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. used on dirt blocks and are dropped from the Eye of Cthulhu.

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

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 grown on jungle blocks.

Jungle Farming
thumb|300px|left|Piranha Farmthere are a few major things you can get from a jungle. Jungle roses,jungle grass seeds, and also 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 usiung 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.

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 create o or below and have a dirt backround. 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 grown on these and you can then harvest them. The other type is a glowing mushroom

farm which is mentioned above.