Enricher

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Enricher
Place on a sprinkler and load with fertilizer to automatically apply it when planting seeds nearby.
Information
Source	Qi's Walnut Room for data-sort-value="20"> 20
Sell Price	data-sort-value="200">200g

An Enricher is a Sprinkler upgrade that automatically fertilizes tiles, if seeds are planted.

Fertilizers must be loaded into the Enricher for it to work. The fertilizer must be loaded before the seeds are planted. Otherwise, the enricher will not apply the fertilizer automatically, and the player must manually apply it.

Despite the fact that it is attached to a sprinkler, the enricher will automatically apply the loaded fertilizer as soon as seeds are planted within that sprinkler's normal range. There is no need for the sprinkler to water the tiles for the fertilizer to be applied.

Only one fertilizer type may be loaded into an enricher at a time. The player must load as many of that fertilizer type as they wish to have applied to the surrounding seeds (e.g., an iridium sprinkler has a range of 24 plantable tiles, so it would need 24 of any given fertilizer to cover all of those squares).

A sprinkler may not be equipped with both a Pressure Nozzle and an enricher at the same time.

4 Enrichers can be purchased at Qi's Walnut Room for data-sort-value="20"> 20 Qi Gems or one may occasionally be found in The Mines as a special monster drop during the 'Danger In The Deep' quest or after activating the Shrine of Challenge or Skull Cavern (during the "Skull Cavern Invasion" Quest).

Image	Name	Description	Sprinklers	Purchase Price
	Enricher	Place on a sprinkler and load with fertilizer to automatically apply it when planting seeds nearby.		data-sort-value="20"> 20

Tips

Because fertilizer never needs to be replaced in the Greenhouse, the enricher will have only one-time use there. Additionally, because fertilizer does not disappear when already applied to a tile with something planted on it, it has limited use for crops that continually produce (especially on Ginger Island where crops will not die due to season changes). Using the enricher may save one pass around the sprinkler's range, but has little other advantage to crops in the greenhouse, or continually-producing crops on Ginger Island.

It may be most useful to place the enricher near crops that need to be replanted, and replanted often (e.g., parsnips). Keeping an enricher loaded with fertilizer near a crop that needs to be replanted often can save the player from continually reapplying fertilizer manually.

History

• 1.5: Introduced.