Peanut request from farm visitors

Peanuts seem to follow rules of their own, perhaps since they are not actually harvested off the tree, but collected from the squirrels in a limited supply. In the past peanuts have been in the middle of the list of my silo items and visitors still would ask for them. Any other silo item you can collect 100's if not 1000's at a time, but peanuts have a time constraint with the speed of squirrel production.
They also give extremely generous rewards from townies. And I think are the only item that Farm visitors pay more then what the max RSS price is.

Thanks for the history lesson, never knew they had introduced something that had no use in the game once collected, actually made me laugh a bit. I've never had a visitor ask for honeycomb yet, but I rarely have much extra kicking around, I have high double digit stock of honey atm so I'm going to hold off on production and see if I can get a visitor to ask for it, will be interesting to see what value they place on them.

I'm pretty sure farm visitors pay more for peanuts then RSS max price.
Hoping to get one to ask for some tonight.

So visitor offered 2603/10 peanuts MP is 2340 on RSS.
I'm going to search some screen shots to find a x2 offer from the past.
If I had to guess it should be 5206/10 during event.

Found an old x2 screen shot, visitor pays 5208/10 during the event. 



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I had pretty long observations on my two farms to not understand anything about this mystery again.

I rejected requests from only one visitor with crop requests (on the second farm they rarely asked products instead).
First farm: peanuts-2nd place (about 800) in the silo, and visitors ask for cotton(1st)(2100) and indigo(3rd)(700), once was request for tomatoes (4th)(600). Peanuts showed up in the second request, then only for 28th time, then for 10th time, now it's 30th and no requests for peanuts.
Second farm: peanuts(6th)(50) were already in request, then rejected, and showed up for 18th time (requests for strawberry(1st)(140) and sugarcane (2nd)(80) only, once for pies)), then peanuts on 5th, 4th, 2nd,1st place, now it's 36th time, no peanuts. Once peanuts were on 1st, and request was not for 2nd, 3rd but for 4th-sugarcane.

I couldn't understand any correlation.
I remember, in the double coins event, this long waiting and very rarely I had two or even three peanuts requests pretty quickly. In this event quantity and places of crops in the silo change quickly but behavior is similar as I had on first farm during observation.

Peanuts had + 122% profit in the event so I like to sell them but it's hard compared to other crops.

Visitors seem to stop asking for peanuts when my stock is 65 (silo capacity = 6500).

Thank you sunnyphenix for conducting the experiment. I haven't been playing much these last days to observe visitors request, although they stop asking for peanuts now (I have around 65-66 only, and other crops at 100+).

A few hypothesis I have in mind:
- % of silo size (which doesn't make much sense for me, could be just coincidence)
- a minimum number of peanuts once reached, visitor would ask for peanuts, this could depend on farm level
- it was just a secret peanuts seasons and now it stopped


Hay Day regularly has maintenance on monday during which changes could be made. Maybe the right person read our posts?

When I thought peanuts season is over, Saturday peanuts season strikes again i the morning when I woke up :

Request for peanuts twice in a row 42 then 48 peanuts bags (peanuts is ranked 10+ ish in silo).

This Hay Day mystery is too funny

Current many days visitor event helped me to see a solution of the mystery.
Peanuts are considered as a barn product, not a silo storage crop in visitor requests.

When peanuts quantity has 1st or 2nd place if we correlate it with the position of the products in the barn we'll get peanuts request pretty soon. From barn product oriented visitor.

We also get peanuts requests from silo storage crop oriented visitor because it's a usual thing they sometimes switch to barn product request and if peanuts yet again has 1st or 2nd place towards the barn visitor may ask for them.

Because of that I saw my peanuts requests so rare. Coincidence was rare when peanuts quantity exceeded first two places in the barn and also I work with silo visitors generally.

4 examples for better visual explanation:
on the first image I chose screenshots where peanuts have 1st place if consider its quantity towards the barn,

1)request from upper part, I have 10 peanuts (34th place in silo but silo place doesn't matter), visitor could ask for peanuts (1st place towards the barn) or chocolate pie (I have 9 of them in the barn, 1st place in the barn in fact but 2nd if we consider peanuts)
2)request from bottom part, visitor could ask for peanuts or snack mix



on the second image I chose screenshots where peanuts have 2nd place if consider its quantity towards the barn,

1)request from upper part, visitor could ask for milk or peanuts
2)request from bottom part, visitor could ask for chocolate pie or peanuts.



In all cases silo visitor with cucumber request was staying on the farm, I worked with barn visitor to check many more requests than I showed on the images.

It was interesting to me to know profit for peanut products during double coins visitor event. Here's a table for it (profit percentage compared to price in roadside shop, not taking into account cost of included in product another products and crops).
Counting method
(cost of certain amount of product or crop offered by visitors during event x 100 / cost of the same amount in roadside shop) - 100 
*numbers may differ by tenths for different quantity of product/crop in requests

Update 1:
For example, price for peanuts in roadside shop is 2340 coins for 10 items and during event visitor offer 5208 coins for the same quantity so we have ≈122,...% of profit selling them to visitor.
By the way it turns out that it's still a little more profitable to sell peanuts to farm visitors even not in the event. Compared to roadside shop price we have ≈11,...% of profit.
Update 2:
Ernest and Rose stocks must be taken into account. Visitors consider a total number of what we have, Ernest and Rose stocks including.
For example, for peanuts request. If I have peanuts 13, wool 8 (1st place in the barn in fact) and brown sugar 4 (6th place in the barn) visitor will ask for peanuts or brown sugar if Ernest has brown sugar 6 (10 in total that moves brown sugar to 2nd place in the barn by visitor's coded eyes) and Rose doesn't have any wool.
Update 3:
I forgot to mention that we already knew but need to say this again. Visitors may ask for items that have 1st or 2nd place and items we don't have at all (quantity=0).

I don’t check the farmhouse beggars too often, but during the event I did check because the silo was staying full.

This peanut offer came up:

ClassyCats, you reminded me of what I wanted to mention but forgot.
That Ernest and Rose stocks must be taken into account. Visitors consider a total number of what we have, Ernest and Rose stocks including as you said.

For example, for peanuts request. If I have peanuts 13, wool 8 (1st place in the barn in fact) and brown sugar 4 (6th place in the barn) visitor will ask for peanuts or brown sugar if Ernest has brown sugar 6 (10 in total that moves brown sugar to 2nd place in the barn by visitor's coded eyes) and Rose doesn't have any wool.
Edit: Also we need to remember that visitors may ask for items that have 1st or 2nd place and items we don't have at all (quantity=0).

donkeyfan, yes, Frog started interesting investigation and it's great to understand this mystery finally. Thanks to my decision to check another peanut things profit and lucky peanuts quantity I had I could notice appearance of peanuts requests for barn visitors. And a guess has come that became a solution at last.

Peanuts collecting is a thing to me I don't do specially so it's just good to earn extra coins during this event. Barn is much more occupied building to me and for silo storage (capacity 10850 on my main farm) it's easier to accumulate stocks during usual gaming. I calculated peanuts and snack mix profit a long time ago so I just buy peanuts in newspaper when I see them and produce snack mix because it has easy components and by good fortune the highest profit of another peanut products.
I had almost 2000 peanuts at the start of event. And during it I earned extra money which is always good to have
This is first requests.

I'm glad you find my explanation good because I tried to do it simple to understand, thank you   

ClassyCats, I understand   My Rose now rest but I saw how insistently visitor can ask for milk while I want to sell him or her a second item. I can imagine how it gets more difficult to manage requests with sum in the main barn and Rose and Ernest storage.

Thank you and good luck with your visitors

sunnyphoenix, what a great detective work!

I'm very impressed and the more I think about why and how it could be the case, I am convinced you are right. Peanuts bags is considered by farm visitors as a barn product.

This must be related to where peanuts come from and it sounds logical to me, programming wise.

Thanks myself for raising the question and thanks everyone for supporting this thread .