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Farming Contractor
April 20, 2026 at 07:08 PM
Removed em dashes from Farming Contractor
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.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Source | |
Cost | 10 gold coins (not Piastres) |
Placement | At your base farming bench |
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Input per job | 50 seeds of one crop + 20 silver coins |
Duration | ~8 hours of real time |
Output | Returns all 50 seeds plus a substantial crop yield |
Offline | Work continues while the player is offline |
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.
Farming Contractors are particularly useful for players who want to scale up cooking and alchemy production without personally tending crops. Combined with Rosalinda Merca'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.
Recruitment Vendor, where to hire
Farming and Fishing, broader farming mechanics
NPC Crew, broader crew system
Tortuga, recruitment hub
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.
Priority | Seed | Why Assign It | Downstream Use |
|---|---|---|---|
High | Flax Seeds | Flax 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. |
High | Healing Herb Seeds | Healing Herbs gate every Healing Potion, Elixir of Pain Relief, and several faction quest turn-ins. | Alchemy Table stock for Rosalinda's double-bottle runs. |
Medium | Cayenne Pepper Seeds | Pepper is the primary buff-food staple and resists spoilage better than raw meat. | Cooking Fire buff recipes for boss runs. |
Medium | Corn Seeds | Cornmeal feeds several faction-delivery cargo crates and repeatable town quests. | Millstones, bread-tier recipes, repeatable quest cargo. |
Low | Aloe or Bromeliad Seeds | Niche support ingredients. Only assign if an active contract calls for them. | Situational alchemy ingredients only. |
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
