Fruit Tree's and berries do not regrow correctly when logged off
What I did: Went to harvest my apple trees after not being logged in for well over 14 hours. After that I went to harvest my berries.
What I expected to happen: To get 6 apples per character and 4 berries.
What actually happened: One got 3 and the other got 2 apples. One character got 4 berries and the other 3.
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2009-era source (if relevant): As is discussed, the regrowth time is 40 minutes. I intensely monitored the apple trees when logged in and was given the correct amounts in roughly the same amount of time 30-40 minutes per fruit. Berries should be regrowing every 20 minutes and do when logged in and micromanaging them.
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The regrowth timer for the Apple Tree, and possibly all the other Fruit Trees, seems to be inaccurate. I timed the whiteberry bushes and exactly on the dot they respawned as they should, every 20 minutes. The Apple Tree was a different story. From the timers you can see what I've seen. It took about 50 minutes from freshly picking a tree clean to get my first fruit. Then the time from the first and second fruit was 37 minutes, and from the second to third was 40. The timer started seconds AFTER I picked a fruit.I am unsure why, outside the first apple, they are taking longer than 30 minutes to grow and seemingly at different times and am unsure how high the regrowth of fruits can be. I will try to keep track of my apple tree runs and see if I don't get six every 4 hours which would definitely indicate an issue.
It seems when a character is logged off the regrowth timer for the apple tree, and possibly other fruit trees, just shits itself. This would explain why the first time I created this issue I only got 3 fruits in 6 hours, because I spent most of the time logged off. This bug seems to extend to berry bushes.
Follow-up testing: I did two more gathering attempts. The first picture is overnight with over 12 hours of not collecting apples. The 2nd picture was after 4-5 hours of not gathering. Will post my final gathering attempt in 4-5 hours where I SHOULD have 6 apples. Seems the key is not logging in as it seems to work normally when logged in.
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