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I've been really grinding like mad in Farm Together 2. 112 hours so far exclusively playing it and nothing else. Here's the latest. 

5 farm hands now. It's been a bit of chore thinking how to asign their tasks. What is most important? Unlocking new plants and animals, completing quests, or making sure essential materials are harvested and processed in machines, I dun know? I change their piorities as I get new ideas about how to use them every so often. 

I unlocked the mine. This is a building you can place and then enter. Inside is the mine with minerals and mushrooms to harvest. There are also new areas down there to unlock with badges, but it's costly. 

Badges are like the ultimate resource in the game. They unlock key buildings, stores, factories and buy special tools like sprinklers.You get badges from selling things in certain stores, completing quests, and helping villagers with tasks. You can also convert money, diamonds or villager rewards (a green thumbs up symbol) into badges in the town. 

I've been installing sprinkler systems to speed up harvesting, and I bought the quest store so I can give myself more quests. I've also been slowly unlocking new areas of the world. I've built the jam and cheese maker. I've built a second house but haven't decided how to furnish it yet. I have my piano, painting easel, statue building table and stove in my first house already, and since they make everything you can make, what do I need a second house for anyway? But, it looks cool, and I can finally have an indoor bathroom. My first house just has an outhouse due to lack of rooms. 

New animals and plants unlock over time as your farm and specific plants/animals level. It becomes an obsession like grinding for levels in a RPG to see a new plant, or unlock a new building or resourse. 

Also, as quests get longer, I have to redesign my fields for bigger growing areas. I've been doing  a lot of consolidating of resource types so I can harvest them quicker. Like, I put all the tropical fruit plants and trees in one field close together. There's a lot of shifting around on my farm as the game progresses. I only just learned how to reform the landscape to flatten hills or create terraces. New possibilites will present themselves because of that. 

Finally, other online players sometimes show up and harvest stuff for me. You gain those green thumbs-up points for doing this as an outsider which you can then convert to any resource you may need back at your home farm. It makes me a little nervous to have randos running around my farm harvesting, but that's all I let them do, so no real harm can come from it. I just have to rush to my stores to sell the goods before my warehouse fills up. 

Anyhoo, that's about it for my game time this week. I am looking forward to next week when I'm going to start my 70s theme. I bought Dark Chambers today for Atari 2600. I'm going to dig into the Atari next month as much as I can. See you then!