LotRo Farming Guide - A Farmers Guide to LOTRO

A Farmers Guide to LOTRO

If you have had your fill of wandering the country side looking for wood or ore to gather and are looking for a little more stability in your adventurous life, perhaps the farming life is for you. Farmers produce two products, vegetables and pipe-weed. While cooks will be the ones looking to purchase your latest crop of vegetables, nearly every adventure of Middle Earth has the desire to relax under a nice tree and blow smoke rings from the pipe-weed they're enjoying. While it's not as easy as taking your hoe to the nearest farmland, this guide will get you help you get started in your new agricultural profession.

To become a farmer you need to choose one of the following vocations:

• Historian (Farmer, Scholar, Weaponsmith)
• Woodsman (Farmer, Forester, Woodworker)
• Yeoman (Cook, Farmer, Tailor)

These can by learned from a Master of Apprentices NPC in any major town after attaining level 5.

Getting Started:
Once you have selected the proper vocations you will be given basic Farmer's Tools. You can purchase the mastery tools for Apprentice level at any farmhand vendor to increase your critical success chance by 100%. If you have a Metalsmith in your Kinship, they will also be able to provide you with tools superior to what you start off with.

Not all farms are available for public use. Many of the ones you see around Middle Earth are not intended for this profession. Farmlands available for your use will be marked on your mini-map with an anvil icon. Each of these farms are manned by a Farmhand vendor, making it easier for you to get the supplies the basic supplies that you need. Basic Farmlands can be found around Michel Delving and Straddle while Superior Farmlands can be found around Hobbiton. As an Apprentice, you will start on Basic Farmlands until you advance your skill.

Make sure you have a little bit of money before you head out to your first farm, as you're going to need to buy supplies to plant your first crop.

Crafting:
Once you are at the Farmland, you will need the following supplies before you can start crafting:

• 5 Seeds (type based off the recipe you choose)
• X Fertilizer (quantity based off the recipe)
• X Bucket of farming water (quantity based off the recipe)

 Stand on top of the field you wish to plant on and press “T” to bring up the crafting interface. Select the recipe you would like that ends in “field” and click “Make”.
After the planting action is complete, click on the crop it has created to harvest. Your harvest will result in different bushels of what you have planted.

Different types of bushels:
Fair – Used for craft a final product.
Poor – Produces seeds to plant further crops.
Special Crops – Unique byproducts of your harvest.

Fair Bushels can be made into vegetables used for cooks or tobacco pouches for pipe-wide. At a workbench, select your crafting interface and choose the option for that recipe that is only the item name. It will vary on the recipe of how many finished products you receive for each bushel.

Poor Bushels are turned into seeds for your next harvest. Crops grown with vendor bought seeds produce 1 seed per poor bushel while crossbreed and looted seeds produce 3 seeds per poor bushel.

Leveling Up :
Farmers don't have any leveling quests so all of your experience will come from planting, harvesting, and refining your crop. The difficulty rating of the recipe will determine how much experience you will gain as is listed on the recipe itself. Below you will find a table detailing the required XP for proficiency and mastery of each tier.

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