Hydew - Sprinklers

Hydew – Sprinklers

Hydew – Sprinklers adds automated sprinklers to Hytale, bringing reliable, scalable farming mechanics inspired by Stardew Valley-style progression.

This plugin is designed to make farming a first-class, rewarding progression path, not just a side activity.

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Overview

Sprinklers automatically water nearby farm soil every morning at 5:00 AM.
Watering is time-based, tiered, and scales with progression, encouraging players to invest deeply into farming infrastructure.

Key goals:

• Make farming worth prioritizing most of the day
• Reward planning, layout, and tier progression
• Keep mechanics transparent and predictable

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Watering Mechanics

Watering time:
Sprinklers activate once per day at 5:00 AM (in-game time).

Water duration:

• Soil remains watered for 1 full in-game day
• After drying, soil remains tilled for 1 additional day
• If not watered again, soil will then revert (untilled)

This creates a forgiveness window so players don’t need perfect daily uptime to maintain farms.

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Sprinkler Tiers & Coverage

Each sprinkler tier increases its watering radius.

• Crude Sprinkler
  • Cross pattern (4 adjacent tiles)
• All higher tiers
  • Square coverage
  • Radius increases by +1 per tier

Higher tiers dramatically reduce manual labor and reward resource investment.

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🔨 Crafting Recipes

All sprinklers are crafted at the Farming Bench and scale in both cost and required bench tier. Sprinklers can be salvaged for most of their resources at the Salvage Bench.

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Crude Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 2

• 3x Any Stone
• 4x Wood Trunk
• 10x Life Essence
• 1x Water Essence

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Copper Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 3

• 3x Copper Bar
• 4x Wood Trunk
• 10x Life Essence
• 1x Water Essence

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Iron Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 4

• 3x Iron Bar
• 4x Wood Trunk
• 10x Life Essence
• 1x Water Essence

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Thorium Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 6

• 3x Thorium Bar
• 4x Wood Trunk
• 15x Life Essence
• 1x Water Essence

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Cobalt Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 8

• 3x Cobalt Bar
• 4x Wood Trunk
• 20x Life Essence
• 1x Water Essence

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Adamantite Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 10

• 3x Adamantite Bar
• 4x Wood Trunk
• 30x Life Essence
• 1x Water Essence

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Audio & Visual Feedback

• Sprinklers play a 3D sound once per sprinkler per day
• Sound plays for all sprinklers simultaneously at 5:00 AM
• Volume naturally fades with distance (even if out of range at trigger time)
• Water particles visually indicate active sprinklers

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Assets Status

⚠️ Assets are currently a work-in-progress

• Models are currently recolors
• Unique models are planned for every sprinkler tier
• Visual identity will improve as the project evolves

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Project Vision

Hydew – Sprinklers is planned as part of a larger Hydew project focused on bringing the essence of Stardew Valley to Hytale, including:

• Deep farming systems
• Meaningful daily routines
• Progression tied to planning and infrastructure
• Cozy but mechanically rich gameplay

This plugin is the foundation.

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Feedback & Contributions

Bug reports, balance feedback, and feature suggestions are greatly appreciated.