Farming! Huh! What is it good for? Agricultural growth of a civilisation!
Fae Farm is, as the title suggests, a farming-type game (although it has a lot of other stuff going on, too). But the way it handles farming is a wee bit different, thanks to the other word in the title. There's supernatural stuff happening to your crops, and you're going to need to get a handle on it! Luckily, we're here for you.
If you're still early in the game, check out our Beginner's Tips guide for useful early-game information.
Your Ultimate Guide To Fae Farm's Crops
Things to know about Crops
Seasons are important, so is fertilizer
Every crop has five forms; one for each season, and one for the fae area. You'll need to use the Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer to unlock each of these forms.
Let's take Turnip as an example. Grow a turnip with no fertilizer, and you'll get a turnip. Add Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer in Spring, and you'll grow a radish. Summer, and you'll get a carrot. Autumn gives you beets, and winter gives you fennel.
However! Apply Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer on your fae farm, Fae Acres — you unlock this through the story — and you'll get a Frost Beet.
This applies to every crop that you can buy from the crop seller in the market, which are unlocked gradually as you increase in farming skill.
Buy from the market
There's a seller called Holly on the right-hand side of the market in town that will sell you seeds. Each one is unlocked based on your farming skill, and costs a bit extra:
- Turnip seeds
- 5 Florins each
- No skill required
- 5 Florins each
- Cauliflower seeds
- 6 Florins each
- No skill required
- Bean seeds
- 12 Florins each
- No skill required
- Potato seeds
- 10 Florins each
- Farming Level 10 required
- Corn seeds
- 15 Florins each
- Farming Level 15 required
- Pepper seeds
- 20 Florins each
- Farming Level 20 required
Bad crop news
Unfortunately, all your crops will wither at the start of every season, even if they're all-season crops. Sorry!
Soil is important
There are a few types of soil:
- Basic
- Flower soil
- Hydro soil
- Spring soil
- Summer soil
- Autumn soil
- Winter soil
- Fae soil
Each one is unlocked as you find the ingredients for it, and each one has special abilities, like growing flowers, keeping the soil hydrated, growing out-of-season crops, and fae crops. Experiment with these soils to create the perfect year-round farm!
Crop table
Here's a table for you with the seasons, and the vegetable families, so you can see what to expect from your Magic Crop Swaps.
| Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter | Fae | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnip | Radish | Carrot | Beet | Fennel | Frost Beet |
| Cauliflower | ASparagus | Artichoke | Red Cabbage | Broccoli | Flame Heart |
| Beans | Sugar Peas | Eggplant | Pumpkin | Acorn Squash | Magic Beans |
| Potato | Leek | Onion | Garlic | Jewel Yam | Azure Spud |
| Corn | Rice | Wheat | Oats | Rye | Candy Corn |
| Pepper | Cucumber | Tomato | Tomatillo | Chili Pepper | Crystal Pepper |
Crop growth
Each crop grows in different ways. Luckily, the veg in each "family" (turnip, potato, cauliflower, etc.) grows in exactly the same way. Here are the details:
- Turnip family
- 4 waterings
- Cauliflower family
- 8 waterings
- Bean family
- 12 waterings
- Then every 4 waterings after that
- Potato family
- 4 waterings
- Corn family
- 8 waterings
- Bean family
- 12 waterings
- Then every 4 waterings after that
Fruit trees
There are also fruit trees that you can buy at the market, which put out fruit in a single season — Peach for spring, Pear for summer, Apple for autumn, and Plum for winter.
We believe that these fruit trees also have seasonal forms, but we suspect that the feature is broken, because we haven't managed to get it to work at all. You can place a special beehive in the midst of your fruit trees, where it promises that it'll help the trees drop saplings if you load the hive with bees, but this never happened for us!
Do you have questions or tips to do with crop farming in Fae Farm? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to check out our other Fae Farm guides!