Farming!
Accessibility TLDR:
Learn about /farm, where you can own multiple farms and plant crops like corn, watermelon, carrots, and more. Use farming tools like hoes, watering cans, and water buckets to manage your farm, and make sure to check on your plants to harvest them before they wilt. If you keep an empty space tilled and watered, surprising items might also appear.
Pepe has decided they want to be a farmer, and if Pepe gets to farm, everyone gets to farm.
With the /farm
, you can farm crops (obviously), and if you’re lucky, maybe even uncover some hidden treasures. To begin the laid-back farm life and make Pepe’s dreams come true, run /farm view
to see your farmland and all of the options.
Getting Started
Every farmer starts out with one free farm plot that has nine empty squares of untouched dirt, ready to be tilled, watered, and planted full of crops.
Beneath your plot of land, you’ll see a few buttons:
- Manage: Click to interact with your farm and begin growing crops. You can hoe, water, plant, fertilize, or harvest things from the manage button.
- Rename: Give your farm a unique name.
- Change Skin: If you’ve unlocked any farm skins, you can equip them with this button or the
/skin select farm
command to change your farm's appearance. - Refresh: The circular refresh button will update the command to show any changes.
- Buy Plot: Use the Farm Processed Goods item to purchase a second or third farm to grow things on. You can craft Farm Processed Goods in the
/craft
command. After you purchase a plots, the button will change to a farm icon to represent the farm you own.
Planting Crops
Before you can plant crops, you’ll need to buy some tools. Run /shop view
, and use the left and right arrows to browse the options. In the shop, you’ll see some seeds, watering cans, water buckets, and hoes to purchase. The shop rotates every few hours, so check back throughout the day to see all that is available.
To start farming, purchase at least one hoe, one type of seed, and one watering can. Then, do /farm view
to open your farm and click the “manage” button.
For each action on your farm, you can press the “all” button to do that action on all squares shown, or you can pick specific tiles to work on. If you only want to interact with one square of your farm, select “pick slots” to pick the exact square you want to interact with. If you want to do the same thing to every square, you can use the all button (hoe all, water all, etc).
To grow crops, you need to:
- Use a hoe to till the land.
- Water the tilled land so it’s ready for seeds.
- Plant the seeds.
- (Optional) Use fertilizer to make the plants grow faster. Each fertilizer used cuts the grow time in half.
- Wait! Crops need time to grow, and growing takes time.
After you’ve planted your crops, it will show the time before they’re ready to harvest at the top of the farm command. Each type of crop has a different amount of time it takes to grow, so plan ahead to be sure you can be there when the harvest is ready.
Once they’re ready to harvest, click the harvest button and either harvest all, or pick slots you want to harvest. The crops will be added to your inventory, and some may give you some seeds back as well.
You have a short time to harvest crops before they will wilt and go bad. The time stamp at the top of the farm command will change to show the time until the crops wilt so you know how long you have.
Farm Cleanup
After a harvest, you’ll notice the farm has gotten a bit messy. Every harvest leaves some debris behind that needs to be cleared before you can farm again.
To clear the mess, click the manage button and select the hoe. Use hoe all or pick the slots you want to hoe to prepare the area for new crops.
Another type of mess you might find on the farm is wilted plants.
Once a plant is wilted, you can no longer get crops or seeds, and all you can do is remove it by harvesting the dead plant remains.
Farm Boosts + Upgrades
Throughout many commands on the bot you can earn farming boosts that will speed up grow times or allow you to instantly farm crops instead of waiting. Previously, these boosts automatically activated causing a lot of waste if people weren’t ready to farm. Now, all boosts you unlock are stored in /farm boosts
so you can activate them when ready.
You can only activate ONE boost at a time, so you’ll have to pick and choose what you need. For faster farm speeds, activate the boost first, then plant your crops so the speed applies. For boosts that instantly grow plants, you need to plant your crops first, then use the boost.
If you want even more for your farm, you can purchase farm upgrades and boosts in the /farm store
using the Farm Processed Goods item.
You can craft Farm Processed Goods in the /craft
command. The farm upgrades available are permanent and do not expire, but you can only buy a certain amount. Most of the boosts work the same as other boosts you can collect, though some like “fertile soil” might activate instantly, so be ready to use it when you purchase it just in case.
Farming Tips
- Elf on the Shelf - Use the “Elf on the Shelf” item and the elf will watch over your farm for 7 days and send you a DM when your crops are ready to harvest.
- Farm Settings - You can customize what the “harvest all” button will harvest in your farm settings on the user dashboard in
/settings
. - Fertilizer - Want your plants to grow faster? Use fertilizer to cut the current grow time in half until only a few minutes are left. Fertilizer can be crafted with /craft or purchased on the market.
- Removing Mistakes - Make a move you regret? If you plant seeds you didn’t mean to, you can get them back by harvesting the spot early with the “pick slot” option instead of harvest all. Harvest can be used to remove most unwanted things, except tilling and watering. If you want to remove tilling or watering, simply leave the farm alone for a few hours, and they will fade to make the farm like new again.
- Surprise Guests - Sometimes surprising things will appear in empty tilled spaces on your farm, like diamonds and worms! When you see these, you can harvest them to remove them, and whatever it is will be added to your inventory.
- Water Buckets - Water buckets are another way to water your farm. When you place a bucket on the farm, it automatically keeps all the squares around it clean and watered, so you’ll won't have to clean up after a harvest or use a hoe or watering can until the bucket expires. To use a water bucket, you need a flat, empty space. If you don't have one, use a hoe on a tile and then leave it alone for around 1 hour until it looks like a new farm, then you can place the water bucket. You won’t be able to plant where the water bucket is, but if you till the tiles around the bucket, they will all be ready to use. After around 24 hours, the water will get dirty and stop working. Wait a few more hours and it will disappear, or use the harvest button and pick the exact slot to remove the water (not harvest all).