jeremyckahn/farmhand

A resource management game that puts a farm in your hand

farmhand's Issues

Doesn't let's me export file on Firefox browser idk if that's a bug...

Minor UI improvements to cow sorting

The first thing I want to do when there's a new little cow baby is hug them. But I have to find them first! If the default sort was by age, ascending, or if the game remembered my last choice, this would save a bit of hassle!

Position field toolbox to the side for desktop

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/lzcd47/introducing_free_online_multiplayer_for_farmhand/gqdn0y6/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

(Per u/MayoOfTheNaize)

Give rewards to players for staying online

Give players an amount of money equal to the number of active players in their room upon every server heartbeat.

Limit room name length

Improve save file names

Have save files grab game day and real date for file name:

"Farmhand Save - Day - .json"

(Delverton)

Show how many players there are in the room

Show live stats for other online players in the current room

rainbow cheese

This is the best rainbow cheese in the world, buy now!

Show a warning before cows run off from hunger

Add a combine to automate crop harvesting

Add a toggle to hide all notifications

When the largest field has been purchased, change the store to indicate that. Same with cow pens.

(Via Delverton)

Cows are too valuable

Cows are worth too much and wreck the balance of the game. This should be balanced out.

The save (and other) notifications block the tools selection in the top right

From https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/mhzeb3/farmhand_is_now_live_on_itchio/gt2fqhe/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Disable keyboard shortcuts when input is blocked

Display how many recipes there are left to learn

Service-driven market value adjustments

Create a web service that provides a singular, globally-shared record of item value adjustments.

Acceptance criteria:

• Players can optionally use the service as the basis for their item values adjustments (instead of adjustItemValues)
• While connected to the service, players' actions affect the value of individual crops
  • For example, selling Carrots would send the value of Carrots and Carrot Seed down, and vice-versa

Show a graph of historical online value data

Requested by (delverton)

Bug fix: Don’t show cow feed notification to new players

Loan stats

Record number of times player has gone requested a loan and display it as a stat.

Raise upper crop value bounds based on number of patrons

The maximum value of crops should be raised based on the number of current Patreon patrons: https://www.patreon.com/jeremyckahn

Cows are OP

Rebalance cows to make them produce less milk and fertilizer.

Scale storage cost as you obtain more

(From Delverton/Boneyards)

Doesn't show revenue... shows zero revenue

Change Farmer’s Log icon to something like a Journal

Notification telling the player that inventory is full

It only needs to be shown the first time it happens.

Spam notifs for crows ate crops

Unlike in previous update it should "crows ate your crop" once for all crops ...now it shows the message for all crops ... For example crows ate 11 crops the message is spammed 11 times...

Lotta Saloks

So I was curious how reliable Math.random() * list.length was after four of my 30 cows were named "Salak" and four were named "Sapote" and wrote up this janky script in the console.

a = new Array(100); for (i=0;i<100000;i++) { v = Math.round(Math.random() * (a.length - 1)); a[v] = parseInt(a[v]) + 1 || 0 + 1; }; a.map((value, count) => `${count}:${value}`);

Turns out you get a similar distribution over many iterations, with some numbers appearing less frequently than others, especially on the extremes.

["0:521", "1:1002", "2:1003", "3:939", "4:1069", "5:945", "6:1037", "7:1035", "8:1035", "9:944", "10:943", "11:995", "12:1009", "13:1021", "14:1036", "15:1051", "16:1022", "17:987", "18:959", "19:1003", "20:961", "21:957", "22:957", "23:1053", "24:962", "25:1013", "26:1045", "27:1007", "28:974", "29:1020", "30:977", "31:1004", "32:1057", "33:1016", "34:990", "35:1000", "36:1002", "37:990", "38:1030", "39:1093", "40:1006", "41:1012", "42:1003", "43:1042", "44:1061", "45:1005", "46:1073", "47:965", "48:1020", "49:957", "50:1078", "51:960", "52:1004", "53:1062", "54:957", "55:950", "56:1044", "57:990", "58:1024", "59:1054", "60:976", "61:1020", "62:994", "63:1058", "64:991", "65:1063", "66:1014", "67:1000", "68:984", "69:1043", "70:983", "71:976", "72:1010", "73:1057", "74:1039", "75:1030", "76:1031", "77:1013", "78:1067", "79:984", "80:1010", "81:996", "82:1037", "83:961", "84:1023", "85:1060", "86:988", "87:1065", "88:995", "89:996", "90:1018", "91:1074", "92:957", "93:969", "94:1023", "95:1013", "96:1002", "97:1039", "98:1007", "99:503"]

But what you if you run it twice, and look at the decimal on the float as a source of increased entropy by multiplying by a large power of 10 to turn them into large integers so you can get a modulus? Whoa nelly salak that sounds random!

rand = (min, max) => (Math.floor(Math.pow(10,14)*Math.random()*Math.random())%(max-min+1))+min;
a = new Array(100); for (i=0;i<100000;i++) { v = rand(0, a.length - 1); a[v] = parseInt(a[v]) + 1 || 0 + 1; }; a.map((value, count) => `${count}:${value}`);

["0:1003", "1:1050", "2:1012", "3:1069", "4:969", "5:938", "6:990", "7:1019", "8:1042", "9:970", "10:981", "11:966", "12:961", "13:1026", "14:977", "15:987", "16:1024", "17:981", "18:994", "19:980", "20:986", "21:1016", "22:926", "23:1020", "24:1023", "25:1039", "26:1000", "27:1032", "28:1023", "29:990", "30:977", "31:1004", "32:994", "33:978", "34:1049", "35:936", "36:966", "37:1003", "38:1004", "39:1025", "40:983", "41:960", "42:1025", "43:1036", "44:1031", "45:990", "46:1019", "47:991", "48:954", "49:1021", "50:1000", "51:951", "52:1046", "53:959", "54:1001", "55:1012", "56:994", "57:954", "58:1050", "59:1026", "60:989", "61:933", "62:930", "63:985", "64:1002", "65:1052", "66:1014", "67:1044", "68:1073", "69:982", "70:935", "71:983", "72:1048", "73:1002", "74:980", "75:994", "76:1014", "77:956", "78:980", "79:1033", "80:1055", "81:1008", "82:1042", "83:1070", "84:996", "85:985", "86:1012", "87:1019", "88:976", "89:968", "90:1009", "91:1010", "92:970", "93:1018", "94:1003", "95:997", "96:997", "97:995", "98:1012", "99:996"]

Ahh. That's more like it.

Wiki images

Let's use this closed issue to upload images for the wiki!

To add an image to the wiki, create a new comment here, upload your image to it, submit the comment, and then hotlink to the image URL as necessary from the wiki.

Publish docs

Build JSdoc documentation and publish it along with builds of the game.

Animation lag and screen freezing causes to force me reload and lose all my progress since last save...

Having a queue of events to process, and have a max on that queue? That should help or maybe a cooldown?

Make male cows produce fertilizer

Well-fed cows should produce more.

This change should also raise the price of Fertilizer in the shop.

Show a message when someone else changes the value of an item

Currently there's a notification that explains how you affected the market, but it's unclear when someone else does. Show a notification after posting daily positions to show how the market has moved since the player's previous day completion.

Reverse menu icon positioning

https://discord.com/channels/714539345050075176/722286738344640552/842504842571546654

Rainbow Fertilizer

Produced by male Rainbow Cows, Rainbow Fertilizer persists after harvesting a plot and automatically replants whatever seed was initially planted. Should also apply to Scarecrows.

Add tappable navigation stepper icons for each section

Also give the icons tooltips to indicate what they are.

Improve onboarding experience

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26392667

From viklove:

One thing I've seen in open-ended games like this (Rimworld, Crusade Kings) is to just jump into a "tutorial" at first and direct the player into the basic game loop. It feels like you're actually accomplishing something (because you're actually building your first farm), and you also don't feel lost because the game is pointing you to the buttons you need to press in order to achieve your first goal.

So instead of a long-winded introduction about what the objective of the game is, just jump straight in and tell the user "A farm is nothing without crops, purchase some carrot seeds from the store to get started!" or something to that effect.

Additional commentary from me:

It wouldn't be too hard to display those on the Home screen for the player to check off when they first start out (and then hide after completion). And I think the default state for some views could offer more explanation.

Also this Reddit comment from u/NotMyHersheyBar: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/m2tk75/comment/gqmg5aq

Make it easier on mobile to find what every button does and what are the consequences for each action you can take.

All I could figure out at first was to buy the carrots and water them every day, and go to bed at night.

Can't make soup if you're broke

I couldn't afford a carrot seed, but had some carrots. Once I sold a few individual carrots and wasn't entirely broke, I could make soup again!

Display how many of each item has been sold

Ensure that players get full achievement reward quantity

Currently if the player doesn't have enough inventory space, they don't get the their full reward.

Notification alert spam

Notification alert spam doesn't stop, you have to reload sometimes

Via @AbinashWorlds

An experience bar with an indicator that you'll unlock something next level

From https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/mhzeb3/farmhand_is_now_live_on_itchio/gt2fqhe/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

machinery

We need machinery to make recipes, like cheese, those machines should be expense to make it more appealing to take out loans (#29).

add .nvmrc

since this project desires a specific version of node to be installed, it would be nice to have an .nvmrc to help out with setup.

Establish versioning system

Define a Semer-based versioning convention, document it, and publish the relevant tags. Tag game data exports with the game version.

Limit online room size and automatically bump players to available rooms

Loans from and for Players

make it possible to give out loans to other players, and a rate the loan giver wants, with that new players get money, and rich players get passive income. This could be an addition or replacement of the current Loan system.

The Bread Crisis

the price of Bread (or any other end product) is fixed, i can sell 1 bread for $525, that costs 15 wheat, when wheat is more then $35, then the end product (bread) has less value then its ingredients (wheat).

Add auto-fertilizer item