Farming

Farming also refers to an incrementable ability.

Farming
LP Cost	-999
Skill(s) Required	Foraging
Skill(s) Enabled	Baking, Beekeeping, Cheesemaking, Deep Artifice, Gardening, Plant Lore, Sausage Making, Sewing, Winemaking, Yeomanry
Hearth Magic(s) Unlocked	None
Required By (109)	Any Flour, Any Onion, Barley Crop, Barley Flour, Bat Guano, Beer, Beetroot, Beetroot Crop, Beetroot Leaves, Black Pepper, Boiled Pepper Drupe, Butter Porridge, Carrot, Carrot Crop, Champignon, Chef's Hat, Clove of Garlic, Compost Bin, Corndolly Lantern, Crop Circle, Crying Red Onion, Crying Yellow Onion, Cucumber, Cucumber Crop, Cured Pipeweed, Dressed Lettuce, Dried Pepper Drupe, Fat-Braised Veg, Feather Garland, Flax Crop, Fresh Hemp Bud, Fresh Leaf of Pipeweed, Garlic, Garlic Crop, Giant Pumpkin, Giant Turnip, Grapes, Grapes Crop, Grass Twine, Green Kale, Green Kale Crop, Head of Lettuce, Hemp Crop, Hop Cones, Hop Garland, Hops Crop, Jack-o'-Mask, Leek, Leek Crop, Lettuce Crop, Lettuce Leaf, Metal Plow, Millet Crop, Millet Flour, Mushrooms in Jelly, Opium, Pea Crop, Peapod, Peppercorn, Peppercorn Crop, Pipestuff, Pipeweed Crop, Poppy Crop, Poppy Flower, Poppy Garland, Pumpkin Crop, Pumpkin Flesh, Pumpkin Stew, Quern, Red Onion, Red Onion Crop, Red-Shred Salad, Seeds of Barley, Seeds of Carrot, Seeds of Corn Grass, Seeds of Cucumber, Seeds of Flax, Seeds of Grape, Seeds of Green Kale, Seeds of Hemp, Seeds of Leek, Seeds of Lettuce, Seeds of Millet, Seeds of Pipeweed, Seeds of Poppy, Seeds of Pumpkin, Seeds of Turnip, Seeds of Wheat, Spicy Salad, Straw, Straw Basket, Straw Doll, Straw Hat, Straw Twine, Swill, Trellis, Tuber Mash, Turnip, Turnip Crop, Uncrushed Husk... further results
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Farming and quality of seeds

The quality of planted crops is based upon the quality of the planted seed with a [-5, +5]( [Verify]) random range limited by space, time, and the farmer's farming skill level. (needs [Verify]cation whether soil still affects crops, doesn't seem to)

• Each batch of a crop which is planted in the same area (~2 minimaps), time (~5 hours), and of the same type (carrots, peas, barley, etc), will be given the same random quality modification uniformly, and planted tiles of that batch will thus all have their qualities affected in the same way. Each of the 3 qualities has its own modifier in this way, which oscillates between two random values over the course of the 5 hours.

Harvesting is not affected by the farming skill. However, it is affected by skills that add additional seeds - Gardening, Plant Lore and Druidic Rite; you will not get additional seeds if the harvesting character lacks these skills.

Crop byproducts, like Straw or Finer Plant Fibre, are of the same quality as the planted seed.

To maximize quality gain, it is advised to do a "plant check": plant one crop and inspect it to see how the quality will change. If the change is sufficient, you can plant a whole field. Otherwise check back in a couple hours - 5 minimum [Verify]. Remember that each type of plant has its own modifier, so a bad time to plant one type of crop may be opportune for another. Doing this will consistently increase average seed quality, and thus product quality, over time.

In-Game Text

Whatered by sweat there grew,
Golden in Autumn, that Spring,
Where winds did play and hide,
In sun-kissed Wheat and Barley.

Your hands lie heavy on plow and scythe, clawing in your palms the furrows of age and hard labor. You know how to till and plow, and how to plant seeds.

What it does

Farming lets you plant and harvest crops (except grape seeds, which need Winemaking), plant trees, plow fields, mill Flour, and craft Straw Hats. You need at least 5 of the same seed to plant.

Adventure > Landscaping > Hand Plow

• Plows squares of furrowed soil that can be used to plant crops. Furrowed soil is not needed to plant trees, however. Plowing by hand uses more stamina than using the Plow item.

Build > Containers

• Straw Basket

Craft > Clothes & Equipment > Hats & Headwear

• Straw Hat

Craft > Processing & Materials

• Grind Flour

How to plant seeds

To plant seeds in a plowed field you must left click the seeds in your inventory and then right click on the plowed field you wish to plant them on. Holding down the "Shift" key takes the next item out of your inventory so you may keep on right-clicking for continuous planting. If the seeds are kept in Seedbags, the bag can be used to plant them instead of picking up each individual seed. Wait until the crops are ready and harvest. The time required depends on the type of crop and what you want to harvest from it.

Using well-placed beehives will speed up this process.

NOTE: Plowed fields will revert back to their original tile type over time. [Verify]

Seed Stacking

As of Hafen, seeds of the same crop can stack (up to 50 in the inventory, 1000 in a bucket and 10000 in a barrel) if they have the same qualities. If you mix seeds with different qualities together, using a bucket or barrel, the resulting quality is:

$qStack=\left({\frac {qSeed1+qSeed2+qSeed3...qSeedn}{n}}\right)$

This weighted mean is independent for Essence, Substance and Vitality. You can use this to raise the overall quality of your seeds of a given crop by sacrificing higher tier seeds.

About Crops

Please note this table is incomplete; information may be missing or incorrect. These values are still based on old Haven & Hearth

Crop Field	Planted with	Additional Products and Information	2 Stage	3 Stage	4 Stage
Carrot	Carrot, Carrot Seeds	Carrots (harvested based on their stage)	4 Hours	8 Hours	12 Hours
Beetroot	Beetroot	Beetroot Leaves	-	-	18 Hours
Flax	Flax Seeds	Plant Fibres	1 Day	1.5 Days	2 Days
Grapes	Grape Seeds	Grapes (result in seeds when eaten or pressed)	-	-	-
Hemp	Hemp Seeds	Plant Fibres, Fresh Hemp Bud(third stage)	-	33 hours	34 hours
Hops	Hops Cones		-	12 hours	-
Peas	Peapod		-	-	24 - 28 Hours
Peppercorn	Peppercorn		-	-	1 Day
Poppies	Poppy Seeds	Poppy Flower	-	-	-
Pumpkin	Pumpkin Seeds	Giant Pumpkin(refers Pumpkin Seeds, Pumpkin Flesh)	-	-	5-7 days
Pipeweed	Pipeweed Seeds	Fresh Leaf of Pipeweed	-	-	22 hours
Barley	Barley Seeds	Straw	1 Day	1.5 Days	2 Days
Yellow Onion	Yellow Onion		-	-	-

Notes:

• Times listed are in real-time and assume use of a Beehive.
• Stage 1 is the initial planted stage. Nothing can be done to any crop at this stage.