Donut Maker Madness

I don’t have it yet so I’m not sure how long the production times are, but what I think I’ll do it make a queue full of the base ones first, then make one of everything (so the visitors don’t keep asking for them) and then make a whole bunch of the base ones again interspersed with a few of the longer types at the end of the queue, then keep repeating that process until I have enough of each. (Holy run-on sentence batman!).

I'm planning to start with a target of 20 base donuts and 10 of each of the others, then see if it needs to be adjusted over time.

Thanks for your ideas shepherdgirl going to give this a go today. Much appreciated

the times are
Plain donut 15 minutes
Crunchy donut 3o minutes
Cream donut 25 minutes
Sprinkled donut 20 minutes
Bacon donut 30 minutes
Filled donut 35 minutes

Hope this information helps. 

just want to give a shout out thanks to all the friendly help 

I cheated shamelessly.  I’m waiting for the doughnut machine to unlock in due course, but I used one of my free Toms and had him running all day for the new products.  That’s my base. 😁 Told you.  Cheated.  Shamelessly. 

(To cure my fullbarnitis, I opened land that didn’t need certificates.) 

I bought the donut maker, it’s not ready yet. I think I’m going to use a Tom voucher from the farm pass. I’ll purchase 9 of each, possibly 18 or more base donuts. That’s what I usually do, when there’s a new machine in the new updates.

Like Bostongirl, while waiting for the Donut maker to be built I used Tom on both my farms to get donuts, and gave him shorter naps too!, but I don’t consider that cheating, lol

I got some of each type of donut but got extra of the bacon and filled donuts, because I expect the bottleneck for me will be the other ingredients required for those two donuts in particular, rather than time and sugar required for the plain donut. (RD3KNIGHT’s video informed me that three bacon and 1 syrup are required for the bacon donut and that raspberry jam is required for the filled donut). 

I couldn’t wait either, so opened the donut machine early, making just base donuts. I also opened all the production slots. Meanwhile, i had a free Tom and free Tom speedup, so had twelve hours of Tom on the hour (I used a timer), so I could get all the complicated donuts, 9 of each. I got a few types with 18 donuts from Tom, with others that I made from the base donuts as they became available. 18 is my base number for most products, so this worked great. I’ll have to see how much the game requests donuts, and will adjust my donut stock up or down.

I’m able to sell a few each day, but not many so far. Tom is my strategy for most new products! I had stockpiled sugar, so was able to make cotton candy on my own.

With no Tom, I’m not sure what I would have done, as the need for base donuts is huge, or so it feels so me.

I think my donut maker has run full tilt 24/7 since I opened it! It has a few of the specialty donuts in it, which slows it down, but especially in the day time here I find I have to make the base donuts as soon as a slot opens up. But I have helped a few of my lower level neighbors who have requested specialty donuts in their towns. I like doing that. It may take us a while before we see what the real donut needs are. Meanwhile, we make lots of base donuts! 

I'm waiting patiently till the donut maker is ready. This will be tomorrow early in the morning. In a few days we will able to manage offer and demand.

Luckily I have a babyfarm with level 85 which saves me of running short in cacao. I'm now very glad that I started my babyfarm a half year later after my main farm. That has often proven to be very helpful.

I run 3 farms most of the time. 2 supporting my main farm. And main farm is broke, now that I bought the donutmaker.... 😂

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Hi 🌼GymGirl🌺

In general you're right saying that it's hard to run more than one farm at once. But I think it depends how many time you can spend. If you are working for a living for example, time is limited, that's clear.

I'm in a situation which is very comfortable. Since 3 years I mustn't work any more, I am in early retirement. So I'm able to spend so much time as I want to administer my farms.

Donkeyfan, Farmgirl you are both  more than welcome to come and sort my farm out for me, get it decorated nicely 😀

I am retired also but still find that life is busy.  I enjoy my activities and usually farm a couple if times a day but often not for long periods.
The baby farm was really only started for certain things so I don’t worry too much about it.

I used a free Tom booster to get filled doughnuts and bacon doughnuts before my donut maker was ready because I had a townie request for them.

I bought the 2nd sugar mill but did not open more slots.

When my doughnut maker was ready yesterday morning, I opened 5 slots and made plain doughnuts all day, then crunchy, cream and bacon doughnuts over night. This morning back to plain doughnuts for one cycle, then queue up the crunchy, cream, and bacon.

I started an alternating method.  For every “flavored” donut made, the next one is a base donut.  Seems to be working pretty well so far.