Farming

Farthest Frontier Official Farming Guide

General Tips

 * The first year after building a field focus on 2-3 seasons of field maintenance (or 2x field maintenance + 1x clovers if the fertility is low)) so that the next year you can setup your proper 3 year rotation without having to worry about getting the field state to normal levels over many rotations
 * Offset the crop rotation on your different fields so that you have a steady flow of resources every year


 * Consider the timing of your different crops and when they keep your farmers busy. The start of a crop season is busy with planting, the end with harvesting - so you want to make sure your farmers don't have too many conflicting things to do at any one point of the year across all your fields


 * Crops have a time in the year they should be planted in due to temperature. Wheat for instance can only be planted later in the spring or it will freeze, so (in the case of wheat) you should make sure your farmers use that early spring time to do something else.


 * Every crop has a preferred soil composition - so you want to plant similar (or close) soil preferences in the same fields


 * Crops that have a high weed suppression will not require more than 1 field maintenance season per 3-year rotation, so you can instead focus on clover seasons to keep the fertility high). Likewise crops that have a low weed suppression will require (usually) 2 seasons of field maintenance per 3-year rotation


 * Rockiness Resilience is really only an important trait if you intend to plan immediately after your field is built, as you can get the rockiness down to 0 quite quickly by only performing field maintenance for the first year or two, and it will stay low with very little maintenance after that
 * Farmers will prioritize the construction of a new field over working existing fields, meaning that you might miss a few harvests while the new field gets setup. You can get around this by pausing construction of the new field during planting/harvest times (clover season is great too as there’s no harvest) and unpausing during growth phases.

When possible, start with a maintenance year when your field is first build to address weed/rockiness levels as well as fertility. As a standard 2x field maintenance + 1x Clover, but if fertility is already high you can do 3x Field Maintenance seasons.



After that you can switch your fields to any of the rotations below.

Wheat/Root Vegetable/Peas Self Sustaining (3 Fields Staggered)


This is a wheat-producing rotation that is self-sustaining (no fertilizer required to maintain fertility) and produces a good variety of different food groups. Excellent Rotation to use before you have large amounts of fertilizer

Quick start Peas + Leeks no Fert (3 Fields Staggered)


This is a good rotation if you need to get food out quickly, as peas/greens are produced early and yearly. This is also a good rotation to use both early and into the late game on your non-grain producing fields for a source of greens

Note: Due to the 2x field maintenance + 2x peas/1x Clover seasons, this is a very self-maintaining rotation, you can omit the start prep year

4x Flax (3 Fields Staggered)


This rotation is extremely time efficient and produces a huge amount of flax, and is mostly self-sustaining (fertility will very slowly creep downwards, but a single fertilization cycle will last you a long time

Yearly Rye


Due to Rye's natural weed suppression you can run this early rye cycle without having any maintenance cycles (other than a starting 3x field maintenance cycle). Note while this rotation will produce tons of grain, it is more susceptible to disease (as there is no gap maintenance year)

High-Yield Wheat/Rye + Leeks with Fert (3 Fields Staggered)


Note: You will need to supplement with fertilizer to keep fertility high. You can opt to replace the wheat for Rye for a quick-start version (skip the 1st maintenance year), as barley is more resistant to rocks and weeds