Agriculture

Crafting skill

The agriculture skill allows players to grow their own food.

Agriculture can be best trained by planting crops, but you will also rarely see a skill up by preparing the soil. If your agriculture skill is high, more crops will grow on a single tile.

You cannot plant more than one thing on a tile. If you try, it either gives an error or you lose the first thing you planted there.

Agriculture provides a good long-term source of food and healing herbs, due to the time difference between sowing crops and harvesting them (around 8 weeks). Crops start to become ready in late summer through to late autumn, though exact times differ depending on the species of plant. All crops except for cereals can be simply picked up, but plants and cereals must be threshed to obtain seeds.

However, a character cannot survive solely on plants. Due to their low nutrition value when raw, plants must be processed in order to be useful. Crop yields can be greatly variable, and plant foods must be supplemented with protein from meat or fish to stop starvation.

In order to start farming, land needs to be prepared with a shovel. This land needs to be fertilized with the remains of a fire.

Steps to planting a square:

1. Light a fire on a square and let it burn out
2. Stand on the square with the burnt-out fire
3. ALT-A to open the Agricuture Option and Prepare the Soil (you will need a shovel)
4. Wait until the ground cools (Takes a day or so)
5. ALT-A to Plant/sow