Farming

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Farming

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

Aorpheats Signet Ring, Weird Gloop and Generous Harvest Potions can increase the amount 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 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.

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. At 70 mastery, three seeds are returned on average, and allotments become self sustainable.

Pet

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

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 10% to harvest quantity.

Allotments

	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value		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

	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value		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

	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value		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