Farming Guide

Here is a guide on how Farming works in Black Desert Online:

1. Placement of Farm:

First you will need a fence to put down.  You can get a free one from a quest giver outside of Heidl.

You can also find higher quality fences from different NPCs at selected farms and cities.

Next you need to place it down on a spot and I would recommend looking for other farm spots where other players have placed theirs.

2. Planting Seeds:

After that you go into farming placement mode by pressing "R" to place your seeds down.

Some seeds can be found on the marketplace (such as carrot or wheat seeds) or are created through harvesting your plants and can even be gathered from herbs randomly.

You can also get some very special items from seeds bought at seed vendors such as:

Black seed grows pickled onion containers
Shiny seeds yield tulip sconces (lanterns for a wall in your home)
Gigantic seed creates sunflower vases
Glossy seed yield red rose vases
Dried-up seeds provide you with dried roses
Small white seed yield a strawberry basket
Shelled seed produces a yellow tulip pot
Contorted seed grows oddly shaped pumpkins
Bumpy seed produces an olive tree pot

3. Caring for Farm/Garden:

A better harvest can be guaranteed if you water the farm regularly as well as fertilize it.  Also if you notice your farm icon is red on the map it means one of your plants needs special care such as pruning or killing bugs infesting the plant (press R to do either of these tasks).

You can make inorganic fertilizer simply by drying grain (ie.wheat) when it isn't raining of course =p

Shaking and mixing 3 inorganic fertilizers with 2 leavening agents (bought from cooks/innkeepers) yields you the fertilizer byproduct.


Shaking and mixing 2 distilled waters (heating bottles of river water instead of thinning) with 1 fertilizer byproduct gives organic fertilizer. 

You can water the farm using River Water or even better, Purified Water.  River water is collected using bottles that can be purchased from a material vendor, right click the empty bottle in your inventory when at a riverbank to fill it.  To make purified water, simply take the river water you made and use the "Thinning" option in your "Produce" tab in the lower area of your inventory.

4. Worker Management:

You can set a worker to tend to the garden, then all you would have to do is water, fertilize and harvest.  Click on the garden link at the top left of your screen (right beside the worker management icon).  Your worker will then come over and tend to the garden until you choose to stop this task.

5. Harvesting:

You harvest your plant by pressing "R" once the plant has reached between 100% to 120%.  I would recommend harvesting before it reaches the 120% since it gives you less of a yield due to it being designated as an old crop now.