Farming Guide

Fortune, progression, pets, Jacob contests, and coin methods from a clean start into endgame farming.

Last updated: 2026-03-21

Basics: Farming Fortune & Wisdom

Farming Fortune is the main stat for increasing crop drops. The higher your fortune, the more crops you get per plant you break.

Farming Wisdom instead increases the XP per crop. If your goal is fast leveling, wisdom is your secondary focus once your setup is decent.

How to increase Farming Fortune

You raise fortune through pets, armor, tools, shards, equipment, reforges, and talismans.

How to increase Farming Wisdom

Wisdom mainly comes from shards, the Rabbit pet, and matching reforges.

Gear / armor progression

Armor progression is fairly linear. On Ironman, it usually makes sense to keep a set until you can fully craft the next one.

Level 1-10
Farm Suit Armor
Wheat Collection 3, but generally not recommended.
Level 10-25
Farm Armor Set
Wheat Collection 9, also mostly a temporary option.
Level 25-30
Melon Armor
On Ironman, use this until you can craft full Cropie.
Level 30-35
Cropie Armor
On Ironman, keep it until full Squash is possible.
Level 35-40
Squash Armor
Your bridge into Fermento.
Level 40-50
Fermento Armor
Use it until you unlock Heliantus.
Level 50-60
Heliantus Armor

Tool progression

Your tools matter a lot for farming. Start simple, then move onto crop-specific tools as early as possible.

Starting phase

At the start, buy a Rookie Hoe from the Farm Merchant. Use it until you unlock the Garden.

Garden hoes

In the Garden shop, spend copper on a Basic Gardening Hoe and upgrade it into the Advanced Gardening Hoe once you reach Garden Level 3.

Crop-specific tools

Later on, move onto the crop-specific farming tools. Each one costs 250 copper and gives extra fortune for its matching crop.

Upgrades are done through Jacob's Tickets and the matching crop. Higher tiers and higher levels keep increasing your fortune.

Tier-3 maxing

Once a Tier-3 hoe reaches Level 40, you need 10 Overclocks to unlock Level 50. After that, additional level-ups reward XP Farming Capsules.

Equipment

For pure farming, you almost always use only two equipment sets.

Lotus Equipment

Lotus is your reliable progression set and scales with the number of visitors you have already served.

Blossom Equipment

Blossom is the later upgrade. Just like Lotus, its extra farming fortune scales with how many visitors you have completed in total.

Pets

The main farming pets have very clear roles: leveling, making coins, or maximizing endgame fortune.

Rabbit
Used for fast leveling. Go for Epic or Legendary because the pet gives Farming Wisdom.
Mooshroom Cow
Used for money. It drops mushrooms when breaking any crop and scales with your Strength. Only really worth using in Legendary rarity.
Elephant
The fallback option when you do not yet have enough Strength for Mooshroom Cow to win. Also mainly worth considering at Legendary rarity.
Rose Dragon
The best absolute endgame farming pet. Very expensive, but it gives extra fortune for every unique farming pet you own, which scales extremely well.

Jacob contests

Jacob contests happen every 40 minutes and last for 20 minutes. Each contest features three crops and rewards medals plus Jacob's Tickets.

Bronze
Top 60% / 70%
Silver
Top 30% / 40%
Gold
Top 10% / 20%
Platinum
Top 5% / 10%
Diamond
Top 2% / 5%
Why Jacob matters

The medals and tickets you earn here are needed for Anita's Shop. Many of those rewards are either extremely strong or directly required for progression.

Finnigan note

When Finnigan has his strong perk active, the thresholds for each bracket become easier to hit.

Fast farming leveling

If your goal is raw skill XP, focus on a single crop first.

Why mushrooms

For quick leveling, mushrooms are the best focus because they give the highest Farming XP.

A good mushroom farm is easy to build, but it needs 5 plots in a row to be fully infinite.

Leveling setup

Use a Level 100 Epic or Legendary Rabbit together with armor reforged to Sunny. Higher-rarity armor is recommended.

Farming for coins

There are three main money paths, depending on how much effort you want to invest.

Melon farming

Melons are a simple and stable coin method. Farm normally and only deal with pests once you hit 4 or more at the same time, because they start reducing your fortune.

Wheat farming

Wheat works similarly to Melon: low micromanagement, solid profit, and pests only become important once they noticeably start lowering your fortune.

Pest farming

Pest farming usually makes the most coins, but it is also the highest effort method.

Ideally you want 2 equipment sets and 2 pets: one setup for spawning pests and one for killing them or normal crop farming.

Visitors

Visitors reward Copper, Farming XP, Garden XP, and unique items.

Visitor rarities
UncommonRareLegendaryMythicSpecial
Unlocking new visitors

Many visitors are unlocked just by talking to them. Some require a short quest step or a small item hand-in.

Special visitor

The current special visitor is Spaceman. You unlock him at Garden 15 and serving him rewards his unique Space Helmet.

Greenhouse & mutations

The Greenhouse starts to matter from Garden Level 7 onward and introduces the mutation system.

Beth quest in short
  1. 1Grow your first mutation by placing two crops with exactly one block of space between them.
  2. 2After that, you receive the Greenhouse blueprint and can unlock the feature.
  3. 3To analyze mutations, you first need to finish Beth's questline.
  4. 4Beth visits you three times in total. Accept each visit and follow the coordinates she gives you on the Desert Island.
  5. 5Mine the quest block there, return to your Garden, and wait for the next visit.
  6. 6At the end of the questline, you receive Jake's Plushie and access to mutation analysis.
Why the Greenhouse matters

Inside the Greenhouse, you grow unique mutations, analyze them, and unlock mutation milestones.

Rewards

The main rewards are SkyBlock XP, Crop Growth, and a talisman.