienced this too, and I never use the stuff.

 

Hm, perhaps I was unclear. The random crop growing slowly happens all the time, as does the random crop surviving into winter. BentFX said no random crop growing fast, but nobody uses retaining soil: I'm saying you might get a matching fast crop with retaining soil.

 

Ah, I understand now.

 

This, generally. The game uses a method to clear the invalid things + go through each crop which isn't guaranteed to hit every crop once, and may miss certain crops, and hit certain crops twice.

 

Okay @rabidcow & @Koihime Nakamura, if I'm understanding you correctly, it's a soggy spot, in the code?

 

The issue of the "soggy plots" and the beehives happens to me as well.

I've seen the former in the middle of my fields before, not near any stumps or water. I also didn't use fertilizer when I saw them, and can't see any reason to think there's a relation.

 

Same "soggy plots" for me.
Aside from all these theories, it's maybe "just" a bug, but really annoying indeed.

But we may accept this bug as a "natural" issue so this affected crops are just bad crops and after harvesting the "healthy" ones,
we can either wait for the "soggy plots"-crops an additional day, or break/remove them and are done with it

 

Essentially: (I haven't checked beehives):

On DayUpdate, which is the code that handles day change, it iterates through all crops. It removes the ones that are out of bounds, but does so WHILE iterating. This means the iteration may miss items (since the index changes), as well as it uses ElementAt, which has a similar problem. Basically, the crop simply doesn't process, but it's random, and therefore hard to pin down and may not reliably occur. (I had that problem when testing.). (And others may accidentally double process).

 

Could one write a mod that would change how DayUpdate handles so that it first remove the ones that are out of bounds, and THEN iterates growth?

 

Yeah, you could remove the out-of-bounds items and then call the original method. Alternatively, replace the dictionary with something that tolerates this operation.

 

I got around to writing up a test method. There's one problem with it, and that's one of the things the dayUpdate loop alters is.. out-of-scope for me. I'll continue to investigate.

 

I wonder should a mod move this to the bugs thread or is this part of the game mechanics? Because this has definitely happened to me but only with manual watering.

Edit: It just happened to me with sprinklers... Lvl 9 in farming... So confused