Farming, how does it work?

[stybayo]

I already know how to farm, plant, etc. What im asking is about the q-determining factors. What part does soil q play? And what is all that fuss I read about soil q being nerfed or something?
Anyways i'd like to understand the mechanics and the formula to calculate crop Q. Any tips would be awesome

[Valnar]

Farming quality goes basically like this.

Every time you harvest a crop the quality of each seed is random value between [-5,+5] of the quality of the seed that got planted.

There are currently 2 caps in the quality for plants.
The first one is soil quality which is a soft cap. When the quality of the seed planted is above the quality of the soil the quality of seed you get from harvesting is a random value of [-5,+2] so it become harder to raise the quality of your plants above the quality of soil.

The second cap is your farming skill which I believe is a hard cap. I am not entirely sure how this cap works but if I remember right it limits your quality of plants to your farming skill + 3.

I may be wrong on some of the specific numbers I gave but this should give a good idea of how the quality system works for farming.

[stybayo]

Thanks a lot man! that explains the soil q a lot better. Also i think your right about the hard cap meaning