When you explore Schedule 1, one of the first mechanics you’ll come across is growing your crops. The game provides you with access to multiple planters, soil textures, and seeds, allowing you to create products that can be sold or upgraded further through the use of the mixing machine.
Initially, this process seems doable, but as your farm gets bigger and your workload increases, you’ll soon realize how time-consuming farming is. Luckily, the game has a few smart tools and systems that greatly minimize the manual labor, enabling you to optimize your farming activities.
How to Automate Planting in Schedule 1?
After completing the prologue and getting into the main hub town, you will be exposed to the hardware store, a crucial checkpoint for progress during the early stages of the game. Positioned approximately in the upper-middle part of the map, you can employ Albert Hoover‘s stash marker to point you straight there.
Inside, there will be two of the most important farming gadgets – the Pot Sprinkler and the Soil Pourer, costing $200 and $300 each. The gadgets can be placed alongside your planters and enable you to water and soil your plants using only one click. This minor addition saves you quite a bit of time, particularly when dealing with several plants.
Instead of constantly checking on each planter, you’ll be able to keep them running with minimal effort, just hit a button and let the devices handle the repetitive part. Keep in mind, though, that you’ll need one set of tools for each planter, which can quickly become an expensive investment.
As you gain access to higher-level products and your farming network expands, it becomes more and more challenging to control each planter by hand. To help with this, the game provides you with access to hired labor, namely, a Botanist that you can hire from the warehouse.
Employing Manny will cost you $1,000 upfront and $200 in daily maintenance. After being employed, he is able to care for a maximum of eight planters simultaneously if the storage boxes associated with these planters contain soil and seed. The Botanist automatically harvests and plants your produce, depositing the completed goods into storage.
This system automates the whole farming loop so that you can attend to other aspects of the game without having to micromanage every step. If you still have any questions regarding it, let us know in the comments below.