Raising Farming to level 99 will unlock the Farming Skillcape for purchase from the Shop. Equipping the skillcape increases the harvest quantity from crops by 20% and allows the player to add Compost to allotments, herbs, and trees for free.
Farming Experience is gained through two actions: Planting seeds and harvesting crops that survive. Planting a seed will grant the player that seed's base experience value and harvesting will grant experience equal to the base experience value multiplied by the number of items harvested.
For example, Potato Seeds have a base experience of 8, so if a player plants a plot with Potato Seeds and then harvests 5 Potatoes, they will receive 48 total experience: 8 for planting and then 40 for harvesting.
Since experience is tied to the number of items harvested, anything that increases the number of items harvested will also increase the amount of experience received.
However, this only applies to herbs and allotments. Trees give a fixed amount of XP for harvesting regardless of how many logs are acquired.
Mastery Unlocks
Item Mastery Unlocks
Level
Unlock
1
Each level provides increased Farming Yield.
16
Receive up to 1 Allotment or Herb seed back from harvesting.
31
Receive up to 2 Allotment or Herb seeds back from harvesting.
46
Receive up to 3 Allotment or Herb seeds back from harvesting.
50
No compost required to successfully grow.
61
Receive up to 4 Allotment or Herb seeds back from harvesting.
76
Receive up to 5 Allotment or Herb seeds back from harvesting.
91
Receive up to 6 Allotment or Herb seeds back from harvesting.
99
+20% Farming Yield. 10% reduced grow time for this Crop. Receive up to 8 Allotment or Herb seeds back from harvesting.
Mastery Pool Checkpoints
Pool %
Pool XP
Bonus
10%
1,950,000 xp
+5% Farming Mastery XP for Melvor Realm only
25%
4,875,000 xp
Crops in Farming cannot die
50%
9,750,000 xp
+5% base primary resource quantity gained in Farming for Melvor Realm only
95%
18,525,000 xp
-10% Farming Interval
Total Mastery Pool XP
19,500,000
Crop Harvest Quantity
The harvest quantity, [math]\displaystyle{ Q_h }[/math], increases with the mastery level, [math]\displaystyle{ L_m }[/math], according to the formula:
[math]\displaystyle{ Q_h = \left \lfloor 5 + 0.4L_m \right \rfloor }[/math] after bonuses are applied, the harvest is then multiplied by 3 for allotments and herbs, and 7 for trees
where: [math]\displaystyle{ \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor }[/math] is the floor function.
Mastery Level
Harvest Amount herbs/allotments
Harvest Amount trees
1
15
35
2
15
35
3
18
42
4
18
42
5
21
49
10
27
56
20
39
84
50
75
175
75
105
245
99 (before 20% boost)
132
308
Seed Return Chance
Starting at level 16 Mastery, there is a chance to get seeds back when harvesting herb and allotment plots.
Higher levels of mastery increase the chance and quantity of seeds that are returned. The average number of seeds returned, [math]\displaystyle{ Q_s }[/math], varies with the mastery level, [math]\displaystyle{ L_m }[/math] as follows:
[math]\displaystyle{ Q_s = \frac{n}{x} \left (x-\frac{n+1}{2}\right) }[/math]
where: [math]\displaystyle{ x = \frac{L_m}{15} }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ n = \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor }[/math]
This means that at 75 mastery two seeds are returned on average and herbs become self-sustainable. At 99 mastery [math]\displaystyle{ L_m }[/math] is replaced with 120, resulting in an average seed return of 3.5 seeds per harvest and making allotments self-sustainable.
Skillcape
The skillcape can be purchased from the store for 1,000,000 after the player reaches Level 99.
The player will originally only have access to a single allotment plot. Additional plots are unlocked by levelling up Farming and must be purchased with GP. Below are tables outlining the level requirements and costs for the plots:
Seeds are required to start Farming and can be acquired from several sources, such as Thieving, Combat, or Woodcutting. Allotments require three seeds to plant, herbs require two, and trees require one. Seeds planted without fertiliser have a 50% chance to yield crops after growing, unless mastery level 50 has been reached. To increase the chance above 50% seeds must be fertilised using Compost. Each Compost used on a seed will increase its survival chance by 10%, raising the Compost Level to 5 will guarantee the crops survive.
As an alternative to compost players may use Weird Gloop. Only 1 Gloop is required to fill the compost bar and prevent crops from dying. In addition, it provides a bonus of 10% to harvest quantity.