Farming & crop care

Plan a seasonal garden, water on time and keep repeat crops and perennials healthy.

Plan the season before planting

Browse the crop catalogue for sowing seasons, harvest seasons, difficulty and care. A plant that can be sown now may not bear until the following season. A season normally lasts 7 real days, and care schedules use that seven-day reference.

Crops include fruit, vegetables, herbs and other useful plants such as grains, fibres, oilseeds and rubber dandelion. Winter choices trend toward hardy plants. Some crops are annuals with one harvest; repeat producers give several harvests from a planting; perennials remain established for future productive seasons.

Prepare a bed

1. Use ground where you have the necessary property permissions.
2. Till suitable outdoor soil and obtain the correct seed.
3. Check the current sowing season and plant.
4. Open the plant's Growing information to see its stage, water and any special tasks.
5. Keep it healthy, then harvest while ripe and within its productive season.

Planters offer another growing location for suitable plants. Trees require outdoor tilled ground. A greenhouse gives sheltered, lit growing space and helps protect crops from harsh conditions; it does not turn a perennial's seasonal fruiting calendar into year-round production. Ordinary indoor rooms do not automatically provide growing light.

Water: ideal care versus survival

Each species has an ideal watering interval and a much longer dry-soil threshold. Ideal care earns better quality. Missing the ideal window is not instant death: prolonged dry soil gradually harms the plant. Hot sunshine dries outdoor soil faster; dormant roots use moisture more slowly.

Rain supplies real water to exposed beds. Shelter keeps that rain out. Filled irrigation containers can supply actual water to their connected growing areas; an empty reservoir cannot keep watering. Irrigation helps maintain care quality without requiring repeated manual watering.

Late watering does not erase a history of neglect. The crop records how much of its growth received good water and whether required tasks were missed. With the current baseline rules, perfect care can add 5% quality; persistent poor care can reduce it by up to 25%. Rain and irrigation count as care, but elapsed watering does not create character XP.

Support and pruning

Some plants need a stake or trellis. The Growing panel describes the support and its due time; installing support uses one wood plank and one yarn. Plants that need trimming use a utility knife and a species-specific pruning interval. Difficulty reflects short water intervals, support and pruning rather than a separate class restriction.

Harvests, dormancy and weather

Annuals are finished after harvest. Repeat producers remain for their listed number of harvests, with a regrowth interval between them. Perennials survive harvest and return in later productive seasons. Missing a perennial's fruit window loses the produce rather than automatically destroying the established plant.

Dormancy pauses growth and routine care demands, but roots can still dry out. Warm rain can accelerate productive growth. Very cold weather slows it severely and blizzards can stop it. The later yields of repeat crops and perennials also follow weather, shelter and season.

Use what you grow

Crop pages link to the harvested item and its recipes. Food can be cooked, grains and fibres support other crafts, and selected crops such as corn and potatoes can enter the ethanol production chain. Rubber dandelion supplies material for rubber processing. Follow each recipe's actual ingredients and station requirements.