Field purity

[kitty629]

I seem to be missing something as my fields are several months old and still fairly low purity. Is it just turning them over faster that increases it?

[JamesBonham]

Yeah. Gotta apply dross if you want to raise their purity faster.

[riker88]

you have to plant seeds of a higher purity then the field each time, then purity raises less than 1% each planting...

Also, My cotton fields are my highest purity because its always cotton seeds that go there, the other crops that are on a rotation, often times don't increase purity because I don't have higher purity seeds than what the field is.

For example: I plant Cotton , Cotton, Cotton, then Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin.. When I switch to Cotton again, the pumpkin seeds might be at 20%, but my last cotton harvest produced only 18% seeds, so when I plant Cotton I will be planting 18% seeds on a 20% field, and gain no purity...

Fastest way I have found to raise purity is to always plant the same crop on each field, and use Dross to speed it up.. Problem with this however is you won't be making Tier 2 & 3 Crops.

[DeepSixed]

I seem to be missing something as my fields are several months old and still fairly low purity. Is it just turning them over faster that increases it?

Cotton is a good example...

As another posted already- planting inferior seeds on a field gains you nothing.

The trick is to only use improved seeds on fields. Don't have a seed bag in your inventory as you create seeds (thresh cotton/cereals/etc) as this will generalize it all. You want the very best result and build on that.

Pumpkins are kinda BS... as you could at one point get pumpkins from pots which are much easier to raise in purity. (If was how newbs discovered pumpkins to start with!)

As there are many selling study pumpkins the market just now... April 2016... you can get high purity seeds from spitting these... which will in turn improve your fields...

Then even if you plant inferior cabbage/etc seeds... you'll still get somewhat better than you likely had before.

Dross alone won't help you unless, again, you separate out the improved seeds from the rest of the mix.

[reeper_aut]

almost frakked

if seeds are the same purity that your fields are, you have some chance that RNG gets you a harvest with higher purity than field was.
each harvest with higher purity than the field raises your purity. max is 1% per harvest.
if you use seeds that are 2% or more higher than your fields you improve the chance to get a good harvest.
the higher your fields are the harder it gets to raise purity!!
also it seems that speed at high purity lowers the chance of getting positve RNG on purity above what you already have

as for potting pumpkins.
yes you can pot stage 1 pumpkins to multiply them. also you can improve pots at 2% per harvest which will take about 2 days per.
problem is, you can't go above humus or plant purity. so you can hardly go above your worm purity.
as long as you don't get worms or plants (to pot or feed to the worms) that are higher than what you already have you can't go that way.
for feeding your worms to higher purity it might be good to plant higher purity acorn bushes. you can feed leaves and achorns to your worms