Agriculture

Obtaining

Wild Crops

Crops spawn randomly in the wild, with each individual type spanned out over an 8x8 chunk grid. This means the player will have to explore quite some distance in order to gather every single type of crop. Wild crops only generate between the seasons of Spring and Late Summer, and have a chance to regenerate during those seasons every year.

Seeds

Harvesting a crop will always drop at least a single seed, as well as increase the player's agriculture skill. The higher the player's agriculture skill, the more likely that a second seed will drop as well, allowing for farm expansion.

Crop Types

Planted crops mimic real life in how long it takes for them to grow before they can be harvested. Note however, that these values have been scaled to fit within the length of a TFC year which by default is only 96 days.

Note that the values for temperature and rainfall are for growth. Ranges for survival are slightly more forgiving.

Crop Name	Harvest	Refined to	Pickable	Speed	Min Rain	Max Rain	Min Temp (°C)	Max Temp (°C)	Growth Phases	Dead Phases
Barley	Barley	Barley Grain	No	Slow	70	310	1	26
Maize	Maize Ear	---	No	Fast	140	400	19	40
Oat	Oat	Oat Grain	No	Average	100	350	3	30
Rice	Rice	Rice Grain	No	Slow	300	450	22	40
Rye	Rye	Rye Grain	No	Average	100	400	4	35
Wheat	Wheat	Wheat Grain	No	Average	100	350	3	30
Red Bell Pepper	Green Pepper Red Pepper	---	Yes¹	Slow	100	400	12	32
Yellow Bell Pepper	Green Pepper Yellow Pepper	---	Yes¹	Slow	100	400	12	32
Cabbage	Cabbage	---	No	Slow	60	280	0	27
Carrot	Carrot	---	No	Slow	100	400	10	30
Garlic	Garlic	---	No	Slow	60	310	−1	18
Green Bean	Green Bean	---	Yes	Fast	150	410	9	35
Onion	Onion	---	No	Fast	200	410	10	37
Potato	Potato	---	No	Slow	100	390	4	30
Beet	Beet	---	No	Slow	70	300	0	20
Soybean	Soybean	---	No	Average	160	410	12	30
Squash	Squash	---	No	Average	90	390	14	33
Tomato	Tomato	---	Yes	Fast	120	390	8	36
Sugarcane	Sugarcane	Sugar	No	Average	160	410	20	38
Jute	Jute×2	Jute Fibers	No	Average	100	410	11	37

¹Bell Peppers can be harvested/picked both when the pepper is immature (green), and ripe (red or yellow).

Usage

Fruits and vegetables can be eaten directly by the player, however to maximize the nutritional benefits of Cereal crops (except Maize) they must first be made into bread. This is done by combining them with a knife in the crafting grid to produce Grain (with Straw as byproduct), grinding the Grain in a Quern to make flour, combining the flour with water in the crafting grid to get dough (each flour + bucket of water produce 2 dough), then baking the dough into bread.

Animal Husbandry

Cereals can be used to tame and breed animals. Chickens, ducks and pigs can eat rotten cereals.

Jute

Jute is soaked in a water barrel to produce jute fibers, which are used to craft rope. A full water barrel can process up to 14 jute at a time.

Sugarcane

Sugarcane is soaked in a water barrel to produce sugar.

Soil

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Farmland, also known as soil, gives your plants access to water, if a source is close enough.