Wormwood Farming Guide

[Viktor234]

I enjoy playing as Wormwood and creating my own Farm and I'd like to share you some of my experience about farming with him.

Make sure to have a Birdcage to gather more seeds & a Lightning Rod in your Farm to prevent it from burning down.

 

• How long does it take for a plant to grow?

According to the Wiki "Seeds planted this way take four days to grow to reach full growth, and yield the same items as a regular farm would".
It's not recommended to fertilize them with manure cause you would need a total of 6 manure to make a single plant grow instantly and 6 manure is worth 12 health.

Four days, that's a total of 64 Day Segments, 32 Minutes or 1920 Seconds and Wormwoods belly lasts for only 2-1 days depending on season.
But there's an easier way to make Crops grow faster: By using a Sprinkler you can make your Crops grow 12 times as fast,
reducing the time to 5.333 Day Segments, 2.667 Minutes or 160 Seconds, but Sprinklers requires to be built close to water so you'll need to build your Improved Wormwood Farm close to a Lily Pond.

The Sprinkler lasts for up to 15 Day Segments and has a range of about 2 Pitchfork Counts, allowing you to water up to 44 Plants at once:

(Green = Crops; Red = Sprinkler; Blue = Pipe)

• Which Crops are the best to grow?

For that question I just made myself a sheet:
(Note that Food won't affect Wormwood's health so I marked the health value red)

(Food Value: F - Fruit, V - Vegetable, M - Monster Food; Drop Rate: Chance to get it from Seeds (Birdcage for Seeds & Crop Seeds))

Different Crops also grant different unique recipes:

Avoid Asparagus Soup (Bad stats compared to other dishes) or Fruit Medley (Not as good as other dishes & spoils fast).

 

 

My Crop Results:

Rank S:

• Pumpkin: Restores 25% (1/2 days) of your Hunger even without Crock Pot and lasts for a total of 10 days
• Corn: Most common crop (Shared with Carrots and Sweet Potatoes) and restores 16,67% (1/3 days) of your Hunger, lasts for a total of 10 days if uncooked or 15 days if cooked

Rank A:

• Eggplant: Not as common & durable as Corn but restores the same amount of Hunger and can be used for Stuffed Eggplant
• Carrot, Sweet Potato: Most common crop which allows to get quickly a stack full of Carrot or Potato Seeds which take a total of 40 days to spoil and restore about 10 Hunger OR 10 Sanity + grant another plant for later.
• Radish: Same durability as Corn, same stats as Carrot or Sweet Potato, drop rate unknown but can be used for Spicy Vegetable Stinger which is useful as an emergency sanity food

Rank B:

• Dragon Fruit: Lategame Crop - Really uncommon, grants almost no stats and spoils pretty fast but can be used for Dragonpie which restores 50% (1/2 days) of your hunger (useful to tame Beefalos in RoG as it also grants a lot of health)

Rank C:

• Durian: Almost same stats as Eggplant but drains sanity, only half as common & can't be used for Meatballs if Monster Meat is used (making Monster Lasagna with 2x Durian + 2x Non-Stick-Fillers is a way to feed your Flytraps without gathering Meat)
• Aloe, Pomegranate, Watermelon: Stats aren't that good but they're still useful as Crock Pot Fillers

Rank F:

• Asparagus: Pretty bad stats, spoils fast & ruins most of your recipes by turning them into Asparagus Soup which only restores 12.5% (1/4 days) of your Hunger

(That's my actual ranking, it can still change depending on your comments.)

 

Please share your Suggestions about my guide.

[S19TealPenguin]

I prefer to talk about food in terms of time. So instead of saying a pumpkin restores 25% hunger, I would say pumpkin restore half a day's worth of food, 8 segments, or 4 minutes.

[Hx380]

Asparagus is the true antagonist of Hamlet. 

[Viktor234]

59 minutes ago, S19TealPenguin said:

I prefer to talk about food in terms of time. So instead of saying a pumpkin restores 25% hunger, I would say pumpkin restore half a day's worth of food, 8 segments, or 4 minutes.

You'll need 4 pumpkins a day during Lush Season so pumpkins restore 2-4 minutes, 120-240 seconds or 1/4-1/2 days of Hunger.

[S19TealPenguin]

Just now, Viktor234 said:

You'll need 4 pumpkins a day during Lush Season so pumpkins restores 2-4 minutes, 120-240 seconds or 1/4-1/2 days of Hunger.

You're right, I forgot about blooming stage.