FARMING PROCESS FOR BEGINNERS - Plug and Play!

[Leesters]

Okay, you don't have a single seed, you don't have the foggiest idea on how to get started on this farming skill, and the guides you glanced at are information overload. Don't worry, its not as hard as it seems. This is gonna get you started. Ready?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you follow this, you can get to level 40 in less than two days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REQUIRED:

 

 

 

Level 38 Thieving

 

 

 

Ghost Ahoy Quest

 

 

 

Watch Tower Quest

 

 

 

Charged Dragon ammys

 

 

 

10k cash

 

 

 

Lots of law runes.

 

 

 

4-5 lines of bank space.

 

 

 

Farming boots. (Not really required, but you won't get you them here)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step One:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tele to Ardy - Steal a load of cakes.

 

 

 

Rub to Draynor - Bank your cakes, get fully healed, and have empty inv

 

 

 

Pickpocket from two Master Farmers by Draynor stalls. One may be in the pig pen, and thats sweet having him stuck in there. Keep the door closed.

 

 

 

Remember the stalls don't give herb seeds, so focus on the farmer. Get ready for thieving levels.

 

 

 

Steal seeds until you get to 100 potato. Shouldn't take 30 minutes.

 

 

 

When you get low on hits, run to bank, eat cakes, and run back. Bank all your seeds when you get to 100 potatos. The potatos aren't important, but you need to thieve enough to get the other stock piles started. You'll need higher level seeds immediately. The more seeds the better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Bank:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From bank in Draynor get:

 

 

 

Farmers boots (wearing)

 

 

 

Charged ammy (wearing)

 

 

 

Favorite hat (Wearing, make it light)

 

 

 

Don't wear anything else that has weight.

 

 

 

earth runes

 

 

 

fire runes

 

 

 

air staff

 

 

 

water runes

 

 

 

law runes

 

 

 

Green Ecto Vial

 

 

 

5000 coins

 

 

 

24 potato seeds

 

 

 

8 Marigold seeds.

 

 

 

8 barley seeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming Round 1:

 

 

 

Allotment A:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tele to Camelot

 

 

 

Run due east

 

 

 

Right above Catherby is your first farming plots.

 

 

 

Find the Farming store inside the building next to the weed patches.

 

 

 

Trade store keeper

 

 

 

Buy Spade - Needed for digging dead plants and harvesting

 

 

 

Buy Seed Dibbler - Needed to plant seeds

 

 

 

Buy Rake - Needed to remove weeds

 

 

 

Buy Secateurs - Needed to treed diseased bushes

 

 

 

Buy Watercan - Needed to water plants after planting.

 

 

 

Buy 3 buckets of compost - Needed to treat the soil

 

 

 

Run to Catherby sink by the stoves and fill watering can.

 

 

 

Go back to the farming patches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use rake on "allotment" patch until the weeds are gone.

 

 

 

Put weeds into compost bin right next to you.

 

 

 

Use compost on weeded dirt

 

 

 

Inspecting patches will tell you if you used compost or not yet.

 

 

 

Plant Potato seeds.

 

 

 

Water patch.

 

 

 

Try to click on the part of the patch in front of you to avoid running around to the other side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use rake on second allotment patch.

 

 

 

Continue putting weeds into the compost bin,

 

 

 

Repeat process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use rake on "Flower" patch.

 

 

 

Continue putting weeds into compost bin,

 

 

 

Use compost

 

 

 

Drop three empty buckets

 

 

 

Plant Marigolds

 

 

 

Water Marigolds (These protect the veggies from disease... hopefully)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice "Herb" patch. You should already be level 3 or 4. Not this time, but soon.

 

 

 

Rake weeds in herb patch

 

 

 

Put weeds into compost bin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Find corn, weeds, potatos, onions, herbs, (anything organic except tomatos) laying on ground and put into compost bin until its full.

 

 

 

Close compost bin, it will take time to turn into compost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If it hasn't happened yet, stick around until you actually see the plants grow. Once it grows a step... every 10 minutes or so, you can water again. If you stood here long enough, you would see the plants grow every 10 minutes, and could water them every time it grows. Farming this way will get you nowhere fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to move on to the next place. Write down what time it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allotment B:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Empty your Green Vial.

 

 

 

Refill it.

 

 

 

Run due east.

 

 

 

Farming patch is right next to the ghoulish cows.

 

 

 

Notice farming store location in the cow patch.

 

 

 

Go to the farming patches.

 

 

 

Talk to the farmer helper there.

 

 

 

Buy 3 buckets of compost, check out the options for her.

 

 

 

Patch farmers offer advise, and will watch your crops for a fee, and they'll sell you compost and plant cure potions. Always carry cash on you when farming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weed all patches

 

 

 

Put weeds in compost

 

 

 

No one will be here, so you won't be able to fill compost bin enough to close it, unless you're lucky.

 

 

 

Use your compost before planting seeds always

 

 

 

Always water seeds after planting them.

 

 

 

Run west one click and see the water icon on your map

 

 

 

Use watering can on water pump.

 

 

 

Make sure your green vial is not empty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allotment C:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tele to Ardy.

 

 

 

Run due north out the gate.

 

 

 

Run past the well and around the farm to the east.

 

 

 

At top of town wall will be the farming patches

 

 

 

Notice Farming store by the well

 

 

 

Notice fountain for water one click northeast in the structure there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeat weeding, soil-treating, planting and watering process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This spot may not be busy, so put as much in compost bin as you can.

 

 

 

Close if possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allotment D:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rub to Draynor

 

 

 

Go north past the pig pen, through the gate to Port Sarim.

 

 

 

Run through the cabbage patch (notice slippost in fence for shortcut)

 

 

 

North of cabbage patch is farming patches.

 

 

 

Notice the farming store inside the Draynor Farm.

 

 

 

Notice the slippost in the fence for shortcut between patches and store.

 

 

 

Too far to notice, but the closest water is in the front door to the farm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one will be super busy, no problem completing compost bin.

 

 

 

Repeat Planting process.

 

 

 

Getting the hang of it now, and sparkles are flying.

 

 

 

There is a Farmer helper here, but might be hard to find. He has gold hair here, and looks like a player, not a farmer. He most likely is buried under the horde of players here.

 

 

 

Don't neglect to buy the compost. I know its a pain, but you have to do it.

 

 

 

Once you planted a non-treated patch, you can't dig it up, and it probably won't live.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allotment patches complete.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whew! That was kinda fun, huh? It just started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can now grow hops, higher level allotments, and herbs and bushes very soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hops Patch A:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tele to Watch Tower

 

 

 

Run to bank, but keep on going.

 

 

 

The farming patch is just inside the north wall next to the water icon

 

 

 

Yes, notice the sink inside the building there.

 

 

 

You already saw the only four farming stores.

 

 

 

Same planting process, just plant the barley seeds instead.

 

 

 

Buy three buckets of compost from farmer helper

 

 

 

Ask farmer helper to watch your crops

 

 

 

Her fee will be 3 buckets of compost.

 

 

 

Agree.

 

 

 

She will take the compost, and will tell you that this crop will not die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hops Patch B:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fill your water can.

 

 

 

Tele to Lumby.

 

 

 

Run up the river to the second bridge

 

 

 

Cross the bridge

 

 

 

Keep running north past the farm

 

 

 

To the left, there will be another farm patch

 

 

 

No water here.

 

 

 

Weed, treat, plant and water.

 

 

 

Pay the man his three compost buckets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are two other hops patches in the game, if you want to use them. One is on Entrana, so if you're using staffs to save runes, you can't take em there. Its right by the sand pit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other is north of MacGrubers Woods. If you use both of these spots, you will have 8 total spots on your farming rotation and will get excellent

 

 

 

fast exp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are now a farmer. Probably level 5-7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now get some more cakes, and go steal seeds until an hour has passed since you noted the time when you started. IT might have taken you almost an hour to complete your first trip stumbling around your new skill, but as you get more practiced, the allotment cycle will take you about 15 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A finished crop will wait for you, no matter how long it takes you to get back, so don't hurry up to get to your patches when they aren't ready yet. Standing around waiting totally blows. Don't go before the hour is up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steal enough seeds so you have at least 24 onions.

 

 

 

You will also need 8 Marigolds. (Or is it 4?)

 

 

 

And also, this time, you get to take guam seeds.

 

 

 

You can't id them, so take the biggest pile you have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming Round 2:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get the same stuff you did the first time, plus all your new tools, and this time we won't go back to the hops fields yet because they take longer, and they won't be ready yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tele back to camelot, this time making sure you fill your watercan as you run by the fountains. Start this habit now. lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, the fields will look quite a bit different. You will either have dead crops, diseased crops, or ready to be harvested. Unless you're early.

 

 

 

If they are diseased, buy plant cure from farmers helper

 

 

 

If they are dead, use spade on dead plants, and replant.

 

 

 

If they are ready to be harvested, click on it, and you'll get potatos.

 

 

 

If you are early, and the only option is "Inspect", you're waiting. Water crops, and play with your.. emotes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have bank space availabe save as much of your crops as you can, as you could use stuff to pay farmers later, make beers, etc... I didn't save crops due to bank issues, I just don't use the farmer helpers often. The farmer helpers ask for really strange stuff, and its different for every crop, and they usually require sacks and baskets of stuff.. Oh, and they only protect one allotment field at a time. I don't use them except to protect my high level Blood hops. They make Slayer Respite, and I make sure those crops live. They only ask for a flower on that one. lol. Pretty red one too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the Marigolds survived leave them. If they didn't, clear it out, and replant.

 

 

 

You must retreat the soil each time you plant.

 

 

 

Try to open the compost bin. It will be ready next time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, repeat the same planting process you did before, planting the onions, and leaving the lving flowers. Or replant the flowers if you want the exp, they just protect better if fully grown. If your first crops died, leave the flowers. Hehe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If most of your plants survived, you are really gonna start to level fast now as you get both harvesting and planting exp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you get to level 9, you can start planting the guam seeds in the herb patches so you'll have all four things going.

 

 

 

If it won't let you plant that seed, its not guam. Try to find the right pile when you're at Camelot, as the Catherby bank is two clicks south of the patches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planting Bushes: Plant some new seeds!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you get to level 12, you can plant bushes. This is when you add two spots to your rotation. They are fairly quick and easy. The first one is just south of the Clock Tower at Ardy. You will need redberry seeds, 8 total.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fill your watercan, Tele to Ardy, run due south past the bank, follow the shoreline, and due south of the water well. This is the closest water so make sure you have a bucket or a filled watercan. Do your thing, Farmer, and that bush will be ready to pick in 4 hours. And it stays there so you can keep on picking it. Do you keep it alive and keep picking berries for the harvisting exp? Or do you replant it each time and get the growing exp? You decide. I'm tired. (replant for best exp)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off to Bush spot number 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its right next to the Champions guild.

 

 

 

Tele to Varrock, run south out the gate, and head southwest.

 

 

 

Farmer helper has compost, but no water close, so i hope you're follwing instructions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to, you can add the other two bush spots to your rotation, but they are a pain to get to. Etceria, the northern most island on the game map. You can plant a spirit tree here when you're 85. :D If you haven't done the fremi quests, don't even think about this one. If you don't have enchanted lyres in your bank for tele, I'd advise against it. If you have lyres, rub it, and run northwest through the town, and take the boat to the island. Run north, east over the bridge, and south again. Its a long run. And this is NOT the place where you forget to bring your tele runes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other spot is in Rimmington. Long walk from anywhere. I don't usually use these two spots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming Round 3:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steal seeds until its time to go back. Your stock piles are getting bigger now. Might wanna steal enough until you get to 48 tomatos, you'll be doing them very soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its time for harvest, and now you know what you're doing. You can do cabbages, but skip them because you can't grow the flower that protects them yet, and you won't do well on your harvest. Keep doing onions until you can do tomatos. Tomatos also require marigolds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As your levels increase, start planting the level seeds you can. The hops level up so fast you won't even get to most of them before you can get to do the next level up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then you'll get to sweetcorn. They don't need a flower, instead you have to make a scarecrow. Lol. Bronze spear, farming sack filled with hay, and a watermelon. Slap it all together and you got your protection for corn. Need four of them. Get the bronze spears from Goblins, hay is at ardy farming store, and watermelons are only available from players.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seeds are now your main issue.

 

 

 

You now hate potato seeds with a passion.

 

 

 

You drop level 20 hops seeds on the ground.

 

 

 

In fact theres 10 or so piles of lowest level seeds you drop.

 

 

 

You tried to sell, but they're worthless.

 

 

 

You hear rumors about jute seeds giving great exp, but remember that Leesters guide told you they fixed that bug and it doesn't work anymore.

 

 

 

You get excited about growing ranaars.

 

 

 

You get excited about growing limpwurts.

 

 

 

You start wondering when you're gonna start doing trees now.

 

 

 

You hear a rumor that says willow trees let you prune their branches when they're almost full grown that gives you WICKED exp, and you remeber that Leesters told you its true.

 

 

 

You start looking for Willow seeds on the forums.

 

 

 

You start chopping wood to find nests to get fruit tree seeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You start dreaming of picking whiteberries at level ..... oh well, who cares!!! :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Farming!

[Leesters]

Before you start flaming, I wrote yet another farming gude because the myriad of others had tons of info. TONS OF INFO. But nobody really did a step by step like a quest guide does.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I did. I hope it helps those poor souls standing in Fally waiting 55 minutes for their cabbage to grow stuck on level 6. I can't stand hearing them complain how boring it is, asking how I leveled so fast, and not being able to respond because I already clicked on the tele button. When they tasted the tele dust, maybe they got the hint..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, yeah! Of course its boring and slow if you never freakin mooooove! Sheesh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, btw, I still contend that the skill is mostly useless, and exceptionally non-profitable, ....... But I do admit that I was wrong about it not being fun. It turned out to be a hoot. :)

[adthegreat-]

Good of you to partially change your opinion, and even better that you contribute to this forum alot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for writing the guide, I wont use it, but i'll point some of my less able friends in it's direction.

[Leesters]

Good of you to partially change your opinion, and even better that you contribute to this forum alot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for writing the guide, I wont use it, but i'll point some of my less able friends in it's direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, its not those who have already been there, done that. But, man, for someone just starting, it should be the bomb.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully I'll have my watermelons ready. I can't wait! One more level.

[hohto]

Great guide here :shock: Gonna use this one when I decide to level farming a bit more.

[_me_]

I've been paying the farmers to watch both allotments. They have not lost a crop.

[Leesters]

I've been paying the farmers to watch both allotments. They have not lost a crop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, they never will.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And its good to know they will watch both at the same time. What do they need for watermelon?

[wildmanoneoneone]

Nice gide ill use it once I have finished trainin my combat

[JJG]

Thank you so much for thsi guide and may i say, well spent time on it as imm sure it do well to help all the 'nooby' farmers like me who needed a structured guide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Guide :lol:

[ale_jrb]

Nice guide :).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always get distracted, so I'm only level 21 (scarecrows soon!) and this guide might help. Thanks :).

[SwordKing]

Very nice guide, leesters1. I'm sure alot of people will appreciate it. (I do for sure.) I probally won't use this guide (I understand farming), but it will help alot of people out there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep up the good work! :P

[urza1488]

sticky pl0z-this really helped me

[All_Bogs]

Just one question. What are farmer's boots and where does one obtain them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, one of the quests in the Red Dwarf storyline gives a few thousand farming xp, enough for a quick few levels when done with the minimum required level which isn't particulary high.

[E_K]

i might start famring now... reading the guides on how to farm was just overwhelming so i never even tried although i did thieve a good 2k asorted seeds already

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

111 comb and 1536 total btw lol, ppl find it hard to believe i have never farmed

[scougre]

good guide , thats the same tactic i used 8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

about farming once you get the hang of it , you get hooked on it wierd enough, you cant stop farming :lol:

[dstextreme]

Awesome guide...I will also point some of my friends in this direction, since i am a f2p noob. :P

[wildmanoneoneone]

hey i got my farmin up high enough and its not on high scores can i have a scarecrow?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-wild man 111-

[Leesters]

hey i got my farmin up high enough and its not on high scores can i have a scarecrow?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-wild man 111-

 

 

 

:oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who bumped this thing? lol. Sorry, folks, but I don't have any scarecrows left. This guide was written when the skill was new..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to gather bronze spears, any farmer would be happy to make them for you, including me. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A quick edit is in order. lol.

[purekilljoy]

please make this sticky!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i have never seen such guide...

 

 

 

i don't wanna start farming too soon, but if i wanna, then i ened to b able to find it :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thnx alot man, u have now been elected for the first person who has never made me think about getting farming past lvl 1 :)

[Suzanne_Vega]

A couple things missing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you're going to put something in the allotments, you might as well put something in the flower and herb plots too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As soon as you can do trees, do them, they give huge xp when you "check" them, between growing and harvesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pick fruit trees and chop down wood trees as often as possible before you uproot them, they are usefull and give farming xp as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use supercompost - it's free and you will almost never get disease in your plants. Free supercompost can be made from pineapples scattered west of brimhaven or jangerberries on the little island of non-agressive ogres west of yanille. Always use 15 of the same thing.

[Neo_A_Cerec]

One correction, the farming patch is WEST of the ectofunctus, and not east, very good guide, i don't need to use it, i'm already 30 farming, but i think it could help lower level players.

 

 

 

Admins, stickify pl0x =)

[Triplets_KGB]

Nice Guide! Been looking for a Farming Guide for a while!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ty Leesters1

[ThePeoplesNo0b]

i might start famring now... reading the guides on how to farm was just overwhelming so i never even tried although i did thieve a good 2k asorted seeds already

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

111 comb and 1536 total btw lol, ppl find it hard to believe i have never farmed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neither have i, same combat 1560 total.

[JoeyTee]

As a player who has never even tried farming due to the fact I didn't know where to begin, I thank you very much for this guide. :)

[Leesters]

As a player who has never even tried farming due to the fact I didn't know where to begin, I thank you very much for this guide. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats exactly what it was for. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The guides are quite extensive and mind blowing. When you get the hang of it, you might wanna check out the main sites farming guide. Its quite good, but thats because I updated it. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Dont trust the growing times*