Farming Guide

Farming is the intentional creation of resources to be collected repeatedly over time. Many kinds of farming involve planting Seeds to grow grass, trees, or flowers, though some kinds of farming such as Crystal Shard or statue farming do not involve seeds. Seeds include:


 * Acorns, which are nuts dropped from Trees. They are used on Grass to grow Trees


 * Grass Seeds, seeds bought from a Dryad used to grow Grass on Dirt


 * Jungle Grass Seeds, used to grow Jungle Grass on Mud. Collected in the Jungle from breaking Grass/weeds


 * Corrupt Seeds, used to grow Corruption on Dirt 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


 * Plant seeds, such as Dayblooms, Blinkroots, etc.

Basic 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 will need Acorns which can be obtained when you chop down a tree. 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 Tree or Jungle Tree farm. A Jungle Tree farm requires no planting of Acorns since Trees automatically grow on Jungle Block

Jungle Farming
There are a few major things you can get from a Jungle. Jungle Spores, Jungle Grass Seeds, and you can farm Piranhas for Hooks and Robot Hats.

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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. However, you still need to be careful, as enemies may still be able to spawn if the Corruption spreads. Creating corrupted terrain too close to your NPCs will make them leave their Homes

Glowing Mushroom
Farming these may be your best choice. To create a farm you must first have Mushroom Seeds (obtained from hitting Glowing Mushroom's with a weapon) 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, Below Sea level is where it has to grow, or below.) Place Mud in lines or other ways you may come up with and plant the seeds, the seeds will spread and yourGlowing Mushroom's 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 worthless flower will eventually grow up if nothing is planted in that Clay Pot. These flowers can't be harvested. They're like the flowers at a forest. If you are farming flowers in a pot, you can harvest them with a Pickaxe.

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. 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.

Blinkroot blooms Randomly. Can be found Underground. Seeds can only be harvested when blinking.

Daybloom blooms at Daytime. Found on grassy areas anytime of day. Only drops seeds when sunny

Moonglow blooms at Nighttime. Found in Above/underground Jungle. Seeds drop at night.

Deathweed blooms in Blood Moon. Found in Corruption. Harvest seeds on Blood Moon.

Fireblossom blooms if touches lava. Found in Underworld harvest anytime as long as plant is in Lava.

Waterleaf blooms if touches Water. Found in Desert. Harvest anytime as long as plant is in Water.

Nature's Gift doesn't bloom. Found in Underground Jungle.

Jungle Rose doesn't bloom. Found in Jungle.

Crystal Shard Farming
Crystal Shards are possible to farm if you have unlocked Hardmode. To make this farm, you will need to have an Underground Hallow area, Pearlstone, and some Torches for lighting the area. When you found an area in your Underground Hallow where you can see some Crystal Shards growing, clear out an area and make a good size square out of your Pearlstone. Add some rows that your character can walk on, and you'll have a Crystal Shard Farm. Theres one downside. Though it may be easy to have on area that you can farm your shards, Hallowed Monster's will start spawning in the farm due to the Pearlstone. Best of luck with your farm!