How to play Farm
Farm is a cosy farm game where crops grow in real time, from 30 seconds to 8 hours, even while the game is closed.
The goal
Plant seeds in your beds, harvest them when they are ripe, and sell what you grow or deliver it to the orders on the board. Every harvest brings experience: new levels open new crops, more beds, animals, buildings, an orchard, beehives and a greenhouse.
Your place on the online Top 50 is all the coins your farm has earned. It only grows, and it is counted on the farm server, so nobody can change it on their phone.
Controls
| Action | Phone | Computer |
|---|---|---|
| Plant, harvest, feed, collect | Tap a bed, an animal, a tree or a building | Click it |
| Zoom in and out | Pinch with two fingers | Mouse wheel, or + and - |
| Look around | Drag the farm | Drag with the mouse |
| Orders, barn, tasks, shop | The buttons on screen | The buttons on screen |
| Menu, Top 50, sound | The buttons on screen | Esc, T, M |
On a phone the farm is played sideways, like a little world in your hands.
What you will meet
- 23 crops, from wheat (30 seconds), radishes and carrots to pumpkins, chili and strawberries (8 hours), in up to 16 beds.
- Chickens lay eggs for wheat, cows give milk for corn, sheep grow wool for lettuce and goats give goat milk for carrots.
- The windmill grinds wheat into flour. The bakery, the dairy and the jam kitchen make bread, pizza, cheese, ice cream, jams, juice and more, and the loom and the juice press make scarves, sweaters and fruit juices: 38 products in all. Upgrade a building to level 5 to make things faster, and watch it get prettier with every level.
- An orchard with apple, pear, cherry, peach, orange, apricot and pomegranate trees, a vineyard with grape vines, and beehives that make honey by themselves.
- A greenhouse where crops grow 40% faster.
- Fishing at the pond: tap the water, wait for the float to go under, then tap quickly. Perch, carp, trout, and a rare golden fish.
- Orders on the board pay more than the barn. An order you do not want can be swapped, and a new one comes 10 minutes later. From level 5 a truck comes every day with one big order.
More to discover
- A daily gift that grows for 7 days in a row, and 3 tasks every day.
- Decorations: flowers, a bench, lamps, a scarecrow, a well and a fountain, placed where you like.
- Day and night follow your own clock: lit windows, lamps and fireflies at night. Wind moves the trees, and a short rain now and then ends with a rainbow.
- Visit your friends' farms: share a link to yours from the menu, or tap a player on the Top 50.
- Land around your farm: drag the screen or pinch out to see it, buy it in Shop → Land and clear it. The woods give wood, the quarry gives stone, and the workshop turns them into planks and bricks. The coast has a harbor where a ship takes big orders, and the south field has 8 more beds.
- The village and its café: buy the village (Shop → Land) for a café and three new workshops: a candy shop, a tailor and a coffee roaster. Guests sit at the café's tables and ask for what you make; serve them for twice the price and a tip.
- The mine: coal and iron ore, and a smithy that makes iron bars and tools you keep for ever: a hoe, shears, a pickaxe and an iron stove make your crops, animals and buildings faster.
- Pigs and geese: pigs dig up truffles and geese give feathers for pillows and quilts.
- Golden crops: any harvest can be golden. Collect 3 golden of a crop in the golden book and it grows 15% faster.
- Helpers: a dog that takes the animals' goods to the barn and feeds them again, and a farmhand who harvests and replants your beds for 4 hours.
- Help other farmers: pick any farm on the Top 50 and tap Water crops. Their crops grow faster and you get coins (up to 5 farms a day).
- Notifications when something is ready (turn them on in the menu; quiet at night if you like).
- The online Top 50 by coins earned.
Tips
- At the start, plant wheat and carrots again and again: they are quick and bring levels fast.
- Before you go to sleep or to school, plant something long, like pumpkins or strawberries: it grows while you are away.
- Orders pay half as much again as the barn, so keep a few of each crop for them.
- Keep wheat for flour and for your chickens: the windmill and the bakery need a lot of it.
- Upgrade the building you use the most first: every level makes its jobs faster.
- Come every day for the gift: the 7th day in a row gives the most.
About the game
Farm is a calm game to come back to a few times a day. You start with four beds and a handful of coins, and every harvest helps your farm grow: more beds, chickens and cows, a windmill that turns faster while it grinds, a bakery with smoke from its chimney, an orchard, beehives and a greenhouse.
Everything grows in real time. A crop planted now keeps growing when you close the game, and the time is checked on the farm server, so moving the phone's clock does not make anything faster. Your farm is saved on the server too, so coins and levels stay safe.
The farm feels alive: the wind moves the trees and the crops, ducks swim on the pond, bees fly round their hives, and evenings bring lamps and fireflies.
Questions and answers
Do my crops grow when the game is closed?
Yes. Growing times are real: a crop of 8 hours is ripe 8 hours after you planted it, whether the game is open or not. Come back and harvest it.
Can I make things grow faster by changing the phone's clock?
No. The game takes the time from the farm server, not from your phone. The greenhouse is the way to grow faster.
Will I lose my farm?
Your farm is kept on the farm server, tied to this browser. Without internet you can keep playing; what you do is saved when you are back online.
Can I see my friends' farms?
Yes. In the menu, Share my farm sends a link to your farm. Whoever opens it sees your farm as it is now, but cannot change anything. Players on the Top 50 can be visited with one tap.
Recent updates
Version 1.4.0
- The village (Shop → Land, level 12): a café and three new workshops: a candy shop, a tailor and a coffee roaster.
- The café: guests sit at its tables and ask for what you make. Serve them for twice the price and a tip.
- The mine (level 13): coal and iron ore, and a smithy that makes iron and tools kept for ever.
- Tools: a steel hoe, shears and pail, a pickaxe and an iron stove make crops, animals and buildings faster.
- Pigs dig up truffles, and geese give feathers for pillows and quilts.
- New crops: rice, sugarcane, cotton, coffee, tea and cocoa.
Version 1.3.0
- Land around your farm: drag the screen or pinch out to see it, buy it in Shop → Land, and clear it.
- The woods give wood and the quarry gives stone; the workshop makes planks, bricks and crates.
- A harbor on the coast: load the ship with a big order, and it comes back with coins and a bonus.
- The south field: 8 more beds.
- Golden crops: any harvest can be golden. Collect 3 of a crop in the golden book and it grows 15% faster.
- A dog takes eggs, milk, wool and honey to the barn and feeds the animals again.
- Hire a farmhand: for 4 hours he harvests ripe beds and plants them again.
Version 1.2.1
- Sheep and goats can be fed: tap them.
- The juice press can be tapped, and the vineyard and the meadow have more room.