Talk:Raspberry/@comment-124.217.85.197-20100420061529/@comment-65.96.230.69-20100904120238

Raspberries give no xp, but for ANY crop you can count the XP you gained to plow the plot you planted the crop on. So for example Strawberries gives you 1 XP for planting, but you got 1 for plowing as well, so that's 2 XP for every patch of strawberries.

Therefore, for raspberries, you got 1 XP for every plot (just for the plowing.) If you think about it, given that raspberries mature in 2 hours, in a single day you could theoretically plow and harvest your whole farm 12 times, and therefore earn 12 XP per farm plot. There are very few crops that have that sort of XP payoff.

If you work it out per hour, raspberries earns half an XP per hour (0.5 xp). That puts it in an exclusive club with Clover, Blueberries, Blackberries, and Strawberries which all have the same XP payoff. No other crops earn as much XP per hour.

And once you master raspberries, it becomes a 1 XP per hour crop. That's pretty huge.

It's precisely because raspberries is such a short term crop that there are no XP's for planting it, just the plowing XP's.

Find any crop which offers "more XP" than raspberries, and it probably works out to be worse over time. For example, peas may earn you 4 XP per plot (counting the plowing XP), and that sounds great, but because they take a day to mature, they only work out to about 0.167 xp per hour... if you are looking for experience points, raspberries are THREE TIMES better than peas.