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== How to Grow Crops ==
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=== Cooking Skill ===
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To successfully grow crops, you need to train your cooking skill:
  
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To successfully grow crops, you need to train your cooking skill up at least into the 60s-70s or what you plant will usually turn to weeds.  The higher your cooking skill the lower the chance of having your crops turn to weeds. If you have high cooking skill, mine is in the 90s, your crops will never turn to weeds again. 
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* Cooking Skill < 60 will often, if not always, yield weeds instead of crops
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* Cooking Skill >= 60s-70s will yield crops most of the time
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* Cooking Skill > 90 will never produce weeds (the threshold may be lower)
  
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To grow crops, you need to acquire seeds from a Farmer NPC.  You can find farmers in many towns and in some custom areas like the taming forest.  The seeds available currently for growing are: onions, garlic, lettuce, corn, cabbage, carrots, cotton, and flax.
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'''Note:''' If you accidentally grow some weeds, just click them as if to harvest them and you'll pull up the weeds to free the plot for a new crop.
  
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So, let us pretend you have seeds and cooking skill and you want to grow some crops.  You can find a public field outside a town, and if there is a spot empty, you can grow your crops there.  However, you can only harvest your own crops and most public fields are filled up with long-abandoned crops from other players. Field crops can also become crowded, which means you cannot plant your seed, if too much is growing around the square you are standing on, so your best bet is to grow them at home.
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=== Crop Types ===
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To grow crops, you need to acquire seeds from a Farmer NPC.  You can find farmers in many towns and in some custom areas like the taming forest.  The seeds available currently for growing are:
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* onions
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* garlic
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* lettuce  
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* corn
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* cabbage
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* carrots
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* '''cotton and flax''' (crafting resource crops)
  
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To grow crops at home, you will need to place plantable soil from the yard wand somewhere in your yard area or in your home. Since crops do not require lock downs, you can grow them outside of your home up to 2 squares out on the side yards or up to 4 squares out in the front yard.
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===Public Fields===
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You can plant in public fields outside of any town, where there is space.
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*'''You can only harvest your own crops'''
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Most public field are filled up with long-abandoned crops from other players.
  
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To find the plantable soil option, double click the yard wand in your back pack (yard wands are purchased from the blue token stone in Trinsic), click the lower blue circle on the left hand side - the Ground Tiles section, click the first of four dots on the top row menu which starts with Short Bush 1, and arrow over all the way to the end of the menu.  Plantable soil is the last option and it costs 30,000 gold each.
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===Home===
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To grow crops at home, you will need to place plantable soil from the [[Yard Wand]] in your yard area or in your home. Crops do not need to be locked down, so you can grow them outside of your home:
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* 2 squares out on the side yards
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* 4 squares out in the front yard
  
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Once you lay out your square or squares of plantable soil, stand on each one, and click one of the seeds in your backpack.  This will start a crop seedling.  The seedling can take several hours to mature and even if you plant all your crops at the same time they will probably not all mature at the same time.  So, be patient.
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To find the plantable soil option on your [[Yard Wand]]:
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*Double click the yard wand in your back pack
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**Yard Wands are purchased from the blue token stone in Trinsic''')
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*Click the lower blue circle on the left hand side - '''the Ground Tiles section'''
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*Click the first of four dots on the top row menu which starts with Short Bush 1
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*Arrow over all the way to the end of the menu.   
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*Plantable soil is the last option and it costs ''30,000 gold each''.
  
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== Harvesting Crops ==
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=== Planting ===
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To plant, stand on your plantable soil or farm dirt tile, click one of the seeds in your backpack.
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This will start a crop seedling. The seedling can take several hours to mature. Even if you plant all your crops at the same time they will probably not all mature at the same time.
  
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Different crops yield different crop amounts. Once you have harvested all of the crops from a mature plant that it can yield, it will ask if you want to destroy the plant.  Click cancel, unless you really want to get rid of it.    Some examples are: corn yields 3 crops, carrots yield 6 crops, lettuce or cabbage yields 1 crop each, and flax or cotton yields 10 crops each.  You do not get all of them on the first try usually, so you have to repeat your harvest attempts till you gather that crop's max harvest.
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== '''Harvesting Crops''' ==
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To harvest:
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*Target the plant and double-click it to harvest the crop.  
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**You usually do not get a full harvest on the first try, so you have to repeat your harvest attempts till you gather that crop's maximum harvest.
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*Once you have harvested all of the crops from a mature plant that it can yield, it will ask if you want to destroy the plant.   
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**Click cancel, unless you really want to get rid of it.     
  
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Note: If you accidentally grow some weeds, just click them as if to harvest them and you'll pull up the weeds to free up the plot for a new crop.
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Different crops yield different crop amounts. Harvest amounts are:  
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* corn yields 3 crops
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* carrots yield 6 crops
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* onions or garlic yield 4 crops
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* lettuce or cabbage yields 1 crop  
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* flax or cotton yields 10 crops 
  
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If you are a tailor, I highly recommend growing your own flax.  It is very pretty to grow.  Cotton sprawls kind of funny from where the plant begins, but sometimes you specifically need cotton for deco.  Cotton saves on tailor keys as it is.  Flax saves on tailor keys as wool.
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''' In '''''approximately 10 minutes''''', your crops will have resources on them again; however, they will not appear fully regrown until the randomly respawned resource amount reaches the plant's resource max.   
  
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== Pumpkin and Squash Fields ==
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== '''Pumpkin and Squash Fields''' ==
  
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If you see fields of pumpkins, squash and other such items, look carefully, those vines are probably locked down parasitic plants and the pumpkins and squash are locked down as well.  If you want to make one of these fields, you need to lock down your "vines" (parasitic plants are a byproduct of lumberjacking) and squash items, raise them twice with the deco tool, and then place plantable soil beneath them. Deco fields can only exist on land that you can have lock downs or all of your work will wipe with world saves. You can mix in different vegetables for a pretty and interesting garden, and for nice layers, use the deco tool to turn the vegetables so that they sit on the "vines" in different places.
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If you see fields of pumpkins, squash and other such items at player homes, look carefully, those vines are probably locked down parasitic plants and the pumpkins and squash are locked down as well.   
  
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If you want to make one of these fields, you need to:
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* lock down your "vines" (''parasitic plants are a byproduct of lumberjacking'')
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* raise them twice with the deco tool
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* arrange and lock down your squash (''pumpkin, gourds, non-plantable crops, etc.'')
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* raise them twice with the deco tool
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* place plantable soil beneath them to emulate a field
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'''Note:''' Deco fields can only exist on land where you can have lock downs. You can mix in different vegetables for a pretty and interesting garden, and for nice layers, use the deco tool to turn the vegetables so that they sit on the "vines" in different places.
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'''If you are a tailor:''' I highly recommend growing your own flax.  It is very pretty to grow.  Cotton sprawls kind of funny from where the plant begins, but sometimes you specifically need cotton for deco.  Cotton saves on tailor keys as it is.  Flax saves on tailor keys as wool.
  
 
--[[User:Viola|Viola]] 05:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 
--[[User:Viola|Viola]] 05:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
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Latest revision as of 07:14, 11 June 2012

Cooking Skill

To successfully grow crops, you need to train your cooking skill:

  • Cooking Skill < 60 will often, if not always, yield weeds instead of crops
  • Cooking Skill >= 60s-70s will yield crops most of the time
  • Cooking Skill > 90 will never produce weeds (the threshold may be lower)

Note: If you accidentally grow some weeds, just click them as if to harvest them and you'll pull up the weeds to free the plot for a new crop.

Crop Types

To grow crops, you need to acquire seeds from a Farmer NPC. You can find farmers in many towns and in some custom areas like the taming forest. The seeds available currently for growing are:

  • onions
  • garlic
  • lettuce
  • corn
  • cabbage
  • carrots
  • cotton and flax (crafting resource crops)

Public Fields

You can plant in public fields outside of any town, where there is space.

  • You can only harvest your own crops

Most public field are filled up with long-abandoned crops from other players.

Home

To grow crops at home, you will need to place plantable soil from the Yard Wand in your yard area or in your home. Crops do not need to be locked down, so you can grow them outside of your home:

  • 2 squares out on the side yards
  • 4 squares out in the front yard

To find the plantable soil option on your Yard Wand:

  • Double click the yard wand in your back pack
    • Yard Wands are purchased from the blue token stone in Trinsic)
  • Click the lower blue circle on the left hand side - the Ground Tiles section
  • Click the first of four dots on the top row menu which starts with Short Bush 1
  • Arrow over all the way to the end of the menu.
  • Plantable soil is the last option and it costs 30,000 gold each.

Planting

To plant, stand on your plantable soil or farm dirt tile, click one of the seeds in your backpack. This will start a crop seedling. The seedling can take several hours to mature. Even if you plant all your crops at the same time they will probably not all mature at the same time.

Harvesting Crops

To harvest:

  • Target the plant and double-click it to harvest the crop.
    • You usually do not get a full harvest on the first try, so you have to repeat your harvest attempts till you gather that crop's maximum harvest.
  • Once you have harvested all of the crops from a mature plant that it can yield, it will ask if you want to destroy the plant.
    • Click cancel, unless you really want to get rid of it.

Different crops yield different crop amounts. Harvest amounts are:

  • corn yields 3 crops
  • carrots yield 6 crops
  • onions or garlic yield 4 crops
  • lettuce or cabbage yields 1 crop
  • flax or cotton yields 10 crops

In approximately 10 minutes, your crops will have resources on them again; however, they will not appear fully regrown until the randomly respawned resource amount reaches the plant's resource max.

Pumpkin and Squash Fields

If you see fields of pumpkins, squash and other such items at player homes, look carefully, those vines are probably locked down parasitic plants and the pumpkins and squash are locked down as well.

If you want to make one of these fields, you need to:

  • lock down your "vines" (parasitic plants are a byproduct of lumberjacking)
  • raise them twice with the deco tool
  • arrange and lock down your squash (pumpkin, gourds, non-plantable crops, etc.)
  • raise them twice with the deco tool
  • place plantable soil beneath them to emulate a field

Note: Deco fields can only exist on land where you can have lock downs. You can mix in different vegetables for a pretty and interesting garden, and for nice layers, use the deco tool to turn the vegetables so that they sit on the "vines" in different places.

If you are a tailor: I highly recommend growing your own flax. It is very pretty to grow. Cotton sprawls kind of funny from where the plant begins, but sometimes you specifically need cotton for deco. Cotton saves on tailor keys as it is. Flax saves on tailor keys as wool.

--Viola 05:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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