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#### Harvest Symbol for Trees

As I wander the world of Glitch tending and harvesting trees I keep thinking it would be really nice to have some sort of icon for harvesting that appears above the trees as well as the pet and water ones. It seems very odd to me that I can click a heart or water droplet but to harvest I must find it on the menu.

Posted 23 months ago by Zara Wunderwoot | Permalink

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- i think that the devs and a lot of experienced players use the keybooard + enter control method instead of point and click, and this leads to a bias in game design since they underestimate the numbers of point and clickers out there such as yourself.
  they do seem to be giving it the college try though, since you can do petting and watering quite easily by point and click.
  Posted 23 months ago by striatic | Permalink
- That makes sense. Also, going further into the depths of the forum it appears that 4ish months ago someone suggested not having harvesting be as easy to do as planting and watering because there was a lot of overharvesting and underwatering/petting going on, so that may be the origin of the lack of symbol. Since there is no symbol there I find myself ignoring the symbols that are because I know they don't work for everything. It also just bugs me that it's missing since it is a basic, regular interaction with a tree. For me, I'd rather have all three showing up or none of them. That may just be my own bit of UI neurosis. Of course, I also assumed from the beginning that the trees would give me a bigger harvest if I watered/petted them - something which may or may not be true.
  Posted 23 months ago by Zara Wunderwoot | Permalink
- "it appears that 4ish months ago someone suggested not having harvesting be as easy to do as planting and watering because there was a lot of overharvesting and underwatering/petting going on, so that may be the origin of the lack of symbol."
  doubt that is why.
  more likely the symbols are there to let people quickly know what the harvest status is by just walking by, and harvest status can be seen just by looking at the tree and seeing if there's any gas, bubbles, fruit or spice hanging off it.
  Posted 23 months ago by striatic | Permalink
- Exactly what stratic said, if I'm honest, I didn't even know you could click on those icons, I just use them to know what state a tree is in.
  Posted 23 months ago by SuperHappyFun | Permalink
- "harvest status can be seen just by looking at the tree and seeing if there's any gas, bubbles, fruit or spice hanging off it."
  That doesn't tell me if I've already harvested it today.
  "Of course, I also assumed from the beginning that the trees would give me a bigger harvest if I watered/petted them"
  That's what I thought too. Since I've had a higher skill where I'm taking 24 items per harvest, I can see the effect that my harvesting has much more clearly - and I'm taking a good proportion of whatever's hanging. Watering & Petting after a harvest visibly replenishes the goods that I have pilfered.
  Posted 23 months ago by shhexy corin | Permalink