I understand that many members of the community may lack interest in the new minigame Vinesweeper, however the compost potion reward makes the minigame worth playing, even if all the other rewards stink. A few tips on playing the game are listed below:
-Get your own patch. Other players mess up things by flagging patches that either cause point loss or resets.
-Flag en masse. The seeds don’t reset if a flag is on them. I usually find five in a cluster and flag them all to get a nice ~500 points in one go.
-Play Windows minesweeper as practice. Recognizing the patterns is of great help.
-Inspect the patches prior to digging. Never guess.
-If you have a trusty team of 3, have one person dig and the two others inspect and drive away the rabbits. The team members should rotate so hunters do not run out of ogleroots. (Points are not shared; they are rewarded individually to each person in the vincinity.)
-Use a corner. It’s always better to have edge pieces as they are easier to anticipate.
-Always have run turned on.
-Don’t bring super energies. They are a waste as you won’t be running much anyway.
-Leeching by running near gardeners is impossible. You must be near the person who flagged it when that person put down the flag. So don’t try.
-Offer to buy compost potions for 15,000 coins each. It’s well worth it.
-Bring spare money. Flags are lost frequently.
After buying a required 20 compost potions via various means, purchase 1500 buckets. (I did not make mistakes in my calculations…)
Make a few compost mound pouches or bring a few summoning potions. You also need 100 scrolls and some teleports.
Your inventory should have the stack of scrolls, supercompost potion, a super energy potion/summoning potion, and 25 buckets. You should be standing in catherby bank.
-Use the mound’s special and open the bin. Use a supercompost potion on the bin to turn compost into supercompost. Empty bin with buckets. Repeat. The bin should have 5 doses left. Bank and repeat. You should be able to get 5 bins every 3 banking runs, which would take about 12 summoning points. (5 minutes)
-Occasionally nothing interesting happens when you use the potion on the bin. This is the occasional supercompost generator and it only serves to save a few doses of the rare elixir of farming greatness
*Note: the compost mound has five inventory spaces to hold supercompost/compost. You can use that to get two bins per run, although it’s not recommended as you waste five buckets of regular compost each time it’s done, and it’s tedious + slow.
