farming

[i_D_r]

i hated it at first also, but jagex are genius in design tbh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

farming is wonderfully set up and is very useful for proficient use of time to obtain items

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but with less people using this feature of the game that means less saturation of jagex's idealisms come about (less integration to the degree they want in a average players experience), and more economic advantages for people using it

[Sumpta]

I like farming a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd never have gotten so far with herblore (76) if it wasn't for farming (82 now). And farming is ridiculously easy to get up if you use manage thy kingdom.

[drgnslyer_15]

i like farming its an easy skill.. Plant whatever come back in an hr or more depending what you planted and boom exp... Its not difficult or boring at all... anyone that says its boring is a moron... yes i said a moron simply cause you plant and go off to do other things like train melee... come back and get exp how is that hard or boring? People just like to complain cause they have nothing better to do but annoy other while having fun

[ssenmodnar]

anyone that says its boring is a moron...

 

 

 

hey im a moron and even i like farming >_>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways im just gonna get to the point. Pretty much everything boils down to the fact that some people dont like farming because it does not give instant gratification

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

every other skill, you do something, you get experience right away

 

 

 

the long run almost never crosses some peoples minds

[Zygimantas]

 

anyone that says its boring is a moron...

 

 

 

hey im a moron and even i like farming >_>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways im just gonna get to the point. Pretty much everything boils down to the fact that some people dont like farming because it does not give instant gratification

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

every other skill, you do something, you get experience right away

 

 

 

the long run almost never crosses some peoples minds

nice farming level :D

[salim123]

eeverymornin before school i planted 4 willows

 

 

 

every day after school took them out and planted 4 more

 

 

 

then at nite same thing

 

 

 

around 2 -3 levels a day with no hassel

[Peronix]

I don't hate it, but then I don't love it either. It's useful at the low-mid levels, but I see little reason to keep raising it besides total levels.

[foofoomagoo]

personally i love farming, mainly because its just something relaxing to do after a hard day

[swampjedi]

For me, farming and herblore go hand in hand (I'm 91 in both). They are a great source of income, so I keep working them. I expect to mosey my way to 99 in 2007, but we'll see. Even when I do, I'll at least keep farming for the profits.

[freeze147]

as you said!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

its slow!

[Bellatrix]

Farming (79 atm) is one of my favorites, and my main money maker toghether with herblore (82).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boring? farming demands much less repeating-click from most other skills. You just have to plan ahead wisely, use the right seeds and always use super-compost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

never stand and wait near the patch. I plant 5 herb seeds at a time:

 

 

 

- 1 desease free in the troll stronghold

 

 

 

- 1 in catherby, proctected by my nature ammy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 best seeds (snapdragon and higher) goes there, 3 other seeds (kwarm and lower) in the other herb patches with suppercompost and best of luck. with this and the magic cutters, i lose very few seeds and can make up to 4k (easily with planting a belladona also) per farming round.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

never bother with bushes and hops - i plated 4 poison ivys ages ago to pick berries from time to time, and that's it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

never bother stealing seeds - there are many good seed droping mosters which are much better (and also may give valuble combat/slayer exp while your herbs grow)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for med-low level players: moss giants

 

 

 

for higher level players: dagganoths under lighthouse (not in waterbirth!)

 

 

 

for slayers:

 

 

 

- turoths

 

 

 

- cave horros

 

 

 

- abberant spectures (the best, cause their regular drop is a unid, not gp)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

always plant all 5 herb patches in a row (+ plant high-lv allotment and belladona in the way) for maximum exp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

find/buy a tree seed from time to time.

[E_D_G_E_1039]

People like to see instant results. Most skills, you do action X, and you get compensation for it. In farming, it takes more time.

[Leesters]

I think most people go around farming in completly the wrong way. Of course its going to be boring if you just stand around the patch and wait for your crops to grow. Instead use super compost and go fish, woodcut or somthing and come back in a while. It takes you maybe only a few minutes to plant and harvest them and the rewards for training it are always nice. (herbs ftw)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, its no fun waiting. Its MUCH funner if you make sure you farm ALL possible patches in Runescape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the "traveling farmer" routine, you'll actually have to race yourself to get done with everything in time, the leveling is multiple times faster, and its alot more fun that just standing around "watching grass grow".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have four allotment patches, four hops patches, four bush patches, and eight tree patches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use them all, and enjoy the skill much more.

[Luke]

It's a very complicated skill, involves time, money, clicking, moving. most people are used to things being 1 click on Runescape IMO.

[aznmidget448]

I think it's a little boring. Also, waiting for your plants to grow isn't my idea of fun :-\

[Outsanity]

Farming by itself will, obviously, be boring...but that's why you do something ELSE while you wait, you silly people!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like, for me...I often will do my agility training as I farm. Sure...it's not the most exciting thing in the world, but I don't think my agility would be 75 right now had I not farmed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And another good thing to do (In my opinion) is to do herblore while you farm. It sure has done MY Herblore level a trick or two. ;)

[eastking]

people don't like farming because ...i don't know ...i like farming

[Zygimantas]

I think it's a little boring. Also, waiting for your plants to grow isn't my idea of fun :-\

you don't w8 u got to diffrent patches and plant like leesters said there is alot of patches

[Soulsniper64]

I stopped once i got it 50, ill only do it again when i want all stats above 60 :P

[Greedom1]

At 82 farming (and one who does no less than 3-5 herb plots, etc. a day), I can safely say farming is the most evil of all the RS skills. It is the -only- that is truly connected to Real Life time (as opposed to Rune Scape time).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming is good for other ends -- namely herblore. (At least it is for me.) If you're looking for an easy lvl 99 skill, obviously farming isn't for you. However, if you're looking for a way to break up the monotony, make a ton off of herblore, and find a use for all those seed drops, then farming is for you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, if you're over 50 or so farming, I suggest you stop thieving the master farmers in draynor (unless you're looking for the occasional ranarr). Instead, do the lighthouse quest (if you haven't) and kill dagganoths on slayer assignments... herb seeds are a -much- -much- -much- better way to lvl in the 45-65 range than allotments, just my word for it. (I farmed over 3k tomatoes until I got the hint...)

[bigmoneyak]

My own farming method. Only thing that is different now is that I use the 5th herb patch from the My Arm quest. And I bind my nature ammy to that patch. Super efficient and fun between slayer tasks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Even though I Run The Slayer's Guild, I have been spending alot of my time farming. I have recently hit the highest useable level of 85 and will here share my farming method which works for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep in mind I am not the farming authority, but farming in the method I will show you here wll help you efficiently plant between tasks then get back to other things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before we start, an overview. You will be planting mainly Bushes, Herbs, and limpwurt roots. If you have Strawberries, Corn, and Watermelon you hope to plant you will be planting it in Catherby since it is the only allotment close to a bank so you can bank your harvest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also ALWAYS USE SUPER COMPOST. In the following guide you will learn my technique to unlimited Pineapple. Never plant without it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The order is Varrock, Port Phantasmys, Faladore, Ardougne, and finally Catherby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will be doing your farming in 2 shifts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First get th above inventory and Tele to Varrock. I buy out the Battlestaffs from Zaffs Staff's to help my crafting mainly then plant or pick (White or Janger)berries west of the champions guild. Most people can skip this step but since I need the staves and berries I always do this first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then you use your ectophial and tele to Port Phatasmys. Pick your herbs and re-plant. if you have 3 empty spots pick and replant your limpwurts. Tele to Faladore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bank your herbs and head to the falladore plot. Pick and plant your herbs and limpwurts. Tele to Ardougne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At this point bank your harvest and your farming tools. You will be taking a break to boat over to Brimhaven 2 or 3 times. At the dock you can buy 15 pineapple for compost, and 20 seawead/10 Soda Ash for crafting. If you dont mind banking and returning you can buy out the rest of the dock stock then go a bit south and pick your fruit trees. I have a Palm tree in this location. Also if you need anymore pinapple you can go south and pick the 5 pinaplee trees there. Tele or boat back to Ardougne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bank your dock products and retrieve your farming tools/compost. Go north to the Ardougne farming allotment. Pick and plant your Herbs and Limpwurts. Tele to Camelot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fill up your water can at the Camelot fountain then bank your yield in Catherby bank. Go north and pick and plant your herbs and Limpwurts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At this point you need to Bank your harvest, retrieve 15 buckets, and empty the super compost bin. Bank then retrieve 15 pinapple and place it in the bin and close.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As said before if you have Strawberries, Corn, and Watermelon you hope to plant you will be planting it at this time since it is the only allotment close to a bank so you can bank your harvest. When doing ths you will not be planting limpwurts of course but will be planting Nasiratums to protect your Watermelons, a scarecrow to protect your corn, and paying the Farmer a basket of apples to protect your strawberries.

 

 

 

If you have the Nasaritums or scarcrow protecting your Watermelon or corn your crops will rarely die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do the Fairy Tale Part 1 Quest. You will be rewarded with a set of magic secataurs. These are said to give a 10% bonus to your yield per the Jagex Knowledge Base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you can buy an uncharged Amulet of nature or make your own, the Amulet of Nature really helps you with your farming. What I do is bind it to my Catherby herb patch and if I'm on it alerts me when my plot is grown or if any problems come up that I need to go cure them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If not busy I'll go do another farming run immiediately after getting the message. If any of my other herb plots are diseased at this point I can buy plant cure and heal them as I visit the plots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last thing you need to know is how to get seeds.

 

 

 

As a slayer Nechryals, Dagganoths, and Trolls provide you with a good amount of herb seeds, however you may decide to buy from players to get a more steady source. You can buy herbs straight up 15-20k for Rannar and 15-25k for a snap are good prices and will guarentee a profit on the herbs yielded.

 

 

 

Sometimes you are in a bank and a noob is selling seeds cheap. Take them up on it as you will make many thousands of dollars by taking the time to trade for small amounts with new players.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I personally have used my fame to advertise my herb deal of 3/1 herbs to seeds. If you compare te street value of the herbs to the value of the seeds I am losing a little or breaking even on street price of the seeds. But when you plant you make the money back if it lives and you harvest more than 5. Other farmers do 4 or 5 to 1 but your profit drops off and you are hosed if your herbs die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limp seeds are a pain to get. Most sellers only have a few to sell so its hard to buy a good quantity. I pay 1k ea or trade 1.5 limps to 1. My current batch of seeds I got 1000 from a player for 1.5k each, thats not a good deal but it saves me the hassle of having to stop and beg noobs to sell me 4 limp seeds each time I want to plant. Sure you only get 3 per successful limpwurt harvest but as much farming as you do it will add up and make you alot of money when you decide to pot and sell your super sets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming is a very cool skill that you can train away from the computer. I plant when I wake up, every hour and a half when I am online, and before I go to bed. When not playing RS I just hop on fast, farm and log. Then I go outside and do my Yardwork (Farming IRL) or other tasks mandated by THE WIFE. It all adds up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In closing this is my personal method of farming. It takes me 15 minutes tops to do if I don't get sidetracked and has already become my most stable moneymaker. Its well worth developing and the rewards add up the higher you go. Keep working hard planting and building your herb and seed bank and one day it could look like mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farm On as you Slay On,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Axe Man Jack"

[nyyankees588]

farming is one of my favorite skills, origanaly i just did herb pathes and other seeds, then i started doing kingdom of miscilania and got tons of tree seeds i can get at least 6k farming exp a day just from tree seeds, i think its kinda fun and cool to have a high lvl

[darkblade986]

My method will probably be to farm at the Draynor patch, and bring a Hatchet and Tinderbox/Knife with me to train my Woodcutting and Firemaking/Fletching, whichever I so desire. I'd probably end up planting a small plant, even potatoes if I wanted considering I still have 800+ seeds from when farming first came out. I'd just sell those to the local Farming store and come back and keep planting. Of course, I'd be using Lunar Magic for Plant Cure and Compost, just to keep it going faster (rather than waiting an entire hour for new compost to form, and not even have the right stuff to make super compost), and if I really feel gutsy, I may instead use the Catherby spot and bring an ectophial with me and run through Port Phasmatys as well. I doubt I'll try a 4-patch run again (I tried it before but took too much effort), so a 2-patch rotation should work fine.

[moopymitchell182]

Farming is easy from 40-80. Other levels are hard.

Actually, it's just as easy; it just takes longer.

[PhelimReagh]

One of the reasons I like farming is the quality of player you find Farming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not to be a Farm Supremacist or anything, but Farmers are just better than everybody else :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think people who Farm are generally more mature. Granted, there's an awful lot of "plant and run" (if you're trying to maintain all four major farming spots as well as hops and bush patches), but when you're in a patch with downtime, Farmers are more friendly and mature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walk from the Catherby fishing area spam-fest, then walk to the Catherby farming patch. It's like walking from mayhem of Times Square into the calm of Central Park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I prefer the park.