Island caretaker services.

[Espon]

It would be nice if there was a collect all option.

At least you can allow the leavings to collect over multiple days, so if you don't immediately need them to craft stuff then just let them build up and grab them before they reach 20.

[Krokov]

And what happens if they reach 20

[Momo_Kozuki]

Also my complaint is just, I can't change the next crops with the automation...

Just grow two units of each type of crop, then use the low-demand ones to make feed.

[Iscah]

Is it worth having them take care of the animals before max level if I'm going to be selling all of the animal droppings?

I'm planning to take the same lazy "occasional check-in for direct selling, no workshop" approach and unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that animals are not worth the fee to look after them – and not worth feeding, which is dreadful at an RP level but perfectly acceptable at a game-mechanics level.

Not counting feeding them, the base level is that you pay 10c per day to acquire one item worth 12c. If the mammets will continue collecting leavings after the food supply runs out, this is a profit, though a very slow one.

If you feed them the basic vegetables, that's one serve a day made from two vegetables you could have sold for about 10c, for an unreliable chance of getting double leavings. That means 20c in, chance of 12-24c out.

Premium feed requires 20c of vegetables plus 10c care fee for maximum of 24c sales. Unwinnable.

So really the care service is only useful for people who intend to do crafting with the leavings. By contrast the vegetable crops still make a profit when paying the mammets to look after them – about 15c per crop, averaging 150c income per day.

For now I'm paying the mammets because I already crafted a stack of food and there's no use for it besides feeding it to the animals, but once that runs out I think just running the granary missions and crop management is enough, drop in once a week or so to manage those, and only collect from the animals manually while I'm there.

[Knot_D]

Just grow two units of each type of crop, then use the low-demand ones to make feed.

That seems good idea yeah, just use 2 types of food only for feeding the animals, but again I'm more worried if the stock isn't enough for craft lol...

[UkcsAlias]

200 a day for taking care of animals is nothing,challenge log will cover those fees easily

Just the raw output of items already can cover those fees.

[Syln]

When i unlocked these features a few weeks ago i was like "lol fuck no" the only cowries i will spend on my island upkeep are for my labors to bring me back rare materials, 700 each weeks everything else is a scam since you can quickly do it yourself.

[Seraphor]

It's not that 200 is "nothing" compared to the 2000 you make from the workshop each day.

It's that by paying the 200 you still have to tab through a load of menu options and ultimately don't actually save that much time.

It takes about 60s to collect everything manually, and yet it still takes about 20-30s to collect them from the caretaker...

200 cowries for the sake of saving 30s? Absolute rip off.

[Iscah]

It takes about 60s to collect everything manually, and yet it still takes about 20-30s to collect them from the caretaker...

The difference is that it takes 60 seconds every day to collect everything manually, and that's before you account for travelling to the island every day.

If they're being collected for you, it only requires one visit a week to collect a week's worth of leavings.

[Bukachu]

I need bunny/cat/au'ra girl caretaker instead tbh