Farming is an AFK lifeskill that allows you to earn extra silver passively. You can obtain seeds and fruits by breeding, or can harvest the crops for materials. Farming goes well with the cooking lifeskill, since you can plant ingredients such as Onions, Garlic and Pepper, which are common bottlenecks for cooking.
Crops only grow while your account is logged-in, and require you to either tend to the crops yourself, or use workers to maintain the farms. You also need to spend Contribution Points to rent fences, and higher farming level allows you to use better fences and better seeds. With a good setup, you can make a decent amount of silver with minimal effort, since you only need to tend to your farm when the crops have finished growing.
To start farming, you need to obtain “Fences”. These are plots of land that you can place seeds onto.
You can have up to 10 farms in TOTAL (eg. you can’t have 10 small fences and 10 strong fences).
However you can mix and match the different farms (eg. 4 small fences and 6 strong fences).
There is a once-per-family questline you can complete.
The quests reward you with 
Finto’s Strong Fence x2 and later in the questline, these can be exchanged for 
Klau’s Old Moon Fence x2
The questline can be found in your quest log (O) under “Suggested” > “[Life] Finto Family’s Fence Support”.
In addition to these fences, you can obtain a Shabby Fence by completing the quest “[Farming] Because I Like You” from Jemkas Wyrmsbane.
Rented Fences can be obtain from an NPC and cost a certain amount of “Contribution points”.
Contribution points are earned by completing quests, and you can see your current/total Contribution points in the top left along with your Skill points and Energy.
There are 4 types of fences you can rent from NPCs:
| CP | Slots | Rented from (click for location) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Fence | 3 | 4 | Difry Hussey (Abun), Enzo (Dias Farm), Mael Costa (Costa Farm), Martina Finto (Finto Farm) |
| Plain Fence | 6 | 7 | Finlin (Tarif), Goolie Gianin (Gianin Farm), Mayeri (Trent), Mercianne Moretti (Moretti Plantation), Norma Leight (Northern Wheat Plantation), Paola Toscani (Toscani Farm) |
| Strong Fence | 10 | 10 | Flaviano (Heidel), Geranoa (Calpheon), Lashir (Altinova), Zaaira (Velia), Kara (Grana), Derjeen (Duvencrune), Jorjua (O’draxxia), Purajin (Valencia), Tulga (Eilton) |
| Old Moon Fence (Requires Master 1) | 10 | 10 | Jak (Altinova), Klau (Velia), Lajee (Calpheon), Stee (Heidel), Zya (Grana), Taya (Duvencrune), Mene (O’draxxia), Sahin (Valencia), Ploux (Eilton) |
The Old Moon Fence has the same cost and slots as the Strong Fence, but is a smaller sized farm, meaning you don’t have to move as far between each farm (saving you time) and don’t need to use as much fertilizer and water for your farms.
To quickly find an NPC which will rent a fence to you, open your NPC locator (magnifying glass) to the left of your mini-map. In the search box type in “fence” to show all NPCs you have discovered which will rent a farm to you.
Once you find an NPC, click the [Rent] button in the chat window, then “Confirm”.
The fence will go straight into your inventory. To return the farm and get your contribution points back, you need to go back to the NPC to give it back.
If you aren’t using workers to tend to your farms, using smaller fences is far more efficient for your CP. If you have 30 contribution points, you will get a total of 40 slots by using 10 small fences, compared to 30 slots using 3 strong fences.
If you are new to farming, aim to use as many small fences as you can. Only use strong fences if you want to use a total of 100 contribution points for the maximum of 100 slots or if you are planning to use mysterious or magical seeds (since these require 5 slots).
The Fence of Abundance is another type of fence you can obtain, but can only be bought from the Pearl Store for 1,200 Pearls each.
Pearl Store (F3) > Travel Aid > Buildables > Fence of Abundance
You can exchange the fence at any old moon manager for the Sturdy Fence of Abundance if you are at least Farming Master Lv. 1 or higher
| Slots | Exchanged at (click for location) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sturdy Fence of Abundance (Requires Master 1) | 10 | Jak (Altinova), Klau (Velia), Lajee (Calpheon), Stee (Heidel), Zya (Grana), Taya (Duvencrune), Mene (O’draxxia), Sahin (Valencia), Ploux (Eilton) |
To place your farm you simply need to right-click the item in your inventory. Farms can’t be placed in safe zones and must be in a grassy area. When placing the farm make sure that all of the farm’s area is blue and none of the edges are in a red zone, then click the confirm button to start building your farm. (Click the image below to view full size)
Farms can overlap with another player’s farm, however, when you stand on your farm all other player’s farms will disappear so you can easily harvest your crops.
Once your farm is placed it can be found using this icon on your map. Farms expire if you do not interact with them for 14 full real-time days.
I would personally recommend placing your farm North of Loggia Farm (near Velia) . The location is suitable for most crops, a convenient location, and naturally has a high groundwater level.
If you would like to check locations for specific crops, please use this Google Sheet made by Summer.
You will want to place your farms as close to each other as possible because when it comes to tending to your farm, you can use less fertilizer/water if your farms are placed correctly. Make sure there is no gap between the farms! You’ll find more information on this below in the Tending to your farm section.
There are a few different ways you can get seeds:
I highly recommend buying your seeds from the central market where you can because with most crops it will increase your profits if you choose to sell the crops. If you’re looking for maximum yield, buying the seeds instead of breeding the seeds will also increase the number of crops you are left with.
Once you reach Artisan 1 in farming, you can start to plant Magical Seeds for profit.
These are the highest grade of seeds, and can be obtained by breeding Speical (blue) grade seeds.
Once a seed has been placed it will begin to grow. Exit the installation screen by pressing Esc and clicking yes. If you do not have a scarecrow or waterway on your farm you will need to tend to the crops more often by cutting and getting rid of insects. If your farm needs tending to, the icon on your map will turn red. Simply go to your crops and press R to tend to the crops.
You can view your crop’s progress by hovering your mouse over the icon on your map, once the crops reach 100% they are ready to be harvested.
To begin planting go up to your farming fence and press R to open installation mode.
Click the seeds in the top right (or press 1) and move them into place on your farm and click the confirm button (or press SPACE).
In the top left you can see “Garden Usage”, this indicates how many seeds we can fit on the farm. The window in the middle of the screen indicates the temperature, humidity, amount of water, and fertilizer the farm currently has. It also shows how long the seeds will take to grow. You can view the temperature, humidity, and groundwater using the filters on your world map.
When your crops have reached 100% growth, you can go to your crops and press R to “Harvest”.
You also have the choice of “Breeding” the crops. If you choose to breed the crops you have a chance to get more seeds back, as well as increase the quality of the seeds, and obtaining fruits .
Once the crop is at 100% growth, you can harvest it to obtain crops:
If the white/high-quality/special seeds use 2 slots instead of 1, the yield is also doubled
You also have a chance of extra yields which gives you an additional 1 – 5 crops.
Breeding the crops gives you 1 to 3 seeds of the same quality or higher. Even if the growth is at 200% or the crop is rotted, it will not affect how many seeds you can get.
You can also get Fruits by breeding certain crops:
| Fruit | Seed |
|---|---|
Fruit of the Sun  |  Corn  Wheat  Paprika  Tomato |
Fruit of Abundance  |  Sunflower  Strawberry  Grape  Onion |
Fruit of Perfection  |  Arrow Mushroom  Cloud Mushroom  Bluffer Mushroom  Fog Mushroom |
Fruit of Magic Power  |  Emperor Mushroom  Fortune Teller Mushroom  Hump Mushroom  Tiger Mushroom |
Fruit of Crimson Flame  |  Garlic  Hot Pepper  Pepper  Olive  Pumpkin |
| Fruit | Seed |
|---|---|
Fruit of Destruction  |  Amanita Mushroom  Ancient Mushroom  Ghost Mushroom  Sky Mushroom  Dwarf Mushroom |
Fruit of Enchantment  |  Dry Mane Grass  Fire Flake Flower  Silk Honey Grass  Silver Azalea  Sunrise Herb |
Fruit of Nature  |  Carrot  Barley  Sweet Potato  Potato  Acacia Leaf  Leccinum  Nolina  Pie Mushroom  Purple Mushroom  Bouquet Mushroom  Dalvenia Alrea |
Scarecrows and Waterways are used to decrease the amount of time you need to spend tending to your farm and increase the quality of your crops.
Scarecrows reduce the chance of bird attacks, while waterways decrease the amount of water consumption. If your farm runs out of water your crops will either be lower quality or you will get far less crops than usual from the harvest. Waterways will make the natural groundwater last longer, but if you water your plants when you first plant them you shouldn’t need to come back to tend them for a much longer time.
To craft these items for your farm you will need a woodworking workshop. Once these items are placed on your farm they will take up a slot each so you will not be able to plant as many seeds but you won’t have to tend to them as often.
Personally, I don’t use scarecrows or waterways as I feel they take up too much space and are only efficient on Strong Fences. The damage from bird attacks is very minor and waterways are only really required in dry areas such as the desert.
Before I go into tending to your farm more, I would like to highlight the 2 main reasons for farming and how they play a role in tending to your farms.
Maximum produce
Leveling Life Skill, Sharp shards, other loot
If your farm needs tending due to insects or pruning, the farming icon on your world map will turn red to indicate this.
Insects and pruning will double the amount of time it takes for your crop to grow if it is left untreated but it does not affect the yield and you can actually leave it if you don’t mind the extra time it takes.
You can use workers to remove insects or prune for you but you will not get any loot.
Possible loot from removing insects is:
Possible loot from pruning is:
Fertilizer can decrease the amount of time it takes your crops to grow by up to 20%.
There are 3 different Fertilizer items, the higher quality fertilizer, the longer it will last:
Watering your crops can increase the water deposit on your farm for up to 1 hour and reduce the rate at which the moisture will decrease.
You can use 4 different types of water:
Make sure you are standing on the farm then right-click the water in your inventory to water the crops.
You do not need to use fertilizer/water on each farm and can actually use far less by placing your farms efficiently. The orange squares show how you should place your farms (leave no spaces), whilst the black dot shows where you should stand when using the fertilizer or water, and the black circle shows the range the fertilizer will reach.
Also, you should make sure you water the plants AFTER using fertilizer because using fertilizer will drain the water.
You can use your workers to tend to your farms while you are busy. They will prune weeds and remove bugs until they run out of action points but you can only have one worker on each farm at a time.
Workers will not harvest/breed seeds for you and you will not get any farming XP or Sharp shards. Farm workers also use a lot of beer very quickly!
To set up your workers so that they tend to your farm, left-click on the farm icon in the top right, then click the “list” button next to your farm. You can then select which worker you would like to send to your farm.
As you can see in the screenshot above, workers do not have to have to be connected to the nearby nodes. You can use any worker which is available but the worker will have to travel from where they are. The workers will store items all items they obtained by tending, at the warehouse. Giant workers are the best type of workers to use for tending to your farm, this is because Giant workers have more action points and will not need to be fed as often. They will usually be able to make it all the way through the growth of the plant without needing to be fed. The high-stamina named workers can also be used and are the best workers you can get.
Personally, I recommend pruning the farms yourself unless you have a lot of farms to tend to or not enough time to keep pruning them manually. Another option is to use workers until the crops are ~60% only. Doing this will let the crops grow quickly but the crops will usually need to be pruned when you harvest/breed them and you can get some sharp shards this way as well.
The best seeds to use are the Magical seeds . The reason you use these are because of pure convenience, as they take up more slots and require less tending to your farm. Their yield amount is x5 of a Special seed , to make up for the number of additional slots used. You can also use Mysterious Seeds as you obtain them for high amounts of Fruits or crops.
For pure silver profit the best seeds to plant can change regularly depending on market prices, you can also use this super helpful Google Sheet by Summer to calculate what seeds are best to grow for your particular schedule.
My general recommendations:
Mysterious Seeds can be obtained by harvesting, breeding, pruning or killing pests on a Special/Magical seed. Mysterious seeds can then be processed with Processing (L) > Shaking, with a special seed/hypha to create Mysterious seeds.
For example, you can use a Mysterious Seed and shake it with a Special Strawberry Seed, to create a Mysterious Strawberry Seed.
Mysterious Seeds will take up 5 slots on a farm and highly increase the yield when harvesting, and also increase the amount of fruit when breeding (30 – 40 fruits per seed), but it is not possible to obain more seeds when breeding and you will quickly run out of them.
Another downside to using Mysterious Seeds is that you will not obtain byproducts when breeding them, and they do not give any extra chances of sharp shards or additional farming EXP when pruning, meaning that if you want these it’s better for you to plant the regular seeds. You cannot sell Mysterious Seeds on the marketplace, and when processing them, they are unable to proc.
Magical Seeds can be obtained when breeding Special seeds, once you reach Artisan 1 or higher in farming. These seeds also take up 5 slots on a farm, but unlike Mysterious seeds, you can obtain more magical seeds when you breed a magical seed, as well as byproducts and fruits.
Magical seeds should be used to make a profit and you should be breeding them to get high amounts of fruit. The byproducts you receive can also be exchanged for T9 horse materials which will heavily increase your profits.
Haystacks can be placed on your farm to feed cows. They take up 4 grid spaces in the garden but once a cow is fully grown, it can be harvested for milk, beef, and ox hide.
Haystacks are obtainable by going to the Processing window (L) and then selecting “Drying” to dry 50 Weeds. They are also available as quest rewards in the farming quest line.
Just like all other seeds, there are 2 additional grades of Haystacks: High-Quality and Special. These are obtainable when harvesting a Haystack.
Normal Haystacks give 12 – 20 milk, High Quality gives 25 – 40 milk and Special Haystacks can give an average of 50-60 milk each time. There is also a chance of gaining beef or ox hide and a special haystack gives an average of 15-20 beef or ox hide.
Chicken Feed can be placed on your farm to feed chickens. They take up 3 grid spaces in the garden but once a chicken is fully grown, it can be harvested for chicken meat and eggs.
Chicken Feed is obtainable by going to the Processing window (L) and then selecting “Grinding” to grind 20 Rough Stone and 100 Barley.
Just like all other seeds, there are 2 additional grades of Chicken Feed: Good and Special.
These are obtainable when harvesting Chicken Feed. Normal Chicken Feed give 15 – 30 eggs with 0 – 10 chicken meat and on average take around 8 hours to grow.
Since Farming does not have any Life Skill Mastery bonuses or dedicated gear, it is recommended to use as many Life Skill EXP buffs as possible when tending to and harvesting your farm.
Since energy is important for farming, you may also want to use a character that has high gathering lifeskill level. This is because a higher gathering lifeskill level will reduce the amount of energy used.
Other Farming specific gear:
| Item Name | Buffs | How to obtain |
|---|---|---|
 | [Magical Soil] |
[Repeat] Life Crystal quest at Hyunyong in LoML
Requires you to hand over Forest Crystal x1 and Trace of Forest x50
It’s possible to quickly level your farming all the way to Artisan 1 in just a few days. This unlocks the Magical seeds and heavily increases the profit you will make from farming.
You will need to rent as many farms as possible, and then place them outside the south of Heidel along the river (see image below). Ideally, you will want to get x10 of the Strong Fences for 100 CP so you have the maximum amount of crops you can plant. The fewer farms you have the longer it will take to reach Artisan 1.
Buy Special Purple Mushroom seeds from the Central Market, and plant them on your farms.
You will notice that the Humidity and Temperature in Heidel is not suitable for these crops. This means you will need to prune and kill pests much more often. Tend to the farms as often as possible then breed the seeds once they are 200% and repeat.
You may run out of energy if you have all 10 Strong Fences, so a Kamaslyvia Blessing and using a bed for extra energy will be very useful. More ways to regen your energy can be found in our Energy Guide.
It’s not necessary and I wouldn’t waste silver on getting all the life skill buffs, but you should use Seafood Cron Meal, Silver Embroidered Farmer’s Clothes, and Verdure Draught to boost your EXP gains since they are cheap to obtain. Other life skill EXP buffs can be found in our Life EXP Buff List
When tending to your farm, there is a chance that you can loot a “ Mole’s Feed “. This item will appear in your gathering window, but will cosume when you loot it, and spawn a mole.
Chances of looting Mole’s Feed:
The chance is doubled for seeds that use double slots.
