Farming and cooking

Your first crop

You start with a Wooden Hoe and a few Carrot Seeds.

1. Till: hold the hoe and use it on grass, dirt or mud to turn it into soil.
2. Plant: hold the seeds and use them on the soil.
3. Water: fill a watering can at open water or the village well, and water the crop. A watered crop grows one "growth day" per game day (a game day is about 24 minutes); a dry one grows at half speed.
4. Harvest: when it's ripe, pick it with E or sweep a whole row with a sickle.

Carrots are ready in a day. Some crops, like tomatoes, chili, bamboo, cacao and mango trees, fruit again and again after each harvest.

Helping crops grow

• Compost worked into a young crop makes it grow 30% faster.
• Rice grows only in wet soil: beside water, or watered every day. Rice and taro grow faster beside open water.
• A bamboo sprinkler waters everything within 2 metres, day and night.
• Better hoes, cans and sickles work faster and wider.

Seeds

• Seeds come from wild plants: bushes, flowers and tall grass drop them now and then, and jungle trees sometimes leave bamboo shoots or cacao seedlings.
• Turn produce back into seeds by hand (press C): a pumpkin gives 4 pumpkin seeds, a corn cob 3 corn seeds, three mangoes a mango sapling.
• Mira sells some seeds in the village.

See all seeds on Seeds and saplings.

Farm animals and helpers

• A beehive makes honey every day, more with flowers nearby.
• A bird coop gives fresh eggs every day.
• A capybara pen gives milk every day while its capybara is fed produce.

Cooking

Raw food is fine, but cooked food heals more, keeps you fed much longer, and often gives a boost.

• At a Campfire: grilled fish, roasted corn, baked sweet potato, flatbread, fried eggs...
• At a Cookpot (it counts as a campfire too): stews, soups, rice bowls, curry, tea, hot cocoa and Tatazo's Famous Mango Pie (Tatazo's Famous Mango Pie).

Boosts last a few minutes: more XP from farming, fishing and cooking, faster stamina or mana, better farming or fishing. The food's page says exactly what it does.