Gardening

Gardening serves to generate materials that can be used for various handcrafting occupations. You can plant herbs, ores and different types of wood and later harvest them. Gardening has different advantages over basic collecting of materials:

• Resources grow virtually overnight.
• There is no extensive searching and gathering of resources.
• Houses get decorations with user benefits.

Requirements

To make a plant grow, you need a few basic items, which you can get from seed merchants in Logar and Varanas:

• Pot
• Seed
• Fertilizer

Note: You can purchase optional plant growing food from the Item Shop.

Setting out the plants

Position the pot for the plants inside your house. When you click on the pot, it opens a window with the operating panel for the planting system.

Sowing

There are several functions available in the operating panel:

• This is where you plant the seeds (A).
• This is where you apply water (B).
• This is where you apply fertilizer (C).
• This is where you apply plant growing food or preparations to protect the plant (D).

Once the seed has been planted, it starts to grow immediately.

Watering and Fertilizing

Below the field for the seeds, there are two colored bars:

• The bar that is marked with a water droplet shows how well the plant has been watered (E).
• The other bar shows how well the plant has been fertilized (F).

Below are two more fields:

• The left field shows the present health of the plant (G).
• The right field shows how well the plant has been fed (H).

If the plant’s health drops to 0%, it shrivels and the crop is lost.

Care

So that the plant doesn’t shrivel, there are a few things you need to pay attention to:

• By giving the plant water or fertilizer, a small yellow triangle on the bar moves to the right.
• The best setting is when the triangle is sitting exactly on the thin red line in the last third of the bar.
• Water, food and welfare of the plants will reduce over time if they are not looked after.
• It’s recommended to check your plants once a day.
• If the health of your plant drops, it can be recovered by giving the plant a protective preparation from the Item Shop.

Harvesting

On the lower right of the operating panel there are three more buttons:

• By using the left button with the scythe (I), you can harvest mature plants. The growing phase can be shortened greatly using plant growing food from the Item Shop.
• The middle button with the leaf (J) serves to block the pot. When a pot has been blocked, nothing can be either planted in it or harvested from it.
• The right button (K) serves to clean the pot in order to plant a new seed.

Your reward

Depending on the type and quantity of the seeds planted and the quality of the care, the crop can be harvested within a few hours or a few days.

For example, from sowing one White Crystal seed, you can get about 20 Zinc Ore, or from sowing Crested Dog Tail sickle seeds, you can get about 20 Bitterleaf.

Once harvested, a plant has been used up and can’t be used again. To harvest further resources, you must again put a seed in a pot and nourish and cherish the new seedling.