Farming

Basics

Farms help you raise your own materials needed for crafting or sales. You can farm on either a farm plot owned by you sized 8x8 or 16x16 that only you, your family, your guild can access, whatever you choose. You can also create an "illegal" farm anywhere in the game area that provides the necessities for farming such as grass/water, these farms are accessible for everyone so they need to be well hidden from sight, It is illegal to steal from someone elses illegal farm and stealing will cause you to gain infamy points.

Seeds / Samplings / Animals can be bought from merchants around housing areas.

Normal farming

Normal farming is placed on a farm owned by you on a farming area in some zone. You can plant everything from trees to mushrooms. Your Farm size is either 8x8 or 16x16, the bigger one is recommended if you have lots of farms (tax you pay for the plantation will rise). The farm sizes consist of boxes so basically 16x16 is 16 boxes wide and on each side.

Plant sizes depend on the size of the actual plant so mushroom is obviously smaller than a pine tree duhh,,?

plant sizes are so the smallest is 1.5x1.5 and the largest being 6x6, good examples for these are mushroom and pine.

Animals can also be farmed and there are many different types of animals such as turkeys, chickens, cows etc. etc. and they produce items expected from them: Turkeys are meat, chicken give you eggs and cows give you milk and SHIIIAAT.

Some of these materials can be processed further to use in crafting proficiensies with different tools, Logs=lumber(carpentry, printing), mushrooms=medicinal powder(alchemy) and so on, some material combinations can be combined to a tradepack with correct items.

Illegal farming

Illegal farming is basically just like normal farming the plants/animals are just planted outside of the protected zone, which means they can be accessed by anyone in the game.
Stealing stuff from anyone's illegal farm will get you crime/infamy points that will eventually get you in jail.

+ Pros: Unlimited space (seen almost 10k tree forests)
            Possible higher gain of money

- Cons: Can be accessed by anyone
            Crime points if stealing
            Possible loss of money

Underwater farming

Underwater farming is used to make materials mostly to handicrafts and alchemy. It is abit more expensive than regular farming since the space is much more limited and it may be hard to find free spots for this. Since farming underwater is more expensive than regular farming it causes prices on alchemy and handicrafts be higher than you'd assume, example: Artisans earring might be 200-300g on the auctionhouse where artisans staff might only be 40g. (more on the handicrafts price reasons etc. on Guide concerning handicrafts)

Public Farms

The game also provides a safe way to farm for people that don't have normal farm plots or have enough money/balls to start an illegal farm. These farms are marked on the map as a scarecrow. They don't work exactly like other farms but close, There can only be planted small plants/animals such as barley, potatoes, chicken.

If you plant on a public farm and don't come and harvest within the given time period the materials will become public to everyone.