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: Elephant was buffed, but still multiplicative (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 ⫽ Ferocity under the label "Fortune". You can get lots of ☘ Mining Fortune from the new island, but we also retrofitted some farming behaviors to use ☘ Farming Fortune.
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.