Another development whilst I was on my travels, was the introduction of gardening for Dwarfins. This is more than just an interactive item for your Dwarfins, although Dwarfins will interact with your garden, it’s a way of growing your own food too and can work out cheaper than buying ham and anyway, who wants their Dwarfins eating ham all the time, that’s not a balanced diet at all!
In order to engage with gardening you will need to buy some items from the Dwarfins store, you will need at minimum:
- Garden Plot: Required to plant seeds.
- Seeds: A variety of seeds are available to plant and grow.
- Water Bucket: You can pick up a free bucket of water once every 3 days. One bucket of water is enough to water a 6 plot garden.
There are a couple of other items you can buy to aid your gardening, these include:
- Interactive Neverending Well: A rustic well that your Dwarfins will interact with, as well as providing an endless supply of water for your gardens.
- Instagrow: An Elixir that can be used on your plants so that they mature instantly.
Now there are a few things to note, plants will take three days to grow, that is as long as the garden has enough water, if a garden doesn’t have enough water a plant will wither, although this can be rectified it will slow your gardening down. Once a plant is fully grown you have a choice of harvesting it for food, or sending it to your online pantry, where you’ll be able to create recipes.
I have not yet tried out the instagrow, but I couldn’t resist getting the interactive well, which I purchased with my Dwarfins Gold that I’ve amassed.
The Dwarfins will interact as I said, be it using gardening tools or merely watering the garden with a gardening can, although it should be noted that this doesn’t count towards watering your garden!
Now the big question is as to whether it’s better to harvest food or send it to the pantry, I favour the later because the Dwarfins blog post on the subject says:
“If you decide to pantry your fully grown plant (instead of harvesting it), you can then go to the Dwarfins website, log in, and view your available pantry items. From there, flip over to the recipes screen and make larger food items from your ingredients. As a bonus, making recipes actually saves you money over buying hams!”
So you see, not only can your Dwarfins get a more balanced diet, they can also get a cheaper diet too! Hurrah!
To find out more:
Dwarfins Marketplace Store: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/131276
Dwarfins Inworld Store SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dwarfins/32/141/22