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

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.

🚿 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.

🔨 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.

Crude Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 2

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

Copper Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 3

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

Iron Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 4

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

Thorium Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 6

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

Cobalt Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 8

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

Adamantite Sprinkler

Farming Bench – Tier 10

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

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

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

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.

Feedback & Contributions

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

Hydew - Sprinklers