Rusty’s Retirement – Berries Guide (Cost / Production)

A quick guide to everything you need to know about berries in Rusty’s Retirement game.

Guide to Berries

By CloneOrNot.

How to collect berries?

Berries are only collected by the berrie bot found on the same tab as the berrie bushes.

Do berries need water?

No

Are they destroyed after production?

No

What is the effect of butterflies on berries?

Each time a butterfly targets a bush, the grow time of the bush will be reduced by 5 seconds.

Examples (based on tests with blueberry bushes):

How to get butterflies?

8 Butterflies can be spawned via the butterfly cage. Additionally butterflys spawn from Splunks house, but these seem to stick to the house constatly.

AI of Butterflies Explained

Butterflies can move to bushes and (decorative) flowers.

For there movement the following is true:

• They will try and cycle between flowers and bushes.
• If there are no bushes or flowers (depending on the current action in the cycle) a random location is choosen which is at max 3×3 fields away.
• If they pick the same bush/ flower after each other, they will instead pick a random location.
• At each plant they will wait between 5-12 seconds.
• For each tile between them an there target they need around 6.6 seconds.

What is the effect of bees on berries?

They most likely follow a logic similar to the butterflys. For more information on bees see Bulb Hives guide.

Efficiency of Layouts

The following are estimates and very simplistic examples:

…is bettter then:

Average random move distance < Average distance to flowers.

…is equal to:

Average random move distance = Average distance to flowers.

Butterfly Cage

Cost / Production

Visual Representation of Berries

• Blueberries

• Raspberries

• Blackcurrant

• Cranbarries

• Red Gooseberries

• Blackberries

• Boysenberries

• Strawberries

• Cloudberries