This is a basic guide on getting started on your farming adventure in Enshrouded.
Contents
Definitive Guide to Farming
Getting Started
This guide is going to assume you have The Farmer unlocked already and have basic knowledge of the game up until getting The Farmer. But to help anyone who has just started I’ll show where you can get the tools to get started.
Finding the Farmer
The Farmer can be located north of the Springlands Fast Travel Ancient Spire. The Hunter will give you a quest to go rescue her.
(Optional) Getting a Rake
While a Rake isn’t necessary to being able to flatten ground it is much smoother than the Construction Hammer.
Unfortunately I don’t remember exactly remember when this was unlocked during my playthrough.
Getting Farm Soil
While you don’t need Farm Soil for farming since any dirt will do. I recommend using farm soil since it speeds up growth of plants.
You can get bonemeal from world spawns or from grinding bones in The Alchemist’s Grinding Stones.
Making a Seedbed
Lastly you need a Seedbed to get truly started on the farming experience.
With this you can truly get started with your farming.
The Seedbed
With all tools and supplies gathered you are one step closer to getting started on your farming adventure. But before you can get dirt under your nails you need seeds to get started with. That is where The Seedbed comes in.
The UI
Like many other “factories” the seed bed is automatic in its crafting and will consume any resources you put in if there is enough. So be careful lest you want all your water being eaten up by these hungry seeds.
Most likely you’ll start out with any Seedlings of most early area plants you’ll find. In this picture we have a Berry Bush Seedling as our current recipe. This little guy needs 3 things Farm Soil, Purple Berries, and most important of all WATER.
Getting Water
While not all Seedbed recipes require Water or Farm Soil. Water is the most used resource for Seedbed recipes I’ve seen so far. I have two locations where you can find water pretty easily early game.
The first source of easy Water is the Longkeep well which most people are familiar with.
The second source of easy Water I use is the Harvest Homestead well.
While wells are a great source of Water. Water can be found in most houses or inside pots or containers like crates or barrels. But wells seem disconnected from chunk respawn so I recommend using those for your water farming needs. Of course this list is VERY incomplete any help finding more water sources will be added and credited.
Planting and Sowing
Once you feed the Seedbed the required resources having a place to plant these seeds is the next thing to do is prepare some ground for planting. As said before regular soil will do but using Farm Soil will give you the best results.
Placing Soil
Having a Construction Hammer set to the Cube 1m size gives me the best result for nice big farm land for planting seeds, but setting it to Single Terrain Block works fine for planting seeds.
Placing Plants
Once you have the Farm Soil down you can place the Seedling down like how you would furniture with either snapping turned on (left Seedling) or off (right Seedlings) as shown above. Both having their benefits.
Once you place a seedling as long as it hasn’t progressed to its second or third stage of growth it can be re-potted and moved without harvesting the plant in the case of misplacement.
The Wait
Once you have planted your Seedlings all you have to do is wait.
Sleeping in a bed really helps to pass the time during the night time and gives you the Rested buff as long as the right conditions are met. Once some time passed the plant will progress in its stages. Some plants have two stages and some I’ve seen have 3 such as the Berry Bush Seedling.
Shown in this picture are the two later stages of a Berry Bush’s growth. The plant on the left is a Bush before it is ready. Interacting with it here will say Collect and you’ll get Plant Fiber. The plant on the right is a Bush ready for harvest and you’ll get Purple Berries. Interacting with it here will say Harvest.
The Payoff
Now that you have harvested your first crop. Congrats. You can now enjoy the fruits of your labor. Make sure to save some crop though to continue the cycle of growth and to cook some stat boosting food. If all you cared about was how farming goes you can stop reading here, but with this guide will come some visual aids for plant growth stages and times for plant growth.
Crop Growth Stages and Times
Now as much as I’d like to make this section now I typed this up at 1 in the morning and don’t have time to screenshot and time each plant but I will make sure to edit this later on to include these or add any help I can get from you guys.
W.I.P.
Rake at level 3 and just after i placed the Blacksmith in my house with the summoning staff so maybe he’s the trigger.
Funny thing is, before reading it I tried farming myself and it turns out that the plants can grow on a normal, uncultivated soil.
Not sure if it’s intended or a bug
Yes it is intended to be able to plant on regular soil. I don’t recommend it since farm soil is faster. Altho I should time regular soil to see how fast farm soil is.
Pop down a flame altar a few metres away from the well in Homested Harvest, grab water, fast travel home and back to HH, congrats you now have infinite water. With the building hammer scroll all the way down in the building block menu to get a 4×4 tile to make farm patches quickly.
On forum, there’s a “known issue” listed about the Rake not being available to people who have it unlocked after they log out and back in. Apparently unlocking the Rake is not always saved. There is no current workaround (other than maybe starting a new map and getting the rake, or maybe joining someone else’s map where you can pick up a rake from them.. I haven’t tried this, but I assume that personal inventory transitions across maps. It might not work, dunno.)