Farming Guide by aussiebeast
Getting Started
Farming is one of the easiest skills to level up, but be warned, it gets very expensive as you progress through the levels. The demand for seeds makes them a much sought after resource. So if you plan to work on farming but not woodcutting, prepare to outlay a lot of gold.
Once you have a house, equip your spade and you are ready to prepare your farmland. Click the "Player house" link in the town menu, then click "Check your farmland". You will be presented with the option to purchase farmland. You start off preparing 25 slots, but this can be progressively upgraded to 400 slots. See the table below for costs.
| Slots | Pre-requisite | Upgrade cost (gp) | Total cost (gp) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | House | 750 | 750 |
| 50 | 25 farm slots | 1,500 | 2,250 |
| 100 | 50 farm slots | 3,000 | 5,250 |
| 200 | 100 farm slots | 6,000 | 11,250 |
| 400 | 200 farm slots | 12,000 | 23,250 |
| 800 | 400 farm slots | 24,000 | 47,250 |
Note: The 800 slot farm is not available yet. It may be implemented with future updates.
Note: A spade is NOT required to plant or harvest your crops, it is only required to prepare you first farm slots, or to upgrade you existing farmland.
Obtaining Seeds
There are a number of ways to obtain seeds:
1. Woodcutting at all forests (See woodcutting guide)
2. Creature drops in combat
3. From chests/gifts
4. From NPC's in certain special events
Initially the easiest way to get seeds is woodcutting. In the tables below are the different locations you can work at, and the seed types and at which forests to obtain them.
| Level | Exp/Chop | Wood/Chop | Seed Types | Seed Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 1-2 | Beet, Carrot |   |
| 15 | 22 | 1-3 | Beet, Cabbage, Onion |   |
| 25 | 30 | 1-3 | Grain, Tomato, Corn |    |
| 40 (poor) | 65 | 1-3 | Grain, Strawberry, Green Pepper |   |
| 40 (rich) | 65 | 1-6 | Grain, Strawberry, Green Pepper |  |
| 55 | 130 | 1-10 | Green Pepper, Spinach, Eggplant, Pumpkin, Apple |     |
| 55 | 155 | 1-10 | Tomato, Hop, Strawberry, Apple, Peach, Orange, Watermelon |        |
| 75 | 275 | 4-15 | Pear, Broccoli, Peach, Orange |     |
| 100 | 400 | 4-20 | Pineapple, Watermelon, Vervefruit, Fruit of Life |     |
| 120 | ? | 5-50 | Orange, Fruit of life, Turnip, Grapefruit |    |
Note:
- The Outlands has a much higher seed drop rate than any other forest, but chop there at your own risk!
- Bonewood Forest is ONLY available to pirates
- Some forests require quests to access
- Some locations have auto attacks along the way there
Locations
| City | Island | Level | Accesibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tutorial 5 | Tutorial Island | Level 1 | Only during the tutorial |
| Isri | Remer Island | Level 1 | Non-pirates only |
| Webbed Forest | Webbers Island | Level 1 | Non-pirates only |
| Bonewood | Skull Island | Level 1 | Pirates only |
| Outlands 21 | The Outlands | Level 1 | PvP is on |
| Outlands 89 | The Outlands | Level 1 | PvP is on |
| Jungles Edge | Serpenthelm | Level 1 | All players |
| Lemo Woods | Dearn Island | Level 15 | Non-pirates only |
| Silk Woods | Webbers Island | Level 15 | Non-pirates only |
| Unera | Dearn Island | Level 25 | Non-pirates only |
| Avinin | Exrollia | Level 40 (poor) | All players |
| Penteza Forest | Elven Island | Level 40 (rich) | All players |
| Outlands 52 | The Outlands | Level 55 | PvP is on |
| Aloria | Kanzo Island | Level 55 | Quest required to access |
| Kingswood Forest | Calmere Island | Level 55 | All players |
| Khaya | Anasco Island | Level 75 | All players |
| Ammon | Anasco Island | Level 100 | Quest required to access |
| Tirnus Plateau | Calmere Island | Level 120 | Quest required to access Tirnus Caves. Auto attacks in Caves. |
Planting Your Seeds
Spades
| Image | Item | Level Required |
|---|---|---|
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Spade | 1 |
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Candy Cane Spade | 1 |
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Bone Spade | 1 |
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Skeletal Spade | 1 |
To begin growing your own food, you must make sure of the following:
- You are at your house with the farmland you prepared
- You farmland has sufficient room for the seeds you intend to plant
- The seeds must be in your inventory
Click the "Player house" link in the town menu, click "Check your farmland". Above your farmland you will see the options to plant those seeds you currently have in your inventory. Simply type in the number of seeds into the box corresponding to the seed type you wish to plant, then click "Plant".
You do NOT have to fill all farm slots at once with one type of seed, you can plant mixed crops, as long as the total does not exceed the number of farm slots you have at that farm. You can NOT plant more seeds of one type if you don't have them in your inventory.
The larger the crop the more time it takes to both plant and harvest, though there is a reduction in planting and harvesting times with each level you gain. By carefully planning when you plant and using the growing times in the table below, you should be able to have your crops ready to harvest when you are online, or have the best chance of harvesting the full crop.
Now you can work on something else while you wait for your crops to grow!
| Image | Req lvl | Seed | Growing Hours (Average) | Experience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
  |
1 | Radish Seeds | 16 Hours | 1 |
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2 | Beet Seeds | 16 Hours | 1 |
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4 | Carrot Seeds | 28 Hours | 2 |
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7 | Cabbage Seeds | 34 Hours | 3 |
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11 | Onion Seeds | 38 Hours | 5 |
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14 | Grain Seeds* | 41 Hours | 7 |
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17 | Tomato Seeds | 49 Hours | 9 |
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20 | Corn Seeds | 55 Hours | 13 |
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25 | Strawberry Seeds | 65 Hours | 17 |
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25 | Hop Seeds | ? Hours | 18 |
  |
29 | Green Pepper Seeds | 68 Hours | 19 |
  |
34 | Spinach Seeds | 59 Hours | 23 |
  |
39 | Eggplant Seeds | 78 Hours | 27 |
  |
43 | Cucumber Seeds | 95 Hours | 31 |
  |
48 | Pumpkin Seeds | 92 Hours | 35 |
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52 | Apple Seeds | 95 Hours | 38 |
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57 | Pear Seeds | 79 Hours | 42 |
  |
63 | Broccoli Seeds | 97 Hours | 45 |
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66 | Peach Seeds | 109 Hours | 48 |
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71 | Orange Seeds | 104 Hours | 51 |
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78 | Plum Seeds* | 86 Hours | 54 |
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84 | Avocado Seeds | 129 Hours | 57 |
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89 | Pineapple Seeds | 104 Hours | 61 |
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92 | Watermelon Seeds | 149 Hours | 64 |
  |
97 | Vervefruit Seeds | 152 Hours | 70 |
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100 | Fruit Of Life Seeds | 153 Hours | 100 |
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105 | Turnip Seeds | 163 Hours | 125 |
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115 | Grapefruit Seeds | 179 Hours | 150 |
*Grain and Plums can be cooked.
Harvesting
To check if your grown vegetable/fruit is ready for harvest, check your farmland and when you hover over the farm slots, if the pointer changes to a hand, click and you will start harvesting your crops.
If you have planted different types of seeds, or smaller lots of the same seed type, you do NOT harvest ALL seeds when only one lot is ready.
There is a possibility of gaining more ripe vegetable/fruit when harvesting though there is no way of knowing when it will happen. The downside to farming is, you can lose crops if you leave them ripe in the ground too long. You will only receive 1xp for every ripe grown vegetable/fruit you pick. Once harvested, your grown vegetables/fruit do NOT rot. They "remain" as fresh as the day you harvested them!
Common Questions Answered
Q. Can I build houses with farms anywhere?
A. No. Certain islands have restrictions on where a house can be built. Exrollia and Calmere have 2 locations each where a houses can be built. Houses cannot be built on Webbers or in the Outlands. (PS. One player managed to do it before [M2H] removed it and disabled that option)
Q. Is it possible to build farmland on a Clan Stockhouse?
A. No. Farms are for personal use only.
Q. Does preparing my house with farmland give me farming experience?
A. No.
Q. Do I need a spade equipped to plant or harvest my seeds?
A. No. A spade is only used to prepare or increase your farmland, after that you do not need a spade for farming.
Q. Why can't I plant hops seeds, I have farmland?
A. Hop seeds can ONLY be planted at Morrie Fields, and the grown are inedible
Q. Can I plant different seeds types in one farm?
A. Yes you can plant different seed types in one farm, as long as you have enough farm slots to accommodate the TOTAL number you wish to plant
Q. If I do plant different types of seeds in the one farm, will they all be ready at the same time?
A. No. Each seed type will be ready according to its own growing time. You may need to check back several times to harvest them all.
Q. My crops aren't ready. The table says the growing hours are completed.
A. The Growing hours listed in the table above is not the definite time the crops will be ready to harvest. It is based on the average growing time taken over of a large number of crops grown.
Q. Oh, so it is only an average time. How will I know for sure exactly when my crops will be ready?
A. The short answer is... you won't. The "window" is a +/- number of hours from the average growing time. This +/- increases with each seed type. As you work on your farming, you will be able to determine the min/max growing range for your crops.
Q. Why did I get a reduction in grown crops, while others of the same type planted about the same time are not yet ready to harvest?
A. Refer to the 2 questions above. There is no way to accurately work out when a crop is ready or when it starts reducing. From my understanding, that is random. But in saying that, I have noticed that recently losses have been MUCH fewer, that is due to checking them more regularly. So be prepared to check your farms a few times!
Q. How long before my crops fully rot?
A. There is no easy explanation for this. Obviously crops can't stay "ripe" forever, but how long they can be "ready" before they fully rot appears to be a random time after they are ready. I'd suggest not leaving it longer than 12 hours for the lower seeds, and not longer than 24 hours for the higher seeds. This is an estimation based on my experience only.
Q. Why can't I plant 800 seeds in one farm when it is listed above?
A. 800 slot houses were considered by M2H and Hazgod many years ago. Moving forward, developers are still contemplating introducing them in future updates. So for now, you can't plant 800 seeds in one farm.