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Corn Sapling is a Seedbed Farming plant in Windrose. Once mature it can be harvested for Corn and Corn Seeds, returning a seed each harvest so the plant reseeds itself.

Properties

Planting

Corn requires a Seedbed stocked with Foothills-tier Fertile Soil, which is a step above the basic Coastal Jungle soil. A Seedbed section is built from 5 Fertile Soil and accepts up to four corn saplings, one per corner.

Corn Sapling is obtained by harvesting wild corn plants in the Foothills. There is no vendor that sells Corn Seeds, so the first stack has to be foraged.

Growth and Harvest

Plants in Windrose take roughly 70 minutes of real time to grow to full size, with growth continuing while the player is offline. Press E on a mature plant to harvest the Corn plus a fresh seed, so a planted row never runs the seed stock down.

Bulk Farming

As with other crops, a hired farming worker can tend a corn plot in the background for a seed batch and a small Piastre fee, returning a large yield after several hours even while offline. This suits corn well because it feeds so many recipes.

Notes

Corn is a versatile mid-tier Cooking ingredient used in stews, breads, and travel rations. The crop also feeds several drink and distillation recipes at Alchemy stations, and it is a build material for kitchen Food Displays such as Corn Soup.

Tips

• Set up Foothills Fertile Soil before planting. Corn will not take in the weaker starter soil, so stockpile the Foothills tier first.

• Always harvest the seed back. Breaking a plant with a tool can waste the returned Corn Seeds; press E on the ripe plant instead.

• Plant a few extra corners. Corn is consumed by both cooking and distillation, so demand outpaces a single seedbed quickly.