Agriculture/Crop Growth and Rotation

Crop Growth and Rotation

Influence

A field has four influences that affect the growth of various crops and the type of product they produce. The following image is displayed for a field that is not planted:

In this image, the 1st bar has about 5 points and the other bars have zero points.

When you harvest, one bar increases by 5 points times the influence percentage. (The increase is less if you have not yet learned the Three-field System skill.) The other three bars are reduced by 5%.

Higher tier crops are obtained by first raising the influence in certain bars.

Crop	Tiered products from		Gives to
Cabbage	3	4	1
Ear of Cereal	4	1	2
Cotton	1	2	3
Pumpkin	2	3	4
Corn	1	3	2

One way of taking advantage of this system is to designate a primary crop for each field and rotate crops that raise the influences it needs to get better products for that crop. For example, for better types of cereal, you can rotate the cabbage and pumpkins to raise the first and fourth influence.

A second method is to raise all 4 bars as far as possible. You will need to fertilize to obtain 300% influence with each planting to maintain maximum influence.

Crop Tiers

Crops will produce new types as the influence gets high enough. The following is a table of the various tiers of crops.

Seed	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Seeds of Cotton	Yellow-Stained Cotton	Indian Cotton Egyptian Cotton	Sea Island Cotton
Seeds of Cereal	Ear of Oats	Ear of Rye Ear of Barley	Ear of Wheat
Seeds of Cabbage	Colewort	Head of Green Cabbage Head of White Cabbage	Head of Red Cabbage
Seeds of Pumpkin	varies	varies	varies
Seeds of Yellow Corn	Seeds of Yellow Corn	Seeds of White Corn Seeds of Blue Corn	Seeds of Golden Corn

The type of product produced by a field is determined by the sum of the two influences values used by the crop (the values given are the percentage of the influence meter filled, so if both meters are completely filled, the total influence would be 200%):

• if the total influence is between 0% and 50% the field produces all tier 1 products.
• if the total influence is between 50% and 100% the field produces both tier 1 and tier 2 products.
• if the total influence is between 100% and 150% the field produces tier 2 products.
• if the total influence is between 150% and 200%, the field produces both tier 2 and tier 3 products.

The tier 2 product produced is determined by the higher of the two influences (the product order in the previous table shows the tier 2 product with the lower numbered influence first).

Growth Time

The base growth time are as follows

Plant Type	Base
Cabbage	3 Days
Ear of Cereals	3 Days
Cotton	4 Days
Pumpkin	8 Days
Corn	3 Days

Rotation

This table shows a way to get Tier 3 crops (Wanted Result) while getting particular Tier 2 products (2nd Rotation). In this case you want the second crop to actually use influence bar raised by first crop, in order to get higher tier results while raising influence for the final product. Items in brackets in 3rd column are possible 2nd tier products you may receive.

Wanted Result	1st Rotation	2nd Rotation
Cabbage	Cotton	Pumpkin (Sugar Treat, Connecticut Field, Harvest Moon)
Cotton	Cabbage	Ear of Cereals (Ear of Barley)
	Cabbage	Corn (Seeds of White Corn)
Ear of Cereal	Pumpkin	Cabbage (Head of White Cabbage)
Pumpkin	Ear of Cereals	Cotton (Egyptian Cotton)
	Corn	Cotton (Egyptian Cotton)
	Cotton	Corn (Seeds of Blue Corn)
Corn	Cabbage	Cotton (Indian Cotton)
	Cotton	Cabbage (Head of Green Cabbage)

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