Grinding Skills: Farming Tree!

So I have gone over the construction tree which now doesn't seem as hard you thought it would be: granted it may take time but this skill is going to take a little longer due to the fact we cannot intervene in the Tier 2 skill. 

In this post I am going to go over my own experience grinding up the farming tree skills:

• Farming
• Animal Lore
• Procuration
• Cooking
• Tailoring 

Farming: So the first skill you will be allowed to level is the farming skill, which allows you to either plow or gather wild seeds using a primitive sickle. Now like natures lore, gathering wild seeds is set on a luck based gathering style so you will fail to find things on certain tiles for a while. The best way to level farming to 90 (recommended) is to take a primitive shovel or metal one, find an area that is rich in fertile soil (green grass) and start plowing a large area. Plowing is not a luck based action and will certainly level you up to 90 in no time!



Animal Lore: So now that we have level 90 farming, we can move to Animal Lore. This is where things will slow down. If you followed the construction grind you will now need to build 2 (recommended) coops. you will also need to make snare traps to catch chickens and hares! 10 plant fiber, 1 apple and 2 sticks creates a single snare trap, you need around 10 of these to get enough animals. Separate hares from chickens so you can either harvest or clean the coops. It is more favourable to have a high amount of chickens so they lay more eggs and that can have a positive outcome on your skill gain! If you have 4-6 chickens and good quality food in the coops, they will start breeding and live for a longer time than usual chickens do! Level 60 recommended!

Procuration: Now that we have leveled up Animal lore and a lot of patience to do so: We need to now look at the coop filled with hares. At level 0 procuration you can slaughter animals, this will be very effective one hares as you will eventually need the furs to make thin leather! So start by slaughtering the oldest hares! Old age hares live between 10-15 years old so it is good practice to slaughter them between these ages! You will quickly gather skills points as slaughtering gives back a high skill gain! You can also slaughter old chickens, again those between 10-15 years old! Level 60 is recommended as you can create thin/thick leather at level 60 as well as flax fibers!

Cooking: Now that we are on to cooking, you will have hopefully made a Kitchen or one of your members will have made one (it is highly recommended). Kitchens yield a bonus as well as a 20% quality increase. The most available item you can cook straight off is Wild meat, which cooked makes Fried beast! It is the easiest item to cook as it is a single ingredient recipe but yields good skill gain! Remember you need a cooking pot to cook things at a kitchen! Now I recommend getting your cooking skills to 90, this is because of the number of recipes available will also yield 4 ingredient recipes which gives you a very big food multiplier which in term means even faster skill gain!

Tailoring: This is the very last skill we need to complete our Farming tree! Tailoring is just like Armour smithing in the Blacksmith tree. Firstly gather up as many furs and turn them into thin leather, then you will be essentially making a boat load of novice leather caps! You will/will not be able to wear them but they yield good skill gain! as soon as you reach level 60 you will open up regular armours. If you have a guild and maybe 2 or 3 of your members want to go the archer route then making 3 sets of regular armour should send you at least half way to level 90 where you can make heavy leather/padded armour! I recommend level 90 as royal Leather and padded armour takes a while to grind for but heavy is just as good as royal armour if it's the appropriate quality. (Q85+)

Got a better way of grinding the farming tree? Leave a comment or message me so I can compare my methods with yours!