Farming
Tilling the ground, sowing seeds and keeping bees: every crop and hive, how fast it grows, what speeds it up, and what a harvest brings in.
Some blocks grow by themselves: a crop sown on tilled soil grows stage by stage from seed to harvest, and a bee hive fills with honey. The world grows them every second, wherever they stand, whether or not anyone is near. Each stage takes a set time at the base pace, and a block’s surroundings speed it up: every boost below adds to the pace, so +100% grows twice as fast, and boosts that apply together add up.
At its last stage a block can be harvested: right click it with anything in hand. A crop is replanted from its own seed and a hive is emptied, so each goes round again. Breaking a block at its last stage pays out the harvest too — a crop leaves its soil behind for the next sowing. Harvests are scaled by the Botany skill tree’s passives, and every harvest trains it.
Tilling
A crop is sown on tilled soil: ground a hoe has turned over. The soil is a thin block lying on the ground, so it rests on what is beneath it — break the dirt block under tilled soil or a crop, and it goes too.
- Tilled withRight click the ground with it, within 7 units
- Hoe
- TillsA level patch of that ground (not a slope), or the top of such a block, with the cell above it free
- Grass, Dirt, Dry grass or Autumn grass ground, or the top of a Dirt Block
- Brushes asideTall Grass, Wildflower and Stones and the like standing in the cell are cleared first, dropping what breaking them would
- 22 kinds of undergrowth
- MakesSow Wheat on it
- Tilled Soil
- Tilled Soil dropsBreak it and the ground grasses over again; the ground under it is untouched
- Nothing
Where to find the kit
Nobody starts with a hoe or a seed: break blocks, slay mobs and bring in harvests.
- Hoe
- Slay Goblin (12% chance)
- Bee Hive
- Break Bee Hive
- Wheat Seeds
- Break Tall Grass (13% chance), Wheat; Slay Goblin (1–3, 30% chance); Harvest Wheat (1–2, 75% chance)
Wild bee hives
Bees nest in some of the trees the biome generator grows: a wild hive hangs beside the trunk under the canopy, often part-way full already. Break it to carry it home and set it down among your flowers.
- OakGrows in Plains and Forest
- 20% of trees
- AcaciaGrows in Savanna
- 12% of trees
- Jungle treeGrows in Jungle
- 10% of trees
- CherryGrows in Cherry Grove
- 30% of trees
- BirchGrows in Plains, Forest and Taiga
- 20% of trees
- MapleGrows in Autumn Forest
- 20% of trees
- AspenGrows in Autumn Forest
- 15% of trees
Crops and hives
Bee hive
A papery nest of wax and wood humming with bees. The bees fly out to nearby flowers and fill it with honey — the more flowers, the faster. Right click a full hive (honey oozing from its entrance) to collect it.
- KindIt fills by itself stage by stage, and is emptied when harvested
- Producer
- Stages5 stages, one after another; only the last can be harvested
- Empty → A little honey → Half full → Nearly full → Full of honey
- Each stageAt the base pace, with nothing speeding it up
- 1 min 30s
- First to last stageEmpty to Full of honey at the base pace
- 6 min
- At the fastestEmpty to Full of honey with every boost below at its most: 4× the base pace
- 1 min 30s
- Flowers nearbyEach one within 5 cells to either side and 3 up or down (any of 14 kinds), up to +300% in all — 20 of them
- +15% each
- Placed fromRight click to set it down on the block grid, anywhere
- Bee Hive
- HarvestRight click it at its last stage (Full of honey) with anything in hand; it starts over at Empty
- Collect honey
- YieldsPer harvest, before skills
- Honey (1–2)
- Scaled byBeekeeper and Apiarist add to these; a fraction left over is one more by chance
- Honey yield (Honey)
- Double harvestBountiful Harvest and Harvest Moon give a chance for the Honey to come twice over
- Up to 90% chance
- Botany experienceFor whoever brings it in, by right click or by breaking it
- 20 per harvest
- BrokenAt its last stage it yields the harvest too
- Bee Hive
Wheat
A crop of wheat sown on tilled soil. It grows from green sprouts to golden ears, faster near water and in the rain. Right click it when ripe to harvest and replant, or break it for the grain and its seed.
- KindSown from seed on Tilled Soil, it grows by itself stage by stage and is replanted when harvested
- Crop
- Stages5 stages, one after another; only the last can be harvested
- Sprouts → Seedlings → Young wheat → Turning gold → Ripe
- Each stageAt the base pace, with nothing speeding it up
- 1 min 15s
- First to last stageSprouts to Ripe at the base pace
- 5 min
- At the fastestSprouts to Ripe with every boost below at its most: 2.5× the base pace
- 2 min
- Water nearbyOpen water (Ocean) within 4 cells to either side, level with it or at most 2 below — never above
- +100%
- Weather: RainWhile the world's weather is rain, wherever it stands
- +50%
- Sown onTill the ground with a Hoe first
- Tilled Soil
- Sown fromRight click the soil with them in hand; each crop takes one
- Wheat Seeds
- HarvestRight click it at its last stage (Ripe) with anything in hand; it starts over at Sprouts
- Harvest
- YieldsPer harvest, before skills
- Wheat (1–2), Wheat Seeds (1–2, 75% chance)
- Scaled byGreen Thumb and Seed Saver add to these; a fraction left over is one more by chance
- Crop yield (Wheat), Seeds saved (Wheat Seeds)
- Double harvestBountiful Harvest and Harvest Moon give a chance for the Wheat to come twice over
- Up to 90% chance
- Botany experienceFor whoever brings it in, by right click or by breaking it
- 8 per harvest
- BrokenAt its last stage it yields the harvest too, and it leaves the Tilled Soil behind for the next sowing
- Wheat Seeds
