Growing and harvesting

A planted seed takes 1 to 12 hours to ripen. Rarer seeds take longer, bigger packs grow a little faster, and Fertilizer cuts the time. A ripe crop is harvested once: the crop goes to your Bag, the slot empties, and the harvest may turn up a Truffle.

Planting

All verified. Verified

The grow-time formula

grow time (h)  = worth×10 × tier factor / 500

with worth×10 = 5, 10, 16, 20, 30, 50 for Common … Mythic, and the tier factor: Verified

Example: a Gold Rare is 16 × 108 / 500 = 3.456 h = 3 h 27 min 22 s.

All 30 grow times

“Average” is the odds-weighted average over a tier’s six rarities. Inferred

The game fixes each planting’s grow time and ripe time when you plant, and the formula is how the times shown are worked out. May change

Time is proportional to value

A crop’s value is pack price × worth and its grow time is worth × factor / 500 hours, so the worth cancels out: Inferred

value per slot-hour = 50 × pack price / tier factor

Inside a tier, every rarity earns the same value per slot-hour. A Mythic is worth ten times a Common and takes ten times as long. A lucky seed is more value, not faster value.

Diamond turns ETH into crop value 20 % faster than Bronze (50.0 / 41.7 = 1.2): “Bigger packs grow faster for the ETH you put in. Splitting ETH across lots of small packs never beats 1 bigger pack.” Official source

Fertilizer

Each Fertilizer used on a growing crop removes 25 % of its total grow time, not of the time left. At most 2 per crop, so a crop can grow in half the time. Verified

ready at = planted at + grow time × (4 − n) / 4        n = 0, 1 or 2 Fertilizers

• If the new ripe time is already past, the crop ripens at once: “Use one with less than a quarter of the time left and the crop ripens at once.” Verified
• A third is refused: “that crop has its 2 already”. A ripe crop cannot be fertilized. Verified
• Fertilizer is used up when applied, comes from your Bag, and never expires. Exported Fertilizer must be imported first (see Production and claiming). Official source

What one Fertilizer saves

Use it on long crops

A Fertilizer always saves a quarter of the crop’s own grow time, so it saves the most on the longest crops: 12 times more on a Bronze Mythic (3 h) than on a Diamond Common (15 min). It matters most when your 25 slots are the limit: two Fertilizers make a slot cycle twice as fast. Inferred

Worked examples

A late Fertilizer ripens at once. A Heartbeet (10 h) planted at 08:00 is due at 18:00. At 16:00 it has 2 h left, less than a quarter of 10 h. One Fertilizer moves the ripe time to 08:00 + 7 h 30 m = 15:30, which is already past, so it is ripe at once.

Two Fertilizers early. A Swirlchard (12 h) planted at 00:00 with two Fertilizers right away ripens at 06:00 instead of 12:00. The same slot can take a second seed the same morning.

Earlier is better, but never wasted. The cut is always of the total time, so with two Fertilizers a crop can never ripen before planted + 50 %. Applied early, both cuts count in full. Applied late, the second one ripens the crop at once at the moment it is used: a Swirlchard fertilized once at planting (due at 9 h) and again at 8 h ripens at 8 h, not at 6 h.

Harvesting

A planting is harvested once and the slot empties. Verified Each slot holds 1 crop, and ripe crops never wilt. Official source Each harvest gives exactly one crop, as the game’s log shows (“Harvested 1× Heartbeet”). Inferred

Three ways to harvest

All verified. Verified The docs: “Harvest 1 crop or everything ripe at once. Harvested crops go to your Bag, ready to sell. The soil hides more than vegetables.” Official source

The Truffle roll

Every harvest has a 1 in 20 chance of a Truffle, ranked like the crop it came from (a Rare crop gives a Rare Truffle). The game’s copy: “Every harvest has a 1 in 20 chance of one. It goes straight into tonight’s Settlement.” and “About one Crop in twenty turns up a Truffle.” The game makes the roll, not your device. Verified

A Truffle enters the nightly Settlement at 00:00 UTC by itself, where the Truffles of the day share a budget of $YIELD (see Truffles and the nightly payout). Since farming is not live, neither are Truffles.

Inferred This is why harvest speed matters: two Fertilizers on a crop double a slot’s harvests, and so its Truffle rolls.

When a harvest finds Truffles, the game plays the Truffle find; several in one batch show the best one (“N truffles!”). Verified

After the harvest

The crop sits in your Bag until you sell it at the Trading Post, to the Market for ETH or to the Farmer for $YIELD (see Market and Farmer). In this build seeds, crops and packs stay in the game; only Fertilizer can be exported. Verified

Messages

All game copy. Verified

Still REDACTED

• Whether a Truffle Pig is required to find Truffles is still redacted.