Farming guide by aussiebeast

Getting started

Farming is one of the easiest skills to level up, but be warned, it gets very expensive as you progress through the levels. The demand for seeds makes them a much sought after resource. So if you plan to work on farming but not woodcutting, prepare to outlay a lot of gold.
Once you have a house, equip your spade and you are ready to prepare your farmland. Click the "Player house" link in the town menu, then click "Check your farmland". You will be presented with the option to purchase farmland. You start off preparing 25 slots, but this can be progressively upgraded to 400 slots. See the table below for costs.

Slots	Pre-requisite	Upgrade cost (gp)	Total cost (gp)
25	House	750	750
50	25 farm slots	1,500	2,250
100	50 farm slots	3,000	5,250
200	100 farm slots	6,000	11,250
400	200 farm slots	12,000	23,250
800	400 farm slots	24,000	47,250

NOTE: the 800 slot farm is not available yet. It may be implemented with future updates.

NOTE 2: a spade is NOT required to plant or harvest your crops, it is only required to prepare you first farm slots, or to upgrade you existing farmland.

Obtaining seeds

There are a number of ways to obtain seeds:

1. woodcutting at all forests (See Woodcutting Guide)
2. creature drops in combat
3. from chests/gifts
4. from NPC's in certain special events

Initially the easiest way to get seeds is woodcutting. In the table below are the different seed types and at which forests to obtain them. The Outlands has a much higher seed drop rate than any other forest, but chop there at your own risk!

Level	Exp/Chop	Wood/chop	Seed types	Seed images
1	15	1-2	Radish seeds, Beet seeds, Carrot seeds
15	22	1-3	Beet seeds, Cabbage seeds, Onion seeds
25	30	1-3	Grain seeds, Tomato seeds, Corn seeds
40 (poor)	65	1-3	Grain seeds, Strawberry seeds, Green pepper seeds
40 (rich)	65	1-6	Grain seeds, Strawberry seeds, Green pepper seeds
55 rich	140	2-11	Strawberry seeds, Apple seeds, Hop seeds, Peach seeds, Watermelon seeds, Tomato seeds, Orange seeds
55	130	1-10	Green pepper seeds, Spinach seeds, Eggplant seeds, Pumpkin seeds, Apple seeds
75	275	4-15	Pear seeds, Broccoli seeds, Peach seeds, Orange seeds
100	400	4-20	Pineapple seeds, Watermelon seeds, Vervefruit seeds, Fruit of life seeds
120	**	15-30	Turnip seeds, Grapefruit seeds Orange seeds Fruit of life seeds

Planting your seeds

To begin growing your own food, you must make sure of the following:

1. You are at your house with the farmland you prepared
2. You farmland has sufficient room for the seeds you intend to plant
3. The seeds must be in your inventory

Click the "Player house" link in the town menu, click "Check your farmland". Above your farmland you will see the options to plant those seeds you currently have in your inventory. Simply type in the number of seeds into the box corresponding to the seed type you wish to plant, then click "Plant".

You do NOT have to fill all farm slots at once with one type of seed, you can plant mixed crops, as long as the total does not exceed the number of farm slots you have at that farm. You can NOT plant more seeds of one type if you don't have them in your inventory.

The larger the crop the more time it takes to both plant and harvest, though there is a reduction in planting and harvesting times with each level you gain. By carefully planning when you plant and using the growing times in the table below, you should be able to have your crops ready to harvest when you are online, or have the best chance of harvesting the full crop.

Now you can work on something else while you wait for your crops to grow!

Img	Req lvl	Seed	Growing hours	P/G/R	Experience
	1	Radish seeds	16 (23-12-2024 03:33)		1
	1	Beet seeds	16 (23-12-2024 03:33)		1
	4	Carrot seeds	28 (23-12-2024 15:33)		2
	7	Cabbage seeds	34 (23-12-2024 21:33)		3
	11	Onion seeds	38 (24-12-2024 01:33)		5
	14	Grain seeds	41 (24-12-2024 04:33)		7
	17	Tomato seeds	49 (24-12-2024 12:33)		9
	20	Corn seeds	55 (24-12-2024 18:33)		13
	25	Strawberry seeds	65 (25-12-2024 04:33)		17
	29	Green pepper seeds	68 (25-12-2024 07:33)		19
	34	Spinach seeds	59 (24-12-2024 22:33)		23
	39	Eggplant seeds	78 (25-12-2024 17:33)		27
	43	Cucumber seeds	95 (26-12-2024 10:33)		31
	48	Pumpkin seeds	92 (26-12-2024 07:33)		35
	52	Apple seeds	95 (26-12-2024 10:33)		38
	57	Pear seeds	79 (25-12-2024 18:33)		42
	63	Broccoli seeds	97 (26-12-2024 12:33)		45
	66	Peach seeds	109 (27-12-2024 00:33)		48
	71	Orange seeds	104 (26-12-2024 19:33)		51
	78	Plum seeds	86 (26-12-2024 01:33)		54
	84	Avocado seeds	129 (27-12-2024 20:33)		57
	89	Pineapple seeds	104 (26-12-2024 19:33)		61
	92	Watermelon seeds	149 (28-12-2024 16:33)		64
	97	Vervefruit seeds	152 (28-12-2024 19:33)		70
	100	Fruit of life seeds	153 (28-12-2024 20:33)		100
	105	Turnip seeds	163 (29-12-2024 06:33)		125
	125	Grapefruit seeds	179 (29-12-2024 22:33)		155

NOTE: the average time listed in the table above is not the definite time the crops will be ready to harvest. There is a +/- number of hours for each crop. This +/- increases with each seed type. As you work on your farming, you will be able to determine the min/max range for your crops. The growing hours in the table are the average of a large amount of crops.
HOP seeds are special they can only be grown at Morrie fields

Harvesting

To check if your grown vegetable/fruit is ready for harvest, check your farmland and when you hover over the farm slots, if the pointer changes to a hand, click and you will start harvesting your crops.

If you have planted different types of seeds, or smaller lots of the same seed type, you do NOT harvest ALL seeds when only one lot is ready.

There is a possibility of gaining more ripe vegetable/fruit when harvesting though there is no way of knowing when it will happen. The downside to farming is, you can lose crops if you leave them ripe in the ground too long. You will only receive 1xp for every ripe grown vegetable/fruit you pick. Once harvested, your grown vegetables/fruit do NOT rot. They "remain" as fresh as the day you harvested them!