Farming

Farming guide with pictures!

Get dirt mounds

Find some at a farm.

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Or create your own with a hoe by applying it.

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Plant seeds in dirt

You can get some seeds by foraging

examine dirt mounts with seeds in your inventory.

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Your dirt mounds become planted seeds.

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Plant food

This step is optional. Fertilized Seeds will grow faster!

Fertilize your seeds, but don't activate the plant food.

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examine a seed with plant food in your inventory.

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Plants will get a fertilized token, in 0.9 there is a bug where it does not stay on the plant: this is fixed in current experimental build as of 12/2/13.

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Wait

Travel into the future and examine your plants to harvest them, but make sure you are ready to eat/use them because it will spawn items that can rot as soon as you harvest; the plant will not grow in a day, be ready for a whole season for them to grow.

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In fact, I am sure they cannot grow if you wait in the same place for days. Some part of the code must require that the tile be unloaded as you walk away and compare it to time passed as it phases back into reality in order to grow. Saving and quitting can accomplish this.