Welcome the Ranch Rush 2 walkthrough on Gamezebo. Ranch Rush 2 is a time management and strategy game created by FreshGames. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide on how to complete Ranch Rush 2.
Welcome the Ranch Rush 2 walkthrough on Gamezebo. Ranch Rush 2 is a time management and strategy game created by FreshGames. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide on how to complete Ranch Rush 2.
The farm that Sara built in Ranch Rush 1 has become so big and popular that Sara has been swamped in paperwork and never has time to leave her office and actually enjoy the farm anymore. Jim suggests a vacation on a tropical island, to get away from it all. But you know Sara! She can’t help herself and buys a plot of land on the island to start a new tropical farm! Help Sara and her pet monkey Coco build a new farm and fill the orders of her demanding customers.
Like with many farming games, you need to plant and harvest crops to order. As the game progresses, you will also need to buy and feed farm animals to produce things like milk and wool, and operate machines to bake pies and make juice etc.
You will start in casual mode, which gives you plenty of time to fill all your orders. Halfway through the game, expert and free play modes are unlocked. Expert mode is much harder – the orders are much bigger and you get less time to complete them. The same strategies apply as for casual mode. Free play is a continuous game during which you keep getting new orders as you complete them.
At the start of each day you will get a list of items that you will need to produce before the timer for that day runs out. Unlike some other time management games, you will not get several time levels to get silver or gold stars, but just one time – if you don’t complete within that time, you will have to restart the day. However, when you replay a day you will start out with your farm as you left it after your failed attempt.
You will get a warning when you have 2 minutes left and another when you have 1 minute left, and you will hear a ticking sound counting down the last 30 seconds of the day.
The more time you have left, the more money and bonus coins you will receive. Money is needed to buy new materials. Coins are required to win trophies and achievements, and you can buy décor upgrades for your farm with them.
You can plan as many moves as you like in advance. Right click on your mouse to cancel all planned moves. This may come in handy if you spot a good moment to collect milk or eggs, for example. Note that if you make a mistake, for example, Sara is carrying a crate of produce that you’ve forgotten to use before moving on to another task, Sara will follow all your clicks without being able to execute the task until she can offload the crate.
You can pause the game by hitting the move, buy, or sell buttons at the bottom right of your window. This will allow you to take stock of the situation and figure out what needs to be done next without any time passing.
During the day, first work on the things that take the longest to produce. For example, for a gift basket you first need to feed the peacock and harvest its feathers, and you need to bake fruit rolls to go in the basket. Then make sure all your machines are working at full capacity and your animals are all fed so they produce their materials. Only when everything is whirring, start harvesting your simple crops, starting with the ones that grow the slowest.
The trick to this game is planning ahead. Before you start your day, have a good look at the list for tomorrow. Then when you’re nearly finished with your orders for today, leave one order open, for example just 1 wildflower, and get ready for the next day’s orders. Get your machines to produce as many products as they can for tomorrow’s, and make sure that their storage trays are also filled up. Similarly, pre-produce as many animal materials as possible and make sure your animals are fully fed. Then when your timer nearly runs out, fill your final order.
On Fridays, produce as many as possible of your most expensive products for market day the next day.
To plant crops, buy patches of soil and bags of seeds. Click on the bag of seeds and then on an empty patch to plant the crops. Initially, Sara will only be able to carry one seed at a time, so you have to click on the bag and then on the soil for each crop you want to plant. However, on the Friday of week 5 you will be able to buy a seed bag upgrade, meaning that Sara will be able to carry 3 seeds of the same type at once. Click on the bag 3 times and then on 3 patches of soil to plant 3 crops.
Sometimes your crops will need watering, which is indicated with a blue water drop symbol. Click on the well and then on the crop to water it. Do this fast, as crops will die when they’re not watered. Crops will flash red when they’re close to dying. Sara can only water one plant at once. On the Wednesday of week 6 you will be able to buy the sprinkler upgrade. Plants immediately surrounding a sprinkler will never need to be watered manually.
Your crops can also get infested with insects, which will kill them if you don’t spray the insects. Click on the can of bug spray and then on the plant. On the Monday of week 8 you will be able to buy the pest sprinkler upgrade, meaning all your sprinklers will water and spray insects at the same time.
When crops are fully grown, click on the stack of crates and then on the plant to harvest it. Then click on the barn to drop off your produce. Each time you bring your produce to the barn, it will be deducted from your to do list at the top of the screen. At first, Sara will be able to carry 3 items at one time. Later on in the game you will be able to buy a crates upgrade, after which Sara will be able to carry 5 items.
Re-plant crops as soon as you can after a crop has died or has been depleted.
Animals need to be fed to produce their materials. Goats will feed themselves by going to the wildflower fields, but the other animals need to be fed manually. The monkeys will wander into your banana fields and eat your bananas if you don’t feed them by the tree.
In general, animals will tell you how much food they require for their next production. However, their food trays can hold 3 lots of food at once, and it’s generally a good idea to just keep feeding them 3 lots of food at a time. This way, they will often produce their next lot of materials without you having to feed them again. The only exception is the peacocks, as they require different foods each time and you can’t anticipate what they want next. So just feed them to order.
Each animal can hold 3 lots of their materials in their pens before you have to collect them and bring them to the barn. Only goats can only hold one lot of milk. It is therefore a good idea to place storage trays near the goats, so they can keep producing milk without you having to bring any to the barn. When the pens are full, they will not produce any more until you bring the materials to the barn.
Llamas need to be clipped and peacocks need to be plucked before they will go on producing their next materials.
At various stages in the game you will need to buy machines to produce a yet greater variety of products. Some machines, like the juicer, only need one type of raw material, others need a combination of materials to produce their items. Each machine will have storage trays that can hold three of each raw material. They are also able to hold 3 lots of finished product. Machines will stop producing when their product tray is full.
Sometimes machines break down and need to be fixed. To do this, click on the toolbox and then on the machine.
When organizing your farm, try and make the routes Sara has to walk as short as possible by placing related items close together. For example, place your crates, well and insect spray close to your crops. Place animals near the crops on which they are fed and the machines near the crops or other raw products they require.
If you have groups of machines at some distance from each other, make sure a tool kit is near each group.
Also note that Sara can walk through crop fields, but has to walk around animals and machines, so make sure she can get to items easily. Don’t place animals or machines too close to the shore, or she will have to walk around them to collect the crabs. Also pay attention that your bridges aren’t blocked.
You can reorganize your farm at any point during the game, even halfway through a day if you like. I am constantly reorganizing in between levels to get the fastest possible layout for that level.
There are many ways in which you can organize your farm – find something that works well for you. An example of a final farm layout is shown in the image below.
Saturdays are market days, in which you get a set amount of time to earn as much money as possible. It pays to make sure your farm is well stocked on expensive products on Fridays before your timer runs out. That way, you can instantly start selling expensive products on market day. You will receive 15 coins for each $250 earned at the market.
Sundays are fishing days. To catch fish, click your mouse to lower your lure. When it hits a fish, it will come up automatically. You can also click your mouse again to manually reel in your lure. When you’ve caught a fish, make sure it lands in your boat to get the coin rewards.
When you’ve caught certain numbers of fish, you will get a bigger lure that you can use to catch bigger fish. Each time you get a new lure, a treasure will appear on the seabed, which you can catch in the same way as your fish and which will give you extra coins. When your lure hits a fish that is too big for it, you will lose your lure and wait a few seconds before you get a new one.
There are other perils, too. Swordfish will cut your line when they cross it and you will have to wait for a new lure. Stingrays will give you an electric shock for a few seconds.
There are 19 trophies you can win, and there’s a long list of achievements in your to do list, all of which are self explanatory. It isn’t possible to get all trophies and achievements during one game, but they will keep adding up when you start a new farm as the same user.
WF – wildflowers
Bn – bananas
Cc – coconuts
PG – pomegranates
Cr – crabs
M – milk
J – juice
Sc – sugarcane
W – wool
O – oranges
FR – fruit roll
AB – acai berries
IC – ice creams
E – eggs
P – pineapple
CP – coconut pie
PF – peacock feather
GB – gift basket
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On market day, first sell your stored juices and coconuts, and any milk you may have stored. Then focus on harvesting the sugarcanes, making sure to collect any additional juice, milk and coconuts as they come available.
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