Soiled Plans

"Simple farmland is all well and good for basic plants, but if you want to grow anything particularly worthwhile investing some time into producing a better alternative could prove worthwhile."

One method to create more fertile soil is by composting organic material. To do this you'll need somewhere to put the organics to let them decompose into compost. Hovering over the slots in the compost bin GUI will indicate what can be composted. As a general rule, you can compost any type of seed and any plant product that's not essence. Sticks and Pumpkin Seeds are a good source of compost, because they're easy to mass produce.

Once you've gotten yourself some compost from the compost bin, simply mix it with dirt to create Garden Soil, a much more fertile alternative to dirt which you can also till into a soil ideal for farming. Garden Soil doesn't require any water nearby to grow crops at full speed, and is perfect for dense farming. Additionally, certain types of plants can only be grown on Garden Soil, like essence plants. The goal of this quest is to craft one Compost Bin and one Garden Soil. However, it might be a good idea to craft more than one compost bin, as many as eight, because they produce Garden Soil very slowly and you will need a lot of it in order to keep up with your essence farms, even if you're diligent about maxing out your seed stats. A compost bin can be crafted with three wood slabs of any type and six sticks of any type, and Garden Soil is crafted with Compost and Dirt.

This quest is a component in unlocking the following quests:


 * Specialty Soil
 * Green Thumb
 * Dandelion Seeds (The Life of the World)
 * Poppy Seeds (The Life of the World)

This quest has the following prerequisites:


 * Spreading the Love