Farming

22 crops across 16 fields. Farming is the one skill that trains on a real-world clock: you plant, the crop grows whether the game is open or not, and you collect when you come back.

How a harvest works

1. Plant a seed in a free field. One seed per planting, one crop per successful harvest.
2. Wait out the grow time. It runs in real time — closing the game does not pause it, and no speed bonus applies.
3. Harvest. Only 50% of plantings survive by default; the rest go bad and pay no crop and no XP. The outcome is rolled when you plant, so a field already knows whether it will fail.
4. Replant — the field stays empty until you do, which is what the Auto Farmer is for.

Compost removes the coin-flip. One unit of any compost applied at planting makes that harvest a guaranteed success, and Super Compost also grows the crop 20% faster. The best tier you own and have enabled is applied automatically, exactly like fishing bait.

Crops

XP is fixed per successful harvest: 8 XP per grow-minute, plus 1 more per level of the crop — so slow, high-level crops are worth far more per field. Herbs (marked "herb") feed Brewing.

Crop	Level	Grow time	XP per harvest	XP/s per field	Seed	Where to get seeds
Wheat	1	1h	540	0.15	Wheat Seeds	Skeleton drop — 20% Bird Nest — 17% ×5–15 Thieving — Farmer — 17% of loot rolls Quest reward — The Homestead Quest reward — Farmer's Life
Marrentill (herb)	1	1h	540	0.15	Marrentill Seeds	Bird Nest — 15% ×3–10 Thieving — Farmer — 6.7% of loot rolls Quest reward — The Brewer's Awakening
Lettuce	2	1h 30m	900	0.167	Lettuce Seeds	Skeleton drop — 15% Bird Nest — 15% ×3–10 Thieving — Farmer — 15% of loot rolls
Carrot	3	2h	1,320	0.183	Carrot Seeds	Skeleton drop — 10% Bird Nest — 15% ×2–8 Thieving — Farmer — 13% of loot rolls
Radish	5	2h	1,560	0.217	Radish Seeds	Thieving — Farmer — 12% of loot rolls
Tarromin (herb)	6	2h 30m	2,100	0.233	Tarromin Seeds	Bird Nest — 4.0% ×1–3 Thieving — Farmer — 5.9% of loot rolls Quest reward — The Brewer's Awakening
Cabbage	7	3h	2,700	0.25	Cabbage Seeds	Bird Nest — 4.5% ×2–6 Thieving — Farmer — 8.4% of loot rolls
Corn	10	4h	4,320	0.3	Corn Seeds	Bird Nest — 4.0% ×2–6 Thieving — Farmer — 5.0% of loot rolls
Purple Rose (herb)	10	4h	4,320	0.3	Purple Rose Seeds	Bird Nest — 3.0% ×1–3 Thieving — Farmer — 5.0% of loot rolls Quest reward — Sixty-Five Roses
Tomato	12	5h	6,000	0.333	Tomato Seeds	Bird Nest — 3.5% ×1–5 Thieving — Farmer — 3.4% of loot rolls Quest reward — The Feast of the Tides
Harralander (herb)	14	5h 30m	7,260	0.367	Harralander Seeds	Bird Nest — 3.0% ×1–3 Thieving — Farmer — 4.2% of loot rolls
Onion	15	6h	8,280	0.383	Onion Seeds	Bird Nest — 3.0% ×1–5 Thieving — Farmer — 1.7% of loot rolls Quest reward — The Feast of the Tides
Rice	18	7h	10,920	0.433	Rice Seeds	Bird Nest — 2.0% ×1–4 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 21% of loot rolls
Barley	20	8h	13,440	0.467	Barley Seeds	Bird Nest — 1.0% ×1–4 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 19% of loot rolls
Ranarr Weed (herb)	24	9h 30m	18,240	0.533	Ranarr Weed Seeds	Bird Nest — 1.8% ×1–2 Thieving — Farmer — 2.5% of loot rolls Quest reward — The Brewer's Awakening
Potato	25	10h	19,800	0.55	Potato Seeds	Bird Nest — 2.0% ×1–3 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 16% of loot rolls
Pumpkin	30	12h	27,360	0.633	Pumpkin Seeds	Bird Nest — 1.5% ×1–3 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 13% of loot rolls
Sunflower	35	14h	36,120	0.717	Sunflower Seeds	Bird Nest — 1.0% ×1–2 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 11% of loot rolls
Avantoe (herb)	38	15h	41,400	0.767	Avantoe Seeds	Bird Nest — 1.4% ×1–2 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 4.0% of loot rolls
Magic Herb (herb)	40	18h	51,840	0.8	Magic Herb Seeds	Bird Nest — 0.80% ×1–2 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 8.0% of loot rolls
Kwuarm (herb)	50	22h	76,560	0.967	Kwuarm Seeds	Bird Nest — 0.30% ×1 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 2.7% of loot rolls
Dragon Pepper	50	24h	83,520	0.967	Dragon Pepper Seeds	Bird Nest — 0.40% ×1–2 Thieving — Golo The Master Farmer — 5.3% of loot rolls

Seeds are not sold in any shop. They come from Thieving (the Farmer for low tiers, Golo for high), Bird Nests from Woodcutting, quest rewards, and the Thornfield survey in Exploring.

Fields

Every field grows independently, so field count is your farming rate. Field 1 is free; the rest are bought once, some with gold and some with gems.

Field	Farming level	Also needs	Cost
1	1	—	Free
2	5	—	1,000 gp
3	10	—	5,000 gp
4	20	—	500 gems
5	30	—	10,000 gp
6	40	—	25,000 gp
7	50	—	50,000 gp
8	60	—	1,000 gems
9	70	—	100,000 gp
10	80	—	1,000,000 gp
11	90	—	2,500 gems
12	99	—	10,000,000 gp
13	99	Finish quest 4 of Farmers' Guild Trials	12,000,000 gp
14	99	Finish quest 8 of Farmers' Guild Trials	3,000 gems
15	99	Finish quest 12 of Farmers' Guild Trials	20,000,000 gp
16	99	Finish quest 16 of Farmers' Guild Trials	4,000 gems

Upgrades that change the maths

Upgrade	What it does	Requirement
Instant Grow	Finishes every growing crop right away. Up to 3 uses a day; the count resets at 09:00 UTC.	1st use 100 gems, 2nd use 200 gems, 3rd use 400 gems
Greenhouse (5 tiers)	+1 flat crop per successful harvest per tier — up to +5 at Everbloom Greenhouse. It multiplies yield, never success.	Bought in order, Farming 10–90. See Permanent Upgrades.
Auto Farmer	Harvests and instantly replants the same crop until the seeds run out — online and offline. Without it, offline time only finishes the crops already in the ground.	Farming 50 + 1× Golo's Farming Secret, 100,000 gp
Compost	Guarantees the harvest; Super Compost also cuts grow time by 20%. Consumed one per planting.	Bought in Supplies

Instant Grow

The Instant Grow button on the Farming tab finishes every crop that is still growing, on all fields at once. It is not an upgrade and you do not own it: you pay gems each time you press it.

• 3 uses a day. After the last one the button is locked until the reset.
• The price rises with each use: 1st use 100 gems, 2nd use 200 gems, 3rd use 400 gems. That is 700 gems for all 3.
• Resets at 09:00 UTC every day: the count goes back to zero and the price back to the first step.
• It only finishes crops that are already planted. With nothing growing it does nothing and costs nothing.
• It does not change whether a crop succeeds. That was decided when you planted it.

What farming is actually for

Crops sell for very little — farming is not a gold engine. It feeds Cooking (crop dishes), Brewing (every herb), and a long tail of quest objectives that ask for a specific harvest. Because it ticks on a real clock rather than on your attention, it is best set running before you go and do something else.

See also: Money Making for what a fully-kitted farm is worth per hour, and XP Rates for how it compares with active skills.

Recommended gear

One item per slot — a skill loadout holds exactly one of each, and only one item is tagged for farming in any slot, so this is the complete set.

Slot	Item	Bonus	Unlock	How to get
Weapon	Tilly's Rake	+10% chance to double your farming harvest	None	Quest reward — The Royal Gardens
Off-hand	Priulus's Watering Can	−10% crop grow time	None	Quest reward — Farmers' Guild Trials
Head	Rose Crown	Successful harvests can give 1 extra random unlocked crop. Chance = the crop's base grow time ÷ 24 h, up to 100%	None	Bandit drop — 0.10%
Body	Aluna's Yoke	+2 crops per harvest	None	Quest reward — Farmers' Guild Trials
Hands	Farming Gloves	+5% Farming XP, always on. +2 extra crop per harvest (charge-based)	None	Shop — 500 gems
Cape	Farming Skill Cape	−20% crop grow time	Farming 99	Quest reward — Farmers' Guild Trials
Necklace	Modulator Amulet	−5% crop grow time	None	Quest reward — Sixty-Five Roses
Charm	Bloom Charm	+5% chance to double a Farming harvest	None	Exploring — Thornfield survey (0.10%)

No gear exists yet for: Legs, Feet, Belt, Ring.