The Pretty Duckling - My First Pro animals

I always dream to buy Pro Animal as I would like to Breed Feed and sell it in the market. However, I don't have enough budget plus the Carrot Feed that they need to maintain the 100% health is a little bit expensive. I got enough CBX when the difficulty level went below level 1 but I prioritize buying more extracts as for more profit. I was losing hope already but suddenly they CropBytes released the details for Asset Mining 😍. And there is a new Pro Animals that will join the Pro Asset family.

First, let me talk about Asset Mining before I introduce the new family.

Asset Mining has been one of the topics in the community call and this is included on the initial whitepaper they released in Quarter 1 2022. The people in the community are guessing how the Asset Mining will look like which means that we have been waiting for this since the beginning of the year.
Asset Mining will give a capable to the farmers to generate a new supply of game asset by combining CBX and Pro Mix. Basically, the formula will be:
  
Asset mining formula: Burn (CBX + Pro Mix) + Time

Once they launch the Asset Mining, there will be 4 options on this CBX Station.

CBX Mining - Mine CBX using animal extracts

Pro Assets - Where you can burn your CBX to get your Pro Animals and Super Hero

Asset Mining - You can mine game assets

Active Mining - Where you can see all of the in-progress asset mining

As per the blog about Asset Mining. This is how the Asset Mining Flow will look like.

Also, it stated on the blog that Asset Mining is divided in V 0.5, V 1.0 and V2.0. To get more details, you can visit the blog about Asset Mining.

The Pro Mix

I mentioned about that in order to mine an asset you need CBX and Pro Mix. I know that everyone is aware that CBX is the game token or currency we are using in CropBytes. So, the question here is: What is Pro Mix?
Pro Mix can be obtained by combining Pro Extract and Fruit Feed in the kitchen.
Based on also on the Asset Mining blog that they released, this is the combination to get 10 Pro Mix:

2 Duck Egg + 20 Fruit Feed = 10 Pro Mix
1 Black Egg or 1 Pro Milk or 1 Pro Truffle + 20 Fruit Feed = 10 Pro Mix

The Duck Egg

This is the new Pro Extract that we have in CropBytes in addition to Black Egg, Pro Milk and Pro Truffle.

New Pro Extract only means that we have new Pro Animal and that is Molly.

Molly is a duck that produce 2 Duck Egg when you feed them 1 Carrot Feed and 1 Water from Monday – Saturday and 1 Fruit Feed on Sunday.

In order to get Molly, you need to burn 100 CBX. Yes, you read it correctly. It is only 100 CBX which is very affordable. They also made some changes with the price of other Pro Animals. You can see the changes with the price on this blog:

CropBytes made these changes to ensure that Pro Animals to ensure that it is accessible to everyone including the small-time farmer. In addition to these changes, they also did an airdrop for the existing Pro Animals owner which I find very fair as these farmers bought their Pro Animals at higher cost.

 

Let’s talk about my Molly..

I bought Molly earlier and I am very happy as this is the first Pro Asset I got. Though, I noticed that Duck Egg is not yet included in the ingredients for crafting Breed Feed. I am not certain if they will include Duck Egg soon but for now, we can only use Duck Egg to Pro Mix which is still sounds good to me.

Now, I have my pretty duckling Molly, I need to secure enough supply of Carrot Feed and strategize as the animal health is still applicable with our Pro Animals.

 

CropBytes continue to implement the updates they have on their pipe line. With this new Pro Animal and new use case of Pro Extracts, CBX is alive again in the market. Is this the beginning of CBX going to the moon? 🌙

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My Past, Present and Future in CropBytes

The Past

 

I discovered Crop Bytes back October 2021 when I am looking for something cool to play.To be honest, I am having some doubts to invest at first but after doing my own research and the 7 days trial, I decided to invest.

The initial invest I put on the game is 899 TRX which is 4500 PHP that time. I bought a Large Starter Pack to start with my farm. At first, I don't know what I am doing but after joining the Crop Bytes community in Telegram, I meet a lot of people that gave me tips on how to take care of my farm. The next asset I bought is the limited Small Well Pack which cost 1200 TRX. I prioritize this pack because it is for limited time only and water is essential to keep my animals' health at 100%. I was able to buy the Medium and Small Pack from the profit I got by holding the Game Coins I bought. This is one thing good about waiting 😊

The Present

 

Currently, my farm is pretty well. I was able to buy all the Limited Starter Pack that they released during sale and got some assets like P1 Hen, P1 Goat and Small Well by joining some events or CB Army missions.

Normally, I spend 15 minutes of my time to do my daily routine like feed my animals and harvest crops. One way to ensure that your farm is productive is to ensure that you feed the animals and harvest the crops on-time. In terms of managing the extracts, I read all the updates and ensure to the check the data in CBX Supply Page to see how I will get profit from the extracts. Waiting for the right time to mine CBX using my extracts or sell it on the market is good way to get profit. Then, I will reinvest the profit I got or use it to buy supplies that I need in my farm.

Another way to get profit is by trading. Crop Bytes has it's own market inside the game where you can enhance your trading skill. Actually, this is where I learn the concept of buy low, sell high 😊. I would say that I am not that good in trading that is why I am more into farming. But the basic knowledge that I have is somehow helpful when I need to buy supplies like back up feeds and water.

The Future 🌙

My farm is not yet that big and to be honest there are lot of times I would like to give up due to my busy schedule. However, I don't want to put everything into waste. Also, I have lots of assets that I wanted to get. I dream of owning a Super Hero someday or a Feed Mill.

I may don't have enough funds yet to buy those assets that I want but I have a short term and long-term goal for my farm.

Short Term - I would like to buy a Solar Panel soon and some Pro-animals. I just fulfill one of those two as I just bought the new Pro-animal that they released, Molly the Duck. I am planning to add more but need to ensure I have enough Carrot Feed for them.

Long Term - Become a Feed Mill owner and enjoy the profit from my investment I put in Crop Bytes 10 years from now. I strongly believe that the game will last that long as there are still lot of things in the whitepaper and I believe that Sandeep and his gang will continue to improve the game and find new things that will encourage the farmers to work on their farm.

Playing CropBytes is like owning a real farm. It is your responsibility as a farmer to ensure that you still monitor it progress, price of the market and what is new on the game. In addition, you also need to set plans and goals as this is really a long term investment. Being up to date with everything that is happening on the game is very helpful in coming up with good decision.

There are lot of things going on in the game right now and farmers are looking forward to this upcoming Asset Mining. I know sooner or later CBX or Crop Bytes will go to the moon 🌙

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A Time to Remember in my CropBytes Farm

 8:00 AM PH time is the equivalent of 12:00 AM in CropBytes time. I set my alarm on this time to ensure that I will not forget to feed my animals. Yes, I am a forgetful person especially I work at night and I normally sleep around 10:00 AM PH time that's why there is a big chance that I will forget to feed them.

I know you have a question in your mind if there is a chance that I forget to feed them. And the answer is YES! This the reason why I come up this kind of strategy as this incident resulted for my animal’s health to go below 100%.

Another incident that almost made my animal health below 100% is when I overlooked my Pig Shed. But I was saved by the notification from CropBytes. It is a good thing that I turned on the notification. Placement of the sheds in your farm where you can easily notice and checking if they already fed before exiting the game is something I did to ensure that this will not happen again.

Being mindful with the time is very important in playing CropBytes. There are lot of farmers that I know, who also set alarm and wake up just to harvest their crops and water which is also a good strategy to ensure that you will have enough feeds and water for your animals when you need to feed him.

Currently, I have animals inside my Hen Shed, Cow Shed, Goat Shed and Pig Shed.

Here's the animals you can find in each shed:

Hen Shed 🐔

• 16 P1 Hen

Per P1 Hen, 1 Corn Feed (Mon - Sat), 1 Fruit Feed (Sun) and 1 Water (everyday)

• 1 Red Rooster

Per Red Rooster, 4 Corn Feed (Mon - Sat), 1 Fruit Feed (Sun) and 3 Water (everyday)

Cow Shed 🐄

• 3 P1 Cow

Per P1 Cow, 5 Corn Feed (Mon - Sat), 1 Fruit Feed (Sun) and 2 Water (everyday)

Goat Shed 🐐

• 8 P1 Goat

Per P1 Goat, 3 Corn Feed (Mon - Sat), 1 Fruit Feed (Sun) and 2 Water (everyday)

•  1 Dorper Sheep

Per Dorper Sheep, 1 Corn Feed (Mon - Sat), 1 Fruit Feed (Sun) and 1 Water (everyday)

Pig Shed 🐷

• 2 P1 Pig

Per P1 Pig, 4 Corn Feed (Mon - Sat), 1 Fruit Feed (Sun) and 3 Water (everyday)

I am maintaining my animals' health at 100% always as getting my extracts every day is important. Though, as per the rule of the game, they will stop giving extracts if they went below 80% but better not to miss the chance of getting the extracts for the day.

Here are some tips that I learned to keep my animals' health at 100%.

1. Balance your farm.
Nothing is good to have a balance farm as you will not worry anything. My farm is currently not balance as I am -2 for the required weekly cord feed. That is why I always do the tip number 2

2. Be an Ant. Always buy back up feeds and water ahead of time.
The price of water and feeds are unpredictable. It might increase that is why you need to buy it when the price is at low price. Buying feeds and water when you only need it will result to get it in high price.

3. Set an alarm.
As I mentioned on the first part of this blog, setting an alarm on when you will feed your animals, harvest your crop and gather water is a good practice. This will ensure that you feed your animals daily and have the enough feed and water for them. Always remember that you still need to grind your corns to be feed so this is something you need to include with your calculations.

4. Be mindful in buying animals.
Don't buy animals if you can't feed them. It is like taking care of a pet. If you don't have enough money to keep them alive don't get one. The mistake of other players is buying lots of tradeable animals without considering how long it will stay on the sheds before they sell it.

5. If you don't have enough feeds for the week, consider the Animal Grazing option.
Good thing that CropBytes come up with this idea. This will be helpful to the players that doesn't have enough budget to buy feeds and water. Though, it has a fee but at least you will have 7 days to save some feeds and you will prevent your animal from going to below 80%

CropBytes is about timing. Yes, it is not time consuming to play but you still need to be a responsible farm owner and mindful of the time. Assume that you really own a real-life farm.

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Is My Farm Growing?

There are times that I felt like my farm is not really growing and tends to compare my farm to the farm of other players. Also, I keep on questioning my strategy to sustain the need of my farm. Why am I questioning my own strategy? Well, I will be honest but there are times that I forget to feed my animals on-time and buy back up feeds ahead of time.

Since I reported back to work onsite, finding time to monitor the market and check on my farm every hour is a challenge for me. I even missed to join lots contest or events and community call during Friday. There are times I want to give up my farm but I always find a reason to stay and continue. And what is that? The fact that CropBytes is a stable game since 2018 and sooner or later CBX value will go to the moon 🌙.

CropBytes continues to upgrade the game and there are many updates to look forward this Quarter 3 and 4 of 2022.

Here are some of the updates:

1. Asset Mining 

This is one of the things I look forward since Quarter 1. My friends in the community are guessing what it will be and they just released how the asset mining will look like.

This will be the formula of Asset Mining based on the whitepaper they released last week:

Asset mining formula: Burn (CBX + Pro Mix) + Time

Pro Mix can be produced by combining Pro-extracts from Pro-animals and Fruit feed (FRF). Yes, aside from being the key ingredient of producing Breed Feed (BF), Pro-extracts has a new use case.

Is it kind of sad that I was not able to buy Pro Animals before they do the maintenance 😔. Hopefully, I can buy one once they enable the buying or mining or Pro-assets again.

2. Assets deprecation 

There are some old assets like GC Island, Tropical Island, Gold Coins and more that they are planning to remove in the economy. Those old assets order will receive active assets in the game with worth equivalent value as a swap.

These old assets were a hot topic during the migration of Game Coin to CBX as Dev Team didn't include these old assets on the initial whitepaper. This is good news to the tenured players that owns these assets.

3. CBX Mining V2 

They are planning to release new method of CBX mining with new logic. Based on what I read on their blog, the player will have a chance to receive a bonus for mining which is something that we, players, can look forward to.

The changes will result to burn extracts and utilities and in my own opinion, this will encourage player to burn their extracts and utilities as you know we all tends to wait for difficulty level to go down below level 1.

The CBX mining V2 will also make extracts and utilities to have more use case in the as based on the blog it will be used to craft various items on the game.

4. Tokenization of assets 

They didn't provide further details about this other than the players will be able to track live mining data. Based on my understanding, it is more on monitoring the value of assets we have on the game. I might be wrong but better to wait for them to release more details as we all know that CropBytes is full of surprises.

5. More info on Service Economy and PVP Mini games

 

If you want to read more about these updates, I mentioned feel free to visit the blog below:

Roadmap Q3-Q4 2022

 

With all of these updates that they lined up, how will I not continue playing the game? I know that the value of CBX right now is not that high as it started but as long as the Dev Team is working hard to make the game economy stable, that all matters. Also, they only released 25% of what is written on the initial whitepaper that they released so they have lots of surprises to come.

Being a player or I would say a farmer in CropBytes is not easy. You are responsible of the growth of your farm and it is also your responsible to catch up with all the updates that they released, in case you missed the weekly community call.

I still have faith in the game regardless of the current value of CBX as I know this game will go to the moon 🌙.

 

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Day 283 in CropBytes

It has been 9 months and 10 days since I started playing CropBytes and I would say that I am a proud player and part of the community.

My CropBytes journey during this time is not easy as we all know that most of the time the prices of the tokens in the crypto market are in down trend. However, my faith and trust to the game gives me more confident to continue.

The Dev Team do their best to make the game more exciting and stable. The weekly community call still continues which is something I really appreciate. Though, I was not able to attend these past few weeks due to my busy schedule but I don't need to worry because they always released a blog about the topics they discussed during community call or the recoding of the community call itself.
There are lots of changes or updates that happened this month of July and here are some.

1. Power Usecase ⚡

I will be honest that I have a negative reaction as they included Small Well for those assets that need Power input for water collection as I felt like it is an additional cost for small farmer like me. But after reading the full blog about this update, it made me realize that the required 0.01 power to get 1 water is fair enough.

2. New Starter Packs

Aside from changing the price of the starter pack to USDT, CropBytes introduced these three non-tradeable animals that will join your animal gang. The three animals I am talking about is Dorper, Red Rooster and Mountain Goat
Here's the overview of the new family member of our animal shed.

Dorper Sheep (DS)

Sunday

Takes 1 FRF
Takes 1 Water 
Weekdays
Takes 1 COF
Takes 1 Water 
Gives 3 Wool per Day 

Red Rooster (RR)

Sunday 
Takes 1 FRF 
Takes 3 Water 
Weekdays
Takes 4 COF
Takes 3 Water 
Gives 1 Feather per Day 

Mountain Goat (MG)

Sunday 
Takes 1 FRF 
Takes 3 Water 
Weekdays 
Takes 5 COF 
Takes 3 Water 
Gives 2 Fur per Day 

Now you know the new family member of our animal shed. Let me now introduce the new starter pack.

Small Pack - 20 USDT

1 Small Crop Land
2 Dorper Sheep
10 Corn Seeds
10 Water
2 Corn Feed
2 Fruit Feed

Medium Pack - 35 USDT

1 Small Crop Land
1 Apple Tree
1 Red Rooster
1 Dorper Sheep
20 Corn Seeds
20 Water
5 Corn Feed
2 Fruit Feed

Large Pack - 50 USDT

1 Small Crop Land
1 Small Well
1 Apple Tree
1 Red Rooster
1 Dorper Sheep
1 Mountain Goat
50 Corn Seeds
40 Water
5 Power
10 Corn Feed
3 Fruit Feed

**Please note that the new Starter Packs are only available for new players only. They offered this new pack to all players during the first week of its launch but it is limited for 500 in each pack.

3. Market in USDT

They slowly added USDT market for all assets including extracts. So, it is up to you where to trade but TRX - CBX is still up.

4. Grease Pack

CropBytes introduced this new asset for power-generating asset like Solar Panel.
In my own opinion, this new asset balance the game since players are required to buy power in order to get water and it is only fair enough that Solar Panel and Wind Turbine owner needs a utility asset to generate Power.
The price of Grease Pack is in CBX and here's what you can get for each pack.

Small Grease Pack - 50 CBX

Medium Grease Pack - 140 CBX

Large Grease Pack - 270 CBX

5. CropBytes 3.3.1

Cropbytes just released the new app version and there are so many interesting things that I found when I updated my app.
Aside from the Grease pack and some updates with the content and notification, they also add new Seeding mini game.
The Seeding mini game is simple. You just need to shoot 20 seeds to the holes in 2 minutes. The interesting part is the one carrying the seeds is a drone. To be honest, I enjoy this mini game compare to the fishing mini game. I don't know if my skill in fishing is not good enough which is the reason why I prefer this seeding mini game lol! Hopefully, they add more mini game that will make the game more engaging.


CropBytes never fails me in terms of surprises and most of the time they are unpredictable. I am looking forward for the implementation of the things that the team lay-out on their white paper but for now, let me continue my CropBytes journey as it is time to feed my animals 😊

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Four Months CropBytes Journey

Four months ago, I decided to be part of this amazing community as I would like to put my savings in a lifetime investment.

Large starter pack is the first thing I bought for my farm. It cost 899 TRX (around 4500 php) and consists of the following: (1) Small Crop Land, (1) Apple Tree, (1) Small Well, (1) P1 Hen, (1) P1 Goat, (1) P1 Cow, (50) Corn Seeds and (40) Water.

This is something that I personally recommend if you would like to start playing the game as it has a Small Well. Although, Return of Investment (ROI) for a starter pack may take few months (appropriately six months) but if you would like to earn more in this game, you need to invest more or reinvest your earnings to keep your farm from growing.
 
The initial Total Value Asset of my farm started at 1441.57 TRX

And in 4 months, Total Value Asset of my farm is currently at 12640.11 TRX

 
What is the secret of my farm?
 
1. Always ensure that you visit your farm every day.

It will only take less than 5 minutes to feed your animals. However, you still need to visit it from time to time and check if it is time to harvest your crops for grinding or fetch some water in your Well so it will continue to generate water.
It is part of CropBytes game economics and most of the player even set an alarm to ensure that they are harvesting their crops and collect utilities on-time.

 
2. Buy back-up feeds for emergency.

Grinding is a process wherein you put your harvested crops or fruits into the Feed Mill and it will turn to feeds that can be consumed by your animals on the shed.
It is a best practice to buy some back up feeds as there are some instances that it will take one to two days to complete a grinding process.
Buying feeds ahead of time will help you to buy it in a cheaper price and ensure that your animals is well fed daily.

 
3. Be active in CropBytes activities and events.

Being active in CropBytes activities and events will help you to grow your farm as they give good prices for the assets.
I won in several events and was able to get prices like CBX token, P1 hens, P1 goats, Small Crop Land and Apple Tree.
Also, joining CB Army will give you lots of opportunity to earn rewards which I experienced a lot of times. You can check the link below:

Join CB Army

4. Re-invest instead of Take Profit

There are lots of instances wherein I can get a huge profit but instead of getting 100% profit from it, I re-invest 75% of my profit to a tradeable assets or limited packs.
Recently, CropBytes released limited packs like Grower Packs, Fruit Pack, Animal Pack and Booster Pack which really helps me to balance my farm.
Now, I don't need to worry that I will not have enough water and feeds for my animals.

5. Don't be discouraged with the current value of CBX as sooner or later it will go to the moon.

Seeing the value of CBX in a down trend is kind of alarming or can cause worry to the players. This is normal in Crypto world and instead of worrying you can grab this opportunity to buy token and hold it until the price go up. Based on my experience in the game, CBX value increased whenever there is an activity or events in the game.

In addition, the game is still in progress in developing all the functions and use cases of the assets and there are lot of things to look forward in the game like the PVP of Super Heroes, mini games and etc.

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