Farming

Tap a spot of ground and till it. Once it's tilled you can plant on it. Crops grow while you're logged off, and they take real days, so plant early and plant plenty.

Tilling one tile at a time is slow going for a big field. Lead a grown bull while you till and he draws the plough, three rows at a go. With an iron plough from the forge in your pack it's 5 rows, and a horse will draw that one too.

Rain waters everything you've planted. While it's raining, crops and flowers grow 2 times as fast, so the times above are the longest they'll take.

Every harvest gives you 1 or 2 seeds back, so you keep your field going without having to find more. Every 4 levels of Farming adds one more to each harvest, up to 5 more.

You can walk through your crops, but nothing else can be built on that spot until they're harvested. Carrots and wheat are also what wins over a wild horse, so it's worth keeping some back.

Crops grow just as well in a garden bed as in a tilled field, if you'd like a kitchen garden by the door.

Now and then foraging in long grass turns up a crop seed, so you can get more without waiting on a harvest.

Wild berries#

Berry bushes grow on the open grass, thickest along the edge of the woods. A bush holds up to 4 berries and grows a new one every 4 min in the daytime, half as quick in the evening, and none at all after dark. They won't fill you up, but they'll keep you going on the trail.