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While combat is far from the central focus inAloft, you’ll still butt heads with some gnarly corrupted creatures from time to time as you cure the corruption on plenty of sky islands. You’ve got access to bandages early on, but eating is one of the best ways to earn some extra HP.
And while you’ll find plenty of crops around islands in Aloft, you’re able to also opt into growing your own garden on your home island to save some time and have a steady source of them!Simply craft a Farming Plot, place it, plant a seed, and harvest.
As fleshed out as is it, Aloft is currentlyout in early access, so if anything changes as the game continues to develop, we’ll update our guides as needed. Happy exploring!
How To Grow Crops On Your Home Island
Step One: Collect Seeds And Crops As You Explore
As you explore the skies in Aloft, you’ll stumble upon plenty of foraging goods whilechecking out different islandsand unlocking new sectors of the map table by venturing past what appears to be the borders between sections of the sky, with plenty of new cropsgrowing in each subsequent biomeyou unlock as you progress. In addition to more standard resources, this will include a wealth ofcrops and crop seeds, so be sure tointeract with plantsto grab them before you go.
How you actually go about obtaining these crops is different depending on which crop it is.Bush plants are pickedfrom the plant themselves, like blueberry bushes or tomato plants.Ground crops are pluckedstraight from the earth, which is how you’ll find things like coffee beans and sugar beets. Additionally, you canuse the scythe to cut down taller crops, things like fully-grown wheat. Finally, things likemushrooms are pulled from the base of treeswhen you see them growing.
Be careful not to take too many Reishi Mushrooms from an island, though, since they’re one of the decomposers that contribute to an island’s ecological balance. Be sure to consult your Field Guide to see that you’re not taking too many mushrooms and off-setting the ecological harmony!
Step Two: Obtain Soil From Animal Manure
Have you seenthose cute animalsall around the sky islands in Aloft? Whether or not you’ve taken any back home with you after curing the ones you’vefound to be sick, you’ll likely have noticed that livestock in this game can be realistically messy, leaving piles ofmanure on any island with animals.
Try not to think about how exactly you’re grabbing them, but you cancollect piles of manureby interacting with them on the ground. It’s a bit gross, but keep a good stack of it someplace on your home island, since you’ll need it to begin farming, asmanure is one of the best sources of soilfor growing crops.
To transform the manure into usable soil, you’ll need to firstbuild and place a Compost Binsomeplace on your home island for repeated use. You’ll find this recipe from a Knowledge Stone as you explore the skies, so it’s likely that farming may not be one of the first things you do in Aloft.
With the Compost Bin placed, put your pile of manure into the Bin andpress the button when the arrow on the meter is in the white bar to generate soilat an exchange rate of one manure for one soil. You can also wait for the meter just below the manure itself at the bottom of the screen fills up, but interacting with the machine makes the soil production that much faster.
Better clothing tends to improve your focus in this metered minigame.
Step Three: Place Farm Plots And Plant Seeds
With seeds and soil in hand, you’re finally ready to get down to farming in Aloft! To begin, you’ll need to firstfind the recipe for a Farm Plotas you explore the skies. The first one we found was the Rustic Farm Plot, but since each world spawns islands randomly and no two maps are completely the same, you may find a different style instead, especially if you’ve beenusing your sketchbook.
Once you’ve gathered the materials, simplycraft a Farm Plot from the Construction menu, which you’ll find in theHome Gardentab. With the plot placed, you’ll need totill the soil with a Dorkipbefore you can plant anything.
A tilled plot is ready for planting!With seeds in your inventory, you’ll need to simplyinteract with the farm plotto plant your crops. You’ll be able to chooseone seed per plot, but the number of plants that grow from one seed varies by which crop it is, which we’ll detail a bit more below. If it regenerates elsewhere on other islands, it’ll regenerate on your island, too, but crops you pick once are also one-off crops in your garden in kind.
One of the most critical things to remember is thatplanted seeds need to be wateredor they won’t grow. They don’t seem to die off, but their growth stagnates. you’re able to tell whenplants need to be watered if the soil in the Farming Plot is dry and cracked. Plants are watered when you go through a rainstorm, or you can water them manually with a bucket when you have Dirty Water in your inventory as well.
All Crops In Aloft
In the table below, we’ve kept track of all sorts of information on every crop in Aloft, including how to harvest them, how many grow in a garden plot from one seed, growth time, and potential recipes you’ll use said crops to make. We’ve also included Reishi Mushrooms in this list of crops in Aloft, but you’ll plant these on trees instead of in Farming Plots as with other crops. The crops currently all seem to have the same stat when eaten raw - eight additional health points that last for three minutes in real time.
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- As Aloft is currently in early access, this table on farming in the game will likely expand as the game continues to develop. Keep an eye out for new crops coming in later updates!
