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Contraptions actually make stuff! Click here to discuss.

You can get awards (and pot bucks) for using your contraptions!

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Contraption Shares: You can now share when you use your contraptions. You can post unlimited amounts of contraption products and each post will work for the first 10 players to click. You can collect 20 contraption products per day from other player's posts. NOTE: Getting contraption products from your friends does NOT count toward awards nor quests. You need to produce them yourself.

Contraption Tip: Working contraptions always show what percentage is left if you hover over them. NOW, using the multi-tool (the hand icon), you can click on them and see how much TIME is left until you can collect from them.

BASIC DESCRIPTIONS:

Oil Press: Unlocks at level 7. Takes up 1 space. Hover over it and it will tell you to add 1 hemp from your stash. Using the multi-tool, click on it to start and in 25 seconds it will indicate that it's ready. Click again to collect and you'll get 1 hemp oil added to your stash (and 1 xp). You can then sell the hemp oil for 35 coins or save it to make potcorn or nachos (below). [ILLUSTRATION]

Brewery: Unlocks at level 13. Takes up 4 spaces. Uses 1 hops & 1 hemp from your stash and in 2 minutes you can collect 6 hemp ale which is worth a total of 108 coins. You also get 1 xp per batch. [ILLUSTRATION]

Potcorn Popper: Unlocks at level 18 and takes up 1 space. Uses 1 hemp oil (which you made with the oil press), 1 corn and 1 time warp from your stash. In 30 seconds, your potcorn is ready. Click collect and you'll get 6 potcorn added to your stash, worth a total of 750 coins. You also get 24 xp when making a batch of potcorn. [ILLUSTRATION]

Whiskey Still: Unlocks at level 24 and takes up 4 spaces. Uses 1 corn and 1 brain warp from your stash. In 1 minute, you can collect 8 pot scotch, worth a total of 1120 coins, which goes into your stash. You also get 30 xp when making a batch of pot scotch. [ILLUSTRATION]

Nacho Machine: Unlocks at level 32 and takes up 4 spaces. Uses 1 hemp oil from the oil press, 1 corn, and 1 tomato from your stash. In 45 seconds, you can collect your 10 nachos worth a total of 1500 coins and 55 xp. (Increased from 50xp to 55xp on Dec 2, 2010.) [ILLUSTRATION]

Wine Maker: Introduced December 2, 2010, this unlocks at level 40 and takes up 4 spaces. Uses 1 grapes and 1 blackberry from your stash. In 1 minute, you can collect 6 bottles of wine, worth a total of 840 coins, which goes into your stash. You also get 25 xp when finishing your batch of wine.

Caramel Cornifier: Introduced December 2, 2010, this unlocks at level 49 and takes up 1 space. Uses 1 potcorn (either made with the Potcorn Popper or received as a gift), 1 sugar cane, and 1 caramelicious from your stash. In 30 seconds, you can collect 6 Caramel Corn, worth a total of 1350 coins, which goes into your stash. You also get 80 xp when making a batch of Caramel Corn.

Brownie Machine: Introduced May 16, 2011. CLICK TO SHARE

Uses Cocoa Pods, Sugar Cane, Sweet Tooth, and Hemp Oil. DISCUSS HERE!

The regular Brownie Machine unlocks at level 60 as a quest but can't be purchased with coins until level 100. It takes 10 minutes to run. Each harvest of a machine gives you 525 xp and 6 brownies which each sell for 120 coins, for a total of 720 coins per run. Brownies are also tradeable for Puff Puff.

Phat Brownie Oven: Introduced May 16, 2011. CLICK TO SHARE

Uses Cocoa Pods, Sugar Cane, Sweet Tooth, and Hemp Oil. DISCUSS HERE!

The Phat Brownie Oven is available for $299 pot bucks at level 100 and at level 250 for 1,000,000 coins. It takes just 3 minutes gives 700 xp and pays out 24 Brownies, for a total of 16,800 coins per run.

Love Machine: This limited time offer was introduced February 1, 2011. It unlocked at level 5 and was available for 2,000 coins. It takes up 6 spaces. It runs on chocolates, roses, love oil, champagne. These ingredients are available by visiting neighbors, from news feed posts, and from Love Pigs. It takes 5 minutes to run and produces 1 "Sweet Love" and 50 xp. Processing time for the top award with just one of these contraptions would be 41.7 hours (500@5min). NOTE: The Love Machine is back for the 2012 Valentines Theme. It can be purchased and is also available as a reward for doing a quest. See details on the Quest page.

Love In: This limited time offer was introduced February 1, 2011. It unlocked at level 3 for $49 Pot Bucks and level 58 for 55,000 coins. It takes up 9 spaces. It runs on chocolates, roses, love oil, and champagne. These ingredients are available by visiting neighbors, from news feed posts, and from Love Pigs. It takes longer than the Love Machine, uses the same amount of ingredients, but produces much more. It takes 20 minutes to run and produces 10 "Sweet Love" and 500 xp. Processing time for the top award with just one of these contraptions would be 16.7 hours (50@20min). NOTE: The Love In is back for the 2012 Valentines Theme. It can be purchased and is available as a reward for doing a quest. See details on the Quest page.

Blonde Hash Press: Introduced September 30, 2011, this unlocks at level 77 for 62,000 coins and takes up 4 spaces. Uses 12 pot scotch (either made with the Whiskey Press or received as gifts (mooch it here), 1 maui waui, and 1 acapulco gold. Produces 12 Blonde Hash and 450 xp in 15 minutes. Each blonde hash sells for 750 coins, so for the 12, you'll get 9000 coins worth of hash every time you collect from the contraption. It also offers a daily income of 1,400 coins when left out on your farm.

You can also earn one of these for free by doing a new quest that unlocks at level 55.

No longer available for purchase:

Xmas Corntraption: This limited time offer was introduced December 9, 2010, and RE-RELEASED December 9, 2011! It takes up one space. No details for 2011 yet, but in 2010, it unlocked at level 19. Uses 1 potcorn (either made with the Potcorn Popper or received as a gift), 1 sugar cane, and 1 caramelicious from your stash. In 20 seconds, you can collect 6 Caramel Corn, worth a total of 1350 coins, which goes into your stash. You also get 80 xp when making a batch of Caramel Corn. Sugar Cane isn't available to buy until level 45, but you can get it as a gift along with Potcorn.

GREEN BREWERY: This limited time offer was available March 1-23, 2011. Just like the regular brewery, but you get 4 times as much hemp ale in 1/4 the time, using the same amount of ingredients. Level 64 and higher players can buy for 77,000 coins. Price for level 3 players is $44 pot bucks.

Specifics: Requires 1 hemp, 1 hops. Produces 24 hemp ale in 30 seconds. 1 xp per ale for a total of 24 xp per run. Daily coins = 1200. Purchase XP = 1000.

WARNING - HEAVY DATA: www.potfarm.info/contraptions.php#heavy

(Click on any header column to sort by that column.)

contraption	unlock level	spaces	start cost	daily income	ingredients	produces	grow time (hours)	cost to plant	run time	sale price	sale profit	hourly profit	run xp	hourly xp
Oil Press	7	1	1,500	25	hemp	1 hemp oil	1.5	20	25 sec	35	15	11.04	1	0.67
Brewery	13	4	4,500	75	hops, hemp	6 hemp ale	5.5	53	2 min	108	55	13.13	1	0.18
Green Brewery3	64	4	77,000	1200	hops, hemp	24 hemp ale	5.5	53	30 sec	432	379	118.91	24	4.36
Potcorn Popper	18	1	12,000	200	hemp oil, corn, time warp	6 potcorn	41.5	135	30 sec	750	615	23.15	24	0.58
Whiskey Still	24	4	35,000	500	corn, brain warp	8 pot scotch	30.0	110	1 min	1,120	1,010	54.50	30	1.00
Nacho Machine	32	4	50,000	800	hemp oil, corn, tomato	10 nachos	91.5	124	45 sec	1,500	1,376	48.37	50	0.55
Wine Maker	40	4	80,000	1,500	grapes, blackberry	6 wine	10.0	135	1 min	840	705	133.00	25	2.50
Caramel Cornifier	49	1	42,000	1,000	potcorn, sugar cane, caramelicious	6 caramel corn	120.5	285	30 sec	1,350	1,065	50.50	80	0.66
Xmas Corntraption1	19	1	$16pb	1,000	potcorn, sugar cane, caramelicious	6 caramel corn	120.5	285	20 sec	1,350	1,065	50.50	80	0.66
Brownie Oven	60	4	quest	1,600	cocoa pods, sugar cane, sweet tooth, hemp oil	6 brownies	?	?	10 min	720	?	?	525	?
Brownie Oven	100	4	75,000	1,600	cocoa pods, sugar cane, sweet tooth, hemp oil	6 brownies	?	?	10 min	720	?	?	525	?
Phat Brownie Oven	100	4	$299 pb	4,000	cocoa pods, sugar cane, sweet tooth, hemp oil	24 brownies	?	?	3 min	2880	?	?	700	?
Phat Brownie Oven	250	4	1,000,000	4,000	cocoa pods, sugar cane, sweet tooth, hemp oil	24 brownies	?	?	3 min	2880	?	?	700	?
Love Machine	5	6	2,000	100	chocolates, rose, love oil, champagne	1 sweet love	n/a	n/a	5 min	500	500	-	50	-
Love In2	58	9	55,000	1,200	chocolates, roses, love oil, champagne	10 sweet love	n/a	n/a	20 min	5,000	5,000	-	500	-
Blonde Hash Press	77	4	62,000	1,400	12 pot scotch, 1 maui waui, 1 acapulco gold	12 blonde hash	?	?	15 min	9,000	?	?	450	?

¹ The Xmas Corntraption is basically the same as the Caramel Cornifier. The only differences are that the Xmas version runs in 20 seconds versus 30 and the cost was pot bucks instead of coins. Also, the Xmas version unlocked at level 19.

² The Love In was also available for players level 3 and above for $49 pot bucks.

³ The Green Brewery was also available for players level 3 and above for $44 pot bucks.

LEGEND:

• Unlock level: the level when the contraptions becomes available to purchase.
• Space: number of spaces the contraptions take up.
• Start cost: Initial cost to buy contraptions.
• Daily income: Income earned every 24 hours just for owning contraptions.
• Ingredients: Ingredients needed in your stash to run the contraptions.
• Produces: Quantity and product produced.
• Grow time: Total hours to grow all ingredients based on consecutive growing on a single space.
• Cost to plant: Total cost to plant all ingredients. For contraptions using processed ingredients (hemp oil or potcorn), cost to plant includes cost to plant ingredients needed for the original contraption.
• Run time: Time it takes to run contraptions.
• Sale price: What you sell the processed goods for (in coins).
• Sale profit: Sale price less cost to plant ingredients.
• Hourly profit: Profit from production divided by hours to grow ingredients PLUS contraptions' daily income divided by 24 (hourly income).
• Run xp: XP earned running contraptions. (Does NOT currently include xp earned planting and harvesting the ingredients.)
• Hourly xp: XP earned per hour of ingredient grow time.

FLAWS:

It remains difficult to directly compare contraptions to seeds. It's fairly easy to replant a crop shortly after the previous one is ready to harvest, However, it's unlikely the average player will keep their contraptions running constantly 24/7, restarting every time production completes.

The xp return listed in the chart is only what the contraption itself gives. In the future, I may include the xp from planting and harvesting the ingredients, as that could make a better comparison to seeds.

Another problem is that this is all just theoretical. It doesn't necessarily address how you would actually play the game.

There are several variables that have been added to the game that are difficult to factor in. With the introduction of 2X and 3x seeds, data changes. Although grow time is the same, grow time per ingredient changes significantly. Also, many ingredients can be gifted (such as potcorn).

Lastly, with the introduction of storage, your contraptions no longer need to block you from planting your ingredients. Many people store their contraptions, grow their ingredients, then bring the contraptions out of storage when it's time to process them.

CONCLUSION:

Bottom line... it's a game to play and enjoy. If you think of it as a puzzle to be solved (like I do), hopefully the data presented here will help (or at least get you thinking). Happy harvesting!

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS:

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You can get awards (and pot bucks) for using your contraptions!

SEE CONTRAPTION AWARDS