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While your main goal inRune Factory: Guardians Of Azumais to save the world, that shouldn’t stop you from farming your life away as the game offers the old-school farming mechanics with a unique twist using the Sacred Treasures. You get introduced to this mechanic quite early, before you even take part in any combat.
Apart from being one of the most relaxing parts of the game, farming is also great for earning a ton of money every single day. However, there are quite a few things that you have to keep in mind if you want to be the most efficient with this process.
How To Plant Crops
Before you start thinking about farming in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, you’ll first need a development zone under your name. These zones are highlighted in green when you look at a village’s map. Initially,you only start with one development zone in each village, but you get more as you increase its level.
You’ll get your first development zone in Spring Village after a bit of the main story,and the game will ask you to plant your first few crops there. To do this, you have to head inside the development zone and bring out the Terra Tiller by either selecting from the Sacred Treasure wheel or simply pressing the button shown at the bottom of your screen.
When you have the Terra Tiler in your hands inside a development zone,Village Builder mode is turned onandtime of the day stops going forward.
With the Terra Tiller in hand,click on the Building Menu button and find the Field in the menu that opens. If you don’t have any fields, you have to call Woolby in the Terra Tiller mode andhe can help you create some with two Red and Rich Soil each. Place this field at the desired location and you can start growing crops.
Once the field is down, you canhead back inside the Building Menu and select the seeds you want to plant. With the seeds selected, you’re able to plant them in all the empty fields. While selecting the seed, you’ll be able to see its growth time, suitable village, and how much you can sell the seed for.
It’s recommended to plant seeds in their suitable village as theygrow faster with possibly more output there.
After getting the seeds planted, you can water them by interacting with the Field every day and eventually harvest them. While seeds usually take three or more days to grow,you can harvest them much faster if you use certain Sacred Treasures(more on this below). You can also see theestimated output and sale value of the crop once you plant itby hovering over it.
If you get any fruit or general tree saplings, you candirectly plant them on the ground within the development zones. Fruits are best grown in the recommended region on the sapling. Once harvested, you may sell your crops directly to the merchants or put them in theShipping Shed to get money the next day.
How To Plant Rice
While most seeds can be planted in normal fields,Rice is an exception as it needs to be planted in a Rice Paddy. You’ll initially start getting Rice and its seeds fairly early as you interact with various Jizo shrines around the world. However, you’ll only be able to start farming them once you reach Autumn Village as you get the required recipes here.
Once you reach the village,you can put a Rice Paddy with a Waterway on its adjacent tile, which will fill water inside the paddy. You can then easily plant the rice seeds here and harvest them when they’re grown. You’ll get the highest output of rice from these if you plant them in the Autumn Village itself.
How To Increase Seed Level
While planting different seeds in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma,you might’ve noticed that they have a level assigned to them. When you plant a higher-level seed, it yields higher-level crops, which in turn let you make higher-level recipes. There are two main ways to do this:
In our experience, the chances of getting an increased level seed while using the Sacred Swordincrease after harvesting a few lower-level ones normally.
You can get each seed to a maximum of level nine, and apart from increasing your dish levels, this also increases the sale price for them. This makes it agreat idea to increase the level of your golden crop seeds as fast as you can. Other than the Sacred Sword, you can use other Sacred Treasures to help with farming as well:
Sacred Drum and Parasol roughly have a range of two tiles on each side,which means that the best way to plant your crops is in a 5x5 grid. This will let you stand in the middle of each group of 25 crops and use both of these treasures on them. Furthermore, since the Sacred Fan’s attacks go in a straight path, it’s recommended to make longer lines of the fields.
So, if you want to go over 25 crops,you should plant another 25 in a straight line and repeat the processuntil you have enough crops to be the most efficient. you may also use the Sacred Drum on trees, which will help you harvest wood from them twice a day or make the fruit’s growth faster.
Sometimes, the drum doesn’t reach the corner tiles of the grid, so it’simportant to check if it’s been applied to every tilebefore leaving.
All Seed Locations In The Open World
Now that you know everything about farming in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, the next step is to find out where you can find the seeds. For the most part, you can buy a lot of seeds fromGeneral Stores around the villages like Iroha’s store in Spring Village. However, these seeds are quite expensive and not worth the money.
As you’re exploring the map,you can find four tiles of crops at some locations, and harvesting them will give you four seeds, which you can then multiply with the Sacred Sword. Here’s how you can find the seeds for each region:
Potato
Spring Region Outskirts
As you look at the map of the Spring Region, you’ll find Small Pond written towards the top right side.Head to this area and take the path above it on the left side. You’ll find the seeds on your right as the area opens up a bit.
Onion
You’ll find the Vast Plateau on the left side of the Spring Region outskirts with a big white spot to the left of it. You can find these seeds on that spot.
Strawberry
Winter Region Outskirts
While looking at the Winter Region map, you’ll see a secluded area at the very top.you’re able to get to this area by jumping up a bunch of platformsand find the seeds here.
Tomato
Summer Region Outskirts
You’ll find a secluded island at the bottom of the Summer Region Outskirts' map, and you canfind these seeds beside a giant Frog Statueon the top left of this island.
Cucumber
You’ll see a teleport point to the left of the Hanging Bridge in this area, and you may find these seedsat the beach below this point.
Pink Melon
The Underworld
Head to the top left side of this area and you’llfind it in a hidden spotright in front of the ore deposit here.
Pineapple
you’re able to find this on top of thesmaller mountain on the right sideof the Remote Island at the top.
Eggplant
Side Quest
You can get these seeds by finding various targets hidden by Yoichi around the map.Finding more targets automatically gives you higher-level seedsas a reward.
Sweet Potato
Autumn Region Outskirts
On the Autumn Region map, zoom in all the way on the Mechanical Maze and you’ll see a small rectangular area below where “Mechanical Maze” is written on the right side. you’re able to find these seeds here.
Pink Turnip
Once you reach the Isolated Islet in this region, you can find ahidden path on the top right side blocked by an ice boulder. Break this boulder to find these seeds inside.
Carrot
Head out from the cave of the Pink Turnip seeds above andgo to the northern edge near the Frog and Jizo Statueto find these seeds.
Spinach
You can find it on the edge abit to the south of the teleport point near the White Wolf Mountainentry.
Golden Turnip
Dual Shell Island (Sky)
While you can find Golden Turnip seeds in random chests before, the first group of four you’ll find will be on thissky island on the turtle-shaped part at the top. You can find it on the bottom right of the turtle.
Golden Cabbage
You can find these on the same island as above in thearea between the two turtle-shaped parts to their right.
Golden Pumpkin
Mushroom Island (Sky)
you may find this on theright edge of this islandbehind the house.
Golden Potato
Omen Island (Sky)
You can find itjust past the teleport of this islandnear a small building.
Other than these specific seed locations, you may also find some inrandom baskets that appear after you break some crates.
If the seeds you’re looking for can’t be found in the open world, you cansimply buy one of it from the merchantsand then multiply it yourself.
