Talk:Village/@comment-9531161-20140315164650

I'm adding bushes as a fast-paced partner to tree growing. Trees take 4 days to grow, and produce fruit worth 500 (which might increase) every 2 days. Not too bad, but bushes grow in just a day, and produce berries worth 200 every day. Not only that, but you can grow bushes as soon as you get a shovel, because one of the NPCs (Singh, the Sudoku guy) will now give you berries for puzzles instead of random natural stuff. Because of the fast growth and berry reproduction rate, you can get a berry farm off the ground in just a few days as opposed to tree farms which take ages. However, in the end, trees are still worth more per cell, as you basically make 250 per day vs 200 with berries. I might increase the value of tree fruit to make the difference even more pronounced. Hopefully this will solve some of the slow start problems in Village.

As an added bonus, bushes won't show up on the map, and can't be walked through. That means that you can make mazes and stuff if you wanted to. Just note that the bushes are small; they're not those large square bushes that make walls. But you can still make mazes, and mazes are cool, right?