Complete Guide to Farming

All you need to know about planting and growing your crops.

Getting Started

An important aspect of playing through Ikonei Island is farming. You'll use this to to plant and harvest crops that will be used for a variety of objectives throughout the game - such as food source, or to craft other materials. The game gives you a brief introduction to "gardening" but then mostly leaves it up to you to dig into after that. So let's help give you a fuller understanding!

Starting out, the game does have a sort of designated "garden" location just west of the center of the Heartlands where the Gardening tutorial occurs. This a great spot given its close to the Heartlands center and also includes a pond you can continually refill your watering can at. So we will use this location as our designated farming location for this guide.

Here is a quick overview of the process:

• use the hoe to prep a planting space
  
• plant seeds
  
• water seeds
  
• go to sleep
  
• pollinate plants
  
• harvest

Planting & Watering

This part is pretty straightforward. With your hoe equipped, you will see outlines of potential dig spots on the ground. Selecting the dig option will create a raised patch of dirt on the ground that can be used for planting your seeds in. Once you plant a seed, if you decide you want to relocate it, you can use the "Uproot" option to pull up the seed. If you don't like the placement of the patch, you can also target it and there will be a "Stomp" option that will clear it out.

After planting, you will see a tiny sprout popping out of the ground. The game tells you to water it, but it should be noted that you don't have to water for the seed to grow. If you choose not to water, it will take an extended amount of time (up to a couple days) for your seed to grow. Watering significantly speeds this process up (hence showing you it can grow after 1 sleep cycle).

So you may as well just water them!

Pollinating

Once your seeds grow into a full plant, you will need to pollinate them before harvest. This can be done with Pollen Bags or Bibis, if you've befriended one.

Pollen Bags

Starting out you will be given a number of Pollen Bags to get you going. After this initial set, you will need to either craft or purchase more - only thing is, you don't know how to craft them!

Craft
After building the Workshop building in the Heartlands (one of the early tasks you are given) you will unlock the recipe for the Cutter. By this point you may have even ventured into the Blossom Meadows, just west of the Heartlands square and found Red Flowers you can pick and get their Red Petals. After crafting and placing a Cutter, you can place these Petals into it to get a Pollen bag - 1:1
You can do this with any color petal you get.



Purchase
You can also purchase Pollen Bags from Sariel once you build the Farmhouse building in the Heartlands (one of the early tasks you are given, alongside the Workshop). If you check the "Goods" tab in her shop, you will see you can purchase 5 Pollen Bags for 234 Ribbits (at time of this guide). Sariel only has a limited number of bags per day - though you are better off crafting them anyways.



The Ribbit currency is gathered by selling items at the S.E.L.L. chest provided by Frogboy - this is unlocked fairly early into your start of the game.

Bibis

If you've ventured into the Blossom Meadows, you'll have also found the Bibis flying around. You can briend these by picking some of the local Red Flowers and feeding them 2 Red Petals. Bibis act as a replacement to the Pollen Bag.

The easiest way to work with Bibis is to make them happy enough (feeding, petting) to be able to Bond with them (merge with them / take control). You will need to fly your Bibi over to the flowers you see growing around, you'll see a yellow-y object inside them - the pollen


The Bibi will pick this up and fill a pollen meter:


Once you've gathered the pollen, head over to your crops and use the Pollenate button - a yellow/gold effect area will surround your Bibi - just fly through your crops holding the button down and they will pick up the pollen, using your Bibi's stored pollen count.


This is by far the fastest way to pollinate, as opposed to clicking on each individual plant with pollen bags. Unlike pollen bags, though, when pollinating with a Bibi - a single pollen bag will pollinate several plants at once. For example, if the pollination circle covers three plants, all three will be pollinated one time, reducing the amount of pollen needed overall.

Of course, to help facilitate pollen gathering, it will be helpful to plant flowers near your garden so you are having to fly out around trying to gather your pollen.

Harvesting

After pollinating your crops, they become immediately ready to harvest. Pretty simple process, just click the "Harvest" button while targeting a plant. Some crops will only produce once, while others will remain planted after harvest. You'll see this when looking at the tooltip for a seed:


The dirt patch you created remaiins, so all you have to do it select a new seed to plant in it and start the process over again. E-Z.

Seeds & Equipment

So now that we have an understanding of the farming process, where do we get more seeds? We only start out with the Donut Fruit seed recipe - surely there are more. That is where Sariel comes in again. After building the Farmhouse, she will sell everything you need for farming.



You can either buy the seeds directly from her but she also sells the recipes so you can craft them yourself. She will also sell all the equipment you need, given stuff like the Hoe does have a use limit before it breaks. Though, I would suggest just crafting a lot of the equipment, its fairly cheap to craft and saves on the Ribbits you could be spending elsewhere.

With crafting you will need the Seed Pods, which Sariel sells also. You can also forage for Seed Pods around the map. They can drop from foliage that you cut down, as well as drop from defeated enemies. You'll even see them "planted" in the group that you can uproot. If you are in need of more Seed Pods and don't have enough Ribbits/don't want to spend them on Seed Pods, try doing a lap around the island and defeating enemies.

That is about the extent of it. Head on out and farm until your heart desires!

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