Hill Top Farm

[titanopteryx]

I decided to play starting with hilltop farm. When I first started it looked like a nightmare. The farmland was divided into thin strips and sections. But I stuck with it and tried to figure out why it exists.

Firstly the quarry area had copper nodes spawn in it, so I was able to get copper for tool upgrades and crafting without even entering the mine. Now in game I also have iron and gold spawn there as well as geode, ice geode, and magma geode nodes. At one point the meteor event happened and it landed in my quarry. I don't know if it's a coincidence because it happened to be a large flat area that it could land on and the map was mostly narrow strips, or if it's coded to land there. But that's where it landed.

There's a river twisting through the map. At first it was annoying. Now I have a long twisting row of crab pots.I also saw a shining panning spot.

Growing crops is painful because I have to divide them up into groups. But then I unlocked the greenhouse. The greenhouse doesn't care what map you choose, I'm pretty sure the interior is always the same.

The same with buildings. Building interiors are always the same. However finding spots to set them down is a chore and haphazard is the only way it can be done.

With the crab pots and fish trash recyclers, I have an unlimited supply of refined quartz and coal.

So crop planting is hard since one has to divide the crops up into chunks. Building placement is painful because there aren't a lot of spots that can even fit them, and there's no chance of convenient placement. However the early access to copper and later access to iron and gold is very nice. And the river running through the farm with crab pots on both sides combined with trash recyclers combined with the quarry right there on the farm makes crafting very easy. The geode nodes can provide gems and minerals from the opened geodes needed for crafting.

As a farm for growing crops, hill top farm is pretty bad until you unlock the greenhouse. And placing farm buildings is also pretty bad. But when it comes to generating crafting materials, it's the best. Well so far. I'm playing as the forest farm in another save right now, and I have some experience with the wilderness farm which looks like it's great for farming monster loot.

[dino_inc]

Yeah, my experience with the hilltop farm is the space is just not well laid out for sprinklers, nor buildings... which are pretty much the core farming mechanics.

[gug]

For all thpse crab pots, surely you must have worm bins. Right?

[titanopteryx]

I had worm bins. However I later took the level 10 fishing perk to make them not need bait.

[The Queen Of UwU]

I use the hilltop farm for my winery, its okay-ish for growing stuff but id not use it for both crops and animals. You gotta pick(:

[frogprincess_q4]

I love the Hilltop farm for a hobby-farm type playthrough as opposed to a min-max one. I can't go all out with anything, but a little bit of everything fits nicely and then I can go fishing for a bit in the river as a bonus.

[titanopteryx]

Also the river is good for panning. I might be wrong but that might be why it's there.

[Bad Aim Bodyshot Barry]

the hilltop farm is my favoruite beucase it looks the best (IMO) the only hard bit is finding an spot for 5ish barns