Farming and crops

Crops

Every seed you can plant, what it gives and the weather it needs. Growing time is real minutes at full speed in open ground; a crop stops growing below its minimum temperature, grows at full speed from its best temperature upward, and is killed by frost at or below its frost limit.

Seed	Harvest	Grow time	Yield min	Yield max	Min temp	Best from	Heat stress above	Frost limit	Water need	Bears again	Fits a bed
Cucumber Seeds	Cucumber	42 min	4	8	15 °C	25 °C	35 °C	0 °C	High	No	Yes
Herb Seeds	Wild Herbs	45 min	4	8	6 °C	18 °C	34 °C	-3 °C	Low	No	Yes
Carrot Seeds	Carrot	50 min	3	5	4 °C	15 °C	30 °C	-4 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Seed Peas	Pea Pods	50 min	3	6	4 °C	16 °C	28 °C	-4 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Eggplant Seeds	Eggplant	56 min	2	4	16 °C	26 °C	36 °C	0 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Onion Sets	Onion	60 min	3	5	4 °C	15 °C	32 °C	-4 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Seed Potatoes	Potato	60 min	3	6	5 °C	15 °C	30 °C	-1 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Watermelon Seeds	Watermelon	64 min	1	2	18 °C	28 °C	38 °C	0 °C	High	No	Yes
Chili Seeds	Chili Peppers	65 min	3	6	12 °C	24 °C	36 °C	0 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Seed Barley	Barley	68 min	2	4	3 °C	17 °C	32 °C	-8 °C	Low	No	Yes
Strawberry Runners	Strawberries	68 min	2	4	8 °C	20 °C	32 °C	-8 °C	High	Yes	Yes
Sunflower Seed	Sunflower Head	68 min	1	2	8 °C	24 °C	36 °C	-2 °C	Low	No	Yes
Berry Cuttings	Wild Berries	70 min	3	6	5 °C	18 °C	34 °C	-15 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Tomato Seeds	Tomato	70 min	3	6	10 °C	22 °C	35 °C	0 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Corn Seeds	Corn Cob	75 min	2	4	10 °C	24 °C	38 °C	0 °C	High	No	Yes
Cabbage Seeds	Cabbage	80 min	1	2	4 °C	15 °C	28 °C	-6 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Hop Rhizome	Hop Cones	90 min	2	4	6 °C	20 °C	34 °C	-20 °C	High	Yes	No
Seed Wheat	Wheat Sheaf	90 min	4	8	3 °C	18 °C	34 °C	-8 °C	Low	No	Yes
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin	110 min	1	2	10 °C	22 °C	35 °C	0 °C	High	No	Yes
Cotton Seed	Cotton Bolls	120 min	3	6	15 °C	27 °C	38 °C	0 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Aloe Pup	Aloe Leaf	150 min	2	4	10 °C	24 °C	40 °C	-2 °C	Low	Yes	Yes
Apple Sapling	Apple	180 min	5	10	5 °C	18 °C	34 °C	-25 °C	Normal	No	Yes
Papaya Seedling	Papaya	200 min	3	6	16 °C	27 °C	38 °C	0 °C	Normal	Yes	No

Above its heat stress temperature a crop grows at 33% speed. Frost kills a crop after 30 minutes at or below its frost limit.

A crop with a high water need grows at 50% speed while dry and withers after 8 hours without water. A crop with a low water need gets no bonus from watering and no penalty for going dry.

Crops that bear again stay in the ground after a harvest and regrow from part of the way, so the next harvest comes sooner.

A greenhouse keeps the air inside 8 °C warmer and its crops grow x1.1 faster, but no rain gets in, so you water them yourself.

Growing rules

The numbers behind watering, feeding, beds and weeds. They apply to every crop in the table above.

Dirty water and river water are fine for watering crops and for a drip line.

Feeds, sprays and mulch

What you can put on a crop or a bed. A sack, bag or bottle holds several doses; each use takes one dose and the container gets lighter until it is empty.

Item	Type	Doses	One dose	Effect
Fertilizer	Feed	40	50 g	Moves one crop 20% of the way to harvest.
Bone Meal	Feed	8	50 g	Moves one crop 20% of the way to harvest.
Compost	Feed	1	One shovelful	Moves one crop 20% of the way to harvest.
Vinegar Weed Spray	Weed spray	4	250 ml	Kills weeds under 60% of full size and burns bigger ones back to 30% of their size. No new weeds come up for 4 hours, while the crops grow at 90% speed.
Weed Killer Concentrate	Weed spray	10	100 ml	Kills every weed in the bed. No new weeds come up for 12 hours, with no harm to the crops.
Straw	Mulch	1	2 per bed	Cuts new weeds to 25% and makes a watering last x1.3 as long. It rots away after 12 hours.

When you carry several feeds, the one listed first is used first.

Beds and planters

Garden pieces you can build and how many plants each holds. Crops in any of them grow x1.35 faster than in open ground and can be planted closer together.

Piece	Plants	Most weeds	Can stand indoors	Health
Long Planting Bed	16	8	Yes	400
Raised Garden Bed	15	8	No	400
Planting Frame	12	6	No	350
Square Garden Bed	9	5	No	350
Plank Trough Planter	3	2	Yes	300
Grow Bucket	1	0	Yes	120
Planter	1	0	Yes	500

A greenhouse is 8 °C warmer inside than the air outside, which carries tender crops through a light frost, and adds a further x1.1 to growth.

Compost

What a compost bin takes and how much each thing is worth. Every 4 points rot down into one compost in 20 minutes, and a bin holds 40 points.

Waste	Points	Needed for one compost
Soured Wash	3	1.33
Rotten Flesh	2	2
Rotten Food	2	2
Spent Grain	2	2
Birch Bark	1	4
Bone	1	4
Burnt Food	1	4
Crude Glycerin	1	4
Fish Guts	1	4
Kindling	1	4
Spoiled Milk	1	4
Straw	1	4

Livestock

The animals you can keep, where they live and what they need. Water is liters for each animal every game day.

Animal	Housing	Holds	Water a day	Troughs hold	What you get	If neglected
Rabbits	Rabbit Hutch Kit	6	0.25 L	24 animal-days of feed, 12 L of water	Meat and pelts. A pair breeds: a litter of 3 to 6 kits arrives after about 2.0 hours and the kits are grown after about 5.5 hours.	A game day without feed or without water costs one animal.
Hens	Hen House Kit	6	0.25 L	24 animal-days of feed, 12 L of water	One egg from each hen every game day.	A game day without feed or without water costs one animal.
Sheep	Rail Pen Kit	6	2 L	30 sheep-days of feed, 60 L of water	One fleece every 48 real hours, ready to shear once it is 90% grown. A ram and a ewe in one pen have one or two lambs (twins 40% of the time) after about 19 hours, and a lamb is grown after about 39 hours.	A sheep dies after 4 game days without feed or 2 without water, and a hungry or thirsty sheep stops growing wool.
Sheep	Small Pen Kit	3	2 L	30 sheep-days of feed, 60 L of water	One fleece every 48 real hours, ready to shear once it is 90% grown. A ram and a ewe in one pen have one or two lambs (twins 40% of the time) after about 19 hours, and a lamb is grown after about 39 hours.	A sheep dies after 4 game days without feed or 2 without water, and a hungry or thirsty sheep stops growing wool.

A game day is 120 real minutes.

A live animal carried in a sack lasts 12 hours without food or water.

The open trough in a sheep pen catches 0.25 L of rain a minute.

A loose sheep can be caught with a rope from within 2.6 m. The chance is 30%, or 85% when you carry wheat, barley, oats, corn cob or apple to tempt it with.

Animal feed

What each kind of animal eats and how long one item feeds one animal, in animal-days. A day here is a game day, which is 120 real minutes. An empty cell means the animal will not eat it.

Feed	Rabbits	Hens	Sheep
Apple	2 days		0.25 days
Barley		2 days	1 days
Cabbage	2 days		0.5 days
Carrot	2 days		0.25 days
Corn Cob		2 days	0.5 days
Lettuce	2 days		0.25 days
Oats	2 days	2 days	1 days
Potato		2 days	0.25 days
Spent Grain		2 days	1.5 days
Wheat	2 days	2 days	1 days
Wild Berries	2 days	2 days

Rabbits and hens kept beside a pen forage for themselves and eat 50% as much.

Sheep graze 50% of their ration off the grass when it is at least 4 °C and there is no snow on the ground.

Beekeeping

How a beehive works, from the first swarm to jars of honey.