Farming

Farming is a skill in which you plant seeds in farm plots, wait for them to grow in real time, and harvest the mature crops. Growth continues while you are doing other things and while you are offline, making farming a low-attention way to earn crop Items and Farming experience alongside your active skill.

Farm plots

Farming happens in farm plots, which are unlocked by the Farmland structure on your Homestead. You start with 2 plots and gain 1 more per Farmland level, up to 10 plots at Farmland level 8. Each plot can grow one crop at a time, so more plots let you run more crops in parallel. The last two plots (9 and 10) sit behind late Farmland tiers gated on Moonstone and Echo Shard.

How to plant and harvest

Choose an empty plot and plant a seed for a crop you meet the Farming level requirement for.
The crop grows over a fixed real-time period (see Crops). Growth carries on in the background and offline.
Once mature, harvest the plot to collect the crop yield plus Farming experience — or click Harvest all to collect every ready plot in one go.
Harvesting has a chance to return some of the seeds you planted, softening the seed cost. The chance starts at 55% for the earliest crops, steps down to 50% through the mid-game, and settles at 45% for the highest-tier crops — see the exact per-crop rate on Crops.
Longer-growing crops award proportionally more experience, so slow crops still pay fairly for the wait.
Empty plots remember the last crop grown there — a one-tap " Replant" button re-sows it instantly (as long as you have the seeds), so you don't have to re-pick your crop every harvest. Replant all does the same for every empty plot at once.
Changed your mind mid-grow? A growing plot has a two-click Uproot button that clears it. Uprooting destroys everything — the crop, its seed, and any compost — so it takes a confirming second click; mature and empty plots ignore it.

Auto-replant

At Farming level 25, every plot gains an auto toggle. Switch it on and a mature plot harvests and instantly replants itself with the same crop, repeating for as long as elapsed time, seeds, and bank space allow. This is what lets a single plot chain through many grow-harvest-replant cycles across a long offline stretch instead of growing once and then sitting ready until you return — it only stops (leaving the plot waiting for you) once it runs out of seed for that crop.

Growth and yield boosts

Crop grow times are fixed, but a few things push them along:

Growth Tonic — +15% crop growth speed for 30 minutes.
Farmhand's Philtre — +12% Farming speed for 15 minutes; since Farming has no other action to speed up, this also shortens crop growth.
Verdant Elixir — doesn't speed growth at all; instead it adds +1 crop to every harvest for 30 minutes.
Compost — convert 4 units of any one harvested crop into 1 Compost, then spend it at planting time for −10% growth time and +1 yield on that single cycle only.

All three tonics are brewed at Alchemy; see Tonics for the full brew list. Certain Weather patterns and Farming pets can also speed growth, stacking on top of any active tonic. These are all optional — a plot left alone still matures on its own fixed clock, online or offline.

Seeds

Seeds are the input for farming. They can drop while gathering and from other activities, and most crops' seeds — Gourd through Frostgourd — can also be bought from the Shop when your luck runs dry. The five highest-tier crops (Emberling Pumpkin and above) are drop-only; the Shop never stocks their seeds. Because harvesting often returns seeds, an established plot can become close to self-sustaining.

What crops feed into

Harvested crops are used as goods and materials elsewhere in the game:

Sold at the Trading Post, where crops make up a large share of the tradeable goods.
Counted toward Contracts — no turn-in needed; the Harvest Writ pays 8 Fang Marks for 30 harvests of any crop.
Eaten directly for HP, cooked into dishes, or fed to herbivores in Taming — see Food. Also an ingredient in Cooking and Alchemy recipes and other crafted Items.

Related pages

Crops — full table of crops, grow times, yields and level requirements
Homestead — the Farmland structure that unlocks plots
Shop — seeds for most crops, plus other supplies