Gathering

Where it is

The North Garden is in the northern village, in the clearing between the road and the big house. It has a vegetable bed, a field bed, a flower bed and the compost bin; Brígida and Elvira stand next to it. In Aurelia, east of the southern wheat field, lies the Orchard, with two holes for trees.

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How it works

1. Carry a sickle in your backpack. Brígida sells it for 2, and Elvira gives you one in her first quest. The sickle never locks a crop: it only makes tending faster.
2. Plant. Double-click (or press E) on a bed within reach and pick the seed: each plot uses one from your backpack. Beds have 4 plots; the flower bed, 1.
3. Tend, strike by strike. Your character works alone, one strike at a time: removes a pest, plants an empty plot, harvests a ripe one, or waters and weeds. While you tend, the whole bed grows 6 times faster. When there is nothing left to do, they stop.
4. Harvest. Each plot gives 3 units at its level and one more for every ten spare levels, up to 6. Harvesting it at its peak (within half of its growing time, at least 10 minutes) gives one more. It can also give the seed back: 50% at its level, one point more per spare level, up to 90%.
5. Pests. In each quarter of the growth there is a 6% chance of a pest, which takes one unit off the harvest (never below one). Tending removes them, and a flower planted in the flower bed protects the whole garden. A plant is never lost.
6. Visits. While you tend, every 40 to 90 seconds something shows up in the garden and you have 6 seconds to touch it. The crow: scare it away and that plot gives one more unit (1 per bed each sowing). The strong sprout: touch it and the bed instantly grows 5 seconds of tending. The rain, rare, needs no touch: 30 seconds of double growth across your whole garden. If you miss them, you lose nothing.

It grows while you are away

What you plant grows on its own, in real time, also while you go on adventures, fight or are offline: Farming is the only profession that moves forward at the same time as another action. What grew on its own teaches 40% of the harvest experience; the rest is earned by tending. A ripe plot waits for you forever: at its peak it gives one more, and after that it gives the normal amount. In the Professions screen, “My crops” shows every plot and how long it has left.

The crops

Vegetables and wheat go in the beds and end up in the kitchen. Flax, cotton and the silks also go in the field bed and are woven into cloth at the artisan table, to sew cloth armor; flax can also be spun into thread. Flowers go in the flower bed and protect the whole garden from pests while they are planted. “Alone” is how long it takes to grow with nobody around; “Tending” is how long it takes if you stay with it.

Brígida sells every seed. Those of high-level crops cost four times more; creatures on adventures also drop them (see below), and after that the harvest gives them back. They are also bought and sold on the market.

Fruit trees

Trees go in the Orchard: each hole takes a sapling, which you buy from Brígida like the seeds. A tree takes a while to give its first fruit, but after that it never empties: every time you harvest it, it gives 6 fruits and bears again in half the time, forever. No need to replant or spend anything else.

A tree always gives 6 fruits, whatever your level: what goes up with your level is which tree you can plant. Tending it makes it grow faster, just like a bed.

If you want to change trees, pull it out from “My crops” in the Professions screen: two clicks and the hole is free. Any crop can be pulled out the same way, beds and planters too: you get back the seed and the compost you used. A tree that has already given fruit does not give back its sapling, and anything ripe is lost.

Seeds from adventures

Fighting on adventures, creatures drop seeds and saplings of the crops of their zone: from about twenty levels below the adventure to five above. The more energy the outing uses, the more seeds it brings, and they go straight into your loot. That is how you get high-level seeds without paying Brígida's price.

Compost and the compost bin

Compost is made in the garden's compost bin and added when you plant, one per plot. It adds units to the harvest and lowers the pest chance; the magic one also speeds up growth. The common one comes from any crops or from burnt food, which finally becomes useful.

At home: the Farm

At House V you can turn your house into a Farm instead of a Workshop, with the same works from I to V. It is forever. The Farm is only for the houses of Aurelia: in Desert Town and Snowy Hamlet the house goes on to Workshop.

Each Farm level adds a planter with 2 plots, for vegetables, field crops or flowers. From Farm II you have the compost bin to make compost at home, from III a potted fruit tree with one hole and from IV a beehive: every flower you harvest at home gives 2 honey. Farm V adds the greenhouse: everything in the house grows 20% faster and with no pests.

It works just like the village garden, and the plots belong to each character. Only the characters of the owner's account farm there, and a flower in any planter protects the whole house from pests.

Farm

Brígida and Elvira

• Brígida, seed seller sells the sickle, every seed and Honey, and buys your crops paying 25% more than other merchants.
• Elvira, farmer stands next to her and gives the garden quests: the first harvest, with a sickle and ten potato seeds as a gift, and a daily one.
  Harvest day The first harvest Mastery: Cooking Mastery: Farming

Garden dishes

These kitchen dishes use your crops: they give two balanced effects instead of a single strong one. The rest of the kitchen is in Cooking.