Onions
Grown on sandy terrain from Onion Seeds.
Yield halves if someone is near the planter at the time of harvest. The distance that the onions get "shy" appears to be about 2.5 coords.
Uses
Seeds
Seeds for onions is quite easy, just grow and harvest them close to your spouse. -Onlyaloha and Freakymandu
- Confirmed by Lilin and Kulatai
Observations
- They seem to be the shy vegetable, harvests drop by half if other people in sight. Please Confirm or deny! Ok, planted at a dig high yield all thru.
- Did multiple sets in the same spot, some while people were in view, some while no one was in sight range. Same result in all cases (4 and 1 seed).
- Was getting a yield of 11+1 with someone pretty close nearby.
- "Shy" with female planting and both male/female company, as well as the reverse. With female planting and no people close, double the harvest. (Haven't been able to test with male yet...too many people around. No extra seeds yet.)
- One possibility is that onions are location based, as there have been several reports of getting a yield of 8+1 whenever the x coordinate is a multiple of 1024.
- There's definitely another component besides location. At the spot I was getting 11+1 at, it later dropped to 6+1. Could be time, could be shyness, could be lack of a particular person nearby? --Dachannien
- I have usually been growing 13 onions on a spot at my camp. But ladrilho (male) came over to acro and yield dropped to 6. I then asked Taima (female) to come over and then the yield dropped to 6 too. I guess i will have to test with multiple people closeby, but not too much perhaps. --ArmEagle
- I get 15 Onions, no extra seeds yet. Near the nile (Kush, 809, -3909). --Tadru
- My findings: Between 9-12AM Egypt time, in many locations near Ubody in Kush: Near and far from water - No change. Near/far front trees, grass, clay and dirt - no change. 2 People = half yield. Yield was always Onions-12:1-Seeds. Male or female no effect. Tried with 3/4/5 people, got 12:1. Also tried in a higher location, with and without extra person. Same effect as before. - Clintonio
- ok, more tests:
- 495,-3614: 14 Onions
- 809,-4096: 15 Onions
- 809,-4097: 4 Onions
- no other player near me. no extra seeds --Tadru
- Planted onion beds at 2429, 3344 and measured the range at which Esme would halve the yield. The base yield was 8 when she was logged out and dropped to 4 when she was at 2429, 3342. To double check, I planted 6 extra beds and reharvested with her on 2429, 3341 - the 3 furthest away from her yielded 8 and the other 3 yielded 4. They didn't appear to be on a coordinate boundary (all beds were on 2429, 3344), so perhaps it's a sub-coordinate affect (approx 2.5 coords? 1 coord = 16 teppyfeet and he normally works in feet internally, so perhaps ~40ft). FaceAnkh/Esme
- Shortly after the server crash on May 31, a message was posted to System: Scientists notice some changes in Onion growth - changing weather patterns perhaps?
- This probably only tell us that it's different from the previous tellings -- Mau
- I get 14 per and 1 seed in my oaisis in 7L Time never made a difference -- HTHT
- It appears that leeks and onions don't like the same area. I planted both and found that below the -4097 Y axis, I get more leeks than onions. If I plant right at -4096, I get more onions than leeks. This seems to be the edge of a 'growth grid'. Wasn't able to see if there was an E/W edge to this. There was minor variation in the number of onions and leeks travelling E/W. I'll check tomorrow to see if this edge migrates. Would like others in the Kush area to verify this and see if it is avatar dependent. -- Sed
- I get near same yield for leek and onions at same spot next to my cp - 11+1 leek, 12+1 onions. -- Wuqensta
- I've noticed consistently in my camp in Karnak that onions grown near the lake yield 4, a few coords away yield 5, and anywhere on the mountain yield 6. Is there dryness/altitude factors involved?
- Challen and I get 15 onions per seed when we solo plant them. We 'married' planted 24 seeds yesterday around 10am Egypt time, ie, he planted all seeds, I went behind to water all plants, etc, then I harvested while he was still watering the last rows. When we came close to each other, yield dropped to 7, but gave one extra seed on each harvest that was 7. When we were at opposite ends of the rows, yield went back to 15 per, 1 seed. This was consistant through 5k onions grown. When a third and then a fourth person came near us, the yeild stayed consistant at 15 per, 1 seed, even when we were right next to each other. Challen got 31 onions yield in the first week of the game from one plant out of 8 planted, the other 7 gave 15 per, and we've never been able to figure out how he got the 31 that one time--Tedra
- I get 4/1. Everytime. No change. Doesn't matter what time of day or location. Akedo
- For me I get 20 with 1 seed near my compound in 7Lake (1645,1656). -simlu
I grew my first onions, also in 7L, next to my compound and the Nile, 1377, 2025, I get 20+1 everytime - Dougaten
See also
The general
vegetables page, as well as
Cabbage,
Carrots,
Cucumbers,
Eggplant,
Garlic,
Leeks,
Peppers.