Maybe that could be your next set of tedious calculations is what I was talking about in comment 24.

Assuming an almost full farm for planting crops (say 450 as opposed to the 484 possible in a 22×22 farm because people tend to have buildings and stuff), figure out how many “full” plantings and how many days it would take to master each crop.

I don’t think it’s a glitch. I think it’s just the pattern for crops that take a longer period of time.

Wheat (3 day) is 200, 100, 75
Squash (2 day) is 200, 150, 270
Watermelon (4 day) is 410, 100, 130…

I’m too lazy to go and do the math for all of the crops, but I think they set it so that it would take roughly the same amount of time to master each crop assuming a “perfect” farmer.

For example, if you could do raspberries every 2 hours with a full farm it would take about 3.5 days (84 hours) to master raspberries (but this is actually higher because you can’t be a “perfect” farmer because of harvest, plow, plant time). Artichokes planted once would take about 4 days (92 hours because of the farmville 23 hour day).

There are special cases like watermelon and yellow melon which are 4 days and you can’t do it all in a single planting, but you could do a full planting of each and a third planting of 50% each and master both in 12 (farmville) days (276 hours). Since that’s two masteries, on average it’s 138 hours per melon which is 5.75 (real) days.

So I think that’s about how it works… 4-6 days of (relatively) “perfect” planting for each crop. The later level crops tend to be on the longerend, and a few take much longer… (blackberries for example would take roughly 8-9 real days).

Very nice chart, but I have a question about it. Are you sure that things like Cotton, Sugar Cane, and Aloe Vera actually classify as vegetables?

I’m just curious because in the market, if you click on say “vegetables” so you only see vegetables, Aloe Vera doesn’t show up. Same for with Cotton and Sugar Cane. In fact, they show up under no specified tab… they only show up under “All.”