Tips to raise the quality of farming produce?

[katiewhite]

Hello,
I found that the progress of farming produce/seeds is painfully slow for me and I'm not quite sure how the system works. I want to increase the quality of farming produce/seeds. Any tips?
How can I find high Ql natural resources (soil, clay etc) than digging very visible potholes on the map?
Thanks in advance!

[Ukhata]

progress is slow, this is true.
but going out and looking for high Q nodes of wild windsown weeds can help with higher Q starter seeds.

also go around abandoned claims and harvest old crops can assist as well.
make sure you do so with a char with high farming and/or survival for finding/harvesting the higher Q seeds

[WalterPinkman]

I found that the progress of farming produce/seeds is painfully slow for me and I'm not quite sure how the system works. I want to increase the quality of farming produce/seeds. Any tips?

Each harvest has a random chance of quality to progress, regress or stay the same. Crops planted on the same mp grid (use custom clients to see grids) within some shared time window (6 hours, if not mistaking) will always have the same change to quality. Some crops (e.g. carrots) can be harvested before their final growth stage having the same random change to quality.
Knowing this one can develop a strategy:
* have dedicated small plots to increase quality but not getting yourself burn out and quit
* have several such plots on several map grids
* for each crop of a plot: split into at least three sub-plots and re-plant each of them at least 6-hours apart
* check your plots as often as possible (though, unless you're botting, you would always stay behind)

Or to summarize: grind, grind and grind some more. Unless you're botting.

But thanks to the "Catch-up" mechanics, you can grind another way: raise your farming skill (currently up to 250+(?) or you'd miss out on the currently highest Q) as well as PER*EXP and spend your day looking for WWWs and drying them on a herbalist table (table quality doesn't matter). This is the way majority of people get the high Q crops without botting.

How can I find high Ql natural resources (soil, clay etc) than digging very visible potholes on the map?

No point in looking for a soil as at this stage it would be far behind the Mulch Q made from high Q crops in compost bins.

Other high Q resources like clay or sand are probably all claimed by now. But yeah, only by going and looking for them. Don't bother thinking about holes in the ground. Unless it's on someone's claim, nobody cares.

[animary]

Primarily raise your farming skill, crop q is basically an average of seed q and farming skill and will essentially be capped by farming skill. A farming skill of 100 and q50 seeds will eventually give q100 crops, but farming of 100 with q180 seeds will eventually produce q100 crops also. Everything interacts. Also having bee hives will speed crop growth so q progresses more quickly, though bees do not affect grains or trees (odd since in real life bees pollinate flowering trees). Make a suit of farming gear with farm gildings on each piece, this will help when planting (harvesting isn't affected by farm skill).