Farming Guide

Gardening/Farming Guide
Gardening is the intentional creation/spawning of resources to be collected repeatedly over time. Right now there are several types of seeds and fungi that can be farmed.

Seeds are used to grow grass or items.

Seeds include:


 * Acorn, which is a nut dropped from trees. It is used on grass to grow trees.


 * Grass Seeds, seeds bought from a Dryad. used to grow grass on dirt blocks.


 * Jungle Grass Seeds, used to grow jungle grass on mud blocks. Collected in the jungle biome from breaking grass/weeds.


 * Corrupt Seeds, used to grow Corruption on dirt blocks and are dropped from the Eye of Cthulhu or bought from a Dryad on a Blood Moon.


 * Mushroom Grass Seeds, used on mud to grow Glowing Mushrooms.


 * Flowers, such as Deathweed, Fireblossom, Waterleaf etc.

Basic Gardening
Farming is an interchangable term with Gardening. To farm you need the seed of your choice. A good starter is the Acorn. You can easily make a small tree farm next to your house. Just create a flat area and plant acorns. Each sapling should have two empty spaces on both sides of it. Come back and harvest the trees and replant the acorns.

Tree Farming
To farm trees you need acorns. A tree farm is just a flat area with acorns planted. The saplings have to be spaced apart with 2 empty spaces on either side. Periodically "Mow the lawn" or cut the grass on your tree farm because it stops trees from growing in those places. If you are pretty far in Terraria you may want to think about an automatic or jungle tree farm. A jungle tree farm requires no planting of acorns since trees automatically grow on jungle blocks.

Jungle Farming
350px There are a few major things you can get from a jungle. Jungle roses, jungle grass seeds, and you can farm piranhas for hooks and the rare Robot Hat.

Corruption Farming
You may find yourself needing Vile Powder. You can create a Corruption mushroom farm using Corruption seeds. If it's close enough to your NPCs, the reduction in enemy spawns will keep anything from showing up. But you really need to be careful of monsters spawning. Creating corrupted terrain too close to your NPC's will make them leave their homes.

Glowing Mushrooms
Farming these may be your best choice. To create a farm you must first have glowing mushroom seeds (obtained from cutting down giant mushrooms) and you can use a depth meter to see if you are Above or Below. The farm must be created in the rocky strata (i.e. where the dirt in the background is dotted with stone) or below. Place mud in lines or other ways you may come up with and plant the seeds, the seeds will spread and your mushrooms will start to grow!

Mushroom Farms
There are 2 types of mushroom farms. Glowing mushrooms and regular mushrooms. To create a regular mushroom farm make sure there is no wall behind it so it has natural lighting and make long platforms of grass. Mushrooms will grow on these and you can then harvest them. The other type is a glowing mushroom farm as mentioned above.

Flower Farms
There are various flowers that you can farm in Terraria, these flowers are useful while making potions. Clay pots are a good way to plant flowers, but they can also be planted in normal dirt. However, clay pots are also used for decoration purposes and a priceless flower will eventually grow up if nothing is planted in that clay pot. Some flowers just drop seeds if they are 'blooming' (aka, fully grown). There are two flowers that don't drop seeds, those flowers are Nature's Gift and Jungle Rose, they are just grown in the jungle environments and are not used in any crafting recipes. Even when those flowers don't bloom or drop seeds, they can also be farmed by creating a artificial Jungle. Here is a list of the blooming conditions of all the flowers.


 * [[File:Blinkroot1.png]] Blinkroot blooms Randomly.
 * [[File:Daybloom.png]] Daybloom blooms at Daytime.
 * [[File:Moonglow.png]] Moonglow blooms at Nighttime.
 * [[File:Deathweed.png]] Deathweed blooms in Blood moon.
 * [[File:Fireblossom.png]] Fireblossom blooms if touches lava.
 * [[File:Waterleaf.png]] Waterleaf blooms if touches water.
 * Terraria_Nature's_Gift.png Nature's Gift doesn't bloom.
 * Terraria_Jungle_Rose.png Jungle Rose doesn't bloom.