Farming guide
Farmer’s Delight farming grows in stages. You start with a handful of wild plants, turn them into fields, and end with soil that feeds your crops by itself. This guide walks the path in order; each step links to the page with all the details.
Find wild crops
Section titled “Find wild crops”
Look for leafy tufts with small flowers:
- Beaches:
Wild Cabbage and 
Sea Beet, often with 
Sandy Shrubs. - Temperate grass, forests and plains:
Wild Onion and 
Wild Carrot. - Cold taigas and windswept hills:
Wild Potato. - Hot, dry biomes (desert, savanna, badlands):
Tomato Shrub. - Swamps, jungles and beaches, standing in water:
Wild Rice.
They are rare: a wild onion patch spawns in about 1 in 120 chunks, a beach cabbage patch in 1 in 30. When you find one, there are usually more nearby. Break them by hand for seeds, or with shears to take the plant itself.
The Wild crops page has a biome picker and every patch’s details.
Plant a first field
Section titled “Plant a first field”
Till dirt near water and plant:
Cabbage Seeds and 
Onions grow like wheat.
Tomato Seeds grow into a bush, then a vine you can pick again and again. Hang 
Rope above it and it climbs.
Rice goes into shallow water, one block deep.
Growing times, harvesting and drops: Crops.
Get a knife
Section titled “Get a knife”A 
Flint Knife is cheap and opens up a lot: 
Straw from grass and wheat, extra leather and ham from animals, and the Cutting Board. Straw becomes rope, canvas and bales (Straw, rope & nets).
Make Organic Compost
Section titled “Make Organic Compost”
Organic Compost is crafted from dirt, straw, rotten flesh or tree bark and bone meal. Place it and leave it: it slowly rots into Rich Soil on its own.
Sunlight, water and other compost blocks next to it speed it up. One block alone under open sky takes about 76 min. A pile with water beside it goes much faster: about 24 min for the middle of a 3×3 layer next to water. Torches don’t help; only sunlight counts.
The Organic Compost page has a calculator for your setup.
Farm on Rich Soil
Section titled “Farm on Rich Soil”
Rich Soil gives the plant on it a free bone meal now and then (20% of the time it gets a turn). Till it into 
Rich Soil Farmland for crops; it cannot be trampled. Saplings, berry bushes and rice planted on it get the boost too. See Rich Soil.
Grow mushroom colonies
Section titled “Grow mushroom colonies”
Put a brown or red mushroom on Rich Soil and it soon turns into a 
Brown Mushroom Colony. Colonies grow only on Rich Soil, from smallest to full size in about 14 min. Harvest a full colony with a knife for 3 mushrooms at once, and it grows back. See Mushroom colonies.
Where next
Section titled “Where next”- Cook what you grow: Your first meal and the Cooking Pot.
- Sell surplus to farmers: onions and tomatoes to novice farmers, cabbage and rice to apprentices (Villagers).
- Store crops in crates and baskets (Storage & decoration).