@blim: if you harvested the potatoes, you are done with the event. It takes about 5000 energy to complete it... Keep progressing the MAIN quests and collect plenty of ressources and cookies. Check out the wiki for info on quests.
When visiting other peoples islands, only around 15 other helping peoples actions will be shown to the visitor. so if there's plenty people someone might miss the yellow glow on crops even though they were harvested. ...in addition to that some people think it's more efficient to go for spice then anything else...
@4nehcemaj4 there is no cap. whenever you level up, you loose half the energy you had (rounded down). you may not notice when you have only 5 energy left, but even then you only get max+3 instead of max+5.
when you can cash in rock collections after building claypit, it's a bit easier to time level ups by buying wise owl/shipswheel/sandglass/cocktail table
@junior: aloes drop med packs collectables, not medipacks. they look similar and name similar, but the dropped item is only a collectable for the traveler collection
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