Fertilizer and quality

One fertilizer on a tile

Till with a hoe before you fertilize or plant. A tile holds one fertilizer. Watering can happen before or after either step. Planting and fertilizing do not spend energy. Hoeing and watering do.

Basic Fertilizer and Quality Fertilizer have to go down before the seed sprouts. Deluxe Fertilizer, Speed-Gro, Deluxe Speed-Gro, and Hyper Speed-Gro can go down before or after planting, at any growth stage.

Quality rolls

Quality is rolled at harvest, not at planting. The game checks iridium, then gold, then silver. With no Deluxe Fertilizer, iridium is impossible. Gold is tried first. Silver is tried only if gold failed.

With no fertilizer, the gold chance is 1% plus 2% for each farming level. Silver's own chance is twice the gold chance, capped at 75%, and only on the crops that missed gold. Food can push Farming from the normal cap up to level 11 through 14, and the formulas use that boosted level.

The full gold chance is 0.2 times (farming level divided by 10), plus 0.2 times the fertilizer level times ((farming level plus 2) divided by 12), plus 0.01. Fertilizer level is 0, 1, 2, or 3 for none, Basic, Quality, and Deluxe. Iridium's chance is half the gold chance, and only on Deluxe Fertilizer. Deluxe Fertilizer also makes silver the floor.

On Coffee, Blueberries, and Cranberries, Basic, Quality, and Deluxe Fertilizer change only the first item of the harvest. The extra beans or berries stay regular quality. A Seed Maker does not turn a gold crop into seeds that are more likely to grow gold crops.

Silver, gold, and iridium sell for 1.25, 1.5, and 2 times the base price. Iridium on Pale Ale is called out as double the 300g base. A coffee bean's base is 15g, gold beans are listed at 22g, and iridium beans at 30g. Shipping the crop's star does not change wine, juice, jelly, pickles, or coffee made from it.

• Prices before fertilizer
• Coffee quality and the keg
• Cranberries
• Farming skill path