An important concept for every player to learn is the limitations placed on the number of seeds and tools available in the shops on your home island. Once you buy all of the stock for a particular item, you will not be able to buy any more until you pay for a Restock, which requires certain resources.
You can view the stock amounts for your shops at https://sfl.world/stock/ (Enter your Farm ID). These amounts are influenced by the buildings and other boosts you have built so far.
Every crop, fruit, flower, and greenhouse plant has a limited stock of seeds. Once these are used up, you will need to pay for the Market Restock, which costs 15 Gems and will replenish every seed in the above category by the maximum amount. This means that if the stock limit is exceeded, the extra seeds will be lost. For example, if your stock limit of Sunflowers is 1000 seeds, and you buy 500, then Restock, you have 1000 seeds added to your market. The other 500 are essentially lost.
You can increase the amount of every seed you receive per Restock by 20% through building the Warehouse on your farm.
The Crime Fruit skill increases the restock amount of Tomato and Lemon seeds by +10. The Fruity Heaven skill decreases the Coin cost of all fruit seeds by 10%
The Flower Sale skill decreases the price of flower seeds by 20%.
The Seedy Business skill decreases the cost of greenhouse seeds by 15%.
Axes, Pickaxes, Stone Pickaxes, Iron Pickaxes, Gold Pickaxes, Oil Drills, Fishing Rods, and Nets (an item previously used by Social Farming) are all replenished by the Workbench Restock.
You can increase the amount of every workbench tool by 50% by building and placing the Toolshed on your farm.
The More Axes skill increases the amount of that tool by +50.
The More Picks skill increases the amount of every type of pickaxe by a large amount.
Sand Shovels and Sand Drills are covered under the Digging Restock. There are no items or skills which increase the stock of digging tools at this time.
For every Restock type, you must have run out of at least one of the items in the shop before the Restock button will become available.
Every day, a small ship will appear below your island, which will add a few tools (including Sand Shovels), basic and medium crop seeds to your stock. This does not cost any Gems.
Only available at the Farmer's Market. This option costs 15 Gems, and replenishes the stock for all of your crops, fruits, flowers, and greenhouse goods.
Only available at the Workbench. This option costs 10 Gems, and replenishes the stock of all the tools available there.
Only available from Jafar at the Beach. This option costs 5 gems to give you 50 Sand Shovels and 10 Sand Drills.
For 20 Gems, you can restock every item across all three stores: seeds, workbench and digging. This is available at any of the three shops. While this is clearly the most economical option, it should only be considered when you are running low on multiple categories of items.
While it may seem like the best choice to just buy up everything in the store before paying for a Full Restock, you must keep in mind that there are not only shop limits, but inventory limits also. You cannot hold more than a certain number of each seed and tool (it's unlikely that you'll hit your inventory limit on tools, though, since they are harder to come by.
So why don't you just wait until you've used up every re-stockable item before buying another one? As you progress in the game and start buying cheaper resources like Sunflowers and Potatoes, you will find yourself not growing those crops at all, and therefore always having more than you need on hand. Or, you will follow the usual progression of Axes, Pickaxes, but then buy rods and shovels instead of Stone Pickaxes to get Iron. Then you run out of Pickaxes and can't mine Stone at all.
Then it's time for a Restock. You could clear out the shop and build up inventory before buying it, but that can use up Coins very quickly. It's difficult to give a clear strategy when it comes to this situation, since everyone's play styles are so different, but it is clear that trying to only Restock when the shops are completely empty is not really feasible. You will start “overflowing” items, and it is up to you if you want to wait and use up as much as you can before a Restock, or just go ahead and keep playing the way you want.
Restocks were previously paid for using a resource called Block Bucks. These could only be bought with MATIC/POL, or a debit/credit card, not SFL (the precursor to FLOWER). This made the game completely not free-to-play, as you could not buy a restock without paying money of some kind, and without a restock, you could not progress. Now, it is technically possible to earn enough FLOWER through the Marketplace and buy Gems for Restocks, but only if you have invested enough in your farm and character to be able to turn a profit in the first place.
With Block Bucks, there was only one option to Restock, equivalent to the Full Restock available today. This was one of the reasons that Gems were introduced, as a Restock cost 1 Block Buck, and they could not be subdivided. With Gems, multiple Restock options could be made available for smaller amounts of value.
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