Enshrouded: Ultimate Farming Guide

It can be a little confusing to get started farming in Enshrouded, but our helpful ultimate guide should cover everything you need to know about it!

Farming is a great way to get plant-based resources without having to actually go out and explore. It will also open up new food recipes for you, which can provide extremely good buffs to help you fight the Shroud.

When you’re ready, pick up your hoes and read on to dive into our ultimate farming guide for Enshrouded!

Ultimate Farming Guide

Getting Started

Before you can get any farming done, you will need to find and rescue the Farmer. She’s one of the many NPCs you can find and rescue out in the world, just like the Carpenter, for example.

Having her at your base will allow you to craft the two most important things for farming: the Seedbed and Farm Soil.

• The Seedbed will require 10 Wood Logs, 2 Metal Scraps, and 10 Farm Soil to make.
• Farm Soil, on the other hand, requires 7 Dirt and 3 Bonemeal.

Build the Seedbed in your base and interact with it. It will allow you to make seeds out of any plants you’ve gathered while exploring the game’s world.

You will get more Seedling recipes by simply exploring the world and gathering as many plants as you can.

Put these plants in the Seedbed alongside some Water and Farm Soil to get seedlings. Now, it’s time to start planting those seeds!

How to Plant Seeds

Your first order of business here is to get some more Farm Soil from the Farmer. If you’re just starting out, the default stack of 10 should be plenty for the time being.

Then, use your Construction Hammer and select the Farm Soil as the terrain time you want to put down. Place down however much Farm Soil you want, wherever you want.

Now, just equip the seedlings you want to plant on the hotbar and hover it over the Farm Soil. It will appear translucid and blue when you can plant it.

If it’s red, it means you can’t plant it. This mostly happens due to a lack of space, so make sure that you have enough space between seedlings.

To make seedlings easier to place, you can press X to activate snapping. This will make the seedlings stick to certain preset spots on the soil, making it easier to keep them apart from each other!

You can plant about 9 seedlings for every square of Farm Soil, so you can make pretty large farms in Enshrouded.

Growing, Harvesting, and Using Your Crops

Growing crops in Enshrouded is ridiculously easy, you just need to wait some in-game time after planting your seedlings.

The exact growth time varies for each plant, but the main thing is that you don’t need to tend to your farm at all. You don’t need to add water or anything of the sort!

You can, however, make Fertilised Farm Soil at the Farmer instead. It requires Sand x10, Fossilized Bone Dust x2, and Nitrate x3. It’s a lot harder to make, but crops will grow faster than on regular soil.

Either way, you just need to wait for your crops to grow fully. Once they’re grown, just approach them and interact with them to Harvest.

It’s a good idea to save some of your crops to make more seedlings, giving you an infinite supply of crops!

To use your crops, you will mostly need to rely on the Farmer again. She can prepare crops you harvest, turning them into a variety of foods that provide helpful buffs for you.

There are dozens of recipes available, and each single food item offers a different benefit. Be sure to check them all out when you interact with the Farmer.

Also, completing the Farmer’s personal quests will further expand her crafting abilities, giving you access to even more food items to make from your crops!

With all that said, though, you now know everything you need to know to get farming in Enshrouded. Grow crops, get food, and then go kick the Shroud where the sun doesn’t shine.

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