Gardening

The information in this article is up-to-date as of version Early Access v0.8.7.

Gardening is a game mechanic that was added in Early Access v0.8.7 as part of the Housing addons update.

Gardening allows a player to use grow various fruits, vegetables, herbs for consumption in Cooking.

There are three main stages in gardening:

Growing Seeds
Caring for plants
Harvesting plants

Growing Seeds[]

Seeds[]

Seeds are separated into three tiers and can be looted from mobs across Celador and planted into one of the three sized containers:

Tier	Seeds	Loot from	Container
Tier 1	Onion Carrot Strawberry	Horses Black Bears Brown Bears Hind	Small
Tier 2	Corn Button Mushroom Green-leaf Lettuce Red-leaf Lettuce Squash Melon	Grizzly Bear Harpy Great Hart Wild Harpies	Medium
Tier 3	Green Pepper Cucumber Eggplant	Forest Walker Dire Bears Stone Harpies Trolls	Large

Containers[]

Seeds must be put into containers to grow. There are 4 types of types of containers that can be crafted using the Carpentry Skill.

Container	Size	Effect on Yield	min. Skill	Resource Req.
Wooden Pot	Small	-20%	10	10 Wood
Small Raised-Bed	Small	-10%	25	25 Wood
Medium Raised-Bed	Medium	0%	50	50 Wood
Large Raised-Bed	Large	20%	75	75 Wood

Caring for your Plants[]

Harvesting[]

Seeds take between 7 and 10 days to fully mature and provide the maximum yield (be advised the size of container will effect your yield). You can harvest your plants

any time however the yield will be lower.

Plant	Days to Mature	Maximum Yield	7 day Harvest table	10 Day Harvest Table
Onion	7	50	Day 1 - 0% Day 2 - 10% Day 3: 20% Day 4: 30% Day 5: 50% Day 6: 75% Day 7: 100%	Day 1 - 0% Day 2 - 5% Day 3: 10% Day 4: 15% Day 5: 20% Day 6: 25% Day 7: 30% Day 8: 50% Day 9: 75% Day 10: 100%
Carrot	7	50
Strawberry	10	50
Corn	10	30
Squash	10	30
Green-Leaf Lettuce	10	30
Red-leaf Lettuce	10	30
Button Mushroom	7	30
Melon	7	30
Green Pepper	10	20
Cucumber	10	20
Eggplant	7	20

Watering[]

Seeds need to be watered in order to grow. There are 4 stages to watering that updates once a day to a dryer state.

EG. If your plant is in the Damp state it will move to dry the next day. If a plant is too wet or too dry it will not mature.

Stages of watering

Dry - Plants will not mature
Damp - Plants will continue to mature
Wet - Plants will continue to mature
Soaked - Plants will not mature