Editing Agriculture

Traditional farming is impossible due to the cold, so agriculture is performed in heated environment in raised growbeds. Growbeds come in various sizes, and 1 unit of seeds are required for every 3 tiles of the growbed. Once planted, seeds take several real life days (up to two weeks) depending on the plant to grow, and to keep healthy must be watered every 24 hours. If not watered, they will stop growing and begin to lose health, and take roughly two days to die. If they are watered in that time they will resume growing, but must be composted in order to regain health. In areas that have working Water infrastructure, growbeds are automatically watered by pipes that are assumed to be connected. Compost is used to heal damaged plants, and also will increase the yield of a fully healthy plant up to 100% increase if consistently applied. Compost can be acquired by processing organic matter in a vermiculture box or nitre bed, or may be found in various resource nodes.

To grow a plant, double click the growbed you wish to plant and select the required amount of seeds. Plant seeds require a lighted area, and if the area you are in is not sufficiently lighted you will not be able to plant them. Seeds are also only able to be planted if you have sufficient Botany to harvest the plant when it is complete. Mushroom spores do not require light. After the seeds are planted, you may interact with the growbed by mousing over it to see the status of your plants, left clicking it for specific options, or double clicking it and selecting water or compost.

Once the plant is fully grown, double click the growbed to harvest plants and plant scraps with a Botany skill check. Upon the last harvest of the growbed, as long as the plants were alive at the time of harvest you will always receive the amount of seeds that you originally planted.


Some plants such as Lettuce will produce endlessly, and after the initial grow cycle will begin growing again automatically and subsequent harvests will be ready in a reduced amount of time.