Farming

Farming is a gathering skill. You harvest crops and dig roots. Cooking bakes with the grain and roots, and Tailoring weaves crops like flax and hemp into cloth.

How to train

Start with Harvest barley at level 1. New activities open as you level up: see the table below.
Tool: Copper hoe (+15% speed, made with Smithing). Better ones: Iron scythe (+20%), Cobalt scythe (+30%).
Potion: Harvest potion (+1 item per action, made with Medicine).

Activities

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
1	Harvest barley	Barley sheaf	—	2
4	Grind bone meal	Bone meal	3 × Beast bones	6
5	Dig roots	Roots	—	2
6	Harvest a bone-fed row	Barley sheaf	1 × Bone meal	6
6	Harvest rye	Rye sheaf	—	2
8	Make mulch	Mulch	2 × Bark, 1 × Roots	4
10	Harvest a mulched row	Barley sheaf	1 × Mulch	6
12	Harvest flax	Flax sheaf	—	5
20	Harvest oats	Oats sheaf	—	8
30	Harvest hemp	Hemp sheaf	—	11
42	Harvest wheat	Wheat sheaf	—	14
55	Harvest cotton	Cotton sheaf	—	17
68	Harvest silkgrass	Silkgrass sheaf	—	20
82	Harvest goldthread	Goldthread sheaf	—	23
95	Harvest kingsflax	Kingsflax sheaf	—	26

"Sells for" is what one action's items sell for, at the level the activity opens, before bonuses. Every skill uses the same XP table: see Levels and XP.

Mastery

Each of the 15 Farming activities has its own mastery level, from 1 to 99. Every completed action gives that activity mastery XP, and higher mastery makes the activity better (table below).

A quarter of that mastery XP (half once Farming is level 99) also goes into the Farming mastery pool, which holds up to 13,875,000 XP. You can spend pool XP on any Farming activity: 1 pool XP gives 1 mastery XP. See Mastery for the exact numbers.

Each activity's own mastery

Activity mastery	Adds to that activity
10	+2% speed
20	+2% speed
30	+2% speed
40	+2% speed
50	+2% speed
60	+2% speed
70	+2% speed
80	+2% speed
90	+2% speed
99	+10 points high-quality chance, +50% rare drop chance

Pool checkpoints

While the pool is filled to a checkpoint or above, its bonus counts for every Farming activity. If you spend the pool below a checkpoint, that bonus stops until the pool fills up again.

Pool filled	Pool XP	Adds to every activity of the skill
10%	1,387,500	+5% mastery XP
25%	3,468,750	+10% XP
50%	6,937,500	+25% rare drop chance
95%	13,181,250	+5% speed

Gear for this skill

Willow basket — +1 item per action
Reaper's gloves — +10% XP
Tent — +8% speed
Straw hat — +6% speed
Seed apron — +8 points high-quality chance
Grain tally — +12% XP
Copper hoe — +15% speed
Iron scythe — +20% speed
Cobalt scythe — +30% speed, +1 item per action

Gear only helps while it is equipped. A high-quality piece gives 1.5 times the bonus, rounded down. See also every boost for Farming.

Faster from rebuilt places

The flooded mill — +10% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt
Hidden hollow — +20% speed while you are there, once it is rebuilt

Places that need this skill

You need this level to find and rebuild the place. Some places accept another skill instead.

The silent weaving shed — level 12 (or Tailoring 12)
The weavers' guildhall — level 35 (or Tailoring 40)

Story

Harvest crops such as barley, flax and cotton. They become food, cloth and other goods.