Mass Sowing and Mass Reaping are retired this release. In their place is a new structure, the Harvest Shrine, that automates a patch of your island instead of the whole thing at once — so you can hand off the grind on part of your farm and keep the rest to tend by hand.
- The Harvest Shrine arrives. Reach Mastery 50 on a crop and you can raise a shrine for it from the Structures menu. It takes a 2×2 plot and keeps the tilled tiles around it sown with that crop, so a corner of your farm tends itself while the rest stays yours.
- Watch it work. A new shrine only sows at first — you still harvest by hand. Make an offering of its crop to awaken it, and it harvests each ripe crop for real: the crop flies to the shrine and straight into your bag, rolling its full rarity tiers.
- Offerings keep it running. Each offering keeps the shrine active for a stretch of time, then it goes dormant until you feed it again. Because it runs on a timer, the faster a crop grows the more the shrine gathers per offering — so speeding your crops up pays off here too.
- Upgrade with rare harvests. A shrine's run time and reach are paid in ever-rarer drops of its crop — uncommon, then rare, then mythic, with the long reach track climbing all the way to dreamlike. Each step of reach also unlocks at a higher crop mastery, so widening a shrine rewards mastering its crop, not just hoarding rares.
- Mass Sowing and Mass Reaping are gone. The whole-island plant and harvest casts have been removed, along with their spots on the favourites pill, the Till button, and the command wheel. Mastery 50 now makes a crop eligible for a Harvest Shrine instead.
The idea is to make automation a place on your island rather than a button — and something you can actually see happening. Let me know how the balance feels.
— Dee