Deligated Farming actually gets pretty good, eventually

[Sotanaht]

Image is from a single land plot in a single month. They take less than 20 days to grow but delegated farming takes a few more days before it harvests, so I get this about once per month, per land plot, doing absolutely nothing. I currently have 2 plots fully developed for this, plus a third in progress

A (Forest, Fertile, Fresh Air) plot with 30 Farmers and the maximum area upgrades has roughly 1100 Fertility. Honestly could probably skip the area upgrades entirely since almost 3/4ths of the fertility comes from the Farmers. Blueberrys scale exceptionally well with +values. They suck at +0, but a farm producing +12 blueberries ends up making about 3x as much deligated as one producing +12 rainbow fruits. I haven't tested with everything, but the only thing I think might do better is mushrooms, but I'm pretty sure their sell price stays low.

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[Iyasenu]

Blueberries +11, holy moly.

Your farming skill is, like, over 110?
Goodness gracious.

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Blueberries +11, holy moly.

Your farming skill is, like, over 110?
Goodness gracious.

Actually it's closer to 150 with equipment and god bonuses. The image is just from when the farm came online, it still had room to grow.

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Blueberries +11, holy moly.

Your farming skill is, like, over 110?
Goodness gracious.

Actually it's closer to 150 with equipment and god bonuses. The image is just from when the farm came online, it still had room to grow.

Kumiromi is a helluva drug.

[Arlian]

201 orens per blueberry is honestly pretty amazing, do you have any tips for grinding Farming on a character that doesn't worship Kumiromi?

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by Arlian:

201 orens per blueberry is honestly pretty amazing, do you have any tips for grinding Farming on a character that doesn't worship Kumiromi?

Honestly, Kumiromi is probably the best way, especially if you're planning to ship the crops raw, like they did, since one of Kumiromi's perks is +50% shipping price for raw crops.

But, otherwise, it comes down to volume.
Grow as many separate things as you can. Blueberries are decent, because they're just 1 fertility apiece, but otherwise Pasture is 0.5 fertility each.
Use the watering can on all of them, since that's a 0-stamina farming exp activity.
And of course make sure you're training Farming so your potential isn't at just the base level.

Finally, skill books give EXP for skills, if you read them while you already know the skill, and give more EXP if you bless the skill book before reading it.

Then, of course, there's getting lucky and finding equipment that buffs your Farming skill.
You'd really only have to wear it while using the sickle, to boost the level of the seeds you can get.

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Arlian:

201 orens per blueberry is honestly pretty amazing, do you have any tips for grinding Farming on a character that doesn't worship Kumiromi?

For grinding farming, always use Mushrooms.

Mushrooms grow in a single day. You get the same farming experience no matter what kind of plants you sickle (only sickling for seeds grants exp, harvesting usable products does not), so just keep spamming mushroom seeds forever. Now that the farming in caves thing is patched you will need to actually build out your plot with Farming/Gardening (ie Farmer) NPCs if you want to plant a lot of mushrooms in one spot, but the basic idea is the same.

Worshiping Kumiromi does not accelerate Farming Growth. He grants straight levels in Farming as part of his Piety bonus and weapon (the weapon bonus is non-faction, so you can pump and dump him if you need to), but otherwise you're on your own to get that high level.

You COULD just explore the world map, especially Plains tiles, and sickle everything you see especially any Pastures since they spawn in large clusters. Planting and sickling mushrooms is probably faster and definitely far more consistent, though the roaming style does have some advantages like finding random shrines and statues and not being quite as mind shatteringly boring.

[Astasia]

To grind farming I go to a nearby world tile, dig up every tile, then plow every tile. I think plowing a tile is like twice as much exp as reaping a plant.

The only reason I go to a world tile instead of doing it in my base is so I don't have to replace the "floor" after I plow. You at least get digging exp for digging a grass floor up, so you can work in some strength training in addition to the farming/endurance training.

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Astasia:

To grind farming I go to a nearby world tile, dig up every tile, then plow every tile. I think plowing a tile is like twice as much exp as reaping a plant.

The only reason I go to a world tile instead of doing it in my base is so I don't have to replace the "floor" after I plow. You at least get digging exp for digging a grass floor up, so you can work in some strength training in addition to the farming/endurance training.

Even if plowing is 2x, it takes significant time compared to sickling which becomes instant. Digging also takes time (so does planting though)

If you do want to do plowing though, go to a Hills map tile (brown mountains). The ground there should be dirt, so you don't have to dig at all.

[Akameka]

the plowing time become way less relevant if you use an Ether hoe, even with bad farming skill, so this might still be a good idea.

I've earned a good amount of farming level from plowing the whole bottom floor of Vernis in hope to make a Rainbow fruit farm (And got hit by the change right before my harvest duh)

[Mazzle Dazzle]

Thank you for sharing this, this is really good information. I never really set up the automated things at all and this really shows that it is a mistake to not do so.