🔥 Silos & Silo Quests

Silos are one of the core economic sinks in Rise of Farms.

They serve three critical roles at once:

• 🧹 Remove crops from circulation (deflation)
• 📈 Convert excess production into XP
• ⚖️ Stabilize the market and leaderboard late-game

Unlike harvesting, silos are explicitly capped and non-seasonal, making them a controlled, strategic XP source rather than an infinite grind.

🌾 What Are Silos?

Each season (7 days), the game spawns 4 Silos, one per crop:

• 🥕 Carrot Silo
• 🍅 Tomato Silo
• 🌽 Corn Silo
• 🌶 Chili Silo

Players can deposit crops into the corresponding silo to earn XP.

⚠️ Important: Depositing in a silo burns the crop permanently — it is removed from the game forever. This is irreversible and the crop cannot be recovered.

Burning is permissionless: both harvested crops and market-bought crops are valid inputs.

🔁 Seasonal Reset Rules

• 1 silo per crop, per season
• Silos reset every 7 days
• Each silo has a global weekly cap
• Once a silo is full → no more deposits accepted
• First come, first served

This creates a weekly race dynamic where timing, liquidity, and coordination matter.

⚡ XP Rules

• Burning crops grants fixed XP
• Seasonal multipliers do NOT apply
• Burn XP is intentionally less efficient than harvesting
• XP is tied to the Farm NFT, like all progression

Silos are a pressure valve, not the main XP engine.

📊 XP Earned Per Burned Crop

Design target:
Burning XP ≈ 60–70% efficiency vs harvesting XP.

This ensures:

• Harvesting remains dominant for grinders
• Silos reward surplus, not lazy buying
• XP inflation stays predictable

🔥 Burn Caps (Anti-Exploitation Layer)

To prevent:

• Late-season XP bombing
• Whale-driven market distortion
• Infinite buy → burn loops

We enforce two layers of caps.

🧍 Per-Player Daily Burn Caps

This:

• Limits XP velocity
• Keeps silos competitive across the whole week
• Prevents single-wallet domination

🌍 Global Weekly Burn Caps

Once reached, the silo closes immediately for the season.

🎯 Strategic Implications

Silos are not just a button — they introduce meta decisions:

For XP Grinders

• Burn early before caps fill
• Decide when to harvest vs burn
• Optimize daily burn windows

For Traders

• Anticipate silo demand
• Front-run scarcity near cap limits
• Arbitrage crops across silos

For the Economy

• Crops gain real sink pressure
• Market prices stabilize instead of collapsing
• XP supply stays bounded and auditable

🧠 Design Philosophy

Silos are designed as:

• ❌ Not pay-to-win
• ❌ Not infinite
• ❌ Not seasonal-abusable

They are:

• ✅ A controlled XP release valve
• ✅ A deflation mechanism
• ✅ A weekly coordination game
• ✅ A late-game tension amplifier

If harvesting is labor, silos are logistics.

Both matter, but neither should dominate.

🔮 Future Extensions (Not Live Yet)

Possible evolutions we may explore:

• Silo-based weekly quests
• Dynamic XP curves near cap saturation
• Social coordination mechanics (guild burn races)

All without breaking the core guarantees: finite XP, real scarcity, and fair competition.