Greetings, it's been a while since our last update! For this update, I focused on adding more various informative panels, these panels should provide an assortment of details for all sorts of players to better plan their gardens.

Before going into that, I'll first dive into some bug fixes that were made.

Bug Fixes

I only discovered these bugs recently while working on the update. Noting how these bugs were caused, they were most likely present since around the crafter update. I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused due to not finding these sooner. The accuracy of the planner should now be higher than before, but please do report any behaviour you find odd.

New Info Displays

Moving on, a few information panels have been added or improved to provide all sorts of details. These panels range in importance and usefulness depending on the player's needs, and should serve various types of players. I'll go over them briefly here.

These new panels are still open to additions, but they're all information I could think of and easily add without large modifications to the current calculations (just found out it had some instability, after all). The recent bug fixes were already causing instability for some time, so I'd like to add these as safely as possible first. Regardless, if you can think of anything you wish to see in these panels, please let me know so I can look into it!

Next Update & Conclusion

The upcoming update is still undecided, but it's a toss-up between adding worm farms, expanding crafter configurability, and reworking the plot system. All three would require yet another major change to the planner's systems, so expect each one to take awhile given my dwindled availability. Once at least two of these features have been added, I can safely consider the Planner to be near or almost at its full release.

As always, thank you guys again for your patience and continued support & usage of the Garden Planner. Happy planning and see you next update!

Planner has now updated the website to include known crop changes. I've also decided to move the images to another CDN to test out their usage costs. Please report if you're not able to access these images so I can revert.

Hello! I didn't like how the website look when browsers gave it its own dark mode, so I decided to implement my own take on it. It definitely matches the non-planner areas of the website, which feels more in-line with how I would've liked it. Regardless, feel free to revert to light mode in the UI settings. It should default to your system preferences so you can hard set it there instead.

Setting presets are now a thing! The pre-crafter update planner had support for settings being auto-saved. With crafters in the mix, that system might've been inconvenient to re-implement 1 for 1. So, with settings now saveable, I've decided to make it so you can instead manually set a default settings. In addition, I've allowed the ability for you to have different setting configurations that you can manage in the new Settings Modal.

Finally, some minor changes. Negative values will now show in the output tab. This was hidden by default, but it does lead to some layouts looking better than others. For transparency, it should now display crop deficits for when your layout can't support the replant costs. Also, you can now create a new layout in a new tab for convenience.

As per usual, I may have missed some things with these changes and bugs could appear. Please report them or any other feedback on the Github or on my Discord. Both are available on the Footer area below.

I'll next be looking at improving the garden displays next round, and then looking into ways to expand crafters or whether I'd go straight to the plot system re-write. See you till then! Happy Gardening!

Since the Garden Planner still does not factor in player's genuine playtime, calculating gold average via crafter time can sometimes feel like a side-grade or worse than the old method of averaging via gold tick even after processing. Other players may have also preferred this method for their calculations in general.

To address this, I added a setting to utilise the old method, with the setting being saveable+shareable and displaying it differently to help discussion.

Harvest Fix

Highly embarassing bug.. A '<' to compare the timings of a process time and the process time was reversed. The UI's check was also inversed, meaning it would correctly display that a harvest won't be processed in time because the warning would be displayed if the processor would process in time. Another thanks to Ren for pointing this out!

Harvest Fix

Hello folks. A major oversight has been done where crops were being rounded too early when harvesting. This likely made layouts for under level 25 players and/or layouts using unstarred seeds to be lower than promised. Huge thanks to Ren for seeing this one!

My sincere apologies though. This was a pretty substantial change in profits especially for lower-levelled players, so the inaccuracies here should've been noticed sooner. I'll continue tweaking the planner and staying alert to any more inaccuracies, but do keep in mind that the planner's output calcs may not reflect the player experience 1:1.

Other Changes

The harvest-by-day has been re-implemented, though lacking produce conversions. This helps at least with those looking to see when harvests overlap, with a new option to see exactly the days when a crop is harvested (plus other crops with it). Those looking at when a produce is available would not benefit still, as I'm somewhat towards furthering the planner as a '24/7 player' simulation. Do let me know your use-cases for the day-by-day if you want a specific feature implemented.

We've updated to code 0.4. The main reason for this was that the Batterfly Beans had a potential to be auto-modded in the official Palia Discord, which the planner was initially built for. I've ensured the cropCodes and the settings should update properly but please hastily report if a save code is not properly updated.

Export by Image should now work again. Good chance it breaks again though cause of how fickle it is. It should, however, now support Firefox and Mac Safari (iOS still broken)

Finally, I've done some styling fixes to House Planner to make it working again after the recent updates broke it. Its developement is still halted, but it is promised that it will at least be maintained.

Planner now has full support of the new crops. Major thanks to DuhScape & Ren this round for finding their growth and produce values!

With this, I'll soon be re-implementing the features I mentioned in the May 12 update. In addition, the new features will also be looked at for issues & improvements so feel free to share any thoughts you may have on it.

Thanks everyone for the wait. Please share any inaccuracies you may have found within my planner so I may look into it, as well as any other issues and feedback you may way to send my way. Happy Gardening!

Hi everyone, been awhile! Looks like the Elderwoods is here and so I must catch up! I shan't yap too much about where I've been, so I'll just move on to the changes at hand. Apologies for the wait

New Crafter Timing Support & Saves

I've now added Crafter Time Support, and with it comes the ability to save and share setting configurations. This is the 2nd major milestone of the planner, with the next being a better support for off-set plots. This implementation took way longer than necessary to come up with. I was attempting to tinker with more ambitious scopes but had to ground myself to this one. Truth is I wanted a more experimental process, testing changes with a smaller set of players to test different solutions. However, after such a long time (sorry), I decided that this simple one should be good for a live test.

Do see the Info tab in the Output Display to see some explanation on the processor! I belive the input will stay, with maybe an extra option or two, but I'll have to see if there's other internal implementations I can make to improve this.

To help with the effort everyone'll go through messing with crafter configurations, I've also added the ability to add settings into the code. I've done my best to minimise its impact on the code length, so hopefully it won't be much of a hassle to share. I've also added browser-saving! So now you can quickly fetch and share them from within the website

Harvester Improvements

While the processor was obviously going to be re-made, the harvester also got a massive change! The old method was incredibly slow and inefficient, impeding the experience especially on long simulations. Thanks to the overhaul, simulating a large amount of days should now be faster, you can try simulating 1.8k days of harvest now with a lot less lag! Unfortunately, this did mean I have to re-implement the day-by-day breakdown so stay tuned for that.

This change also disentangled a lot of the messy code the planner initially had. While it's still not pristine, it's now both easier and more convenient for me to add new changes! I'm eyeing the ability to factor in fertiliser costs soon, as well as alternative ways to factor in replant costs. I'll be working on this after bug fixes, re-implementations, and new crops.

QoL Changes

Outside of that, there should now be some new features to make things easier for your garden planning.

Starting off, I've added a widget to sort crops by buffs. The truth is this is to condense the space of the crop buttons to handle new crops, but it also doubles as a filter! Furthermore, I've added some assistance to mobile users, you should now have a new button that lets you pick a crop without having to scroll al the way up. In addition, there's now a couple options in the new UI Settings modal to let you hide crop buff indicators. This should make things look a lot less cluttered, letting your eyes breathe a lil' easier!

An LCM option got added to the harvest settings. One of many features that should've been here sooner tbh. This new default setting makes it so the last day has all your crops be ready for harvest, making it a nice way to round the simulation off. Speaking of, the output window as a whole is getting quite cluttered with these tabs, so I added the option to clone it! Feel free to leave the garden for a while while you mess with the configurations

Closing Words

What a long post! Anyway, I'll be testing these changes as they come and will be polishing things up. In the meantime, feel free to report any issues, complaints, or suggestions you may have about the new changes! (.aisen on Discord)

Thank you guys once again for your continued use of the planner. Happy planning and happy Elderwoods update!

Hello! The last internal tweak proved to be beneficial in reducing host resource consumption without affecting user experience. As a result, another tweak is being implemented to optimise another aspect of the website.

If you have been facing any issues since the update today or the previous one, please contact me on Discord below.

Hi folks! The Garden Planner now has a Ko-fi link for those who wish to send tips. I've had a few requests for this, but I wanted to hold off till I had something more substantial to show for it.

However, Garden Planner traffic has been increasing (woohoo!!). I'll soon no longer be able to host the server for free though, so I've decided to add the Ko-fi link now to help me cover the costs. Development continues when I can. I've got new plans for the crafters and how they'll fit in the planner that I hope will finally allow me to release them.

Regardless, thank you guys so much for your continued support and use of the planner. I'm glad to see it's been useful to so many of you and I'm proud it's come to a point I have to consider server costs (though stressful). I intend on maintaining the planner for as long as I can, and I hope to continue to improve it.

Have a great life everyone! Happy planning!

With the release of 0.179 comes the Courtyard building, a new housing add-on. Thank you to CauldronMorgana for confirming certain details about the Courtyard, as well as TinyDragon for the same reason as well as general housing information.

As of this update, the House Planner development is indefinitely halted. I've evaluated that the prototype needs to be reworked from the ground up to better simulate the in-game housing system as well as support the upcoming features (such as the Structure Blocks and 2nd Floor).

I've detailed the reasons for the halt on the bottom of the House Planner page. Overall, my prototype was just not feasible and I feel I do not have the time and resources to remake it in a way that fits my standards. For that, I've decided to halt development on the House Planner and simply maintain it for archival purposes.

Garden Planner development still continues and I have no plans to halt it.

New attempt at a level-based star-chance system, this time with a formula that can adapt to any level instead of just level 25. This change was originally intended to be part of the crafter update, but since that won't be out for a while (busy reasons, see Jan 30 update) I've decided to release that change now.

Formula: 0.25 + (0.25 * useStarSeeds) + (0.02 * level) + (0.5 * hasQualityBoost)

See Harvest Calculator Info > Assumptions for brief explanation

This new formula is arbitrary and based off player observations, and is still not the actual in-game formula. Level 25+ players using star seeds shouldn't notice any difference from the old system provided the same settings are used. Pre-level 25 star-seed layouts should expect the same settings as a level 0.

For players not using star seeds, the new system should hopefully provide a slightly more accurate representation of their star chance. Most notably, when you reach level 50, you should expect a 100% star chance with normal seeds. 100% is actually met earlier on at around level 38 as per the planner, whether that's accurate to in-game is debatable, but nevertheless should still be closer than the old formula.

Minor UI tweaks in preparation of an internal UI update, as well as minor experimentation with making the planner more compact.

UI changes are planned for the next major update (no ETA), with a specific focus to the harvest calculator. Many of my issues with the incoming updating has been the lack of space to fit everything in, so I'm making a smaller UI update to make the calculator more bearable to look at. In addition, I might look at better ways to display the crop/fertiliser buttons, as the increase of crops is going to make the buttons more cluttered.

If you notice anything wrong, please report it to me on Discord (.aisen)

Hello everyone! This was a bit of a quick addition. Huge thanks to Aschefield and Adain (Paliapedia) for providing information and assets on the new crops and by-products! Their help certainly sped up syncing the planner with the new patch.

There may be a chance I missed some values, so if you notice any discrepancies please do report it to me on Discord (.aisen). Those of you who are using the House Planner may note an issue with the Bay windows, I'll need to re-work how the planner handles housing add-ons to support it so it would definitely take awhile.

Apologies once more for the slow updates, I've been busy :( Please note that anyone willing to make alternative websites or improve on this one is more than welcome to do so. I'm currently searching for a job, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have to work on this. Consider updates to be much slower from now on until the situation changes.

Heya folks, small update this time round with a small focus on features unrelated to the garden planner.

I've worked on the layout for the planner a bit, hopefully to support larger gardens and smaller screens a little. I meant to add a fix to the screenshot feature but it did not pan out.

Crafter Support

Crafters are under construction! Files for them exist somewhere in the background. they support having limited slots and can properly calculate time spent processing regardless of the different crops inserted into each one. Information with and without idle time is also available.

Not much work left on the crafters themselves as they're almost functional. The big problem is how they'll be managed and displayed. I intend to support the ability to calculate for total processing time given a number of crafters. Every crafter will support having different crops placed into each one.

I have been mind-blocked on both how to manage and configure the crafters in a way that can reflect multiple playstyles. Not to mention that on release it'll likely need configuration saving and sharing, which is a whole other can of worms. Overall though, work is progressing on them, I hope to release them in a state that's satisfying.

However, to make sure I implement them right, I plan on releasing them in an experimental page first. This was where the house planner came in, as a way to gauge how users react to experimental features.

House Planner

The house planner is a proof of concept, and is not meant to be used regularly. Aside from being a way to gauge how users react to experimental features, it's also a highly demanded project that I've been wishing someone else would make. Since it's been months and I needed a change of gear to work on, I decided to make it myself.

It's currently in it's early stages, and is currently not a reliable source of information on housing. It has a lot of inaccuracies, and is missing a lot of information. That said, having this out there will let me test for bugs much earlier, as I personally do not have the resources and space to test for housing.

Hopefully, this will also encourage other developers to either improve on this or make their own versions. Otherwise, this opens up a new end goal of being the one-stop shop for simulating certain Palia mechanics.

You may try it out yourself here: House Planner

UI using custom layouts is not final, and will be changed soon.

This change is a major UI rework, with the aim of reducing scrolling and making the planner more compact. The initial design of the planner was added as an after-thought, and was not meant to be a long-term solution. Adding new features, and planning out future ones was proving to be a hassle with the current design, so I prioritised its re-work.

The rework is designed by an amazing friend of mine, frnkers, and was translated to code by yours truly. This change allows me to comfortably add new features, and plan out future ones without worrying about the messiness of the UI.

I've also added a couple new features, an in-game timer and growth boost support. Growth boost support is a toggle in the options menu as it's still bugged (and may work differently with fertilisers which is still untested), a lot of thanks to gazar for providing information regarding this mechanic.

The in-game timer is a small nifty addition that mimics the in-game clock. I've initially added a 6 AM alarm (for harvests) but it was proving to be buggy due to how web notifications work. The alarm feature will be kept on the shelf until I find a better system for alarms.

Overall, this update is late as I've taken a break. Health reasons and being busy with other stuff meant I couldn't follow my initial roadmap. I'm still working on the planner, but it'll be at a slower pace now and I'll be developing the planner at a more comfortable pace.

If you ever want to contribute to the project's development, just know that the website is open-source and can be accessed in the footer below!