Farming

Farming

Farming is a Skill used to grow seeds into food, herbs or logs.

Aorpheat's Signet Ring, Weird Gloop and Generous Harvest Potions can increase the number of Herbs, Crops, and Logs received when harvested. Items which increase crop and herb yields also increase the Farming skill and mastery experience received.

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.

Equipping Bob's Rake provides a 20% chance that Compost or Weird Gloop is retained in a plot when harvested.

Gaining Experience

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

Farming Mastery impacts many aspects of Farming. 1 Mastery point is given for each allotment/herb/wood harvested. Increased mastery level increases the amount harvested from a plot. At 11 mastery, harvesting herbs and allotments has a chance to return seeds. At 50 mastery, crops, herbs and trees cannot die, and no longer require Compost.

Reaching 99 Mastery for a given crop requires 27,570 harvests, assuming no boosts are used to increase harvest quantity.

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 + \frac{4L_m}{10} \right \rfloor }[/math]

where: [math]\displaystyle{ \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor }[/math] is the floor function.

Mastery Level	Harvest Amount
1	5
2	5
3	6
4	6
5	7
10	9
20	13
50	25
75	35
99	44

Seed Return Chance

Starting at level 11 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}{10} }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ n = \left \lfloor x \right \rfloor }[/math]

This means that at 50 mastery, two seeds are returned on average, and herbs become self-sustainable. Reaching 50 Mastery requires a plant to be harvested 436 times, assuming no boosts are used to increase harvest quantity.

At 70 mastery, three seeds are returned on average, and allotments become self-sustainable. Reaching 70 Mastery requires a plant to be harvested 2,235 times, assuming no boosts are used to increase harvest quantity.

Skillcape

The skillcape can be purchased from the store for  1,000,000 after the player reaches Level 99.

Skillcape	Name	Effect
	Farming Skillcape	+20% Crop Harvest Quantity. Adding Compost is free.

Pet

Chance to get pet is rolled once for each quantity of a crop you harvest.

The bonus from Larry is applied after other bonuses to harvest quantity, including the double harvest from Generous Harvest Potions.

Pet	Name	Effect
	Larry, the Lonely Lizard	+5 Harvest Quantity

Farming Plots

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:

Allotments

Plot	Level	Cost
1	1	Free
2	1	500
3	1	5,000
4	5	20 Giant Clay Pot  10,000
5	10	15,000
6	20	25,000
7	25	100 Giant Clay Pot  350,000
8	30	40,000
9	40	65,000
10	50	80,000
11	55	200 Giant Clay Pot  100,000
12	60	100,000
13	70	120,000
14	80	150,000
15	85	350 Giant Clay Pot  4,000,000
16	90	200,000
17	100	1,000,000
18	110	5,000,000
19	118	10,000,000

Herbs

Plot	Level	Cost
1	5	20 Giant Clay Pot  10,000
2	5	10,000
3	5	20,000
4	15	35,000
5	25	100 Giant Clay Pot  350,000
6	35	50,000
7	45	80,000
8	55	200 Giant Clay Pot  900,000
9	55	100,000
10	65	125,000
11	75	150,000
12	85	350 Giant Clay Pot  17,000,000
13	85	200,000
14	102	1,000,000
15	110	5,000,000
16	118	10,000,000

Trees

Plot	Level	Cost
1	15	50,000
2	30	100,000
3	60	250,000
4	80	400,000
5	105	5,000,000
6	115	10,000,000

Seeds

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. 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. Compost must be used every time a seed is planted to have an effect.

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.

Allotments

Seeds		Level	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value	Crop		Crop Healing	Crop Value	Seed Sources
	Potato Seeds	1	8	2h	1		Potatoes	3	1	Killing: , Opening: ,, Pickpocketing: Level 1
	Onion Seeds	5	10	2h	5		Onions	6	2	Killing: ,, Opening: ,, Pickpocketing: Level 1
	Cabbage Seeds	7	11	2h	10		Cabbage	9	5	Killing: ,, Opening: ,, Pickpocketing: Level 1
	Tomato Seeds	12	14	2h	20		Tomatoes	13	1	Killing: ,, Opening: ,, Pickpocketing:
	Sweetcorn Seeds	20	21	3h	30		Sweetcorn	16	8	Killing: , Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Ancient Wildberry Seeds	20	23	3h	3		Ancient Wildberry	23	28	Level 1
	Strawberry Seeds	31	39	3h	40		Strawberries	20	10	Killing: ,, Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Cherry Seeds	40	42	3h	42		Cherry	24	12	Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Watermelon Seeds	47	78	4h	50		Watermelons	36	15	Killing: ,, Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Ancient Corn Seeds	50	84	4h	8		Ancient Corn	38	28	Level 1 Tasks
	Snape Grass Seeds	61	92	3h, 30m	75		Snape Grass	40	23	Killing: ,, Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Carrot Seeds	69	118	3h, 30m	85		Carrot	28	28	Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Ancient Carrot Seeds	69	122	3h, 30m	16		Ancient Carrot	42	28	Level 1 Tasks
	Pumpkin Seeds	100	175	5h	100		Pumpkin	55	33	Opening: Pickpocketing: ,
	Chilli Seeds	105	185	5h	130		Chilli	2	45	Killing: Opening: Pickpocketing:
	Mushroom Spores	115	255	6h, 30m	230		Mushrooms	5	75	Opening: Pickpocketing:
	Starfruit Seeds	118	306	7h, 30m	300		Starfruit	70	110	Opening: Pickpocketing:

Herbs

Seeds		Level	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value	Herb		Herb Value	Seed Sources
	Garum Seeds	5	9	1h, 30m	3		Garum Herb	1	Killing: ,,,,,,, Opening: ,
	Sourweed Seeds	15	12	1h, 30m	20		Sourweed Herb	9	Killing: ,, Opening: ,
	Mantalyme Seeds	25	16	2h	62		Mantalyme Herb	20	Killing: ,,,, Opening: , Level 1
	Lemontyle Seeds	35	28	2h, 30m	88		Lemontyle Herb	40	Killing: ,,,,,, Opening: , Level 1
	Oxilyme Seeds	50	35	3h	140		Oxilyme Herb	80	Killing: ,,,,,, Opening: , Level 1
	Poraxx Seeds	60	48	3h, 30m	190		Poraxx Herb	150	Killing: , Opening: ,
	Pigtayle Seeds	70	69	3h, 30m	222		Pigtayle Herb	210	Killing: ,,, Opening: , Tasks
	Barrentoe Seeds	80	92	4h	450		Barrentoe Herb	330	Killing: ,, Opening: , Tasks
	Snowcress Seeds	102	106	4h	600		Snowcress Herb	425	Killing: ,, Opening: Tasks
	Bitterlyme Seeds	106	123	4h	725		Bitterlyme Herb	580	Killing: , Opening: Tasks
	Moonwort Seeds	112	161	5h	950		Moonwort Herb	775	Killing: ,,,, Opening:
	Wurmtayle Seeds	118	182	5h, 30m	1,200		Wurmtayle Herb	925	Killing: , Opening:

Trees

Seeds		Level	XP	Growth Time	Seed Value	Logs		Log Value	Seed Sources
	Oak Tree Seeds	15	5,835	6h, 40m	400		Oak Logs	5	Killing: , Opening: ,, Pickpocketing:
	Willow Tree Seeds	30	18,185	9h, 20m	750		Willow Logs	10	Killing: Opening: , Pickpocketing:
	Maple Tree Seeds	45	42,535	10h, 40m	1,250		Maple Logs	35	Killing: Opening: ,, Pickpocketing:
	Yew Tree Seeds	60	88,360	13h, 20m	2,500		Yew Logs	75	Killing: , Opening: ,, Pickpocketing:
	Apple Tree Seeds	70	48,925	6h, 40m	4,000		Apple	1	Opening: Pickpocketing: ,
	Magic Tree Seeds	75	172,250	16h	10,000		Magic Logs	400	Killing: Opening: , Pickpocketing: Tasks
	Banana Tree Seeds	100	200,000	18h	15,000		Bananas	350	Opening: Pickpocketing:
	Grove Tree Seeds	105	220,000	18h	17,500		Grove Logs	400	Opening: Pickpocketing:
	Elderwood Tree Seeds	110	315,000	20h	22,500		Elderwood Logs	555	Opening: Pickpocketing:
	Carrion Tree Seeds	120	405,000	22h	30,000		Carrion Logs	3,333	Opening:

Potion

The Generous Harvest Potion has a chance to double crops/herbs/logs harvested.

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