Farming

Farming

What the fields are for. A fish is the hard-hitting meal; a crop is the tough one. Eating anything grown -- potato to ember pepper -- takes 20% off every blow you take, and each crop adds its own time with no ceiling, the way a meal does. The better the crop, the longer: Potato 1 min, Glowcap 3 min, Cave turnip 5 min, Bitterroot 6 min, Voidmelon 8 min, Ember pepper 10 min -- in step with the level of the field each asks. A rarer crop multiplies that: Uncommon ×2, Rare ×5, Epic ×12, Legendary ×30. Nothing else gives that. Crops heal too, less than fish of the same level; set them under Food to carry both.

Plant a seed in a field and it grows on the clock, whether you stand there or not. "Tend fields" plants, waters and waits: standing at a field, the character waters the crop there every 60.0s, and each watering pays 10% of the crop's xp now and takes 12.0s off the wait, down to half the growing time at most. "Harvest & replant" is an errand: it harvests what is ready, replants, banks the crop and goes back to whatever you were doing -- the crop grows at its own pace meanwhile. The chip in the top bar counts down to the next crop and turns into the errand button when one is ready. Every harvest hands back exactly the seeds you sowed, each rolling its own rarity — so a field never runs itself dry, and plain seeds climb to rarer crops over time.