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Dates
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Dates are a tasty fruit produced by Date Palm trees.
Source
Before a Date Palm will produce dates, the tree must first be fertilized by applying 1 saltpeter. After a while, a number of dates will ripen, which can be harvested by anyone carrying saltpeter.
The menu shown on the Palm Tree is:
- Gather Dates and Fertilize with Saltpeter
Upon harvesting the dates, the saltpeter is automatically applied to the tree.
Purpose
Dates can be cooked in a Kitchen as an ingredient in meals. They are also used to make the ambrosia for Ra in the Test of Festivals, and to build a living land tower for the Test of Towers.
Observations
I've got date yields as high as 17 from one tree at a time. However, yields of one or two are more common. If there is a pattern, I have been unable to determine it. JulianJaynes 14:32, 19 April 2009 (EST)
I can't confirm this 100%, but I believe it takes 2 hours for the first date to appear after fertilizing it. If you check, after the initial 2 hours, there will only be one date. But the longer (after the 2 hours), the more dates appear. In other words, the longer they remain unharvested, the more dates that keep adding to the tree's inventory. I checked at 1 hour and 1.5 hours, no dates. But there was 1 date after 2 hours... ~Cegaiel
I was making a circuit of the same 6 date trees about every hour and a half (real time) and some trees would have immature dates and some would have dates ready for picking. Yield was anywhere between 1 and 20, even with minimal time between fertilizing and harvesting. -Detour, Sept 2010.
