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A Basic Guide to Farming

FAQ

  • Is this guide current?
    This guide was last updated with the Riders of Rohan expansion.
  • My fields keep expiring!
    Fields only last 120 seconds. You can plant 12 fields at a time and still harvest them all.  
    When harvesting, pressing "Delete" and then "u" is more reliable than right-clicking.
  • I can't find this recipe for sale anywhere!
    Don't forget to double check the recipes you already have.  It's easy to miss the ones that come with the tier.

Introduction

Welcome to the farming profession! The farming profession is mainly for supplying cooks with materials for cooking and scholars for components in making dyes, paints, enamels and a couple housing items.

Getting Ready To Farm

First, you will need to pick a vocation from the master or mistress of apprentices located in the starting cities for each race. When you begin, there will be a quest giver that sends you to them. Once you find the master or mistress of apprentices, you will have a list of vocations to choose from. Each vocation has three crafting professions tied to them. Three of the vocations include farming. They are:

Yeoman: Cook, Farmer, Tailor.
Woodsman: Farmer , Forester, Woodworker.
Historian: Farmer , Scholar, Weaponsmith.


Yeoman and Historian are popular choices because you can farm many crafting materials for Cook and Scholar.

Once you have selected your vocation, you will be given starter tools. One will be a farming tool (you can buy a better tool from the supplier or crafted tools from players).


The master or mistress of apprentices will now have three available quests for you: one for each of your chosen vocation's crafting professions. Click on "Introduction to Farming". The quest text will tell you where to find the nearest farmland - but the 'next objective' text, as of May 2011, will tell you to talk to Ponto whether you're in Michael Delving or not. Ignore that; you'll just want to talk to whatever farmhand is in the farmland in your area. Find your local farmland and click the fellow with the quest ring above his head.

In addition to continuing the "Introduction to Farming" quest, the novice farmhand also has seven Comments which you can click to read the answers to basic farming questions. The Comments cover much of the same information we've got here in the next section of the Guide:


You can access the crafting panel using the “T” key. You will see a tab for each of your three professions. Click on the Farmer tab and you will see Apprentice, and next to it is an experience bar. Below that are your Farming recipes, separated by type. It'll be something like this:

Apprentice (0/200)


You can also buy more recipes from the Novice Farmhand. The purchaseable recipes are not really needed for leveling to supreme master farmer. With each tier you unlock, you get basic set of recipes that you already know.

For each product there are two recipes you need: one for planting the field, and one for processing what you get from your field. You plant your fields in the crafting farmland the field recipe requires:

  • Vegetable Farmland - Apprentice, Journeyman and Expert fruits, vegetables, and flowers
    Superior Vegetable Farmland - All fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  • Pipe-weed Farmland - Apprentice, Journeyman and Expert Pipe-weed
    Superior Pipe-weed Farmland - All Pipe-weed
  • Grain Farmland - Apprentice, Journeyman and Expert grains and hops
    Superior Grain Farmland - All grains and hops


Farmland can be found in these locations:

  • Staddle
  • Michel Delving (south side of town near the crafting area)
  • Thorin's Hall (the entrance to the greenhouse is outside near the entrance to the hall)
  • Celondim
  • Oatbarton
  • Bree (Superior Farmland, north-east of the West Bree entrance)
  • Ost Guruth
  • Hobbiton (Superior Farmland, north of the river)
  • Lothlorien (Superior Farmland, east Lothlorien, in the vineyards)
  • Galtrev (Superior Farmland, just outside of town)


All farming vendors are near the farming fields. You just have to look for them. The Hobbiton farmland has both novice and expert farming vendors. They can sell you the seed, fertilizer, and water you need to use your field recipes.


Now you can get ready to plant a field.

Farming

So now you have your vocation and tools to farm. You found the fields and the farmhands. Now we will go through the steps of planting, harvesting, processing and quick tips to help you out. Might as well complete the "Introduction to Farming" quest as that's pretty much what the quest does!

Talk to the farmhand and continue the "Introduction to Farming" quest. He'll give you a Crate: the Apprentice Farmer Starter Pack. Find it in your inventory bag and right click on it to open it. Make sure you have three open spaces in your inventory for the items it will give you: crop seed, water and fertilizer.

The farmhand wants you to grow a Yellow Onion. Click "t" to open your crafting window, go to the farming tab, click that and look down to Apprentice, then to Vegetables, and find the Yellow Onion Field recipe and click on it. For each product you want to grow you will need fertilizer, water, and seeds. Each field takes 1 water, 1 fertilizer, and 1 seed. If your inventory contains everything you need to execute a recipe, its text in the list will be green. If you've opened your crate, both the Spring Barley Field and the Yellow Onion Field will be green instead of white in your list of recipes.


Planting

Now that you have your seeds, water and fertilizer, find and stand in the correct patch of farmland (Vegetable Farmland) and make sure your farming tools are equipped. Look at the field recipe that you want to plant (Yellow Onion Field).

The make button is at the bottom right of the crafting panel. Next to that is the quantity, starting with 1, of fields to plant at once. It will let you enter any number you want up to the maximum number you can actually make using the ingredients you currently have.

But wait!! Planting a field takes ten seconds and there is a two minute decay timer on your fields, so if you intend to harvest your fields, plant no more than twelve at a time.

If you have plenty of coin and don't want to hang out at your keyboard, you can buy a whole ton of ingredients and then hit make all. Just planting 34 fields (without bothering to harvest any) will get you ready to unlock the XP bar for Apprentice mastery and start the Journeyman tier.

When you are ready, hit the make button and wait for your character to stop planting. A progress bar will show up on the bottom part your screen above your toolbar saying planting. Once that is done your field will appear, ready to harvest.

Moving will cancel your planting process, but spinning in place will not. If you're planting multiple fields at at once, and you like being able to see each field you plant, you can spin a little after each field is put down. If you plant this way, you can click all of your fields in order of planting and your farmer will harvest all of them for you one after the other. However since harvesting takes less time than planting, I think the most efficient way to plant is twelve fields right on top of one another without moving at all, and then to click delete - u to harvest the first field, and click delete-u again to harvest the next field every time your harvesting progress bar fills up.


Harvesting

Right click on the field and your character will start harvesting. Once finished, a box will pop up showing that you got a set number of fair crops and sometimes rare field drop items. Click loot all to place these items in your inventory bags.

For the "Introduction to Farming" quest, after you harvest your field, activate your Track Crops skill. It's a toggle skill that should have shown up on your shortcut bar when you chose your Vocation. Make sure you do that before you Process your Fair Yellow Onion Crops.

If you plan to do a lot of farming it's helpful to turn on auto looting by checking the 'always loot all' box in your UI settings. Then you can plant twelve fields right on top of each other. As soon as you begin to plant your last field, you can click 'delete' (to auto select the nearest, oldest field). As soon as the last field is complete, you can hit 'u' (to auto harvest and put all of the field's drops into your inventory bags). As soon as the field is harvested, click 'delete' and then 'u' again, and so on.

If a field decays while you are harvesting it, you will get 'This Item No Longer Exists'. If this happens to you, try planting a smaller number of crops.


Processing

Now you have products that needs to be taken to one of the work benches near the farm fields (any workbench will do; you can use the ones by the tailors and jewelers if you feel like it) and process them into seeds and finished product. Just go up to a bench, open your crafting panel for farming, and find the recipe for processing your product. Then click make all. If you have a lot of crops to process, you can go to your kitchen for a snack.

For the "Introduction to Farming" quest, after you Process your Fair Yellow Onion Crops, go back to the farmhand to complete the quest. If you finish the other two Introduction quests for your Vocation, you'll get a character title as a reward.


Both planting and processing put wear on your tools, which can be repaired at most vendors. When your tools are completely worn out, you can do no more crafting and will need to repair them at a vendor before you can use them again. Crafted tools make harvesting go faster, but planting and processing take the same amount of time no matter what tools you use. For this reason some high level farmers like to use high level crafted tools for harvesting, then switch to superior bronze farming tools for processing, because they are nearly as durable, but cost much less to repair. No tools will allow you to plant more than twelve fields at a time, though, because none of them speed up planting.

Processed crops sell for more silver, but they also take up more space in your inventory. For example, you can keep a stack of 100 fair spring barley crops in just one inventory space, but if you process that into bundles of spring barley, you'll get at least four stacks of 100, taking up four spaces in your inventory. Some cooks like to store their ingredients as crops so they can keep more supplies in their inventory and need to farm less often.

Westfold crops can be processed one at a time or in batches of 5.


Tools

Higher level farming tools generally give you a bonus in the form of a shortened harvest time. This applies only to the time it takes to get the crops and drops from a completed field. Planting and processing times are not shortened. For this reason, many farmers get superior bronze farming tools for their durability and never upgrade from there. Others use tools with a harvest time bonus while harvesting, and also have superior bronze farming tools to use while processing crops at the workbench, because repairing them is cheaper than repairing the same wear and tear on higher level crafted tools.

If your tools break, it simply means you cannot use them for any more crafting until you get them repaired. The farmhands, and most vendors, can repair them for you. If you want to be sure you won't lose any crops, make sure your farming tool is in good repair before you begin. One quick way to check is to hover your mouse over any other tool in your inventory. After a moment it'll bring up the description box for both tools, which shows the current durability status at the bottom.


Leveling Up

The Love of the Land quests are a thing of the past. Now, once you fill up your xp bar, you'll get a notice that you have completed Proficiency in your tier. You will receive a title, a gold xp bar will open up next to your Apprentice xp bar, and your next tier becomes available to you. You can keep making your Apprentice recipes until you fill that gold xp bar up and become a master apprentice farmer.

Note that even though your Journeyman tier is opened up you can't get the gold xp bar for Journeyman until the Apprentice tier is completely mastered. For this reason, many players suggest finishing one tier completely before moving into the next. Once you master a tier, you can use crit soil in your field recipes. Using crit soil will give you Well-Tended fields, which yield more crops and drop crit items more often.


Once you fill the first xp bar in the Expert tier, you will need to talk to a farmhand and accept the "Crafting: A Superior Farmland" quest. It's time to go to Hobbiton! Find Olo Proudfoot and accept the "Crafting: Artisan Farmer" quest. You'll need 1 Fair Cabbage Crop, 1 Fair Green Onion Crop, and 1 Fair Sweet Galenas Crop to process at a Workbench for the quest. Then you'll need to deliver the processed stuff to various Hobbits in the Shire. Opal Goodbody is near the Party Tree northwest of Hobbiton, Hereward Loamsdown is the Tavern Keep in the Ivy Bush Inn just south of the river in Hobbiton, And Bogo Chubb is the Stable-Master just outside the Ivy Bush. Then, return to Olo to complete the "Crafting: Artisan Farmer" quest. He'll reward you with 2 Scrolls of Lesser Craft Acceleration and the passive skill Expert Farmer Proficiency. Talk to him again to complete the "Crafting: A Superior Farmland" quest, and he'll reward you with 36 Expert Farming xp.

Now the Artisan tier is open. For Artisan recipes, you'll have to go to an expert farmhand for your supplies and use superior fields for planting, which are found north of Hobbiton (this is where you are if you've just finished talking to Olo) and in the Vineyards of Lothlorien. Soon you'll be a Master Supreme Farmer!

Hands-free Quick Leveling Guide

If you have a few silver to throw around and you'd like to level your farmer without spending a lot of time at the keyboard, you can have your character plant gobs of fields while you are not paying attention, or purchase stacks of unprocessed crops from other players and process them at any workbench. On most tiers, you can plow straight through from Proficiency to Mastery without stopping if you like; your gold XP bar will start filling up even if you're not there to hit 'ok' on the dialog box. The exception is the Expert tier: once you achieve Proficiency there's a quest to do to unlock the XP bar for Mastery.


Apprentice tier Proficiency: Plant 34 fields or process 50 crops to earn 200 xp (takes 11.3 minutes with fields; 8.3 minutes with crops).
Apprentice tier Mastery: Plant 67 fields or process 100 crops to earn 400 xp (takes 22.3 minutes with fields; 16.6 minutes with crops).
Journeyman tier Proficiency: Plant 47 fields or process 70 crops to earn 280 xp (takes 15.6 minutes with fields; 11.6 minutes with crops).
Journeyman tier Mastery: Plant 94 fields or process 140 crops to earn 560 xp (takes 31.3 minutes with fields; 23.3 minutes with crops).
Expert tier Proficiency: Plant 60 fields or process 90 crops to earn 360 xp (takes 20 minutes with fields; 15 minutes with crops). Go to Hobbiton. Bring 1 Fair Cabbage Crop, 1 Fair Green Onion Crop, and 1 Fair Sweet Galenas Crop with you (grow them now if you don't have them). Talk to Olo Proudfoot. Process the 3 Crops at a workbench and then deliver them to the correct Hobbits. Return to Olo Proudfoot.


Expert tier Mastery: Plant 120 fields or process 180 crops to earn 720 xp (takes 40 minutes with fields; 30 minutes with crops).


From here on in the fields require Superior Farmland and the craft ingredients are sold by Expert Farmhands.


Artisan tier Proficiency: Plant 74 fields or process 110 crops to earn 440 xp (takes 24.6 minutes with fields; 18.3 minutes with crops).
Artisan tier Mastery: Plant 147 fields or process 220 crops to earn 880 xp (takes 48.6 minutes with fields; 36.6 minutes with crops).
Master tier Proficiency: Plant 87 fields or process 130 crops to earn 520 xp (takes 29 minutes with fields; 21.6 minutes with crops).
Master tier Mastery: Plant 174 fields or process 260 crops to earn 1040 xp (takes 58 minutes with fields; 43.3 minutes with crops).
Supreme tier Proficiency: Plant 100 fields or process 150 crops to earn 600 xp (takes 33.3 minutes with fields; 25 minutes with crops).
Supreme tier Mastery: Plant 200 fields or process 300 crops to earn 1200 xp (takes 66.6 minutes with fields; 50 minutes with crops).
Westfold tier Mastery: Plant 255 fields or process 510 crops to earn 2040 xp. 
Eastemnet tier Mastery: Plant 285 fields or process 570 crops to earn 2280 xp. 

When you finish, you will automatically acquire the Passive Skill: Eastemnet Farmer Mastery and gain access to the title of Eastemnet Master Farmer.

If you want to be super efficient you can formulate and solve an equation that goes like this:

"field xp"(x)+"crop xp"("average number of crops per field"x)="total xp needed to complete the tier"

Then solve for x.  x will be the number of fields to plant to give you about enough crops to process to complete the tier.  For example, the Master tier, assuming an average 4 crops per field, would be 6x+4(4x)=1560, which solves as x=71, which means 71 fields should give you about 284 crops for a total of 1562 xp.

The hard part of course is figuring out the average crop yield per field. Eastemnet Hearty Fields seem to drop an average of 6.5 crops, so planting and harvesting 68 Hearty Fields and processing all the resulting crops should be enough to complete the Eastemnet farming tier.



You can leave the game client alone for about 25 minutes before you have to interact with the game to keep it from logging you out. You can plant about 142-187 crops before a tool with a durability of 45 (like the 2s vendor bought farming tool) breaks.


Rare Farming Drops

Introduction

All farming fields will sometimes give you something extra; these are called rare drops, also sometimes called crit drops or crit items. But what do you do with them? If you're a Yeoman or Historian, you'll want to save the ones your cook or scholar can use - but which ones? And if you're farming for Pipe-weed seeds, which fields should you plant? Here's a guide to help out.


List of Crit Drops

All farming fields will sometimes drop the cooking crit item for the same tier of cooking, as well as the craft crit item for single-use recipes at same tier of crafting. Only fields which also drop something else are listed here. The list is organised by farming tier and field, including who uses the drops and what they are used for:

Apprentice (All fields drop Sprig of Allspice, used by Apprentice cooks)

  • Flowers
    • Lily-of-the-Valley Field
      • Lily-of-the-Valley Leaf
        • Apprentice Scholar: Pea-green Wall Paint
        • Artisan Scholar: Forest Green Dye
        • Supreme Scholar: Ranger Green Dye
  • Grains
  • Pipe-weed
    • Longbottom Leaf Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
    • Rushlight Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
    • Southlinch Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
    • Sweet Lobelia Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed


Journeyman (All fields drop Sprig of Mugwort, used by Journeyman cooks)

  • Flowers
    • Iris Field
      • Iris Root
        • Journeyman Scholar: Grey Dye
        • Journeyman Scholar: Grey Enamel
  • Grains
  • Pipe-weed
    • Hornblower Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
    • Muddy Foot Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
    • Southern Star Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
    • Tighfield Choice Field
      • Muddy Foot Seed
      • Tighfield Choice Seed
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed


Expert (All fields drop Clump of Chives, used by Expert cooks)

  • Flowers
    • Bluebottle Field
      • Bluebottle Petal
        • Expert Scholar: Turquoise Dye
        • Expert Scholar: Sky-blue Wall Paint
        • Expert Scholar: Blue Enamel
        • Artisan Scholar: Evendim Blue Dye
        • Master Scholar: Sea Blue Dye
  • Pipe-weed
    • Dragonsbreath Field
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
    • Old Toby Field
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
    • Roper's Twist Field
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
    • Shire Sweet-leaf Field
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
    • Sweet Galenas Field
      • Dragonsbreath Seed
      • Roper's Twist Seed
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
  • Vegetables
    • Green Onion Field
      • Onion Skin
        • Artisan Scholar: 'Above Weathertop' Painting
        • Artisan Scholar: Dark Green Dye
        • Artisan Scholar: Forest Green Dye
        • Master Scholar: Rivendell Green Dye


Artisan (All fields drop Sprig of Parsley, used by Artisan cooks)

  • Flowers
    • Amaranth Field
      • Amaranth Petal
        • Artisan Scholar: Burgundy Dye
        • Supreme Scholar: Rose Dye
    • Saffron Field
      • Saffron Thread
        • Artisan Scholar: Pale-yellow Wall Paint
        • Artisan Scholar: Yellow Enamel
        • Supreme Scholar: Yellow Dye
  • Grains
  • Pipe-weed
    • Eagle's Nest Field
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
      • Wizard's Fire Seed
    • Gamwich Braid Field
      • Eagle's Nest Seed
      • Gamwich Braid Seed
      • Wizard's Fire Seed
  • Vegetables
    • Strawberry Field
      • Juicy Strawberry
        • Artisan Scholar: Pink Wall Paint
        • Master Scholar: Red Dye
        • Master Scholar: Red Enamel
        • Supreme Scholar: Crimson Dye
        • Supreme Scholar: Rose Dye


Master (All fields drop Sprig of Thyme, used by Master cooks)

  • Flowers
    • Bloodwort Field
      • Bloodwort Root
        • Master Scholar: Orange Dye
        • Master Scholar: Pumpkin-orange Wall Paint
    • Elder Field
      • Juicy Elderberry
        • Master Scholar: Lavendar Wall Paint
        • Supreme Scholar: Purple Dye
  • Pipe-weed
    • Wizard's Fire Field
      • Wizard's Fire Seed
      • Fungo's Fuzzy-leaf Pipe-weed Seed
      • Gold-fire Pipe-weed Seed
  • Vegetables
    • Blackberry Field
      • Juicy Blackberry
        • Expert Scholar: Violet Dye
        • Artisan Scholar: 'Shore Glimpse' Painting
      • Blackberry Honey
        • Artisan Cook: Honey Roasted Chicken


Supreme (All fields drop Sprig of Woolly Mint, used by Supreme cooks)


Westfold (All fields drop Pinch of Westfold Herbs, used by Westfold cooks, Pile of Rich Soil, used by Westfold farmers, and Cracked Rhi Helvarch Sigil, used by Westfold crafters)


Eastemnet (All fields drop Pinch of Eastemnet Herbs, used by Eastemnet cooks, Pile of Riddermark Soil, used by Eastemnet farmers, and Tarnished Crest of Rohan, used by Eastemnet crafters)


A Basic Guide to Pipe-weed

Introduction

Pipe-weed is mostly just a fun extra in LOTRO. The process of farming it was recently revised. Although many players are disappointed that there is no more cross-breeding and no more conversion of poor crops to seeds, farming pipe-weed is still a challenge - although admittedly more of a straight up grinding type of challenge.

Most different types of pipe-weed produce different animations when smoked. This is pretty much the only purpose of pipe-weed in the game.

There used to be specific seeds for all the Pipe-weed, and sometimes you'll still get these seeds as drops from mobs, chests, backpacks etc. But, sadly, they are no longer used for anything in the game. So if you get any of these seeds, you don't need to keep them for farming:

  • Hornblower
  • Longbottom Leaf
  • Old Toby
  • Rushlight
  • Shire Sweet-leaf
  • Southern Star
  • Southlinch
  • Sweet Galenas
  • Sweet Lobelia


Farming Pipe-weed

Pipe-weed recipes are bought from the Farmhands. A few basic pipe-weed seeds can be bought from the Farmhands as well, but the rest can only be obtained as rare drops from harvesting pipe-weed fields. For example, any Apprentice tier field will sometimes drop Muddy Foot and/or Tighfield Choice seeds.

Any other tier Well-Tended Pipe-weed Field will drop seeds from its own tier nearly half the time, and drop seeds for the next tier up at a rate of about 28%. Many farmers begin Pipe-weed farming at the Expert tier because that is the last tier that uses any vendor-bought seeds and it's the tier where the more interesting seeds begin to drop.

Pipe-weed Fields

Here's a list of what you can grow with each of the seeds in the game:


Apprentice Pipe-weed

  • Apprentice Pipe-weed Seed:
    Longbottom Leaf (extra smoke)
    Rushlight (1 ring)
    Southlinch (extra smoke)
    Sweet Lobelia (2 opposed rings)


Journeyman Pipe-weed

  • Journeyman Pipe-weed Seed:
    Hornblower (2 rings)
    Southern Star (triangle)
  • Muddy Foot Seed:
    Muddy Foot (3 rings)
  • Tighfield Choice Seed:
    Tighfield Choice (square)


Expert Pipe-weed

  • Expert Pipe-weed Seed:
    Old Toby (heart)
    Shire Sweet-leaf (ship)
    Sweet Galenas (ship)
  • Dragonsbreath Seed:
    Dragonsbreath (dragon)
  • Roper's Twist Seed:
    Roper's Twist (spiral)


Artisan Pipe-weed

  • Eagle's Nest Seed:
    Eagle's Nest (eagle)
  • Gamwich Braid Seed:
    Gamwich Braid (fish)


Master Pipe-weed

  • Wizard's Fire Seed:
    Wizard's Fire (bird)


Supreme Pipe-weed

  • Fungo's Fuzzy-leaf Pipe-weed Seed:
    Fungo's Fuzzy-leaf (arrow)
  • Gold-fire Pipe-weed Seed:
    Gold-fire (bullseye)


The Westfold and Eastemnet Tiers

At the Westfold level your farming crit item is Clump of Peat, which is made from the rare drop Pile of Rich Soil. It is not sold at vendors.

At the Eastemnet level your farming crit item is Clump of Riddermark Peat, which is made from the rare drop Pile of Riddermark Soil. It is not sold at vendors.

At the Westfold and Eastemnet levels you have the option to grow 'hearty' versions of your fields with more expensive seeds, which contain something like twice as many crops and many more rare drops.

Westfold and Eastemnet crops can be processed one at a time or in batches of 5. There does not appear to be a statistical advantage to either one as far as crits. You will, of course, earn more crafting XP by processing single crops.

In addition, at the Westfold level, the vendors sell Wild Flower Seed and Wild Pipe-weed Seed. To get the Field Recipes which use these seeds you must reach Fifth Standing rep with Théodred's Riders (for Wild Pipe-weed Field Recipe) and Men of Dunland (for Wild Flower Field Recipe).  Both of these recipes require unprocessed Pile of Rich Soil, and take Pile of Lórien Soil as the crit item. The fields drop tons of the rare field drops that you normally get from the lower tier fields.  



The default Westfold recipe set is as follows:

  • Compost
    • Clump of Peat
  • Grains
    • Black Barley Field / Hearty Black Barley Field
    • Bundle of Black Barley (5)
    • Bundle of Black Barley (1)
  • Vegetables
    • Bilberry Field / Hearty Bilberry Field
    • Bunch of Bilberries (5)
    • Bunch of Bilberries (1)
    • Bunch of Leeks (5)
    • Bunch of Leeks (1)
    • Leek Field / Hearty Leek Field



The default Eastemnet recipe set is as follows:

  • Compost
    • Clump of Riddermark Peat
  • Grains
    • Bunch of Rye Berries (1)
    • Large Bunch of Rye Berries (5)
    • Rye Field / Hearty Rye Field
  • Vegetables
    • Bunch of Cherries (1)
    • Bunch of Turnips (1)
    • Cherry Tree / Hearty Cherry Tree
    • Large Bunch of Cherries (5)
    • Large Bunch of Turnips (5)
    • Turnip Field / Hearty Turnip Field

Conclusion:

I hope this guide helps you out in farming. Hope to see you in the fields.
Written by Neel Sweetleaf 2008. Revised by Lithrael 2012.
Thanks to Cithryth for the info from her Pipe-weed Spreadsheet.
Thanks to reyquinito@hotmail.com for the leveling maths.

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