Guide to Farming

If you're a soilbride or soilson, you've just come to possession of a farm on the outskirts of Rockhill in a state of disrepair. How can you bring your farm up to working order again? Worry not, this guide will see you exporting bountiful quantities of grain and fruit in no time.

Equipment

In your farm, you will find several tools:

• A plough. It prepares and makes furrows in the soil for planting seeds, but only when the blade is aligned with the direction you're pulling it in (i.e. east and west). Pulling it makes you tired, but you can alleviate this by hooking it up to a gote.
• A shovel. Picking it up, wielding it with both hands, and using it on the earth with Scoop intent will either clear the soil and make it suitable for crops, or dig a small hole.
• A hoe. Used to remove weeds from your crops.
• A thresher. Wield in both hands and Strike your finished crops to generate seeds from them. A rock also serves the purpose of a thresher in a pinch. You also need to Thresh wheat chaff to make grain fit for flour.
• A pitchfork, for picking up large quantities of crops or flipping your compost.
• A sickle, used to harvest plants quicker.
• A compost bin, used for fertilizing your crops. You can add pretty much any natural product to the compost bin to produce compost, and you can mix it by flipping it with a pitchfork (or your hands). Natural products include:
  • Ash
  • Branches
  • Old produce
  • Cloth
  • Fibers
  • Thorns

You also have a cart, which you can click-drag stuff into to fill a cart with for easy hauling. It's also probably a good idea to sew a bag to pick up your various bounties easier.

Note that carts and bags will not keep your crops from rotting, but crates and wicker baskets will.

Planting Step-by-Step

1. Take your plow or hook it up to a gote.
2. Till the soil in rows.
3. If it's your first crop of the week, take compost from the bin using a pitchfork and add it to your tilled rows.
4. Go back over the tilled soil to make furrows.
5. Put seeds in the furrows.
6. Water or fertilize soil based on need.
7. Harvest produce with a sickle.
8. Strike the produce with a thresher to get more seeds.
9. Water or fertilize plants as needed.

Plant Needs

Your plants need nutrition in the form of fertilizer to reach maturity, and they also need a certain amount of nutrition to produce crops after they've matured. This varies from plant to plant, and can be referenced in the chart of plants below.

Some plants are needier than others; wheat and potatoes are hardier and require less fertilizer and water than apples and pears, for example.

You can check on your crops by examining the plant itself. On examine, you'll receive a message that the plant looks hungry or thirsty, or that it has weeds. Occasionally, you should go and use a hoe on your crops to remove the weeds, or your crops will die.

Also, don't step on your crops! It will slowly kill them.

Using Your Crops

You're not the only one who needs a healthy supply of grain; the castle's kitchens, the inn, and the townspeople will all have need of your produce. Load up the cart with some sacks of grain, and walk around selling your wares! How much you want to charge is up to you, although it's recommended you don't cause a bread riot by charging twenty zenarii per sack (unless, of course, that's what you want to do).

Some of your crops can also be distilled into alcohol by putting them in a barrel and waiting for a bit. You'll hear a bubbling noise when the alcohol is fermented.

List of Plants

Plant	Yield per Crop	Time to Maturity (minutes)	Time to Produce (minutes)	Nutrition for Maturity	Nutrition for Produce	Can Live Without Water	Multiple Harvests	Distill Result
Wheat	3-6	5	3	Average	Tiny	Yes	No	Beer
Oats	3-6	5	2	Average	Tiny	Yes	No	Ale
Potato	3-5	4	2	Small	Tiny	No	No	Voddena
Apple	2-3	6	3	Demanding	Small	No	Yes	Cider
Turnip	5-7	5	2	Small	Tiny	No	No	N/A
Onion	3-4	6	3	Average	Small	No	No	Onion beer
Cabbage	2-3	4	2	Small	Small	No	No	N/A
Pear	2-3	6	3	Demanding	Small	No	Yes	Cider
Westleach	3-6	6	3	Average	Tiny	Yes	No	N/A
Swampweed	3-5	6	3	Average	Tiny	Yes	No	N/A
Berry	3-4	6	3	Demanding	Small	Yes	YesNo	Jackberry wine
Poison berry	3-4	6	3	Average	Tiny	No	YesNo	N/A
Sunflower	3-4	4	2	Small	Tiny	Yes	No	N/A
Fyritius flower	1-3	6	3	Average	Tiny	No	No	N/A