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Crops and the farm.
Till the soil with a hoe, plant a seed and wait. Twenty-two crops grow on the home planet, each in its own seasons, and the better you look after them the better the harvest.
Planting
- Use a Hoe on grass, loam or other soil to turn it into tilled soil.
- Right click the tilled soil with a seed in your hand to plant it. Potatoes and rice are planted as they are.
- Wait. Each crop grows through eight stages, and shows a new look at each step.
- Break the ripe crop to harvest it. Some crops then grow back, and others must be planted again.
Wild Seeds, which you may find, turn into a crop that grows wild in the biome where you plant them. Seeds out of the sun turn into glowcaps.
Growing speed
A crop grows fastest when three things line up:
- Water: fresh water within four blocks, rain on open ground, a watering can, or a sprinkler. Watered soil grows crops at full speed, dry soil at half, and dry soil in a drought at a quarter.
- Light: most crops want daylight. Glowcaps and mushrooms grow only out of the sun.
- Season: each crop has seasons it loves. In its own season it grows at full speed. Out of season it creeps along at about three-tenths of the speed. Hardy crops ease through winter at about half speed.
Frost slows open fields, and a greenhouse protects crops from it. See seasons, trees and the farm year.
The crops
Minutes are the time from seed to ripe on watered soil in good light and in season. Harvest is the number of pieces a ripe plant gives, and a hoe finds one more. Price is the marks each plain piece is worth at the farm stand.
| Crop | Minutes to ripe | Harvest | Seeds back | Seasons | Bears again | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat | 5 | 2 to 4 | 1 to 2 | Spring, Summer, Autumn | No | 2 |
| Potato | 6 | 2 to 4 | None: the harvest is the seed | Spring, Autumn | No | 2 |
| Carrot | 4 | 1 to 3 | 1 to 2 | Spring, Autumn, Winter (hardy) | No | 2 |
| Tomato | 6 | 2 to 4 | 1 to 2 | Summer, Autumn | No | 3 |
| Pumpkin | 8 | 1 to 2 | 1 to 3 | Summer, Autumn | No | 6 |
| Rice | 6 | 3 to 5 | None | Spring, Summer. Needs watered soil | No | 3 |
| Flax | 5 | 2 to 4 | 1 to 2 | Spring, Summer | No | 3 |
| Glowcap | 5 | 1 to 3 | 1 to 2 | All seasons. Grows out of the sun only | No | 5 |
| Strawberry | 5 | 2 to 4 | 1 | Spring, Summer | Yes more minutes | 4 |
| Blueberry | 8 | 3 to 5 | 1 | Summer, Autumn | Yes | 4 |
| Corn | 8 | 2 to 3 | 1 to 2 | Summer, Autumn | No | 3 |
| Grapes | 10 | 3 to 5 | 1 | Summer, Autumn | Yes | 5 |
| Coffee | 10 | 2 to 4 | 1 | Summer, Autumn | Yes | 6 |
| Cotton | 7 | 2 to 4 | 1 to 2 | Summer, Autumn | No | 4 |
| Sugar Cane | 6 | 2 to 4 | 1 | Spring, Summer. Needs watered soil | Yes | 3 |
| Mushroom | 4 | 2 to 4 | 1 to 2 | All seasons. Grows out of the sun only | No | 4 |
| Basil | 3 | 2 to 3 | 1 to 2 | Spring, Summer | No | 3 |
| Mint | 3 | 2 to 4 | 1 to 2 | All seasons (hardy) | Yes | 3 |
| Cabbage | 6 | 1 to 2 | 1 to 2 | Spring, Autumn, Winter (hardy) | No | 4 |
| Chilli | 6 | 2 to 4 | 1 | Summer | Yes | 4 |
| Sunflower | 7 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | Summer, Autumn | No | 4 |
| Melon | 9 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | Summer | No | 8 |
"Bears again" means that after picking, the plant drops back to an earlier stage and grows its next harvest without being replanted. Berry bushes, vines and coffee are the usual examples. A plant that bears again is not dug up by a held button: crouch to dig one up.
Quality
Each harvested piece comes out plain, Silver or Golden. The score comes from how the plant was looked after:
- How much of its growing time it spent on watered soil (the largest part)
- Fertiliser given to it, up to three applications
- Growing in its own season, or under glass
- Not being pecked by crows
- A Green Thumb buff, which also adds a little
A piece of Silver is worth half again as much as a plain one at the stand, and a Golden piece two and a half times as much. Silver and Golden goods also make the best dishes. A Compost Bin, made from Wood, produces the best fertiliser for Golden harvests.
Bonus harvest
- Breaking a ripe crop with a hoe in your hand gives one more piece.
- A plant that was fertilised twice or more gives one more.
- A Green Thumb buff gives one more.
- Fruit trees of the same kind planted close together, three or more within nine blocks, give one more and better quality.
Trees
Saplings grow into fruit trees: apples, cherries, peaches and lemons. Each fruits in its own season, and a grown tree keeps putting fruit out. See seasons, trees and the farm year.
Protecting your crops
- Scarecrow: keeps crows off ripe crops within eight blocks.
- Sprinkler: waters a five-by-five patch round it, day and night. A Quality Sprinkler waters a seven-by-seven patch.
- Greenhouse Kit: builds a glass house with a door on level ground. Crops under glass grow in any season and are safe from frost.
Crows will peck at a ripe crop nobody has picked, and if it is left too long they take it, and the plant drops back to about half growth. Keep a scarecrow near your fields.
For the farm buildings and their prices, see farm recipes and prices.
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