Did you know that you can play games in Hive?! (Okay maybe most of you know already!)
Interested in playing games while also earning from them?
Interested in being a farmer or any farming games?
Interested in starting your farming journey in Hive?
Have you heard about dCrops yet?
A lot of questions (I know!) but these are some of my introduction questions to my friends who don't know about dCrops yet.
What is dCrops anyway?
dCrops is a P2E game on the Hive blockchain where you will be in control of your own farm like a virtual farmer. Recently there have been updates related to construction so it's not just planting seeds and harvesting anymore but you can also build equipment and soon, be able to cook food.
Just like in real life, there are 4 seasons in the game.
To know more, you can head over to https://dcrops.com/.
How To Play
Planting and Harvesting
It's pretty easy. When you have land, you can plant seeds. Sadly, you need to purchase these NFTs to start playing the game.
Prepare your swap.hive or CROP token and head to the dCrops market to buy the NFTs.
You can use the filters to just show the NFTs that you want to purchase.
To start, I usually recommend checking which season is in progress. You will be able to know that when you click Play on the menu or you can head to this link.
Currently it's Summer so if you want to start playing right away, make sure to buy lands and seeds for this season. Usually the seeds for this season are of a higher price than usual so I recommend stacking up seeds for the next season - Autumn. I actually had a spreadsheet monitoring the prices of the seed NFTs but I haven't kept it up to date. I used to use it for comparing prices and when the right time to buy is.
If you have a lot of money, go for the legendary lands. If not, Fertile Land is better or if you can afford the Awesome Land, the better. I don't usually buy the cheapest land which is the Average Farmland just because. 😅 I'm looking at the bonus crop chance percentage every time so if that's a concern to you, you might want to heed my advice.
Make sure you are purchasing LAND and not PLOT. Plots are for different usage.
Once you have the land and seed NFTs for the season, you can now start playing the game. Go to Play and click on Farm.
Once there, you can see your land so you just need to choose the seeds that you want to plant. After planting, make sure to click the button at the bottom part of the page to confirm planting, and a confirmation from Hive Keychain will appear. After that, you just need to wait til it's time to harvest.
In my case, I just need to login again to the game when it's ready for harvesting - after 8 days, 10 hours and 32 minutes, a button to harvest will appear so you just need to click on it and wait. That's how easy and not hassle planting in the game is.
You can view the harvested items in the Inventory tab.
Construction
This just recently got opened - I mean not so recently but I just seem to bother it lately. You can build different kinds of equipment that you can use for Crafting, Cooking (I think) and Workshop.
In this case, a Furnace can be built for 5 days only if you have the needed items to construct it. Your Inventory is shown on the right so you can check for missing resources.
Resources can be acquired by buying in the Market or opening a chest. However, opening a chest is by pure luck. Sometimes it doesn't contain the resources that you need.
Acquiring Chests
How to acquire chests? You can get one if you complete the quests for the season so it's very important to click on Get New Quests every time a season starts. You can check your inventory, your cards on hand and see if you can complete the quest. If a task is too hard for you, there's always a Reroll button which will cost you CROP tokens.
I haven't completed mine for this season though. 😅
Right now, there's an event where you can also get Chests in exchange for Candy Cane which I will talk about in the Christmas Event section of this post.
How I'm Earning
Selling Items For Shares
Sell the items in your inventory so you can gain shares for the season.
In my case, I didn't really sell a lot yet so in the Leaderboard on the Dashboard, I'm still at the bottom and will earn a few CROP tokens.
I think a good strategy is to sell in bulk so the bigger the shares, the bigger the CROP tokens. You'll also rank higher on the Leaderboard. I haven't done this though but I heard this tip from someone.
Getting Daily Hive
The more Crop Power you have, the more you'll be getting daily rewards in Hive from dCrops.
Now, there's a new term unknown to you - Crop Power. I don't want to go through the details of explaining what this is because you can read this in the FAQ section of dCrops but the calculation is what's important to know. Honestly, I don't memorize this so you don't need to bother memorizing this.
It seems complicated, right?
My advice to increase your Crop Power is to hoard packs - Alpha or Beta packs. Right now, Alpha packs aren't sold in the Shop anymore, but Beta packs are. You can get the Alpha packs in TribalDex by trading. If it seems too complicated, just get the Beta packs in the Shop.
You can pay in Hive, HBD, CROP, etc. Currently it's on discount so don't miss this chance! The discount is only for a limited time. I'm also planning to get more packs but I still don't have the funds yet. 😅
Now, back to our Crop Power computation, since you need at least 20,000 Crop Power to start earning daily Hive rewards, you need at least 10 packs. Don't open the packs, just keep them or else it's going to be a different computation.
Christmas Event
It's still Christmas in dCrops. Christmas is all about giving so here in dCrops, we can also give gifts to our fellow farmers. And if you're lucky, you can receive gifts too. All you need to do is bribe Santa CROP tokens and you'll be added to the nice list.
I don't know a lot of players from the game but I think I would be overjoyed seeing a player I know or familiar with if my gifts are sent to them. Personally I would want to give gifts to players I know but I realized what if I don't know anyone or someone doesn't know me? Then I won't be receiving gifts or I don't know who to give gifts to. So I think this gift giving being random works. After all, when we give gifts to charities, etc, we usually don't know a lot about them. 😅
Aside from that, there's a raffle too!
I don't have a lot of raffle points right now but my strategy is to send my excess NFTs to dcrops.events account so I could get more raffle points. Sending Legendary NFTs will grant you 4 points but to be honest, I am not so lucky with getting legendary NFTs from opening my Beta packs so I try to keep what I have. Instead, I send common or rare NFTs which will grant me 0.25 and 0.5 points respectively. And yep, I opened a few of my Beta packs and even bought some NFTs in the Market to gain more raffle points. I just hope it's worth it. 🙏
When you have a Candy Canes, you can exchange it in the Event Shop. You can get them by playing the game like planting, harvesting, buying packs, completing quests, etc.
I was trying to accumulate Golden Tickets which can be obtained when you get gifts from other players or when you buy a Present for yourself and open them. I'm not so lucky in this area again. So far, I've only acquired 3 Golden Tickets in total, the 2 I have exchanged for an Alpha Pack. I actually wanted more Alpha packs but I'm stuck with this amount of tickets and now, the packs are all sold out!
As I have mentioned earlier, you can get a Reward Chest from this Event Shop. Just be ready to exchange your Candy Canes for it and you can open them.
Right now, I'm eyeing for the Gingerbread Cookie but it seems impossible with my current Golden Tickets. Nevertheless, I'll continue to spend my Candy Canes to get a Present for myself or for others. I have no strategy here, it all just depends on my mood if I'm being selfish or being nice. 😂 Maybe next time, I'll try to get Reward Chest once I reach 250 Candy Canes.
You can read more about this event in this post by @dcrops.
Interested To Play?
There's a very big Play Now button when you head over to https://dcrops.com/. Clicking that button will take you to the login screen.
If you have a Hive account, you can enter your Hive account name and log in via Keychain.
Now, if you don't have a Hive account yet, you can sign up using ecency or hiveonboard or talk to me, I'll help you sign up for an account. 😉
I recommend playing the game on PC and not mobile, but go ahead if you really want to play it on mobile. 😅
Conclusion
There are still so many things you can do in dCrops aside from the things I have mentioned. It's just up to you to figure them out so you'll also be thrilled! And there are more updates going to be released in the future so it's going to be more and more exciting!
Honestly, this is the only game I'm actually playing in Hive. I have assets for other games but this is the only game I spend my time to. Maybe because I wanted to own a farm in real life so I'm simulating right now in the virtual world..? Who knows.
But all I can tell you is the game is pretty simple. Just start with the basics - Planting and Harvesting, and you're good to go. Then try to increase your Crop Power so you can earn Hive rewards daily.
You don't need to bother with the computations if you don't care about numbers at all. I mean, of course, you need to make sure you're not at a loss. But tbh, I haven't computed my gains yet. I just spend whenever I have extra. 😅 Don't be like me. Please compute if this is worth your time.
But this game is worth my time.
I hope it's also worth your time.
If you are still not convinced about playing the game, I'm telling you now that you should be. 😂 You don't really need to open the game every minute, you just need to wait. It's not so complicated. If you have played FarmVille or Farm Town or whatever farming games there were when Facebook started, it's just like this - but here, you'll earn. Plus, the NFTs are pretty cool! Don't you think so?! And and and the UI UX of the game is also getting better and better as time goes by. And @scriptkittie, the dev, is so accommodating and considerate and will hear your feedback and opinions of the game.
It's really an awesome game, I tell you so join us! <3
If you have questions or concerns, feel free to join the dCrops discord server.
Thanks for reading!
See you around! じゃあ、またね！
All photos are screenshots of the game.
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Wow, lots of good info about the game here! Great job! 😃 I want to be able to download food and eat it. 😁
That's a different story @thekittygirl 😂
But it would be nice to be able to do that!
Maybe in the future we will be able to convert the NFTs into real life stuff hahahaha
This is a beautiful and helpful guide on dCrops!
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Thank you!! I read your guides too and very detailed and helpful to a lot of players!
I was kinda put off by the fact that you do need to buy NFTs to get playing.
Would have loved to try a free mode first, even if it didn't had any earnings involved.
Before too, I was hesitant to spend for the NFTs but when I got to know the feedback from the people playing the game, I got convinced and went on with it. At first, I didn't spend a lot, I just used whatever I earned from blogging to buy the NFTs then later on, it seemed fun. The HIVE rewards daily and the updates of the game were what kept me going.
Now, I enjoy the game A LOT.
Maybe you should try to join the discord server and learn from the people who play it, maybe you'll get convinced even if there's no free trial mode.
But it's a nice idea. The free mode seems interesting. Maybe you can suggest it to @scriptkittie 😅
Thanks for getting back to me. I might just pick up a few NFTs and give it a shot - it does seem to be fun. Thanks for your article and getting me interested ;-)
Good luck! It's really fun, no doubt! Just make sure not to overspend in buying NFTs in the market, and make sure to get the seed NFTs appropriate for the season, or you can prepare for the next.
I hope to see you on the dCrops discord server! If you're too shy to join the dCrops server, you can join us in The Terminal. @queenstarr has been our guide and giving off tips to us. 😂
As always your enthusiasm is so infectious @wittyzell 😂
I was in a rather off mood when I opened Hive but now I'm all laughs. I would love to start this game but not up to 10HBD yet, and I'm saving for something else 😢
The game is on my to-do list for Hive though 😂
Hope your bribe to Santa works out 😂😂
Is it? HAHAHAA I'm glad I made you laugh though. 😊
I hope you'll play the game soon @seki1!
It is😂😂
That's a really catchy daily hive drops, especially once Hive hits 1$-3$, people gonna come running for more Crop power🔥
I also love the fact that holding oacks gives us more reward chest count, it's just worth it.
witty so naughty she bribed santa (We all did😂) it's been a fun event, absolutely enjoyed my time.
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🧺Great guide Wittywhale🐳🧑🌾
Thank you for being here @queenstarr! I still think your guides are great. 😅 I always check about them because I know you have some strategies that might work for me too. 😂 (I'm just copying)
Anyways, seems like many people are kinda interested to play the game. I hope they join us soon!
Have you seen the traffic you drawing? Oh we about to be hit by a tsunami of players🎉
Hahahaha Not sure if it’s coming from me but it’s awesome to see more players! wooohoooo
hehehe! Nah, it's all you sweets, proud of you. Send them over our little club for all the juicy farmer chats while we farm and sell.
Sounds like a nice play2earn farming game but is crop tokens as reward worth it? And how much $ you think you can earn a week by after investing a specific amount?
I think it is worth it.
To be honest, I haven't computed how much I earned
because I don't like computing gains, or else I'll feel guilty about the spendingbut I know some people are doing it.Also, it actually depends on your strategy so investing X amount in the game will produce different Y gains based on the things you do. There is no specific amount of earnings. It all depends on how you play the game.
I think I read a post from @libertycrypto27 about investing and calculating before, or you can read this post from him, or you can read this experience from @queenstarr about her earnings.
Thanks for the explanation. The post of libertycrypto27 looks much explained.
I said, I am going to sleep already but saw your blog! Hehe.
I have really interested in playing this game but always forgot to read the gameplay. I like farming games like Stardew Valley, Rune Factory, and Harvest Moon. So, I think I will like Dcrops very much, and also based on your blog. :D
Thanks for this, Witty!
Hahahah! Good night jiji!
I don't know any of the games you've mentioned. LOL
I hope you'll start playing the game soon. Accumulate HIVE first so you can have the means to buy the NFTs. 😉
There is really a lot of question in this post but a lot of answers too. Thanks for making this guide for us @wittyzell or #wittywhale?!
HAHAHAHA Too far from being a whale but I heard you're becoming a whale by playing this game too @incublus 😏
Nope I'm just trying to be a minnow in that game. You are far better than me haha 😅
Hahahaha! Maybe based on experience? I'm sure you'll be better than me when you have more experience in the game.
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Nah, I really don't have time for this game haha. I'm just taking care of my plants. No one does it for me you know... Thanks for the Pizza, I guess I still can't send them. !PIZZA
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Don't worry, that's what I always do too. I don't have a lot of time to play other games. 😂
I usually just come back to harvest or plant hahaha
We'll become pro planters in this case hahahaa
Oh I'm quite surprised. Don't worry, I'll give you more tips. Maybe every time I see your name, I'll give you PIZZA until you can send them hahahaha
that would take long time though LOLYeah we are pro planters 🌾
Hahaha thank you.
I have some already. Nope I don't have much. I got only 4 Pizza XDThis is very helpful to peeps like me who want to play dcrops but aren't sure what to do!
I am currently holding 2 Beta packs, I need 8 more to earn daily Hive rewards, but I also want to play aside from holding those packs. Thanks for sharing this, Witty! ✨💓
You're welcome C!
Keep the beta packs and try to save and spend HIVE for getting lands and seeds from the alpha packs. They're cheaper than the beta packs' seeds.
Hope you'll be able to buy more Beta packs before the event ends, or else good bye discount. 😂
whale fighting whales.
I tried this game. not for me. 😂
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Wow it looks very interesting, it reminds me of a farm game I played many years ago with my cousin. This post is very well explained. I congratulate you
Oh wow, I’m glad it got your interest. Hopefully you’ll be able to play the game soon!
I have a Kale seed. I thought I'd wait playing the game until I know the right season starts, but you say I need a land too? Meh.
In any case, land is very important in the game. 😅
This is really helpful to me. Been procastinating on getting in on dcrops, but i'm going in this time.
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Thank you for being here @b0s! This post is kinda long but once you get the hang of the game, it will be easy peasy.
Hehe, It is. But It's info filled. Thanks once more.
You're welcome!
Wow very informative! lol
Thank you!
Great game
Thanks! Hope you're playing it too
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