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11 Farming Contractor is a hireable NPC worker in Windrose who automates farming at your base. Hire one from the Recruitment Vendor in Tortuga for 10 gold coins, place them at base, and they will work crops through a farming bench.
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33 How Hiring Works
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55 PropertyValueWhere FoundRecruitment Vendor in TortugaCost10 gold coins (not Piastres)PlacementAt your base farming bench
66 How Work Jobs Are Assigned
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88 PropertyValueInput per job50 seeds of one crop + 20 silver coinsDuration~8 hours of real timeOutputReturns all 50 seeds plus a substantial crop yieldOfflineWork continues while the player is offline
99 The 8-hour real-time duration means Farming Contractors are ideal for players who log in daily. Start a job at the end of a play session, log off, return the next day, and collect the harvest plus the seeds back. The "returns all 50 seeds" behavior is what makes the contractor a genuine automation path rather than a currency sink.
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1111 Strategic Value
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1313 Farming Contractors are particularly useful for players who want to scale up cooking and alchemy production without personally tending crops. Combined with Rosalinda Mercer's alchemy bonus and Black Axel's cooking bonus, a Tortuga-heavy base setup can produce a large surplus of buff foods and healing potions with minimal daily hands-on work.
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1515 See Also
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1717 Recruitment Vendor, where to hireFarming and Fishing, broader farming mechanicsNPC Crew, broader crew systemTortuga, recruitment hub
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1919 Best Crops to Assign
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2121 The Farming Contractor returns all 50 seeds alongside the harvest, so the optimal crop to assign is the one whose yield you can bottleneck. In practice that is a three-way split across alchemy feed, cooking feed, and economy crops.
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2323 PrioritySeedWhy Assign ItDownstream UseHighFlax SeedsFlax is the single bottleneck for the Linen Fabric to Broadcloth chain, and every mid-tier armor recipe wants Linen.Spinning Wheel production, Tanning Rack Tarred Fabric output, Press upgrades.HighHealing Herb SeedsHealing Herbs gate every Healing Potion, Elixir of Pain Relief, and several faction quest turn-ins.Alchemy Table stock for Rosalinda's double-bottle runs.MediumCayenne Pepper SeedsPepper is the primary buff-food staple and resists spoilage better than raw meat.Cooking Fire buff recipes for boss runs.MediumCorn SeedsCornmeal feeds several faction-delivery cargo crates and repeatable town quests.Millstones, bread-tier recipes, repeatable quest cargo.LowAloe or Bromeliad SeedsNiche support ingredients. Only assign if an active contract calls for them.Situational alchemy ingredients only.
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2626 Because jobs run on real-time hours rather than in-game ticks, Farming Contractors are the only worker whose output genuinely accumulates while the player is offline. The standard loop is:
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2828 Stockpile 50 seeds of the target crop. Mixed-seed jobs are not supported; pick one crop per job slot.Leave 20 silver coins per job slot in an accessible chest at the base. The contractor pulls directly from nearby storage when available.Start the job during the final play session of the evening so the 8-hour real-time timer resolves before the next login.On return, the contractor hands back all 50 seeds plus the full harvest. Reassign the same crop to keep the loop running, or rotate to a new crop if the alchemy and cooking bins are full.
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3030 Combined with Alchemy and Cooking Crew
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3232 Farming Contractor pairs best with Rosalinda Mercer at the Alchemy Table and Black Axel at the Cooking Fire. Between the three, a single login per day produces enough Healing Potions, Pepper-Buff Meals, and Linen Fabric to sustain a boss-prep rotation without any on-site farming.
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3434 How to Start a Contractor Job
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3636 Hire the Farming Contractor from the Recruitment Vendor in Tortuga for 10 gold coins.Place or access the base farming bench.Choose one crop type and provide 50 seeds plus 20 silver coins.Start the job and return roughly 8 hours later to collect the output and the returned seeds.
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3838 Manual Farming and Contractor Farming
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4040 The contractor does not replace Seedbeds; it automates a separate bulk crop job at the bench.Manual plots are still useful when the player wants immediate small-batch harvesting or is still building up the first 50-seed stock.The contractor is strongest once a crop is already self-sustaining and the player wants passive overnight production.