UOAlive Day 59: The Greenhouse & Plant Emporium

 

The Greenhouse & Plant Emporium on UOAlive

I've been a treasure map fiend over the past several days. Such a fiend, in fact, that I've ended up with over two million gold. That's more than enough to place a third castle... in fact I've been wanting to set up a greenhouse that's meant exclusively to grow and sell plants. Hmmm....

In the end I went ahead and placed the castle. In a worst case scenario, I'll decide this was a bad idea, take everything out of the castle, and tear it down, in which case I'm only out time. A lot of time. It took me about 12 hours to finalize this design, and I still managed to not include everything I wanted. There were a few places where I wanted to add some window 'boxes' to place some campions, but I immediately placed down my unused garden beds and filled them with plants so I guess this is the final design.

The first floor will be the main floor. The first room you go into, at the top left, will be the vendor set up. I intend to separate out each vendor by plant type, then separated further by 'plain/dull' and 'bright' varieties. There are additional vendor spots for more vendors for me to add as I see the need, whether for natural dyes or plant resources. The room behind the vendor room will be my storage for the entire house. It'll house backup stock, seeds, and resources, as well as any additional stuff I may find I need as time goes on.

The entire rest of the house is exclusively designated for raised garden beds. If you look in the picture above, the golden circles in the white floor section are where I've already planned out some garden beds.

The rest of the house is much the same. I went for a very aesthetic look, simply because I didn't want to stare at a borg cube for the rest of my time playing here and using this as a greenhouse, but at its core everything is designed with function in mind.

Any suspicious 3x3 or 2x3 tiles are where I've specifically planned for garden beds to go.

In all, I have specific places planned out for 98 raised garden beds. There's plenty of space for more garden beds, but that will be a ways down the line before I ever reach that point. If I ever reach that point hehe.

As a part of adding to my garden bed collection, I went ahead and spent 4000 Sovereign points (received by turning in Kudos and/or completing achievements) on six garden beds. I've been letting my sovereigns build up as I can't think of anything I want to get with them at the moment, so I figured a little boost towards my plant growing desires won't go awry.

Technically it's 'cheaper' to spend gold on individual raised garden beds from the magical stone exchange, but my bank is tapped and these sovereigns were free for just being logged into the game. After this I'm probably going to hold onto my sovereigns for other things I can only buy on the UO Store, but this is a nice fallback if I need a few garden beds and don't have the gold to buy them.