Starting farming

[Aruschpler12]

I know that farming is a great way to make money, however i can't figure out how to do it. I've tried looking at guides, but they all require basic knowledge of what to do with farming, whereas I'm literally clueless. So, basically, what i'm looking for is a dumbed-down, explicit guide to exactly what i should do. I'm level 20 from quests, etc., and i really want to figure out how i'm supposed to level it.

 

Any help for someone completely lost?

[Skeptical]

Use a rake on a patch to free it from weeds, use a bucket of supercompost on the empty patch, then plant your seed(s) and, if an allotment or flower patch, water them.

 

Come back a few hours later, pick, and minus the raking part, repeat.

[Aruschpler12]

What should i take with me?

Which patches should i use? in which order?

How long does it take for things to grow?

[geesch]

Check out the tipit guide. It will answer a lot of the basic questions. Once you get a basic understanding, people will be able to help you out regarding what is best to plant.

[L0rdAki]

This is what I do on a farming run (takes approx 1.5 hours to grow if you're ingame the whole time, 2 hours if you're not. I do runs every 2 hours. )

 

Withdraw Lumby ring 3, Trollheim, catherby, ardy and varrock tele runes, ectophile, rake, seed dibber, spade, magic secatures, fally shield 3. Equip ring, secatures, and shield. Back to bank, take out 5 herb seeds and 4 marigold/limp seeds (Imo allotments are terrible for profit. Someone do the math and correct me if I'm wrong). Fill the rest of your invent with supercompost.

 

Ectophile then go west to the first patch. Store compost in the leprecaun, take out 2. Pick herbs/flowers, then use supercompost on each patch, then herb seeds on the herb patch and vice versa. Rake the patches if you see weeds come up. Use the herbs/flowers on the leprecaun to note them, drop buckets, take out 2 more supercompost, cabbage tele.

 

Go north to the farming patch, then pick herbs/flowers, use supercompost on the patches, plant seeds, rake if needed. Note produce, drop buckets,

take out 2 more supercompost, cammy tele.

 

Go east and a little south to the patch. Pick herbs/flowers, use supercompost on patches, plant seeds, rake if needed, note produce, drop buckets, get 2 more supercompost.

 

Tele to ardy, then go east till outside the walls, follow the outside wall north past wizard cromperty and the cow pen, and you're there. You should know what

to do by now. Plant the last seeds, then this time take out 1 supercompost and trollheim tele.

 

Go west Down the agility shortcuts then west until you're in the little troll enclosure. Go north until you enter the

troll stronghold. (don't go towards gwd, btw.)

 

Once inside, you should see a ladder west of you behind a wall. Go south to a door, open it, then back up north to the ladder. Go up the ladder, go north to the disease free

patch. Pick, plant and note. Varrock tele when you're done and sell on the ge/bank. You need to have done my arm's big adventure to use the last patch, either do that or don't do the last trollheim patch.

 

Any other questions, such as Doing fruit tree runs as well (picking fruit, not planting) or doing cacti as well, just post.

[aspeeder]

What should i take with me?

Which patches should i use? in which order?

How long does it take for things to grow?

You can store all the essential tools needed for farming with a leprachaun, you can just right click him to see what those are and buy those from a farming store (It's a clay pot icon on the minimap, and for example there's one in the farm south of Fally).

 

I would start out just doing one patch, meaning one full place with 2 allotments, one flower, and one herb patch;it's easier to manage until you get the hang of stuff (I used the fally patch, personally).

 

Varies from plant to plant, Tip.It's Official Farming Guide has all the times plus a lot more beginner info.

 

Best of luck :thumbup: .

[Aruschpler12]

This is what I do on a farming run (takes approx 1.5 hours to grow if you're ingame the whole time, 2 hours if you're not. I do runs every 2 hours. )

 

Withdraw Lumby ring 3, Trollheim, catherby, ardy and varrock tele runes, ectophile, rake, seed dibber, spade, magic secatures, fally shield 3. Equip ring, secatures, and shield. Back to bank, take out 5 herb seeds and 4 marigold/limp seeds (Imo allotments are terrible for profit. Someone do the math and correct me if I'm wrong). Fill the rest of your invent with supercompost.

 

Ectophile then go west to the first patch. Store compost in the leprecaun, take out 2. Pick herbs/flowers, then use supercompost on each patch, then herb seeds on the herb patch and vice versa. Rake the patches if you see weeds come up. Use the herbs/flowers on the leprecaun to note them, drop buckets, take out 2 more supercompost, cabbage tele.

 

Go north to the farming patch, then pick herbs/flowers, use supercompost on the patches, plant seeds, rake if needed. Note produce, drop buckets,

take out 2 more supercompost, cammy tele.

 

Go east and a little south to the patch. Pick herbs/flowers, use supercompost on patches, plant seeds, rake if needed, note produce, drop buckets, get 2 more supercompost.

 

Tele to ardy, then go east till outside the walls, follow the outside wall north past wizard cromperty and the cow pen, and you're there. You should know what

to do by now. Plant the last seeds, then this time take out 1 supercompost and trollheim tele.

 

Go west Down the agility shortcuts then west until you're in the little troll enclosure. Go north until you enter the

troll stronghold. (don't go towards gwd, btw.)

 

Once inside, you should see a ladder west of you behind a wall. Go south to a door, open it, then back up north to the ladder. Go up the ladder, go north to the disease free

patch. Pick, plant and note. Varrock tele when you're done and sell on the ge/bank. You need to have done my arm's big adventure to use the last patch, either do that or don't do the last trollheim patch.

 

Any other questions, such as Doing fruit tree runs as well (picking fruit, not planting) or doing cacti as well, just post.

 

 

THANK YOU!. This is exactly the type of thing i needed.

 

Thank you very much! ^_^

[L0rdAki]

No problem :0

 

If you're interested in making 50k in about 7 mins at the end of every second farming run (picking papayas/coconuts) or getting an extra 15k in 30 seconds at the end of each run (cacti), give us a pm/post another topic once you're 55+ farming. You'll get it really quickly if you do a few herb runs a day ^_^

 

For what to plant, the market is haywire at the moment. Marigolds/limps are the best in the flower spot, and in the herb spot it depends. Avantoes, ranarrs, snaps, torstol are usually recognized as the best. You could try tarromin until then, though.

[Aruschpler12]

Yeah, i'm doing tarromins/marrigolds right now. Then i'll to the best herbs i can of those listed once i get the levels ^_^

 

On a another note, whats the best way to get supercompost?

[L0rdAki]

I'm a little rusty on flowers to be honest - limps might end up being better profit. You'll have to check with someone who knows.

 

The best way to get supercompost is from the ge. The cheapest way which I'm looking into, is to buy cheap supercompost materials (pineapple, watermelon, ect) off the ge then put them in the compost boxes near the farming patches.

 

In order of long term profitability, it looks like this:

 

Torstol is better then Snaps, which are better then avantoes, Which is better then ranarrs. Long term includes deaths and saving herbs over a long time (few weeks doing a few runs a day or more)

 

In terms of short term, (A run a day which you sell off), the order is reversed, except avantoes are better then all of them. A death in the short term is tragic, and avantoes seeds are the cheapest.

 

Good luck with farming :0

[Aruschpler12]

Thanks for all your help guys, especially L0rdAki :D

[purekilljoy]

If you want faster xp, to higher lvls (getting into the money quicker). Throw in fruit tree runs as well, they're cheap, reliable and you get supercompost material as well at higher lvls.

 

If you want an exact way how to do farming runs check out AOW, Mother Gaya's In depth guide to farming or sth. It has excellent guides on how to do a farming run, what to take and so forth. That's what i read to get started on farming (I was lvl 1 farming a month ago, I have planted only herbs and fruit trees and i just got farming 75 today).

 

Good luck! It's a great skill to train.