# [Q] What's Farming?
**Quest Group**: 1307673
**Steps**: 46
## Summary
Farming means renting a fence, planting crops, and harvesting them. Pa!
With care, you'll get a great yield. Pu.
And if you breed plants to better varieties,
you can harvest even higher quality crops. Pu!
## Quest Text Steps
### Step 3
- **Objective**: [Q] What's Farming?
- **Summary**: Farming means renting a fence, planting crops, and harvesting them. Pa!
With care, you'll get a great yield. Pu.
And if you breed plants to better varieties,
you can harvest even higher quality crops. Pu!
### Step 4
- **Objective**: [Q] What crops can I plant?
- **Summary**: You can grow all sorts of crops, plus flowers and mushrooms. Pu!
If you plant Haystack, you can even rear cows. Pu!
Take good care of them and you'll have flowers and trees
to decorate your residence or manor. Pu!
### Step 5
- **Objective**: [Q] How do I grow crops better?
- **Summary**: Every crop has its own unique traits. Pu!
It's important to know what each plant needs. Pu.
Sunflowers, for example, love lots of sunlight,
while mushrooms prefer damp, shady spots. Pu!
※ Use the Temperature and Humidity filters
at the top right of the World Map to check each region's traits.
※ If growth is hindered, a system message appears.
Interact with the crop to kill pests or prune branches.
### Step 6
- **Objective**: [Q] How do I harvest and breed plants?
- **Summary**: When your crops are ready,
reap the rewards for your care. Pu!
※ Harvest or breed crops
once growth reaches 100% or higher.
※ Harvesting yields materials
matching the planted crop.
※ Perform Plant Breeding to obtain seeds (hypha) from the crop,
or, at low chance, higher-grade seeds (hypha).
※ Growth caps at 200%.
Rewards remain the same as at 100% growth.
### Step 7
- **Objective**: [Q] What's the benefit of raising Farming level and mastery?
- **Summary**: The more you learn about farming,
the easier and more efficient it'll be to take care of your crops. Pu!
※ Level up Farming to reduce Energy use and speed up
Harvest, Plant Breeding, Pruning, and Killing Pests.
### Step 8
- **Objective**: [Q] Do I need to keep checking on my crops?
- **Summary**: Once you've planted, you can send a worker to care for them. Pu!
For more details, ask Maurizio. Pu!
### Step 9
- **Objective**: [Q] Where may I place a fence?
- **Summary**: So long as it is not a well-trodden road, not within a village,
and not within a Node/Conquest War area, you may set it almost anywhere. Pu!
### Step 10
- **Objective**: [Q] How do I graduate?
- **Summary**: ※ After completing all Combat and Life Skill Courses,
the graduation quest becomes available during the graduation period.
Visit Justin Bartali, the Olvia Academy Headmaster,
to begin the graduation quest.
### Step 11
- **Reward**: If you truly wish to enroll in the farming course,
come and tell me. Pu!
### Step 12
- **Objective**: Alright. I want to sign up for the course.
- **Summary**: Good! Let us make a garden together.
Plant the seed, then learn how to care for your crops. Pu!
### Step 13
- **Objective**: I don't think I'm ready yet.
- **Summary**: Come back when you are ready.
I will be right here... Pa.
### Step 14
- **Reward**: Now then, shall we begin with the basics of farming?
Listen closely to my explanation. Pa!
### Step 15
- **Reward**: Today, we will go over the kinds of crops
you can raise through farming. Pu!
### Step 16
- **Objective**: [Guide] Lesson guide
- **Summary**: ※ Ask Vilentia about the different crops.
When you feel you understand, reply with [Complete].
### Step 17
- **Objective**: [Complete] I understand everything!
- **Summary**: Pa... have you understood it all? Good!
Then shall we move on to the next lesson?
### Step 18
- **Objective**: What crops are there?
- **Summary**: From farming,
you can raise all sorts of crops... Pu!
Grains like Wheat, vegetables like Pumpkin, fruits like Strawberry...
Even spices like Pepper. Pa!
Most of what you harvest
can be used in cooking. Pu!
### Step 19
- **Objective**: What herbs are there?
- **Summary**: Have you ever tried alchemy?
Alchemy calls for many kinds of herbs. Pa.
Alchemy herbs, like Sunrise Herb,
can be grown right in your garden as well. Pu!
### Step 20
- **Objective**: What mushrooms are there?
- **Summary**: Plant hyphae in your garden, and you can grow mushrooms too!
They can be used for alchemy, and for cooking. Pu.
### Step 21
- **Objective**: What are unknown seeds?
- **Summary**: Now and then, merchants sell curious seeds.
Some have strange colors, some odd shapes... Pa.
Lovely to look upon, and they say such seeds
bloom into flowers you can craft into decorations. Pu!
### Step 22
- **Objective**: Is there anything else you can farm?
- **Summary**: Place a Haystack or Chicken Feed in your garden,
and you can raise animals for Meat, Milk, or Eggs. Pu!
You can also grow feed for mounts,
such as Carrot or Acacia. Pa.
And you may even raise flowers like Sunflower.
They say you can steep flowers into tea. Pu!
### Step 23
- **Reward**: Next, we will learn about fences. Pu!
My heart goes pit-a-pat... are you not excited? Pu...?
### Step 24
- **Reward**: Now then, ask whatever you are curious about.
I shall tell you all there is to know of fences. Pu!
### Step 25
- **Objective**: Where can I get a fence?
- **Summary**: In some villages, you may borrow one from a Material Vendor,
or from a Farm Manager. Pu!
※ Rent a fence using Contribution Points.
You can reclaim the Contribution Points when you return it.
※ Go to Menu (Cancel) - Function - Find NPC,
then search "Fence" to view fences available for rent.
### Step 26
- **Objective**: Where may I place a fence?
- **Summary**: So long as it is not a well-trodden road, not within a village,
and not within a Node/Conquest War area, you may set it almost anywhere. Pu!
### Step 27
- **Reward**: Now then, shall we begin the next lesson?
Keep up the great work, just like you've been doing! Pu!
### Step 28
- **Reward**: Do you have any questions?
Ask me anything. Pu!
### Step 29
- **Objective**: [Q] Where can I rent a fence nearby?
- **Reward**: Change it to the quality you need,
then put it to good use!
- **Summary**: Zaaira rents out fences. Pu!
If you do not have a fence, you can rent one there. Pu!
※ Navigation activated.
Move to the marked location.
### Step 30
- **Objective**: How do I get different types?
- **Summary**: Plant normal seeds and care for them,
and you get a normal harvest.
Plant high-quality or special seeds,
and you get special crops. Simple, Pu!
### Step 31
- **Reward**: So if you spot one,
make sure to chase it away quick! Pa!
### Step 32
- **Reward**: Promise me you will. Pu!
### Step 33
- **Objective**: Do I just need to drive the moles away?
- **Summary**: That's right! Drive them off,
and they might scurry away so fast
they forget the precious loot they were hoarding.
A nice little reward for protecting your crops. Pu!
### Step 34
- **Reward**: At times, branches will tangle and twist. Puu...
Prune them back, and the plant will grow strong. Pu!
### Step 35
- **Reward**: Yet you cannot spend all your hours watching crops. Pu.
You have many other duties as well, no?
### Step 36
- **Reward**: As for workers, Professor Maurizio knows their ways best. Pu.
Will you go and hear his guidance?
### Step 37
- **Reward**: Now then... shall we return to our farming lesson,
and give it our full attention once more? Pu!
### Step 38
- **Reward**: Take some seeds from Zaaira and plant them. Pu!
Once they are fully grown, give plant breeding a try!
### Step 39
- **Reward**: Now then... shall we plant
the special seed you earned?
### Step 40
- **Reward**: Why not visit Jemkas Wyrmsbane
and learn even more farming wisdom? Pu!
### Step 41
- **Objective**: Where do I need to go?
- **Summary**: Go find Jemkas Wyrmsbane at the Northern Guard Camp!
He'll teach you everything you need to know. Pu!
### Step 42
- **Reward**: Go to Zaaira, and she will give you a Mysterious Seed. Pa!
Breed a special seed, then mix the two together. Pu!
### Step 43
- **Reward**: Now then, shall I give you your final task?
Finish this, and you will complete the course. Pu.
### Step 44
- **Reward**: Keep at it. Pu!
Go forth and gather plenty of experience. Pu!
### Step 45
- **Reward**: You have followed every lesson so well...
Thank you, truly. Pu!
### Step 46
- **Reward**: If you are ready to complete the course,
will you shout our chant, loud and proud? Pu?