Rust – Farming Guide

Basics of Farming

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At this point in the game, you can grow:

• Potatoes (it is also an unpretentious plant in the game).
• Hemp.
• Corn.
• Pumpkin.
• Six types of bushes with berries.

During the growing process, each plant goes through 8 stages of growth. The speed of passing the stages depends on the conditions of detention, as well as on genetics.

What conditions are needed: light, water, soil, and temperature. All of them are listed in the plants table in the Conditions section.

There is also another school called Overall. Its number is equal to the worst indicator in all schools.Also above there are scales that indicate the health indicators, age and stage at which the plant is located.

Growth stages:

1. Seed (very short stage).
2. Seedling (+- 10 min).
3. Sapling (+- 10 min, at this stage you can even clone the plant).
4. Crossbreed (the most important stage for cloning, which lasts a very short time).
5. Mature (you can collect the fruit).
6. Fruiting (you can collect the fruit).
7. Ripe (you can collect the fruit).
8. Dying (the plant begins to die).

To grow plants, build a farm in a forest biome where temperature can’t be controlled.

Endorsements exist but are only suitable for small farms and not for crossbreeding.

Each plant requires water. While water intakes are available, they’re not efficient for large-scale farming. It’s best to use a pump placed in fresh water, avoiding saltwater. If mistakenly placed in saltwater, connect it to an electric desalination plant, albeit with some water loss and electricity consumption. Connect a circulation pump to control water flow and elevation, then lead it to sprinklers. Place sprinklers at the intersection of 4 beds to conserve water and sprinklers.

Up to 6 sprinklers can be connected to the pump. To automate watering, create an automatic irrigation system. After setup, water beds manually once before the system takes over. Adjust the timer if the soil begins to dry.

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Consider lighting by placing lamps over each bed every two floors, exploiting a game bug to save money.

Fundamentals of Genetics

Now our plants will live, now we need to make offspring from it. Each plant has 6 genes, they can be good and bad.

Good genes include:

• G – each such gene increases the growth rate.
• Y – allows you to harvest more crops.
• H – allows the plant to survive better in unsuitable conditions(perfect for farms in winter or desert).

Bad genes:

• W – increases the amount of water that the plant needs.
• X – is an empty gene.

The genes vary each time, ranging from entirely bad (W-W-W-W-W-W) to entirely good (G-Y-G-H-H-Y). If you obtain a good gene, you can clone it for further breeding. Each plant has its own stage for harvesting. The earliest stage for cannabis is the sapling phase. To clone, press and hold the E button, then select “Clone” from the menu. You can collect 2 to 5 clones, depending on the W gene. The clone’s genotype appears in the inventory when hovered over.

The optimal genotype for cannabis is G-G-G-Y-Y-Y (3-G, 3-Y), with gene order being irrelevant.

How do we achieve the genotype 3-G, 3-Y? Initially, plant all sprouts and assess the outcome. The likelihood of obtaining the desired sprout is low but possible. If unsuccessful, assess the result. For instance, out of 50 seeds, you might obtain G-G-Y-Y-Y-X, nearly ideal except for the X gene. Wait for it to reach the sapling phase to clone.

Understanding plant crossing is essential. At the crossbreed stage, a seedling adopts the strongest genes from neighboring plants. It’s crucial to comprehend how genes interact. The first gene solely affects the first one; genes from different slots don’t influence each other. To alter the last gene, find a sprout with the desired last gene. In this case, replacing the X gene with G requires finding sprouts ending with G.

The Subtleties of Genetics

You can combine sprouts in groups of up to 9 pieces, with each group following the principle of strength (100 for red, 60 for green). Crossing 4 genes (YY and HH) results in equal strength, namely 120, with a 50-50 chance of equal division.

Forces only combine within the same genes. For instance, in the column GYX, green genes (G, Y) won’t prevail because they have 60 strength, while red (X) has 100.

Sometimes, replacing 1 gene is necessary. In such cases, it’s easier to rely on the 50-50 principle than to select a specific sprout.

These are the main principles in the game currently.

How to Build an Efficient Farm?

With all this knowledge, you need to be able to build an efficient farm, which I will now teach you how to build.It is clear that you need to build large farms on water, namely on rivers or lakes, because there is fresh water.We build the first floor so that there is water on it. There we put the pumps, put them as many as we want to build floors. We connect all these pumps with sprinklers.

We will return to this later, but for now we are building the foundation.

On the placement of service corridors will not be, we are talking about the location and processing of beds, everything else can be done as you want. On each floor we have 16 beds, 4 sprinklers and on each even floor we have 16 lamps.

Odd floor:

Even floor:

Also, a coptern should be built on the top floor, because we will have to fly a lot to the city of bandits and back.Also on the roof we put solar panels (13 pieces), 7 panels feed one battery, and 6 another. The first battery is located on the top floor, it feeds all the lights.The remaining 6 panels are powered by another battery, which is located on the ground floor.And of course, to connect the solar panels, we need Combine Harvesters (11 pieces).From the lower battery we have a splitter, we output 33 energy to our pumps (each pump uses 5 energy, and the other three go to the electricity separation (as shown in the photo (the splitter should beat at 16)).

Another wire that goes from the splitter, which is located near the battery, in the same way entangles the circulation pumps (as shown in the photo (the splitter is powered by 10)).

It remains to connect the circulation pumps to the watering cans. Also here you can connect the same automatic watering, which was described above.This is the end of the construction of the farm itself.

Berries

About berries, everything will be easier, they can be found in the forest, there are 6 types of them:

• Yellow
• White
• Red
• Green
• Blue ones
• Black

At the moment, black berries are not used for making tea, so it makes no sense to keep them.

On the mixing table with berries, you can brew teas that give buffs when drinking them. What is the buff and how much time is left can be checked in the inventory.

Beware, all buffs vanish upon death. Now, let’s discuss the buffs briefly. There are three types of tea: simple, advanced, and pure. The stronger the brew, the more potent the effect.

The simplest buff is the hill buff, akin to a large first aid kit. However, it requires clearing radiation or stopping bleeding before use.

To boost health, max out pumping; the time and cost are justified for a 20-unit health increase. Scrap increase buff seems least useful, merely boosting scrap from barrels. Yet, buffs for ore or wood are excellent. Pure ones aren’t best; four teas at 60% aren’t much worse than one at 100%.

Radiation buff seems strange and useless, only suitable for Lutannya sphere in an owl suit (to avoid mountain sickness).

Focus on collecting blue, red, and yellow berries. Diluting them faces cloning issues, possible after 100 minutes post-landing, spoiling each other’s genes. Solution: eat berries for more seeds. Plant them as shown in the photo (same color, same type).

The central slot can host another favorite plant. Purchase, study the jam tea table, and brew tea.