Farming
Till soil near water, plant seeds, wait, harvest. Each harvest gives back at least the seed it grew from.
Starting a field
- Gather Seeds: cutting tall grass sometimes drops them.
- Make a Hoe and till grass or dirt within about 3 blocks of water. A Bucket lets you bring the water to the field instead.
- Plant seeds on the tilled soil.
- Wait. A crop grows through its stages, standing taller each time and turning gold when it's ripe, so you can read a field from across it.
- Harvest the ripe plants.
What a harvest gives
- Food crops give Crop, which you cook. Fibre crops give Plant Fibre for cloth instead.
- Always at least one seed back, so farming can't make you run out of plants.
- Sometimes extra seeds. Some species barely spread; others go like potatoes, one in and a handful out now and then.
Which crops grow where
Crops belong to planet classes. A frost crop won't take on a desert. Every class has at least one fibre crop, so wherever you land, something makes rope. See Crops.