Farming

From Hello Kitty Online Wiki

IMPORTANT NOTE: This guide applies only to the old farming system during Founder's Beta. Since the Happy Hearts event, many aspects of farming has changed and this guide no longer applies.

Each user of Hello Kitty Online is given their own land, or "farm". It can be accessed for the first time in London with the Farm Manager (salesman in black in the north). This land can be used for farming and building a home.

Getting Seeds and Fertilizer:

Level 1 Fertilizer can be bought at the Seed Shop, and dried poop mined from fossil rocks can also be used to fertilize your farm. Seeds can be accessed via the Seed Shop, and some are given by quests. Other than giving the minimum fertility needed to plant crops, it is unknown what else fertilizer does, though there is a theory that higher fertility makes crops grow and produce crops faster.

Fertilizing the Farm:

Seeds need a minimum fertility to be planted (usually Fertility 10). You can see the fertility level by mousing over the square of land or by clicking on the magnifying class in the Farm menu at the upper right after entering your farm. Right click on Fertilizer in your inventory and mouse over your farm field. Left-clicking will deposit the fertilizer, which will increase the value the most in the square you clicked on and a little less on the surrounding 8 squares (fertilizer is deposited in a 3x3 square, with the square you clicked on in the center).

Remember that in order to start planting your seeds, the fertility level of the square of ground must be at least the number required for the seed. Once the square is fertilized, the fertility level will not decrease until you plant something on it.

Planting and Growing Crops:

To plant, right click on seeds in your inventory and left click in the square you want to plant in. A little sprout will show up. After a while, it should grow bigger. A few seeds planted will fail to grow, which is normal and up to chance.

The fertility of the square will go down in increments of 10, but do not panic! Once the seed is planted, the lowest the fertility can go down is to fertility level 1, which is all it needs to survive.

Harvesting Crops:

After a while, a crop will grow even bigger and the crop you are trying to grow will be visible. At this point, PAUSE the farm by going to the farm menu, clicking on settings, and putting a checkmark in Pause. Go to the mature crop and start gathering! Unpause once all your gathering is done.

There are many other items other than crops that can be gathered, such as withered leaves, caterpillars, and parasites.

You can also gather roots from any healthy plant by choosing to woodcut it. From lemon trees, you can get lemon tree branches. However, after 5 times the plant will disappear. If you want to collect roots but don't want it to die, do not cut it more than 4 times!

If you wait too long, the crop's vegetables or fruit will go bad. The crop's appearance will be the same as a healthy ready-to-harvest crop, but when trying to gather to fruit or vegetable it will take a long time and get you nothing.

The following needs confirmation: If this happens, simply ignore the plant. Eventually it will revert back to its healthy mature no-crop self. So don't cut it down just yet!

Plant Death:

After a few cycles of growing and harvesting, the plant will die. The crop will turn brown and stop moving in the wind. This is normal. If you leave them alone for a while, they will eventually decay by themselves. It is faster to cut it down by using the lumbering option. Don't forget to pause the farm while doing it. As a note, even after cutting it several times (usually 3 to 5 times will do it), the plant will not disappear until you unpause the farm. You obtain bad roots from the plant when cutting dead plants.

After the plant has died and been removed, the fertility level of that square will have decreased by the second seed stat, but will not go below fertility level 1. If it is below the required minimum fertilization required of a seed, it will have to be re-fertilized before another crop can be planted in that square.

Farming Tips:

• ALWAYS PAUSE YOUR FARM BEFORE LEAVING IT! Otherwise, you may miss the harvesting too long and the crops will go bad. Also, as with all crops, after going through many harvest-grow cycles, it will die from age.
• Plant tall crops in the back (these include lemon trees, oats, corn, and green tea leaves) and shorter crops in the front (strawberries, cauliflower, carrots, sweet potatoes), just so you can see and click them easier.