Farming

Farming is the skill associated with planting, growing, and harvesting crops on your farm. It's one of the main income sources for the game, and provides ingredients for cooking.

When harvesting, you can stand in the center of a 3x3 square of harvestable crops and hold the right mouse button, then move the mouse over the crops to harvest more quickly.

To plant crops players must first till a patch of soil using a hoe. If they intend to use Basic Fertilizer or Quality Fertilizer that should be applied before planting the seed. The crop must be watered each day to grow, unless it is raining (when they'll require no watering).

If the player fails to water crops for a day, the crop will not die, but will not grow that day (effectively being delayed a day).

Farming Skill

The farming skill level can be viewed in the skill tab of the pause menu. Each level grants +1 proficiency to the Hoe and Watering Can, which reduces the energy cost of using the tools. Higher farming skill also increases the chance to obtain quality crops.

Levels are gained by harvesting Crops, petting farm animals, milking cows or goats, shearing sheep, and picking up animal products inside a coop or barn (eggs, duck feathers, wool, rabbit's feet).

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
Crafting Recipes:	Crafting Recipes:	Crafting / Cooking Recipes:	Crafting Recipes:	Choose a Profession:
Scarecrow Basic Fertilizer	Mayonnaise Machine Stone Fence Sprinkler	Bee House Speed-Gro Farmer's Lunch	Preserves Jar Basic Retaining Soil Iron Fence	Rancher Animal products worth 20% more.	Tiller Crops worth 10% more. (Bonus applies to all Vegetables and Flowers, plus any Fruit that has not been foraged)
Level 6	Level 7	Level 8	Level 9	Level 10
Crafting Recipes:	Crafting Recipes:	Crafting Recipes:	Crafting Recipes:	Rancher:	Tiller:
Cheese Press Hardwood Fence Quality Sprinkler	Loom Quality Retaining Soil	Oil Maker Keg Deluxe Speed-Gro	Seed Maker Iridium Sprinkler Quality Fertilizer	Coopmaster Befriend coop animals quicker. Incubation time (for Incubator and Ostrich Incubator) cut in half. (Also improves coop product quality, see details here)	Artisan Artisan goods (wine, cheese, oil, etc.) worth 40% more. (Note that oil does not actually benefit from the Artisan Profession)
				Shepherd Befriend barn animals quicker. Sheep produce wool faster. (Also improves barn product quality, see details here)	Agriculturist All crops grow 10% faster.

Quality Crop Frequency

First the game tests if the crop gets gold quality, if it doesn't it tries again with silver quality. If both fail the crop is normal quality. Quality is also dependent on the usage of Fertilizer.

The formula for finding a gold quality crop is 1% + 2% per farming level, up to a maximum of 21% at level 10. The formula for finding a silver quality crop is 2% + 4% per level, up to a maximum of 42% at level 10, though the game must first fail to award a gold quality crop before it will check to award a silver quality crop, so the chances for a silver quality are slightly reduced. This leads to the following distribution:

Normal soil

Farming level	% Regular quality	% Silver quality	% Gold quality	Average price
0	97%	2%	1%	1.01
1	91%	6%	3%	1.03
2	85%	10%	5%	1.05
3	80%	13%	7%	1.07
4	75%	16%	9%	1.09
5	69%	20%	11%	1.10
6	64%	23%	13%	1.12
7	60%	25%	15%	1.14
8	55%	28%	17%	1.16
9	50%	31%	19%	1.17
10	46%	33%	21%	1.19
11	42%	35%	23%	1.20
12	38%	37%	25%	1.22
13	34%	39%	27%	1.23
14	30%	41%	29%	1.25

Soil with basic fertilizer

Farming level	% Regular quality	% Silver quality	% Gold quality	Average price
0	88%	8%	4%	1.04
1	77%	15%	8%	1.08
2	68%	20%	12%	1.11
3	59%	26%	15%	1.14
4	50%	31%	19%	1.17
5	42%	35%	23%	1.20
6	35%	39%	26%	1.23
7	28%	42%	30%	1.25
8	22%	44%	34%	1.28
9	16%	47%	37%	1.30
10	15%	44%	41%	1.32
11	14%	41%	45%	1.33
12	13%	39%	48%	1.34
13	12%	36%	52%	1.35
14	11%	33%	56%	1.36

Soil with quality fertilizer

Farming level	% Regular quality	% Silver quality	% Gold quality	Average price
0	78%	14%	8%	1.07
1	64%	23%	13%	1.12
2	52%	30%	18%	1.17
3	40%	36%	24%	1.21
4	30%	41%	29%	1.25
5	21%	45%	34%	1.28
6	15%	45%	40%	1.31
7	14%	41%	45%	1.33
8	13%	37%	50%	1.34
9	11%	33%	56%	1.36
10	10%	29%	61%	1.38
11	9%	25%	66%	1.39
12	7%	21%	72%	1.41
13	6%	17%	77%	1.43
14	4%	13%	82%	1.44

Proficiency

The player's farming skill increases proficiency in use of the Watering Can and Hoe, and that skill is reflected in a reduced energy consumption with each use. The reduction is 5% (one twentieth) per skill level.

The game does not display fractional amounts, and rounds to whole numbers there, but it retains the fractions internally, so two charges cost 3 energy points instead of 4, even if that is not always immediately visible precisely. At farming skill level 10, then, the reduction is 50% (one half).

Experience Points

The amount of experience gained from harvesting crops varies from crop to crop, with slower growing and more expensive crops giving more experience upon harvest. Crops that yield multiple produce per harvest, such as blueberry, cranberry, or potato, only reward experience for the first product and do not offer any extra experience for the multiples.

Petting a farm animal, milking a cow or goat, shearing a sheep, or picking up an animal product inside a coop or barn gives 5 experience points each. (Picking up Truffles gives Foraging experience rather than Farming experience.)

To level up farming from level 0 to 1, it takes 12 parsnips, or 8 potatoes, or 5 cauliflowers. From level 0 to 2, it takes about 48 parsnips, or 28 potatoes, or 17 cauliflower plants.

Crop	Exp per harvest	Crop	Exp per harvest	Crop	Exp per harvest	Crop	Exp per harvest
Coffee Bean	4	Hops	6	Wheat	6*	Tulips	7
Parsnip	8	Green Bean	9	Hot Pepper	9	Blue Jazz	10
Corn	10	Garlic	12	Tomato	12	Eggplant	12
Potato	14	Blueberry	14	Bok Choy	14	Grape	14
Sunflower	14	Radish	15	Summer Spangle	15	Beet	16
Kale	17*	Strawberries	18	Cranberries	19	Poppy	20
Amaranth	21*	Artichoke	22	Yam	22	Cauliflower	23
Rhubarb	26	Melon	27	Red Cabbage	28	Fairy Rose	29
Pumpkin	31	Ancient Fruit	43	Starfruit	44	Sweet Gem Berry	64

* Due to a bug with scythe harvesting, these crops don't give any experience points.

The experience points awarded are calculated using the formula XP=||16 × ln(0.018 × PRICE + 1)|| with PRICE being the selling price of the crop's item. Experience is based on selling value, but gold and silver stars do not increase the experience value of harvested crops.

Harvesting forageable plants grown on the farm counts as 3 foraging experience points per plant rather than farming experience points.

Experience level is increased after sleeping.

Lvl	Total Lifetime Parsnips Harvested	Experience
1	13	100
2	48	380
3	97	770
4	163	1300
5	269	2150
6	413	3300
7	600	4800
8	863	6900
9	1250	10000
10	1875	15000

History

• 1.0: Introduced.
• 1.1: Adjusted Rancher bonus to 20%, up from 10%, Artisan now increases the value of Artisan Goods by 40%, down from 50%
• 1.2: Farming level now affects crop yield prior to level 10.