Changelog/2021/February 5

Hey!

We buffed farming yields through the Elephant Pet.

Here's the history of farming yields:

Before Jacob
Elephant pet's Trunk Efficiency perk had 20% chance for double-drops. All yield buffs were multiplicative. So +50% from Farmhand and +20% from Elephant was 1.5 x 1.2 = 1.8x more drops.

Jacob Additive Change
This is from Jacob's Farming Contest patch notes:

Double-drops Stacking
Because we added many items which impact it, we rebalanced the double-drops mechanic.

All mechanics which increase double-drops (Farming Perk, Elephant Pet, etc..) now stack additively. Essentially, when it says +50% chance for double-drops, it will add +50 to your hidden "double-drops" stat, which behaves like Ferocity. Double-drops above 100 turn into a chance for triple-drops (Just like the Farming level perk).

To compensate for this change, we doubled Elephant pet perk to +60% and Monkey to +50%.

One smol problem: (that was a bug) The bug didn't get fixed for a long time.

Farming Fortune
With the Dwarven Mines, we formalized the "additive douple-drops" with the same behavior as under the label "Fortune". You can get lots of from the new island, but we also retrofitted some farming behaviors to use.

In a patch quickly following the Dwarven Mines, Elephant was switched to Farming Fortune, which caused farming yields to drop significantly.

We're now buffing Elephant back to where top-level players should be seeing about the same yields as a few weeks ago. Newer players with a lower farming level will now see crazy benefits from using the Elephant pet while farming.

Enjoy.