Farming

Farming

Farming is a Skill used to grow seeds into food, herbs or logs.

Aorpheat's Signet Ring, Weird Gloop and Generous Harvest Potions can increase the number of Herbs, Crops, and Logs received when harvested. Items which increase crop and herb yields also increase the Farming skill and mastery experience received.

Raising Farming to level 99 will unlock the Farming Skillcape for purchase from the Shop. Equipping the skillcape increases the harvest quantity from crops by 20% and allows the player to add Compost to allotments, herbs, and trees for free.

Equipping Bob's Rake provides a 20% chance that Compost or Weird Gloop is retained in a plot when harvested.

Gaining Experience

Farming Experience is gained through two actions: Planting seeds and harvesting crops that survive. Planting a seed will grant the player that seed's base experience value and harvesting will grant experience equal to the base experience value multiplied by the number of items harvested.

For example, Potato Seeds have a base experience of 8, so if a player plants a plot with Potato Seeds and then harvests 5 Potatoes, they will receive 48 total experience: 8 for planting and then 40 for harvesting.

Since experience is tied to the number of items harvested, anything that increases the number of items harvested will also increase the amount of experience received.

However, this only applies to herbs and allotments. Trees give a fixed amount of XP for harvesting regardless of how many logs are acquired.

Mastery Unlocks

Farming Mastery impacts many aspects of Farming. 1 Mastery point is given for each allotment/herb/wood harvested. Increased mastery level increases the amount harvested from a plot. At 11 mastery, harvesting herbs and allotments has a chance to return seeds. At 50 mastery, crops, herbs and trees cannot die, and no longer require Compost.

Reaching 99 Mastery for a given crop requires 27,570 harvests, assuming no boosts are used to increase harvest quantity.

Crop Harvest Quantity

The harvest quantity, [math]\displaystyle{ Q_h }[/math], increases with the mastery level, [math]\displaystyle{ L_m }[/math], according to the formula:

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_h = \left \lfloor 5 + \frac{4L_m}{10} \right \rfloor }[/math]

where: [math]\displaystyle{ \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor }[/math] is the floor function.

Mastery Level	Harvest Amount
1	5
2	5
3	6
4	6
5	7
10	9
20	13
50	25
75	35
99	44

Seed Return Chance

Starting at level 11 Mastery, there is a chance to get seeds back when harvesting herb and allotment plots. Higher levels of mastery increase the chance and quantity of seeds that are returned. The average number of seeds returned, [math]\displaystyle{ Q_s }[/math], varies with the mastery level, [math]\displaystyle{ L_m }[/math] as follows:

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_s = \frac{n}{x} \left (x-\frac{n+1}{2}\right) }[/math]
where:
[math]\displaystyle{ x = \frac{L_m}{10} }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ n = \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor }[/math]

This means that at 50 mastery, two seeds are returned on average, and herbs become self-sustainable. Reaching 50 Mastery requires a plant to be harvested 436 times, assuming no boosts are used to increase harvest quantity.

At 70 mastery, three seeds are returned on average, and allotments become self-sustainable. Reaching 70 Mastery requires a plant to be harvested 2,235 times, assuming no boosts are used to increase harvest quantity.

Skillcape

The skillcape can be purchased from the store for 1,000,000 after the player reaches

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Level 99

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Skillcape	Name	Effect
	Farming Skillcape	+20% Crop Harvest Quantity. Adding Compost is free.

Pet

Chance to get pet is rolled once for each quantity of a crop you harvest.

The bonus from Larry is applied after other bonuses to harvest quantity, including the double harvest from Generous Harvest Potions.

Pet	Name	Effect
	Larry, the Lonely Lizard	+5 Harvest Quantity

Farming Plots

The player will originally only have access to a single allotment plot. Additional plots are unlocked by levelling up Farming and must be purchased with GP. Below are tables outlining the level requirements and costs for the plots:

Seeds

Seeds are required to start Farming and can be acquired from several sources, such as Thieving, Combat, or Woodcutting. Allotments require three seeds to plant, herbs require two, and trees require one. Seeds planted without fertiliser have a 50% chance to yield crops after growing. To increase the chance above 50% seeds must be fertilised using Compost. Each Compost used on a seed will increase its survival chance by 10%, raising the Compost Level to 5 will guarantee the crops survive. Compost must be used every time a seed is planted to have an effect.

As an alternative to compost players may use Weird Gloop. Only 1 Gloop is required to fill the compost bar and prevent crops from dying. In addition, it provides a bonus of 10% to harvest quantity.

Allotments

Seeds		Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level	DLC	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value	Produce		Healing	Produce Value
	Potato Seeds	1		8	2h	1		Potatoes	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 3	1
	Onion Seeds	5		10	2h	5		Onions	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 6	2
	Cabbage Seeds	7		11	2h	10		Cabbage	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 9	5
	Tomato Seeds	12		14	2h	20		Tomatoes	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 13	1
	Sweetcorn Seeds	20		21	3h	30		Sweetcorn	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 16	8
	Ancient Wildberry Seeds	20		23	3h	3		Ancient Wildberry	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 23	28
	Strawberry Seeds	31		39	3h	40		Strawberries	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 20	10
	Cherry Seeds	40		42	3h	42		Cherry	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 24	12
	Watermelon Seeds	47		78	4h	50		Watermelons	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 36	15
	Ancient Corn Seeds	50		84	4h	8		Ancient Corn	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 38	28
	Snape Grass Seeds	61		92	3h, 30m	75		Snape Grass	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 40	23
	Carrot Seeds	69		118	3h, 30m	85		Carrot	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 28	28
	Ancient Carrot Seeds	69		122	3h, 30m	16		Ancient Carrot	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 42	28
	Pumpkin Seeds	100		175	5h	100		Pumpkin	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 55	33
	Chilli Seeds	105		185	5h	130		Chilli	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 2	45
	Mushroom Spores	115		255	6h, 30m	230		Mushrooms	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 5	75
	Starfruit Seeds	118		306	7h, 30m	300		Starfruit	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 70	110

Herbs

Seeds		Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level	DLC	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value	Produce		Produce Value
	Garum Seeds	5		9	1h, 30m	3		Garum Herb	1
	Sourweed Seeds	15		12	1h, 30m	20		Sourweed Herb	9
	Mantalyme Seeds	25		16	2h	62		Mantalyme Herb	20
	Lemontyle Seeds	35		28	2h, 30m	88		Lemontyle Herb	40
	Oxilyme Seeds	50		35	3h	140		Oxilyme Herb	80
	Poraxx Seeds	60		48	3h, 30m	190		Poraxx Herb	150
	Pigtayle Seeds	70		69	3h, 30m	222		Pigtayle Herb	210
	Barrentoe Seeds	80		92	4h	450		Barrentoe Herb	330
	Snowcress Seeds	102		106	4h	600		Snowcress Herb	425
	Bitterlyme Seeds	106		123	4h	725		Bitterlyme Herb	580
	Moonwort Seeds	112		161	5h	950		Moonwort Herb	775
	Wurmtayle Seeds	118		182	5h, 30m	1,200		Wurmtayle Herb	925

Trees

Seeds		Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level	DLC	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value	Produce		Produce Value
	Oak Tree Seeds	15		5,835	6h, 40m	400		Oak Logs	5
	Willow Tree Seeds	30		18,185	9h, 20m	750		Willow Logs	10
	Maple Tree Seeds	45		42,535	10h, 40m	1,250		Maple Logs	35
	Yew Tree Seeds	60		88,360	13h, 20m	2,500		Yew Logs	75
	Apple Tree Seeds	70		48,925	6h, 40m	4,000		Apple	1
	Magic Tree Seeds	75		172,250	16h	10,000		Magic Logs	400
	Banana Tree Seeds	100		200,000	18h	15,000		Bananas	350
	Grove Tree Seeds	105		220,000	18h	17,500		Grove Logs	400
	Elderwood Tree Seeds	110		315,000	20h	22,500		Elderwood Logs	555
	Carrion Tree Seeds	120		405,000	22h	30,000		Carrion Logs	3,333

Potion

The Generous Harvest Potion has a chance to double crops/herbs/logs harvested.

Generous Harvest Potion
Potion	Tier	Charges	Effect
	I	10	+10% Chance to Double Items in Farming
	II	10	+15% Chance to Double Items in Farming
	III	10	+20% Chance to Double Items in Farming
	IV	10	+30% Chance to Double Items in Farming

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