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sniperdoc:
Hey everyone,

I'm relatively new to the server and am curious about something.

When I plant anything like wheat, trees, or even worse, melons, sugarcane, or pumpkins, they don't grow. When I say don't grow... I could be sitting there for 3 hours and I won't get ANY growth on my Sugarcane. When doing melons or pumpkins the plant itself takes beyond 2 hours to grow, the melon and pumpkin fruit a little less long. I watched a movie and then some and stuff didn't grow at all... that's not right...?

Wheat seems to grow the fastest out of the lot, but man... 3 hours or so for it to grow? Wiki says somewhere around 37 minutes for full growth on default server.

Now I don't know if this is related, but spawners spawn enemies limited and slowly.

Considering that the market is severely skewed and you can't really make good money off the market (some items not even 1/2 cost to sell...) I'm slowly starving spending my cash on food since nothing I am trying to grow is sufficient to get by... since it WON'T GROW.

Is this a bug... how long is this bug going to go on? What is causing it? All I know this isn't normal...

Doc

Midgetized:
Make sure you have the plants fully lit by either torches or glowstone.
Make sure your melons/pumpkins have enough room to plop their fruits on and not a cluster of stems
For melon/pumpkin stems it's best to use bonemeal to help them along since it takes forever normally.
Pumpkins and melons do require sufficient water as well
Trees, make sure if there is a roof above it, that there is atleast 6 blocks ground to roof and they do require space and light to grow.
With trees it's best to place them 2 blocks away from each other tree and wall.
Wheat to Bread is your best bet at getting food, make a plantation of wheat about 64 plants big, bigger the better.
Plants will only grow if your nearby about 128 blocks.

But there is sporadic growth rates, bonemeal will be the best bet for constant sources of resources and cactus and sugar cane do take long times to grow, do not know why but they only grow when I'm not looking.

Midgetized:
Also don't worry too much about food unless your discovering extensive caves or long distance adventures. It only limits you to 1/2 health without regen. use your /sethome near large construction project for easy access to any dropped loot from falls. I usually don't eat food and let my health just stay 1/2 and when I die I just run back.

Money is hard to come by, your best bet is pumpkin farming or melon farming about 100 plants big to maintain about 1k income.

illiwill:
With melons and pumpkins, make sure there is not a block on top of the melon or pumpkin stem. Aldo, have a well lit area

sniperdoc:
Well, that's just it. I'm doing everything Midget mentioned and it's still mega mega mega slow. I have Jack-o-Lanterns lighting up everything that's supposed to grow. Yesterday I logged in and just sat in the middle of my plot for 2 hours and this is what happened:

1. New wheat grew 1/2 way.
2. Pumpkins (the fruit) grew 1 out of 3.
3. Melons
-- a. out of 3 fully grown stalks (used the 1 bone-meal i had) grew 1 Melon.
-- b. out of 7 seedlings grew NO stalks, 2 grew 1/2 way, the rest 1/4.
4. This is the kicker, virtually NO GROWTH on Sugar Cane. The reason why this is a kicker, I had over 66 plants (with 1 plant that grew 1 block length) that I basically just tore down and went and bought the bookshelves instead. The time it took was just atrocious.

All the items are lit artificially, have water, plenty of daylight.

Something is not right on the server. Over 2 hours of just sitting within my plot waiting for stuff to grow and it doesn't? Maybe it's because I'm just at registered status and not trusted? I don't know... it's just hella frustrating.

Considering almost NOTHING spawns out in my territory mob wise. I think in my last 5 times on the server I've seen 1 zombie, 1 spider and 1 skeleton. So, that'll tell you my bone-meal situation. Personally, I feel like the market is being pushed vs natural growth and acquisition of goods/food. About the only good thing is that I have a Spider spawner near me, so experience WOULD be good, if the spawn rate actually represented real spawn rates. Even the spawn rate in my area is abysmal. I sat near the spawner for 3 minutes and had 1 spider spawn... again... something not right. On other servers that room I built would have been filled with spiders.

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