Changelog/2021/February 5
Hey!
We buffed farming yields through the Elephant Pet.
Here's the history of farming yields:
Before Jacob
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]This is from Jacob's Farming Contest patch notes:
Double-drops Stacking
[edit | edit source]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.
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.