Agriculture

Obtaining

Wild Crops

Crops spawn randomly in the wild, with each individual type spanned out over an 8x8 chunk grid. This means the player will have to explore quite some distance in order to gather every single type of crop. Wild crops only generate between the seasons of Spring and Late Summer, and have a chance to regenerate during those seasons every year.

Seeds

Harvesting a crop will always drop at least a single seed, as well as increase the player's agriculture skill by 1. The higher the player's agriculture skill, the more likely that a second seed will drop as well, allowing for farm expansion.

Crop Types

Planted crops mimic real life in how long it takes for them to grow before they can be harvested. Note however, that these values have been scaled to fit within the length of a TFC year which by default is only 96 days.

Crop Name	Average Harvest	Refined Product	Nutrient	Speed	Hardy²	Growth Phases
Barley	Barley 14oz	Barley Grain	A	Very Slow	No
Oat	Oat 14oz	Oat Grain	A	Slow	No
Rice	Rice 14oz	Rice Grain	B	Slow	No
Rye	Rye 14oz	Rye Grain	A	Slow	No
Wheat	Wheat 14oz	Wheat Grain	A	Slow	No
Red Bell Pepper¹	Green Pepper 6oz Red Pepper 6oz	---	C	Very Fast	No³
Yellow Bell Pepper¹	Green Pepper 6oz Yellow Pepper 6oz	---	C	Very Fast	No³
Cabbage	Cabbage 32oz	---	B	Slow	Yes
Carrot	Carrot 30oz	---	C	Fast	Yes
Garlic	Garlic 20oz	---	C	Average	Yes
Greenbean	Green Bean 16oz	---	B	Fast	No
Maize	Maize Ear 32oz	---	A	Very Slow	No
Onion	Onion 36oz	---	B	Very Fast	Yes
Rutabaga	Rutabaga 36oz	---	B	Very Fast	Yes
Potato	Potato 55oz	---	C	Slow	No
Soybean	Soybean 16oz	---	B	Average	No
Squash	Squash 16oz	---	C	Very Slow	No
Tomato	Tomato 16oz	---	A	Fast	No
Jute	Jute x2	Jute Fibers	B	Slow	No³

¹Bell Peppers can be harvested both when the pepper is immature: green, and ripe: red or yellow. ²Will survive freezing temperatures while still young. ³Very sensitive to the cold. Can die at temperatures as high as 5℃.

Usage

The majority of harvested products from matured crops can be eaten directly by the player, making them a renewable source of food.

Animal Husbandry

Currently the following cereal products can be used to breed animals

Barley Grain

Rice Grain

Rye Grain

Wheat Grain

Oat Grain

Jute

Jute is soaked in a water barrel to produce jute fibers, which are used to craft rope. A full water barrel can process up to 14 jute at a time.

Input	Output	Rope
N/A N/A	N/A N/A
Water Barrel

Soil

Farmland, also known as soil, contains three basic nutrients for crops and gives your plants that important access to water, if any source is close enough. By using the water and nutrient modes of metal hoes you can get a visual indicator on the plots on the levels of nutrients and the access to source water.

Nutrients are diminished by the growing of crops in the soil and replenished over time by either letting the plots "fallow" for a season, using fertilizer, or by planting your crops in cycles, choosing a crop that has a different nutrient requirement than the ones that are depleted in the earth. Note: Some crops such as soybeans and green beans replenish the other nutrients as they grow.

Unlike in vanilla, farmland cannot be trampled or reverted back into dirt. Breaking a farmland block also yields no dirt as a way to prevent nutrient exploitation.

Configuration

Option	Default Value	Description
colornutrienta		Color used by hoes when displaying the levels for nutrient A.
Alpha	200	Opacity, where 0 is completely transparent and 255 is completely opaque.
Blue	36	Blue component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Green	28	Green component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Red	237	Red component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
colornutrientb		Color used by hoes when displaying the levels for nutrient B.
Alpha	200	Opacity, where 0 is completely transparent and 255 is completely opaque.
Blue	34	Blue component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Green	101	Green component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Red	242	Red component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
colornutrientc		Color used by hoes when displaying the levels for nutrient C.
Alpha	200	Opacity, where 0 is completely transparent and 255 is completely opaque.
Blue	49	Blue component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Green	148	Green component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Red	247	Red component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
cropfertilizercolor		Color used by hoes when displaying the levels for fertilizer.
Alpha	200	Opacity, where 0 is completely transparent and 255 is completely opaque.
Blue	0	Blue component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Green	255	Green component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
Red	255	Red component of color. Ranges from 0 to 255.
crops		Options which affect crop growth.
enableCropsDie	false	Should ripe crops eventually die if they aren't harvested?
general		Miscellaneous options.
enableNotOnions	false	If true converts all instances of onions to rutabagas.
yearLength	96	The number of days in a year. Must be a multiple of 12. Values greater than 360 will cause crop growth issues.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Prerequisites	Actual requirements (if different)
	Gatherer	Find a wild vegetable	None	Harvest a wild crop.
	Stupid onions...	Find a rutabaga	Gatherer	Pick up a rutabaga from the ground.

History

Beta
v1c		Hoes can be used on the new dirt and Crops may grow and be planted.
		Only wheat is a viable crop as of this patch.
v2 Build 48		The first phase of agriculture has been added including 19 new crops with several more to come in future patches.
		Harvesting tomatoes can be done via right click which will revert the plant back a few stages and allow it to produce more food.
		Crops grow based upon the current temperature, amount of sunlight they receive, water saturation, and time.
		All crops have an average amount of time that they will take to reach maturity which is directly affected by the temperature and nutrient levels.
		Tilled soil stores information about the nutrient levels in that plot of dirt. There are 3 separate nutrient groups for soil called A, B and C.
Build 53		Water saturation is no longer tracked. A mechanic similar to vanilla is in place where not having water nearby confers a negative bonus to growth speed.
		Scythes can be used to harvest crops. Warning! Using on tomatoes will yield nothing. Pick them by hand.
Build 58		All Crops may be broken down into seeds by placing the item into your crafting area.
Build 61		Crops can be found growing wildly in patches in newly generated chunks.
Build 67		Hoes now have 3 new modes available to help farmers tend their crops.
		Wild crop rarity increased from 1 in 4 chunks to 1 in 9 chunks.
Build 76		Crops no longer die from old age by default.
		Added a config option 'enableCropsDie'. Set this to true if you want more of a challenge.
		Snow makes crops immediately fail unless they are very young and are marked as being frost resistant(Onion, Garlic, Carrots, Cabbage).
77.0		Get straw from removing grain from crops and use of knife/scythe on grass.
78.0		Wild crops should now respawn every year between the seasons of Spring and Late Summer.
		Wild crop world generation altered so that different crop types will be harder to find.
		Seeds can now only be obtained through harvesting crops.
		Added fertilizer.
78.7		Fertilizer can be used on crops on tilled ground.
		Crops which die from any method other than the old age config option will give a seed back.

Gallery

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  An example of a wild patch of rye.