...farming leveling up..?

[@ndy]

...I'm still playing early game....a few skills are leveling up slowly, i.e.....foraging...mining etc, around level 15 or so. But early leveling of farming has me flummoxed. Rayne has yet to show up, so no hoe or watering can yet. Summer is over...I'm into autumn and my farming level is only about 20% on it's way from 0 to level 1. I know I can't farm properly yet, but I have no idea what gave me that ever-so-slight farming uptick I already earned??......so what actually contributes to the farming skill level before you get to visit with Rayne....? Thanks for any insight...

[spielerinchen]

did you buy the Farming Licence ?
Rayne doesn't show up without you having it.

[@ndy]

...yes I've had the farming licence for quite a while...forgot to mention that.,.. :-)

[Lanzho]

Grow wheat and mill it into flour. corn is also good can be turned into animal feed.

[Corporation Inc Pty Ltd]

grinding seeds / wheat will raise your farming a bit if I'm not mistaken...

[Firefly2345]

Since you have the level 1 farming licence from Fletch, you've satisfied the only condition necessary to get Rayne to visit. The level 1 licence opens the grain mill and scythe. If you are using the grain mill to mill the 3 grass seeds into animal food, that's what is raising your farming level while you wait for Rayne to visit. Watch what your screen shows you as you move from one day to the next after sleeping. It shows all the skills you raised and the items in those skills that helped raise it. For instance, in Farming, it will show your current level and how far you've progressed getting to the next level. As an example, it will also show animal food as an item you made and the amount as what raised your farming skill. Until you get Rayne and can buy tools and seeds, milling grass seeds into animal food will be what raises your farming skill.

Keep at it and hopefully Rayne shows up very soon. Buy wheat or sugarcane from her when she does. Those seeds grow in all 4 seasons allowing you to farm continually without worrying about any crops dying due to season change.

[spielerinchen]

i wouldn't start with Wheat & Sugar Cane. it's tons & i mean literally Tons of watering with little progress. both bring also just little money & in the beginning you can't do anything with the products anyway.

buy instead, since you are by now in Autum, Pumpkins.
it's way less watering but way more harvest. harvest levels you up, not watering. the more you harvest, the more you'll level. Pumpkins bring also good money.

if you really want water more, then buy Cabbage, it's also good money maker in Autum.
another great Autum crop is Corn. it's good cause you get more yield through two seasons, you need to plant it only once & you can harvest it again & again through Autum & whole of Winter, but do Not use the Scythe, harvest only per hand.

when you are in Winter is Kale as good money maker as Cabbage in Autum.

by that time you'll have leveled enough to make copper sprinklers, which will help you watering.
there is a good plan for a big field with Sprinklers layout & only one Water Tank in the middle.
with time you can upgrade every of the first Copper Sprinklers to the Iron Sprinklers, which need lots of Iron & additional Tech Treasure.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992756967

[spielerinchen]

Originally posted by @ndy:

...yes I've had the farming licence for quite a while...forgot to mention that.,.. :-)

if Rayne didn't show up despite having the licence, it's because you probably have unlocked all the other NPCs, who then come instead, which is unfortunate.
if you want for Rayne to show up, it's best to concentrate only on farming & not on something else, like eg not to buy the licence for animals/Irwin.

[@ndy]

Originally posted by Firefly2345:

Since you have the level 1 farming licence from Fletch, you've satisfied the only condition necessary to get Rayne to visit. The level 1 licence opens the grain mill and scythe. If you are using the grain mill to mill the 3 grass seeds into animal food, that's what is raising your farming level while you wait for Rayne to visit. Watch what your screen shows you as you move from one day to the next after sleeping. It shows all the skills you raised and the items in those skills that helped raise it. For instance, in Farming, it will show your current level and how far you've progressed getting to the next level. As an example, it will also show animal food as an item you made and the amount as what raised your farming skill. Until you get Rayne and can buy tools and seeds, milling grass seeds into animal food will be what raises your farming skill.

Keep at it and hopefully Rayne shows up very soon. Buy wheat or sugarcane from her when she does. Those seeds grow in all 4 seasons allowing you to farm continually without worrying about any crops dying due to season change.

...Thank you all for the valuable info..... I have the grain mill and scythe so that must be what has given me the small level increase so far. I'll just keep milling seed for my 2 chickens until Rayne shows up....maybe today hopefully...

[Firefly2345]

Originally posted by @ndy:

...Thank you all for the valuable info..... I have the grain mill and scythe so that must be what has given me the small level increase so far. I'll just keep milling seed for my 2 chickens :acduck::acduck: until Rayne shows up....maybe today hopefully...:RareSmile:

You're welcome. Use the other poster's advice on raising that farming skill faster with the various crops. Besides raising farming skill faster they earn some nice dinks. I suggested wheat and sugar cane because both can be put into the grain mill to make bags of flour and sugar to sell, although not at the amount of the above mentioned crops, and they literally never die from either season change or lack of water. I use sugarcane as decorating outside. They get the sparkly look when they mature that looks pretty. Personally, I hate farming. I do the bare minimum so I maintain a specific number for recipes but I prefer other avenues for earning dinks like fishing and trapping. To each their own in this game though.