Fields of Mistria: How to Farm Money with Crops

At the beginning, you will probably be limited by money.

• Sell everything you can (including the furniture in your house), and invest all your money in seeds.
• Flowers can be foraged, so do not buy them.
• Regular crops give a 9.4-10.4% return on investment per day, but crops which regrow only give 4.7-5.5%. (Excluding milling, but including cooking.)
• If milled into sugar, Sugar Cane gives 14.0% return on investment per day. However, this requires you to repair the general store. By this time, your limiting factor will probably be energy.
• Even when milling, crops which regrow are still less return than regular crops. Growing flour, milling it and then cooking bread only gives a 6.4% return on investment per day

Until you have plenty of good food, you will be limited by the energy needed to plant crops. The cheapest source of stamina is the Bathhouse.

Per tile of land, crops which regrow will be most profitable (so long as they are planted on the 14th of the season or earlier).

Some food gives more stamina for its cost. Particularly good are Baked Sweetroot, Trail Mix, Monster Mash. Many of the dishes cooked from a single ingredient are good, are easy to craft, and their recipes are obtained by selling the ingredient.

These will increase your profits.

In particular, the ‘Restorative Cooking’ perk will give a small fraction of your cooked dishes the Restorative infusion. When eaten, you will have some stamina regen for 2 hours. Take advantage of this by growing crops can be easily cooked:

• Spring – Turnip and Potato
• Summer – Corn and Tea
• Fall – Cranberry, Sweet Potato and Broccoli
• Winter – Beet and Cauliflower

You do not need to go deep in the mines. About once a week, Balor’s Wagon has Silver Ingots for sale for 500t each. Once you are level 16, you can craft a silver watering can. This can plant 18 seeds at a time.

Manually watering your crops takes time and stamina, so does not scale well. Instead, just let the rain water your crops.

After reaching floor 21 of the mine, the dragon statue Caldarus grants you the spell Summon Rain. It takes 4 days to generate the mana for this. Of course, do not summon rain on rainy days.

Mana Potions are sometimes found in mines treasure chests. These give enough mana to Summon Rain once.

You should have enough rain to grow any crop within a season, or several rounds of the crops which grow quicker. To get better profits from crops which regrow, only plant them in some seasons. Save up your mana so that you can summon more rain whilst they are growing.

There are 3230 farmable tiles. This method works with just a portion of the farm used. I recommend filling as much land as you can afford seeds for, until you have your desired amount of money.

Here are some example seed costs to fill your farm with different crops:

This lets you spread 54 seeds at once. Unless it rains, you don’t need to plant all your seeds on the first of the month.

By initially sowing several different kinds of crop, you can stagger the days on which you sow a second round.

If you bind ‘interact’ with scroll up and scroll down, you can harvest all your crops by walking around and continuously scrolling. Once you are done, bind ‘interact’ to whatever it was before.

Buying the seeds in bulk is less simple. You could use an external auto-clicker or macro, or perhaps you have learned an advanced clicking technique like drag-clicking. I hope the devs implement a way to buy or cook things in bulk without getting RSI (repetitive strain injury).

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