During the Amnesty Discussion Teppy offered some more hints about the various Veggie puzzles that were part of Tale 2.
F:Menfis: garlic
You figured out Garlic? That was a tough one.
M:FaceAnkh: garlic was reproduced, but no-one knew how :)
Ok, here was the trick... Everyone had a list of "buddies". Your list of buddies was approximately 1/12th of the game population. So, lots of buddies each. Grow garlic when only a buddy was around and you'd get a seed.
F:Calixes: around as in proximity to you? or simply online?
800 foot radius.
M:ferns: lol clever
F:Cappu: Will all the seed reproductions change for tale 3? (please say yes :) )
Yes
M:Blogmul: what about the trick to reproduce pepper, watermelon and cucumbers?
M:Setheri: only you would torture us with that Teppy :/
M:Setheri: if they did they did not publicize it much
M:beloc: I heard someone figured out watermelon seed repro too
Did they? Ok, Watermellon... Each day for 20 minutes was a watermellon seed "hour", and a watermellon seed place that was a 1000-coordinate radius circle. When the hour came, grow watermellons in that circle, and you'd get an extra seed.
What I was hoping is that someone would grow, and say in some well known channel "Watermelon seeds in Karmak now!", and then everyone would have rushed there to make seeds.
M:Hieros: Did the hour and circle change position or was it static?
Both changed, and quite a few seeds did get reproduced... But I guess nobody thought to tell a friend to try growing them nearby, soon after.
F:Astrina: Did it move in a particular pattern? Or was it random?
Random
F:Dria: veggie growing will change for t3? (only slightly off topic)
Yes
I have new secrets all planned.
M:Cheos: did new seeds (pepper, eggplant..) have reproduction secrets too ?
Yes Er, let me look.
Peppers were about growing them for a long time (16+ cycles), but not letting any cycle exceed 30 seconds. Sort of a strange one.
Cucumbers looks like it was somehow gender based. Reading the code... Looks like you must find the perfect grow pattern, watering-wise, then grow in very close proximity to a player of the opposite gender. 48 foot radius. That one was probably too hard.
M:OnlyAloha: do you read the wiki from time to time, getting a good laugh of the theories?
Yes :)
Onions I had somehow gotten a reproduction, I wasn't paying attention to how or when, just happened to get an extra seed. Have more testing to do, but onions are possibly random seed generation. - Hobbes
This was an event that happend Wednesaday. For a certain time onion seeds yield 7 onions instead of 4 (Karnak). Then 30 Min after falling back to 4, we got exactly 1 extra seed, regardless how many onions were planted at that time.
Growing garlic to exhaustion i managed to get 3 times a yield of 4 garlic per seed, this was at 1499, -1202 in Karnak. Couldn't repeat the same later which leads me to believe garlic doesnt have "spots" where it grows better like some have said.
Carrot seed reproduction s the same as in Tale 2. Drop 3 beetles prior to harvesting them and you get an extra seed at harvest. Dropping 2 beetles boosts carrot yield.
In Lower Egypt, 1206, 6654, 14 Cabbage per seed. Next to water
In Qatara, -385, 6281, 16 Cabbage per seed. Next to water
In Sinai at 3056 5156, 7 leeks per harvest. Water only a 10 second run away. In Lower Egypt, 803, 4920 11 Leeks per seed. Next to water
One can get extra onion seeds when planting next to a camel pen at about 8:25pm game time. Verified by Gotrek and Mosen
Grew onions from 7:30-9:00pm game time, next to and in a camel pen. No extra seeds. Perhaps the time migrates? -Tilapya
My one seed reproduction happened about 1:00am game time. I was not that close to my camel pen. -- OldJoe
Have twice recieved an extra pepper seed when signing a leadership petition before the last watering. I'll look into it more on Live ~Daru