[GUIDE] Farming

[TiMoN]

Farming System
Fields, Coups & Barns

Introduction
In RS5.2, players are able to own farms and operate in them. In there, they will be able plant seeds and harvest their plant, as well as buy, feed, raise and harvest farm animals. Farms are owned by those who have purchased the house controlling the farm, and they are able to hire/fire employees as they believe necessary.

Commands
/addfarmstaff [Player ID] Used to add someone as a member of your farm, allows them to use fields/coups/barns. Can only be used by farm owner.
/firefarmstaff [Player ID] Used to remove someone from your farm. Can only be used by farm owner.


Farm Fields
Each farm is composed of farm fields, and each field can be used separately to grow differenet types of crops. In order to use a field in the farming process, players will need a Tractor equipped with a Plow, these should be available on your farm so you just have to look for them. Tractors with plows are used to cultivate plots and plant seeds, when seeds are planted, they will take from 30 minutes to 3 hours to fully grow. In order to work on a farm, you need to be added as staff on it, that can only be done by farm's owner. Before beginning with the planting process, first you need to drive your tractor around the plots that require cultivating in order to prepare them for the planting process.

There are six types of seeds, those are: Potatoes, Tomatoes, Hops, Rye, Grapes and Wheat and each one has its own unique look. *Info about obtaining seeds here*. After seeds are planted, there is no extra maintenance or tending to needed until harvest time.

When the seeds are fully grown, they will need harvesting, you need to use a Combine Harvester which is also available on your farm, drive over the grown plants to harvest them. You will receive 1 of the seed you harvest in your inventory, so if you harvest a field of 30 potato plants, you will get 30 potatoes. Each crop has its own use and purposes, for example, Rye which can be grown on any farm, is used in creating illegal moonshine in factories.

Commands
/attachfarmtrailer or /detachfarmtrailer Used to attach or detach a plow to/from your tractor.
/cultivate Allows you to cultivate farm plots that need cultivating, must be driving a tractor with an attached plow.
/seeding [Seed Name] Allows you to plant crops over plots available for seeding, must be driving a tractor with a plow.
/harvest Used to harvest fully grown crops, must be driving a combine harvester.
 

Chicken Coups
Chickens are one of the 3 livestock animals available on farms. Each farm, depending on its size, has three chicken coups available for its staff to use. Chicken coups require regular tending to and handling.

Every morning in-game(/gametime), chickens will lay eggs, these eggs can be collected by the farm staff. As mentioned above, chicken coups need a lot of caring and tending to or otherwise the chickens will stop laying eggs. This is done in the form of clean coups and buying chicken feed. Chickens with dirty coups will  become angry and will stop laying eggs, and without chicken feed there will be no eggs laid too so they must be cleaned every once in a while. Each chicken coup can hold a maximum of 10 chickens, chickens can be bought by any member of the farm and instantly appear in the coup when bought.

Commands
/buycouphens [Coup ID] [Amount] Used to purchase hens, maximum of 10 hens per coup. Costs $350 for each hen.
/buycoupfeed [Coup ID] [Amount] Used to purchase chicken feed for coups, costs $150 per kg. Maximum of 100 kg per coup.
/cleancoup[Coup ID] Used to clean coups, can take up to 2 minutes depending on dirtiness. A progress bar is shown under your HUD that displays cleaning progress.
/collectcoupeggs [Coup ID] Used to collect eggs from a coup, can take up to 2 minutes depending on how many eggs are in the coup.


Barns
As well as Chickens, farms can also own Cows and Sheep. These animals share the same barn and require as much caring as chickens.
 

Barn animals require to be fed and cleaned just like chickens, each morning in-game(/gametime), cows will produce milk and sheep will produce wool. Wool can be converted into fabric that is used in crafting bandages. Each barn can hold a maximum of 30 cows and sheep, the more cows and sheep you own, the more feed you will need and barns will become dirty faster.

Commands
/buycows [Barn ID] [Amount] Used to purchase cows, maximum of 30 cows per barn. Costs $750 for each cow.
/buysheep [Barn ID] [Amount] Used to purchase sheep, maximum of 30 sheep per barn. Costs $450 for each sheep.
/buybarnfeed [Barn ID] Used to purchase barn feed, maximum of 1,000 Kg per barn. Each Kg costs $150.
/collectbarnmilk [Barn ID] Used to harvest milk from cows, time needed depends on how much milk is ready.
/collectbarnwool [Barn ID] Used to harvest wool from sheep, time needed depends on how much wool is ready.
/cleanbarn [Barn ID] Used to clean a barn from filth, time needed depends on how dirty the barn is.

[Dennis.]

How do we profit $$ with this?

[TiMoN]

How do we profit $$ with this?

You will be able to sell crops and goods when the logistic script is done, which is soonâ„¢.

[Khm]

You will be able to sell crops and goods when the logistic script is done, which is soonâ„¢.

how soon? @TiMoN :s

[TiMoN]

how soon? @TiMoN :s

hl3

[Khm]

hl3

knew it

[Legolas]

Grape and Hop seeds not work on normal field. Wool also not appear.