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The Complete Hytale Farming Guide: How to Grow Crops and Build a Farm

As you venture into the dangerous world of Hytale in search of adventure and progress, you risk losing some of your loot upon death. To avoid this, you’ll need a constant supply of food.

The easiest way to provide yourself with food is to create a farm near your base. Here, you can grow a variety of crops that will sustain you on long journeys. Let’s take a look at how farming works in the game.

Farming Overview

Your first experience with farming will likely begin with gathering berries or mushrooms scattered around your spawn point. However, to create a stable and varied food supply, you’ll need to establish your own farming system as soon as possible.

To get started, you need to create a Farmer’s Workbench using any standard workbench—one you’ve found or built at your base. Here, you’ll have access to various tools, seeds, seedlings, planters , and much more. Here, you can also craft seeds for planting, clear plots with special tools, and process harvested crops.

If you want to plant directly into the ground, you’ll need to craft a hoe out of stone, copper, or iron and plow the area with it. Alternatively, you can use planters , which you can craft and plant seeds in. New planter and other item recipes are unlocked as you level up your Farmer’s Workbench , so be sure to upgrade it regularly as you progress through the game.

Every planted seed requires watering —either with a watering can or during rain. After a few days, it will grow into a harvestable crop. To harvest a plant, approach it and either chop it down or interact with it. The resulting crop can be eaten raw, used to cook various dishes at the Chef’s Stove , or even processed into additional Life Essence through the Life Essence tab if you run low while exploring the open world.

New seed types are unlocked not only by upgrading the Farmer’s Workbench , but also by restoring memories during the storyline in the Forgotten Temple . This can be done in Exploration Mode, gradually uncovering the game’s early access storyline.

Many farming recipes unlock other recipes as you level up, but Life Essence always remains the heart of your farming operations in Hytale. Combine crop cultivation with the limited animal taming available in Early Access, and you’ll be in great shape in no time!

All Farmer’s Workbench recipes

The Farmer’s Workbench is divided into six categories: Farming, Seeds, Saplings, Life Essence, Planters, and Decorations . Each category offers an extensive crafting menu related to crops and plants . Creating this workbench is essential before you can start farming!

All farming recipes in Hytale

Item name Recipe Workbench level
Bag of food
  • 10 Wheat
  • 5 Vegetables (any)
  • 5 Fruits (any)
  • 10 Essences of Life
Base
Rough hoe
  • 2 Tree trunk (any)
  • 1 Stone (any)
Empty watering can
  • 3 Iron Ingots
Wooden bucket
  • 3 Trees (any)
  • 1 Iron Ingot
Rough scissors
  • 1 Iron Ingot
Creature Trap
  • 4 Trees (any)
  • 50 Essences of Life
Copper hoe
  • 2 Tree trunk (any)
  • 1 Copper Ingot
4
Iron hoe
  • 2 Tree trunk (any)
  • 1 Iron Ingot
8
Chicken coop
  • 20 Trees (any)
  • 50 Essences of Life
  • 10 Plant Fibers
5
Fishing trap
  • 10 Trees (any)
  • 50 Essences of Life
  • 20 Plant Fibers
  • 1 Iron Ingot
2
Wild fishing bait
  • 3 Fruits (any)
  • 5 Essences of Life
A bag of fertilizer
  • 10 Manure
  • 10 Essences of Life
  • 5 Vegetables (any)
3

All seed recipes in Hytale

Item name Recipe Workbench level
A bag of sunflower seeds
  • 5 Essences of Life
  • 1 Sunflower
1
A bag of wheat seeds
  • 2 Essences of Life
A bag of lettuce seeds
A bag of carrot seeds
  • 3 Essences of Life
2
A bag of corn seeds
A bag of cauliflower seeds
  • 5 Essences of Life
3
A bag of turnip seeds
A bag of eggplant seeds
  • 6 Essences of Life
4
A bag of pumpkin seeds
A bag of tomato seeds 5
A bag of chili pepper seeds
A bag of cotton seeds
  • 8 Essences of Life
6
A bag of rice seeds
Bulb
  • 10 Essences of Life
7

All Sapling Recipes in Hytale

Item name Recipe Workbench level
Beech sapling
  • 5 Essences of Life
1
Birch sapling
  • 10 Essences of Life
3
Apple tree seedling
  • 1 Great Essence of Life
  • 4 Apples
4
Ash sapling
  • 15 Essences of Life
Oak sapling
Spruce sapling
Frozen seedling
Sequoia sapling
  • 20 Essences of Life
5
Cedar sapling
  • 25 Essences of Life
6
Dry seedling
  • 30 Essences of Life
7
Palm tree sapling
  • 35 Essences of Life
8

All Life Essence recipes in Hytale

Item name Recipe Workbench level
Essence of life
  • 1 Any fruit
  • 1 Any vegetable
  • 1 Any plant
Base
Great Essence of Life
  • 10 Essences of Life

All Life Essence recipes in Hytale (continued)

Item name Recipe
Great Essence of Life
  • 100 Essences of Life
Essence of Life (100)
  • 1 Great Essence of Life
Cultures that give the Essence of Life
1 Essence of Life
  • 1 Wheat
  • 1 Salad
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 Corn
  • 1 Cauliflower
  • 1 Turnip
  • 1 eggplant
  • 1 Pumpkin
  • 1 Tomato
  • 1 chili pepper
  • 1 Cotton
  • 1 Rice
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 Potato

All planter recipes in Hytale

Item name Recipe
Stone flowerpot
  • 3 Stones (any)
  • 2 Soils (any)
  • 10 Essences of Life
Tavern flowerpot
  • 3 Tree trunks (any)
  • 1 Iron Ingot
  • 2 Soils (any)
  • 10 Essences of Life
Feran flowerpot
  • 3 Clays
  • 2 Soils (any)
  • 10 Essences of Life
Bamboo flowerpot
  • 20 Plant Fibers
  • 2 Soils (any)
  • 10 Essences of Life
  • 1 bamboo log

All Crafting Bench Decoration Recipes in Hytale

Item name Recipe
A pile of twigs
  • 5 Rods
Sorrel rug
  • 4 Moss
  • 2 Plant fibers
Wicker rug
  • 4 Plant Fibers
  • 1 Essence of Life
Hive
  • 20 Essences of Life
Scarecrow
  • 3 Trees (any)
  • 3 Wood resin
  • 1 Pumpkin
  • 10 Essences of Life
Haystack
  • 1 Rope
  • 4 Wheat
Full grass
  • 1 Soil (any)
  • 1 Plant fiber
Deep grass
Summer grass
Deciduous grass
Burnt grass
Dirt
Dry mud
Needle soil
Cold earth
Dry land
Poisoned Land
Soil trail
Dry grass
Cold grass
Wet grass
Frozen pebbles
  • 3 Cobblestones (any)
Gravel
Mossy gravel
Pebbles
Red sand gravel
Sandy gravel
White sand gravel
Green moss block
  • 4 Green moss
  • 2 Plant fibers
Green moss rug
Low green moss
Hanging green moss
A block of dark green moss
  • 4 Dark green moss
  • 2 Plant fibers
A rug of dark green moss
Low dark green moss
Hanging dark green moss
Blue moss block
  • 4 Blue Moss
  • 2 Plant fibers
Blue moss rug
Low blue moss
Hanging blue moss
Yellow moss block
  • 4 Yellow moss
  • 2 Plant fibers
Yellow moss rug
Low yellow moss
Hanging yellow moss
Red moss block
  • 4 Red Moss
  • 2 Plant fibers
Red moss rug
Low red moss
Hanging red moss
Wall ivy
  • 1 Essence of Life
  • 2 Plant fibers
Dry vine
Ivy
Poison ivy
Liana
Vine

The Farmer’s Workbench is your key to a thriving farm in Hytale. It allows you to craft everything you need to grow a variety of crops and trees, as well as decorate your base with decorative elements. Remember, new recipes become available as you level up your workbench and progress through the story. Use Life Essence as a versatile crafting resource, and don’t forget to water your crops. Happy farming!

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