RUST 101: FARMING 2.0 - Farm Setups & Meta

In this episode of RUST 101 we're taking a look at the farming system. Particularly how to set up an efficient farm, how to deal with the current issue regarding water supply and how to effective improve your crops genes.
Hopefully this helps get people going with the RUST farming 2.0 update.
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[@MrUnisteez]

I just did way too much testing and now I think I understand how it works. Something I was confused about were the rates regarding water catchers (WC). There is the rate it collects water which is quite slow at a rate of 3 ml/minute (0.05 ml/s) and then there is the maximum discharge rate or the flow rate out which is 6 ml/s. Multiple WCs can be connected in series/daisy chained to increase the water collection rate. The total rate water is collected is the sum of the rates of each water catcher; however, this has no impact on the maximum cap of 6 ml/s output. Based on these rates, in order to have a continuous 6 ml/s water supply you would require 120 WCs. Okay, that is obviously ridiculous but those are the numbers. I'm not saying you need to have CONTINUOUS 6 ml/s supply to run a farm. Now that we understand collecting water, let's look at the transfer of water between the water source to the planters. The range a single sprinkler can water is 3x3 large planters. A sprinkler split's it's water output between all the planters within it's range. For example, if you pass 100 ml through a sprinkler to a single planter the planter will contain 150 ml of water. If you have 3 planters under the sprinkler, each one will receive 50 ml for a total of 150 ml. Yes, I know I said 100 ml input to a sprinkler and the result was 150 ml total in both cases which brings me to the next point. After the first 5 seconds and then every 10 seconds after that of continuous sprinkler watering, the planter water level is increased. Let's call this 5 or 10 second interval a watering tick. The first watering tick is at 5 seconds of continuous watering and then at 15s, 25s, 35s etc. If the sprinkler runs for less than 5 seconds (runs out of supply), no water is transferred to the planter and it is wasted (evaporates?). To rephrase, every 10th second the sprinkler is on, 30 ml of water is distributed to each planter in range. You would expect it to be 20 ml / 10 s but for whatever reason it is 30 ml. For this reason, it is better to use one sprinkler instead of multiple if you are have a slower collection rate in order to hit that 5 second threshold or make sure keep the sprinkler off until enough water is stored up. Let's look at water rates required by the plants. Assume each plant requires 5 ml/min, 9 plants/planter, 4 planters/block. Then the plant water intake is 36 plants * 5 ml/min/plant = 3 ml/s. Remember do multiply by the magic 1.5 conversion factor from source water to planter water resulting in 2 ml/s water source which happens to be one sprinkler continuously operating! If the rate of water into planter == rate water consumed then the saturation will be balanced in equilibrium and remain at 0% so need an initial dump of water to saturate the planter. (This is an assumption). Putting it all together we know we need 1 sprinkler operating at 2 ml/s/block. We also know that a small WC produces 0.05 ml/s. So the number of small WCs for continuous operation = (2 ml/s) / 0.05 ml/s/WC = 40 small water catchers. Well shit that's unrealistic. And actually I just realized when watering 4 planters, each watering tick the 30 ml is divided by the 4 planters which is 7.5 ml/planter/tick but they round down to 7 ml so it's only 28 ml instead of 30 you would get with one planter. This means it's 93% efficient due to this rounding and results in a new total of 43 small water catchers required for continuous watering of 1 sprinkler or 1 block. Okay so what is the solution then because you probably don't want 43 water catchers. Get as many as you can and string them together and run it to a water barrel (optional) while you're offline or doing other stuff let the water collect and then turn it on and you're good to go. It really is unrealistic to leave the water running 100% of the time. I think having 5 or 10 small water catchers would be reasonable depending on how long you spend farming and how large your farm is. Let me know if this makes sense or if I made a mistake. I did test it and ~43 water catches was the equilibrium point. I don't know why I spent like the last 5 hours researching and writing this lol. Love your videos. You make the best of electrical/farming videos. TLDR: String a bunch of small water catchers together and let them collect a reserve before turning on sprinklers. Use one sprinkler per 4 large planters as Malonic said. Fun fact: You can put key and code locks on planters but can't lock them.

[@Malonik]

Wow.... Just wow.... You straight up did some me level research on this lol. Thank you so much for spending the time and effort to research and write this as it's obviously extremely helpful! You're exactly the kind of person I'd love to have involved in my discord and in my brainstorming sessions for videos. If you'd be interesting in getting involved the discord link is in the description, jump on and say hi sometime. :)

[@worlwr2]

Get ready for the Great Wall of Text. Scroll all the way down if you'd like to see the section describing incoming Farming 2.0 and Fluid IO additions / changes and plans. > _Let's call this 5 or 10 second interval a watering tick_ *The devs call every 10 seconds a 'splash' in reference to Sprinklers. Yes, it's 30ml/splash currently* but it used to be 20 and 10ml/splash. There's no 5 second 'tick'. Only 10 seconds. i.imgur.com/0d2FVAV.png Initially sprinklers on the private _rust-reboot/main/sprinkler_ branch were set with 10ml of locally stored water on the entity itself and they also used to decay 5 HP per splash (as indicated from source above and below). Adam / Jarryd changed it to 10ml/splash when they initially _merged from sprinkler and farming2 to main branch_ (staging), then doubled to 20ml/splash, then increased it again to 30ml/splash and removed the decay feature based on staging branch testing (which I was a part of) and this is probably why the deployable sources are still draining based on the older 20ml/splash rate (i.e. never readjusted the source drain rate based on the new Sprinkler output rate). Or it could be left that way intentionally as a way to help minimize the need for a shitload of water / help players conserve water. commits.facepunch.com/354696 commits.facepunch.com/361237 commits.facepunch.com/361632 > _Remember do multiply by the magic 1.5 conversion factor from source water to planter water_ Correct. The 1.5 source to sprinkler output ratio is right due to the aforementioned that I explained. *So currently a single Sprinkler will output 180ml/min, but only deplete 120ml/min from its source. Every splash the Sprinkler outputs 30ml, its source drains 20ml. 50% EXTRA / FREE WATER.* Btw, the deployable water sources apparently tick every 2 seconds based on in-game observation and commits from the devs. commits.facepunch.com/361623 ----------------------------------- _Some notes:_ - *Sprinklers and Ceiling Lights (as of the Easter event patch) have a range of 2 walls high over growables in planters* (Sprinklers and Ceiling Lights were previously capped at a single wall height Area of Effect). i.imgur.com/cOz3ICG.png Here's the bug report I posted last Thursday that prompted the above change, listed as Bug 1 in my report. Bug 2 (the Sun + Ceiling Light during sunrise / sunset bug) still exists in-game today. Currently Alistair and Adam are looking into it if they can find a performance efficient way to rectify it. www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/ftu3fw/farming_20_update_bug_reporting_megathread/fmaflh1/ - *Over-watering is a mechanic not many know about (in addition to under-watering) and like many details in new content for Rust, it isn't mentioned in the Devblog.* Your growables will take a water saturation penalty (as if under-watered) if you max out your planters water saturation level. *The optimum water level is set to about 80% of max (6000 - 8000) but these specific parameters are set to change based on the commits shown below in the incoming updates section.* i.imgur.com/ycSLC9Q.png With this in mind, the Sprinklers are indeed NOT meant for fully saturating your planters like most of the lazy people think; it is meant for topping off / maintaining the optimum water level for your growables as they consume water from the planter. You DO need to continue manually dumping 4000ml (from a Water Jug) twice per Large Planter if starting from 0. The incoming additions / changes to the Farming 2.0 and Fluid I/O system will mitigate some of this to a degree however. www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/ftu3fw/farming_20_update_bug_reporting_megathread/fmegcmu/ ----------------------------------- _The following is incoming as early as May's update:_ - *Sea / Lake / River Water Pump, Water Desalinator, and Fluid Combiner:* commits.facepunch.com/361957 commits.facepunch.com/362059 commits.facepunch.com/362063 - *Fluid Switch/Pump will output audio when on:* commits.facepunch.com/362221 _Farming 2.0 Buffs incoming:_ - *Lowered optimal water saturation amount for planter boxes* commits.facepunch.com/362006 - *Increased growth and yield gene effectiveness* commits.facepunch.com/362307 - *Increased minimum temp* commits.facepunch.com/362308 ----------------------------------- _The following is planned or being considered:_ - *Fertilizer bombs* www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/ftr43v/farming_20_update_devblog/fm8oadx/ - *Sprinklers causing WET STATUS to players within it's Area of Effect* www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/ftr43v/farming_20_update_devblog/fm8sq3i/ - *Planter Water state sensor to aid in automation* commits.facepunch.com/358116 commits.facepunch.com/358295 - *Possibility of switching existing and new fuels (Crude Oil, LGF, Diesel) over to Fluid I/O resource entities like Water is; requiring a container to carry / transport it; Modular Vehicles may spearhead the change and utilize it first* commits.facepunch.com/334714 commits.facepunch.com/361694 commits.facepunch.com/361772

[@bryanmaxwell7317]

Thank you bro

[@Malonik]

@@worlwr2 Omg thank you for the giant wall of text!! That is all so damn helpful!!

[@KTwist]

How do you connect water catchers

[@mephInc]

My idea of Rust farming has always been "find stream. grab everything. eat everything. repeat"

[@DrHeinzDoofenshmirtz]

The problem is, that even though I can easily make a base that is totally not worth it to raid, someone will do it anyway.

[@Malonik]

Oh absolutely, it's an inevitable part of rust and honestly I don't think any of us would love rust anywhere near as much if there wasn't that tension of losing all your shit suddenly and at any second lol.

[@ddd-cb5tc]

@@Malonik i would

[@Malonik]

@@ddd-cb5tc Really though? Like it would take all of the tension out of fights.

[@MrPablosek]

@@ddd-cb5tc PVE servers exist

[@fredfred3555]

There is a PVP NO RAID server. perfect for these kind of thigs. You can kill and steal, but you can not raid. Google "Ziggy Rust"

[@runecreationz]

Amazing guide! I think the genetics could use some more explanation. I understand the basics of genetics but the crossbreeding and selection of genetics seems a bit more complicated than the average farming person. Would love to see more, amazing work!

[@Malonik]

Thanks! :) Yeah so this is part two of my farming guide, part one was explaining how everything works this part is how to do it efficiently with basic crossbreeding. Next will be the automatic watering and then I'll do an advanced genetics guide which will be long and boring but those that are really keen on getting the genetics exactly how they want it will love it! :)

[@nathanboyer80]

I laugh, thinking about the few people stumbling on the last couple vids. They are thinking oh this looks like a nice peaceful survival game...little do they know REEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Malonik]

Roflmao yeah some of my guides definitely make rust seem a lot more peaceful than it is lol. So much reeeeing.... So much salt.....

[@xhappybunnyx]

I actually bought rust after these farming videos! Been keeping to a no-KOS server but it is a really fun aspect of the game that way. No matter what I set out to do in a wipe I almost always end up making a tea farm

[@TheKojiOyama]

thankyou so much for this information. I now have many ideas for farming efficiently.

[@GrandpaRust]

You earned my subscription here. I actually was going to open up my own KZbin channel for in-depth tutorials but I've caught a few of you guys doing real good so I figure fuck it. I don't want to take away from my other KZbin channels got 10K subscribers and where all my money comes from LOL. So what I'm going to offer you it's an opportunity to continue doing great work and I'll continue liking and keep subscriptions up as long as you're doing great rust tutorials. Thank you.

[@Malonik]

Thank you for the kind words and the sub! I promise to keep doing the best I can! :)

[@GrandpaRust]

@@Malonik dude, your killing it. Don't worry about me. I'm round for while. Thanks again.

[@soldervanckkk]

I think it is better to plant 4 wild seeds in the corners of each planter in the beginning in order to have a greater variety of plants to chose good genetics from. But the crossbreeding part itself is still very hard. I prefer to plant as much wild seeds as possible and be lucky in finding a good seed and use that one for the wipe. I'm happy if I have a pumpkin seed that uses 5ml per minute and gives 4 pumpkins as yield.

[@Malonik]

Yeah it's definitely better to plant more if you can and doing it in the corners obviously means it won't crossbreed them.

[@ezenelex]

You can live next to any swamp, including the abandoned cabins and bandit camp, instead of a river to get fresh water. Also you can buy the large water jugs for stupidly cheap at bandit camp, 5 scrap per.

[@Malonik]

I actually included the swamp thing as a sneaky tip near the end of one of the farming vids lol. Didn't know about the water jugs though that's awesome! :)

[@grim3r33fer]

Bro hands down best guide ever and probably forever man good shit!

[@phalanx3803]

if you want a simple lazy farm for you self 1 large planter a light a sprinkler 4 water collectors chained together a tap/pump and pumpkins. when watering look at the planter keep it around 5500ml to 6500ml of water to much water will slow the plants down best get it around the 6500 mark then come back around an hour later and give them more water. if you not worried about the genes pumpkins are the best as you always get seeds when you eat them no need to clone. if you want to be extra lazy chain 15 small water collectors together and leave the sprinkler all the time only thing you need to do is harvest and plant some seeds every 3 or so hours for pumpkins.

[@Malonik]

Nice. That's a good little setup to stay fed for sure. :)

[@eme3030]

This is exactly what i needed! Got electricity into my base for the first time ever and immediately built the watering system for my farm. Paying in low pop EU even though they dont seem to like my farmer rp too much -_-

[@Malonik]

Nice! Congratulations on getting your first circuit going. :) Funny that they don't like you for it. My group tend to do all kinds of random RP stuff like hotels, fireworks shops, farms, etc and people generally love it. It does help that regardless of what we do we have regular fireworks displays for the neighbourhood to enjoy lol. Our best one was literally hundreds of boomers. The whole area and for a few squares in any direction on the map it was as bright as day for literally the entire night cycle. That one got us raided because they realized how much gunpowder we had to have for that display lol.

[@diamondjoe4697]

This might be fun to get into on the vanilla solo server I’m on. Can’t believe you set this up on a server that wipes weekly. Thanks.

[@francoisduplessis3206]

Getting in to the farming at the moment. Great video, great content. Thanks!

[@Malonik]

No worries! Glad to hear you're enjoying the new patch. :)

[@willdotexe5653]

saw this on reddit and didn’t expect it to be quite this fucking excellent, keep up the good work dude that was not only informative and interesting but entertaining aswell, subbed!

[@Malonik]

Haha thanks! Yeah I catch quite a few people off guard with my videos lol.

[@jawalo2kthelast140]

Love you my friend :-), always a pleasure to share knowledge.

[@Malonik]

Right back at ya! Always a pleasure to learn something new. :)

[@amburger4963]

If you want a strong pressure in your lines and to run multiple water lines use the Water Tank for the car. I have 120+ water pressure for 3 levels of farms 12 planter boxes each level. Just make sure to have the water pumps have a higher output then your sprinklers are using.

[@enoxax]

It's always good to know. For now I don't see much use of it if you are solo/duo. If you are at water stream pick everything there and you are good for a while. But like I said you may never know what Facepunch team is bringing with each update. Maybe farms will be only way to get your food going in future. Who knows what future is bringing. So yeah. It's good to know :)) Good content. Very well made. Same like Willjum. I think that you two have bright future. Keep up with good work :))

[@Malonik]

Thanks for the kind words! As for what's coming apparently there's a second tier of cooking stuff coming so you'll be able to cook proper meals that will have bonuses over just eating individual items. Also the super useful thing right now is making cloth farms and trading it in for scrap at bandit camp. A guy on my discord went nuts with it and was raking in 5 or 6k scrap an hour from it lol.

[@enoxax]

@@Malonik They didn't wanna make things easier for us? Didn't they? xD But wow... That is really some next lvl thing. I can see new meta in rust early game... Fights over cloths New rust currency xD

[@Malonik]

@@enoxax It really does feel like that lol.

[@robloxfails]

Thank you for getting deep into the genetics piece in this video. It seems like a super depthy and interesting system that I'm excited to explore.

[@remz93370]

thx for your tips, very nice vid and well explained,

[@Malonik]

No worries! :)

[@shiftlessdrifter692]

I think what would be especially helpful is to watch you do this from start to finish. I understand the principles behind this, but if I wanted to make the perfect hemp clone -- one that produces an extremely high yield at a fast grow rate -- it's hard for me to figure that out exactly, considering there are so many genetic variations. And I'm confused about how much water to use and when. (Sometimes it seems like a large planter can have *too* much water, especially in the early stages of the plant life). Thanks for posting this video, it's definitely given me something to think about, but I'm struggling to put it into practice. (It also doesn't help that I have very limited time to play).

[@Malonik]

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely doesn't help that you have limited time in a game like rust lol. The only issue with showing the full process is that if you're wanting the exact right genes it can take a long ass time. Like a couple of hours per harvest and you'll need to do probably 5ish or so to get it right. That being said I do have an alternative that's actually pretty damn good especially if you're limited on time. So skip trying to get the genetics right. Instead just plant a ton of seeds straight into the ground. This one harvest will require more manual effort with watering and such but the seeds won't crossbreed because they aren't in a planter. So keep an eye out and find the one that lines up with what you're after. It may not be perfect, like 3 G's instead of 2 or whatever you're aiming for but it'll be a lot better than trying to perfect them in a planter and saves you about 10 hours lol. Clone that one and use it to populate your farm. Because their genes will always be identical you'll have those really good genes across your whole farm. As for the water the rough guide is to keep your water levels between 6k and 8k. That's the sweet spot so that you are giving them enough water to be happy but not so much that you're oversaturating them. My auto sprinkler circuit is particularly handy for this as you just have to play around with the timing to suit your plants needs and it does the rest.

[@sgtleska]

Awesome intel on the new farming system! Thank you Malonik! *salutes*

[@Malonik]

No worries Sarge! Stay tuned for more updates!! :)

[@Mekose]

Great video! Really looking forward to more videos and your in-depth genetics guide. Honestly I would love to watch a full series of you playing on a live server with a focus on farming. Gathering the materials, getting the seeds, building the base, light pvp/rp, and maybe even opening up a food shop. I ran a potato shop on Hapis for a wipe and the attention it brought was hilarious. I even had a competitor at a different spot on the map and got into a trade war. I don't quite understand the genetic set up at 5:45 though. First off you plant one potato in the center instead of the four corners, which would allow you to check 4 clones without risk of crossbreeds instead of 1. I also don't understand how intertwining the strains as you do in the video yields better clones; but I'll have to experiment with this myself. At first blush I'd imagine that red genes would just take over the entire plot. This would be an amazing method if this just works naturally!

[@Malonik]

Aww thanks! I did contemplate streaming the wipe we just finished because we basically did everything you said however it was Mals Farm which sold all of your farming and fresh produce needs lol. Last time I tried streaming though we got stream sniped hard and they messed with wipe day considerably. The crossbreeding here isn't the best method, it's just the most simple and easiest to implement. Really each cycle just weeds out more and more negative genes without focusing on trying to control your genes too much. I'll be diving real deep into genetics in my upcoming advanced genetics guide. I'm going to fully explain how to control the genes and manipulate them. That one is only for those that are extremely keen on farming lol.

[@Jakamakala]

I just go to bandit camp and buy literally 300 pickles for just 50 scrap. Fertilizer for super cheap. I also just plant randomly until I build up 50 seeds and then plant them, observe the genes, then hatchet out bad ones. Repeat until planter is full of 5+ good gene plants.

[@euancaskie2251]

Good idea about using a hatchet to remove bad genes I forgot you could do that! Also horse dung is a lot better? 1 nurse dung for 5 fert is amazing. A small 1x2 wodden horse stable can produce 2 dung per 20 mins! I've got a 10 horse stable with gives 150 fert an hour

[@Jakamakala]

@@euancaskie2251 horse dung is the best but it's not always available in a high pop. Before I log I just run to bandit at night with 35 scrap, buy 210 pickles, throw em in the composter and I'll have 42 fertilizer when I log in. If you have a big group we've also just burnt our own human meat when we F1 kill at base.

[@Malonik]

Omg I love all of this! That's a great way to fast track your farm for sure. The reason I went with doing it from scratch was because this is the foundation of the genetics system and I wanted to ease people into it before my advanced genetics guide. I also love the horse stable system. I can't help but imagine it as interconnected sets of them like a motel for horses... Reminds me of the wipe that my group made a horse hotel. Or the time we had 40 horses in our compound and someone rocketed them lol. But yeah both of your methods are excellent. Good job guys! :)

[@Jakamakala]

@@Malonik yeah I was just planting tons of seeds, harvesting pumpkins and saving seeds. Eventually I had over 80 in just 2 planters (I lived alone with a farm addon on the back). After a potato harvest I just planted 18 seeds, went over all of them, and salvage axed anything with fewer than 5 G/H/Y genes. One of my seeds had all 6 green so I planted it alone and started to clone it. I repeated this until my whole planter was 5 G/H/Y seeds.

[@Malonik]

Nice! I actually thought that we couldn't chop out crops anymore because I whacked the crap out of one for a solid 20 hits or so. Guessing I managed to pick one that was bugged or something lol.

[@phalanx3803]

if you want a simple lazy farm for you self 1 large planter a light a sprinkler 4 water collectors chained together a tap/pump and pumpkins. when watering look at the planter keep it around 5500ml to 6500ml of water to much water will slow the plants down best get it around the 6500 mark then come back around an hour later and give them more water. if you not worried about the genes pumpkins are the best as you always get seeds when you eat them no need to clone. id you want to be extra lazy chain 15 small water collectors together and leave the sprinkler all the time only thing you need to do is harvest and plant some seeds every 3 or so hours for pumpkins.

[@ComeRee]

Great content and explanations my dude. The kicker for me is, why go through all the effort when the server will wipe - along with your super seeds? What possible benefits could going through such effort for food yield, when monuments and trashpiles have food boxes, wild animals or tasty nakeds. With such options for food- why bother? I can imagine it adding a bit more survival elements, but it seems to be more maintenance and jobs to do to keep you on the platform, as opposed to enriching the gaming experience. I could be wrong, and they have said the amount of food in the wild will lower, but tbh - if this was the only means of getting food (or if that’s the goal), I think it would be too much of a pain in the arse and people would just med themselves or multi-bag / die / respawn with more health / pick up stuff. What’s your thoughts?

[@euancaskie2251]

At the moment there is little point. There is, as you said, so much food in the wild that you can be easily sustained from supermarket and rivers. However once they start to minimise the amount of available food out in the open this will become more useful Also this is pretty extreme you can easily get it done with a few water catchers and just one planter for a small setup. I guess this is mainly for base bitches rather than the PVP chads. One last thing that I'd quite like for you to keep hush hush but 10 corn sells for 10 scrap at bandit camp... Very few people notice / use this. Made a farm with 2 of these "farm blocks" 8 total with 9 slots meaning 72 corn each producing 5-6 corn I managed to get around 380 scrap per harvest. Each harvest is approximately 1 hour... Ran it for an entire day ended the day with around 3000 scrap and I barely even left my base only went to go to bandit. If you had a dedicated farm like I'm going to set up you can easily hit 1000 scrap / hour. You can't hit those numbers doing oil where the chance of loosing it all + more is a lot higher. More fun granted but this is imo the new meta when it comes to getting scrap. Let's just wait until zergs find out about this

[@Malonik]

To be honest I was expecting them to severely change the water and food consumption rates. However their long term plan for the new farming is to drop a second tier of recipes. So you'll be able to cook the normal stuff or eat the veges raw but there will be recipes to cook meals like stews. Eating those will be way better than normal food and possibly even have bonus effects. Once they add that I think farming will be essential. For now it's a different and fun way to have an endless supply of food. Plus if your group has a base bitch like me then it gives them something to play with lol.

[@ComeRee]

@@Malonik I totally agree with the sentiments in the comments above, and that for those who are already hanging around the base [or in need of something to do at night] - it fills the gap. The thing that gets me though: How intimidating is Rust becoming for new players? It sounds simplistic to set up... but I imagine that each of us has many hours in game - where - as I alluded too slightly in my first comment - it seems like its something to add retention of players. Personally, I'd of thought a chicken coup and an apple tree would've sufficed. Already have both chickens and apples in game, all you'd need is apple seeds to grow a tree and a bp for a chicken coup and the option to capture a chicken [maybe even a chicken trap]. Electricity is slowly being accepted, but I feel that many still dont bother or hire a base bitch [like us haha], where it's just as simplistic [if you have a diagram or if you're an electrician] - but I guess I'm just confused trying to understand the direction they want to take rust [as a game]. Is this a step towards greater realism [of survival]? How real is it when you're working the land and a zerg of chads swarm you with Ak-sets on day 1 of wipe? Like - theres quite a few problems preventing emersion with rust that are developer side which could do with that extra bit of work, so I just see the introduction of things like this... a bit frivilous. But as you say, its only as it is or now [food options], and I'm sure people will adjust to this - but I always struggle to think of how a new player can just pick up and play/enjoy the game.

[@Malonik]

@@ComeRee See I don't see it as intimidating for new players. Yes RUST has definitely evolved over the years into questionably almost an entirely different game from where we started in legacy. That being said playing rust is easy and not complicated. Being good at certain aspects of rust is complicated. So hopefully I think this won't deter or stop new players. Hell look at games like day z. Starting out there as a new player your first few days if figuring out how to not starve or die from infection lol. New players to rust start with a much smaller scope of the game where as those of us that have been playing forever think there's so much to learn because we know everything. Hell a new players big goals are usually things like how do I get a spear or how do I get stone lol. Plus they're designing the farming system in a way that gives you bonuses for using it more so than punishing you for not. You can stay happily fed from animals and food crates but once tier 2 recipes come in you'd be missing out on bonuses if you don't learn farming. Still totally playable without that knowledge. Also wtf since when was corn a major commodity for scrap trade!? Jesus now I'm gonna have to hide my corn farm lol.

[@rezenpm]

Fastest way for me to gather water is to just go to bandit camp and buy an inventory worth of water jugs, then go to a river or freshwater swamp, fill them all up, then dump them all into 3+ chained water barrels. For watering I set up an automatic sprinkler system according to www.rustrician.io/?circuit=ea3ed6fe4c91bcb0991fb775ef614741 I haven't figured out yet what the ideal watering time is. Anyhow, excellent video. Looking forward to see what the various yield rates are.

[@box1342]

## Most efficient Block is a 2x6. ## * You need 2 lamps, 2 sprinklers, 2 heaters, 6 big planter boxes. - Heaters radiat just one out and one to the each side so a 1x3. For the heaters place a lowwall in between the middleboxes place one on each side. - The sprinklers can be placed where ever you want, so they dont splash other boxes if you scale up the farm in to a 4x6 f.ex. How to set up the timer is in Malomiks vid here >> RUST 101: Farming 2.0 - Automatic Sprinklers [UPDATED FOR MAY PATCH] NOTE for river farms: If your farm is on the first floor you can connect the timer directly to waterpump to feed 4 sprinkler's equal 4x6 planters. NO LIQUIDSWITCH NEEDED ## Timing for 6 Large boxes and 2 sprinkler's ## [9 plants x WATERINTAKE ml/sec] / 48 Hemp = 9 x 5 ml/sec | Timing 46/28 Corn = 9 x 4 ml/sec | Timing 36/28 You can do the math for the rest of your plants. Happy Farming!

[@Leithenator]

You need more finite control over each large planter's saturation level. For instance pumpkins will only reach 100% saturation themselves if the planter saturation is between 6500/9000 and 8000/9000. You also need more seperation and control over the early crossbreeds from each seed. Try having cooperative genotypes in pairs with singular gene receptor seeds.

[@Malonik]

You lost me at the end there. Also my upcoming automated watering system should give the necessary control over the water side of things at least.

[@Leithenator]

@@Malonik You figgure out a way to monitor saturation and use that to stop sprinklers, you let me know,.... :P

[@Malonik]

@@Leithenator Oh god I wish!! I'd love some sort of saturation reader that I could work into it. Nah mine is more of a manual system in that regard whereby we test the absolute crap out of it and hopefully find a sweet spot of having them on / off so that it stays at a good saturation level automatically once you set it correctly.

[@Leithenator]

@@Malonik Also, on the topic of genetics, what you are looking for is something like YY/GG/HH . The gene sequence in rust is 3 pairs. 1.1/2.2/3.3 Getting matching green letters in pair positions is optimal. There are red and green genes. The red genes are negatives, wheras the green genes are positives. Y = Yield G=Growth H=Hydration. for the green genes.

[@scrapacoco6890]

I spent a whole 2 weeks of a wipe doing all sorts of tests just after the update & perfecting crossbreeding speed. Meanwhile my teammate had the shits with me since she was so bored :p It took me 4 days to crossbreed my preferred YYGGGG the 1st wipe & now i do it in under 6hrs, in that 6 hrs i also crossbred a YYYYYY. I came looking for a more effective way to auto water plants but i think i'll stick with an Eastern facing solar panel attached to a blocker which allows pass through to the F/S & pumps once the sun goes down & turns off at sunrise.

[@bubba6027]

seriously love your editing style glad you're back!

[@Malonik]

Thanks! It's good to be back in the swing of things! :)

[@christopherbates820]

Thank you for the tips bro, can’t wait to build my first farm.

[@Malonik]

No worries! :)

[@jhin_n_Juice]

Thanks a lot!!! Going to try it

[@Malonik]

No worries! Let me know how you go! :)

[@grape9121]

Oh lol I completely forgot about meat if you love on the eastern coast of the map your on that’s where the majority of animals spawn and I have found that just farming animals there for ten minutes could last you a full weeks wipe so I feel that farming animals would be a simpler alternative to people who find farming 2.0 to complicated or are just beginning in rust

[@Malonik]

Yeah absolutely! Hunting animals (particularly bears) is an awesome way to stay fed especially for newer players. Plus if you find them near water you can get them to chase you into it and once they are deep enough they go super slow for an easy, stress free bear kill lol.

[@grape9121]

Malonik after using your guide today I started a new wipe and I now am farming and doing great thanks for this educational video it was honestly very useful keep up the good work you just got a new subscriber

[@edwrd3001]

Underated KZbinr but still very good

[@Malonik]

Thanks. :)

[@syk2973]

very usefult, verry thaeknks

[@Malonik]

No worries. :)

[@Neosword]

As someone who has focused on the genetic side of the farming updatr I can safely say instead of doing one per planter you can use 4 in each corner to find the best genes. If your also looking to make a mass farm for the best gene possible, spam seeds outside and just make to watch them when they go up

[@Malonik]

Good advice! Only reason I went with 4 initially was just trying to emulate someone getting back with just a few seeds from finding plants while they're out. I thought about the spamming seeds route but how do they go growing? When I tried growing outside versus in a planter it took like 3 times as long to grow which was like 5 or 6 hours lol.

[@Neosword]

It takes longer yes but you can find genes alot easier

[@Neosword]

That and you don't have to wait for them to fully ripen to clone them, once they fruit you can clone them

[@Neosword]

And hemp is the fastest and easist to clone

[@Malonik]

Ah yep that's fair enough, nice!

[@xandju]

Jesus I wish I'd found your video a week ago. Just figuring out how to use the purifier was a nightmare because nothing I found told me how to put water in/out XD

[@chojuj4533]

Such a great video!

[@Max-lf4br]

great video, now if only i could run rust

[@Malonik]

There's an unturned mod which is a rust clone... it's not as good but it's as close as it can be to the real thing. Memeio did a video on it just recently.

[@Max-lf4br]

yea i know i have 3 servers that run it, great game mode think you might enjoy playing it. come play unturned with us

[@SpaceGalleria]

love it , imma go try this stuff out

[@Malonik]

It's good fun! Or at least I think it is lol.

[@going4yourmom918]

Thank you!

[@Malonik]

No worries! :)

[@eggrico]

Imho, water collectors are too bad. I had to make a lot of them, and connect all of them to one, that will provide enough water to my little farm. Not only I've to find water collectors that has 1% spawn chance in boxes, but they are not doing even they job properly I think they need a slight buff, since you don't even have them in the basic knowledge, so you have to study them by finding or gumbling with workbench lvl1. Also Large water collectors are definitely too large? I couldn't place it anywhere in my roof even if there was space for it Idk.. I love farming and I never been more in love with Electricity and pumping fluids, but oof it's a little bit disappointing when the problem is W A T E R Like oof, I'm doing genetics breeding, planting, collecting them before they ripen and I do still have to care about water for the most part? Gimme a break! Loved the video btw:) (Will never use water purifier I hate them from the time they introduced them, you never gonna get me little useless thing)

[@Malonik]

Roflmao the water purifier hatred is totally fair... So I guess you'll be happy to know they're dropping a new water purifier in the game tomorrow so now there's two! :) Seriously though they are, however with it they're also dropping a pump that you can throw in the ocean or a river for water which will solve your water issues. :) I'm actually working on a video for it right now. Also I heard that they are buffing the water collector's although I don't know how much. Oh and you can't put large collector's on your base, they have to go on the ground. Only the small ones work on the roof.

[@juanalvarez3507]

Can you do a video demonstrating the electric work that you used for the two farm block build? I have two building, four floors each that will fit 2 farm blocks comfortably, and I have all the materials. I just need to know how to wire it all.

[@strategostratego1512]

Can you do an in-depth guide on the crossbreeding and how it works in Rust? I am having a ton of problems understanding it. Do you just plant them next to each other and they transfer/combine genetics?

[@Malonik]

I have an advanced genetics guide in the works that will do an in depth run through of it all. Just waiting on the next patch because they've been changing a lot of stuff on staging and I want to make sure I'm not just confusing people with info that changes in a week lol.

[@ericamadi8397]

It ain't much but its honest work

[@Malonik]

Lol yep.

[@mmmicrowave1660]

thank you

[@Claythargic]

Minnows are also compost able, not sure one the number per but it is a ton.

[@Malonik]

So pretty much throw any spare stuff you've got in there lol.

[@forsaken579]

Could you do walkthrough of a harvest, from start to finish (with explanations of why you choose each genetics)

[@Malonik]

That's something that's in the works in my upcoming advanced genetics video. :)

[@milamoeys3080]

yo as someone who has taken to the farming and really enjoying it I think that you should make a vid on how to make the perfect plant. Also I was using the infinite water glitch but they fixed it I think and idk how I can make my farm nice and wet again.

[@Malonik]

I've actually got that planned for a few vids from now. It'll be part of my advanced genetics guide. :) Also yeah they hot fixed the infinite water trick lol.

[@whatisloveonrust3324]

btw, you have said "1 ceiling light per planter" but actually 1 ceiling light is enough for 1 block (4 large planters). so it decreases amount of ceiling lights

[@Malonik]

Really!? I did try with less lights at one point but I thought I had areas that weren't receiving light! At least ceiling lights are cheap as hell lol.

[@hatchettwit]

Every planter does NOT need a light. You can 100% light a 3x3 with 4 lights by placing them correctly.

[@vividok2240]

Watched ✔....will waiting for car construction guide!)

[@Malonik]

Omg I can't wait for the cars! That's going to be ridiculous! Lol

[@vividok2240]

@@Malonik me too ))

[@parkerbishop7327]

that’s the highest quality role play content i’ve ever seen

[@Malonik]

Until facepunch drop the tier 2 recipes with added bonuses for PvP lol.

[@xSwitchB1ade]

I just want a guide to a simple 2x2 cloth farm. I don't want to mess with in depth mechancis, I just want the 2x2. I'm assuming it requires 4x Floor Grills and 7x window bars, 4 planter boxes, 3 sprinklers, a solar panel, a battery and 4 lights.

[@Malonik]

Watch the previous vid on farming I did. It covers the magic setup and idea of what you need to do.

[@1300l]

Could you make an eletric and water tutorial about a fully automated light and irrigation system?

[@Malonik]

That's actually the next video I'm working on lol.

[@dnkbmc]

4 planters per farm block is a waste of water since sprinklers give out 30ml per 10 seconds and 30 is not divisible by 4, so you will get 28ml/10s with the same water usage (effectively wasting 2ml/10seconds). You will be better off with 2 or 6 planters per farm block.

[@Malonik]

I didn't think the sprinklers reach would be that far... That's crazy!

[@dnkbmc]

@@Malonik It's actually enough for 8 planters, but then you will get even worse water economy (24ml/10s) 😂

[@Malonik]

@@dnkbmc Lol well there ya go, definitely wouldn't have said 8.. Roflmao

[@dnkbmc]

@@Malonik Yeah, a bit of an overkill 😂But as far as water economy goes, a single sprinkler consumer 20ml/10s but outputs 30ml/10s (free water?), so you save more by using sprinklers. Also, if you do the math, a single sprinkler provides 180ml/minute, which means a single sprinkler can provide water for 4x planters with standard water-hungry plants (5ml/minute) or for 3.33x planters full of water-hungry plants (6ml/minute). But with the mentioned info above plater count per sprinkler, I would say that 1 sprinkler per 3 planters is the sweet spot.

[@harper2181]

Hey Mal! Hope you have a moment to answer a few questions. Saw someones farm base earlier today and was inspired. Im typically solo and sometimes have a duo. We mostly want to start farming berries for the scrap teas. I'm wondering what size farm you would recommend for a solo/duo who just want the highest tier scrap tea every so often to farm barrels? I saw another youtubers video that says 2 large planter boxes should cover 1 pure scrap tea every hour but we dont need one every hour, but we could do with some of the other teas as well so im thinking maybe a 3x3 with a foundation out the center? Or maybe a 2x1 with a lowered foundation on the side? Just curious what you would recommend. Also, what are all the garage doors for? The farm base I saw had 3-4 on the back side and im unsure what they are used for. Look forward to a response.

[@MRScrubNasty]

Can you create a pumpkin that gives more health per pumpkin or hemp that gives more than 10 cloth? What is the point in these "super" crops? Just how fast they grow?

[@Malonik]

Currently the main things you can alter are how well it grows, how much grows per crop and how fast it grows. So you can't do more health (although they're working on tier 2 recipes which will have effects like that) but you can do more yield. Crops in a planter take about 1.5 - 2 hours, crops planted on the ground take about 5 if they don't die from bad conditions. You can speed the planted time up with more G genes but I don't have exact figures on how much that boosts the speed yet.

[@FlammableB]

Good tutorial but I wonder something. Never used to make farm bases and etc. As I know growing full crop at maximum age/yield takes 1-2hours... so what's the point to experiment with crops. You wait for 2 hours for a bunch of pumpkins/corn/etc when you can walk the river and find a lot... Only I guess it's useful if you wanna grow more berries and teas later...

[@Malonik]

It's useful for both, you're right you can just go get them from the river. However you'll get a higher yield and faster grow on pumpkins in your farm versus the river. Plus you don't have to contend with other people stealing them. Personally I like to focus mostly on teas (you should check out my recent tea time video) and once in a while if we're running low on food just do a food plant across my farm. Usually sorts us out for a good while and then i just go back to teas lol.

[@DS-qp1om]

Nice vid, you can buy water jugs from bandit

[@Malonik]

Oh nice! Had not noticed that!

[@Jagerbomb03]

Should be updated, you can cover a 6pk of large planters with 2 sprinklers and 3 lights.

[@Malonik]

Yeah definitely needs an update, also you can get 6 planters covered with 1 sprinkler if you're tricky and use low walls right.

[@Jagerbomb03]

Malonik I didn’t know you could get 6 with one sprinkler, we still use 2

[@whatisloveonrust3324]

what are the stages ? like its starting as seedling then sapling then crossbreed then mature then ripe, whats next ? when we should harvest them and when is the best time to harvest or taking sapling ? after ripe, is it disseappering or giving less fruit or more?

[@Malonik]

Check out my previous video on farming, I cover the stages and when to harvest it in there. :)

[@willsports2198]

Loved the video and think it was amazing but sadly I wouldn’t be making a farm I’m a pvper :(

[@Malonik]

Haha thanks and that's okay! You pvpers can always swing by mals farm for your fresh produce needs roflmao. :)

[@3dssolidsnake]

I'm sure a composting toilet will get added at some point.

[@Malonik]

Honestly I'd settle for being able to put a bucket or a box behind the horses so they poop into storage lol.

[@worlwr2]

@@Malonik I think he means for us. Not our horses.

[@Malonik]

@@worlwr2 yep fair enough, this is going down the ark route... soon I'll need a keybind for special pooping occasions... lol

[@JunoGaming95]

Just so you know, you can have 2 large planters to share 1 light.

[@Malonik]

Yeah I need to do an update to this one. With some of the recent changes and more experimenting I've definitely got a more efficient setup.

[@JunoGaming95]

@@Malonik you could also attempt a video on how to cross breed more efficiently. Personally, I find collecting loads of seeds. Then using just one corner of the planter box plant and hatchet out till you get a desired cross breeding material. Usually I would aim to get a 5green 1red sometimes if I'm lucky I'll get the desired clone that I really want. I think best genetics would be 4G2Y yields about 56 cloth per 1.5hrs and with just 1 large planter box easily 1k cloth per harvest. That's 200 scrap per planter.

[@Malonik]

@@JunoGaming95 I'm still kinda torn on this one.. I can't decide if you're better off crossbreeding or just planting a ton of seeds in the ground and grabbing the one that has good genes. I know that's leaving a lot up to chance but it's worked and damn fast a few times now.

[@JunoGaming95]

@@Malonik I personally feel that you only need a good gene for hemp/ corn because it's the only two things that you can actually trade in bandit camp for scrap. Things like potato generally gives you about 45 per harvest. If you get a 4G2Y hemp clone it gives you a 1.5hrs nearly 1k cloth harvest which can be traded for 200 scrap per harvest.

[@Malonik]

@@JunoGaming95 Yeah that's fair. One of the guys on my discord built an 8 floor farm with 18 planters on each in the current wipe on vanilla. He was pulling in about 5 or 6k scrap per hour from cloth I think lol.

[@Monweed]

nice

[@snpeaky4340]

can you maybe show us how you build the farm and how u do genetic stuff ?

[@Malonik]

The first actual wipe with it on a vanilla server I built the farm in the vid lol. Also I'll be covering the genetics stuff more thoroughly in an upcoming advanced genetics guide. :)

[@mr.lukestarvictor9738]

Love ur vids!

[@Malonik]

Thanks! :)

[@Malonik]

Thanks! :)

[@Bullminator]

Genetics.. no1 has time for that. Just plant and water them :D. Also i think cave food plant stations will be pretty op.

[@Malonik]

Haha yeah that's why I went fairly light on genetics stuff and will deal with a on advanced guide later.

[@farisrf4269]

i think base designs will change now Farm+big furnace base

[@Malonik]

Yeah my groups current build has definitely changed to include a farm.

[@bayoubuddha8048]

you can compost those soup cups as well

[@Malonik]

Soup cups!? Wtf is a soup cup!? Lol

[@bayoubuddha8048]

@@Malonik you know, those brown coffee cups with some liquid which has a percentage of making you sick when consuming. found in food crates randomly.

[@Malonik]

@@bayoubuddha8048 Do you mean the pickles? I think they're the only food with a chance negative effect lol.

[@bayoubuddha8048]

@@Malonik yer, the pickle soup broth

[@feistyamigo6423]

Alright listen here buster, if you call my beloved pickles 'soup' or 'broth' one more time there's gonna be some issues.

[@TribeOfTruth-RiverGarner]

Buy an inventory of jugs from bandit camp, fill them at a river , take 20x 4000 ml jugs home

[@Malonik]

Didn't know you could buy them until someone mentioned it in another comment! Best thing ever! Although the new farming components will thankfully solve all the water issues.

[@giladbaruchian7522]

how did you manage to get a farm on day 2? you need turbine, light, pump, planter, water catcher, etc..these all cost plenty of scrap or need to find BP for

[@Rustaceann]

Every SINGLE comment???? Jk, great video, man. I've been trying to figure out the sprinkler ratio for a while! *NOTE* Also, large fireplace can help with temperature in cold environments!

[@Malonik]

Roflmao yep every single one, take a look around at the comments on the farming vids. My smoke and toilet breaks have been damn busy lol. Also wtf!? I swear I tried a fireplace!!! Does it help much?

[@Rustaceann]

@@Malonik yes, actually having one on either side of a 2x row of large planters indoors brought my temperatures from 23% up to 40-65%

[@Malonik]

@@Rustaceann That's awesome! :)

[@michealsimpson2540]

Opp.

[@emilyelizabeth8654]

You didn't really provide much info on cloning for the best genetics. Showing a layout, ok, but how do I know which genetics to clone? How do I choose what to plant to get rid of bad genes?? What is the FULL process for getting the most efficient clones?

[@Malonik]

Yeah I did that intentionally. The genetics side of things gets very complex very quickly. So the first farming video was how the new farming works. Then a video on how to use it efficiently. Next is an automated watering system and then I'm doing a full on advanced genetics guide. I wanted to ease people into it rather than overwhelming them with information. As it currently stands the advanced genetics guide is likely going to be like 15 straight minutes of convoluted mathematics and I thought that might be a bit of a downer for those trying to connect a hose lol. So TLDR sorry the genetics info has been a bit light so far but there's method to my madness lol.

[@LootPinata2]

I want to see what the best possible patato you can get. And whether it's worth all the time

[@Malonik]

I'll be covering that in my upcoming advanced genetics guide. :)

[@kingofthegames7179]

do you happen to have a base on facepunch 1 canada? i see a base literally just like this with the same doors there

[@Malonik]

Nope. Guessing it's someone that saw the vid lol.

[@phillenan2494]

Enjoy your day.

[@Malonik]

Thanks! :)

[@phillenan2494]

@@Malonik One question? Is it normal that the server admin helps clans he knows?? Because i m sick of admins doing weird shit to help clans. That ruin the experience for others. As the same shit happened in h1z1 and ark.

[@Malonik]

@@phillenan2494 What the fuck no absolutely not.... That's a fantastic way to kill a server and honestly a huge red flag for me at least of a really shitty admin... imo go with one of the long standing rust communities / servers. A couple of decent ones I know of - Rustralasia, Rustafied and Rusty Moose. I'd probably recommend rustafied over the others because they've got a few servers around the world so they should have you covered regardless of where you live. Again, just to be clear, admin abuse is definitely not the norm for good rust servers lol.

[@phillenan2494]

@@Malonik Ok i hope so, as i know it really does kill a server. And in h1z1 and other games it was a nightmare. Thx for the advice and i will try it out :) Take care :)

[@yasimiranda3268]

great videos! the only issue im having (i may of missed the information) is that i don't quite know when to harvest them or clone them. at what stage? it gives the seeding fruiting mature then its like ripe and im not sure what else, but at what point would it be best to clone the good ones and harvest the rest? sorry again if you mentioned it, couldn't quite grasp it

[@Malonik]

No worries whatsoever! The best time is when they're ripe or very late into the fruiting stage as that's the stage where they actually start building the yield on the plant. :)

[@yasimiranda3268]

@@Malonik oh okay thank you for the reply and answer!

[@Malonik]

@@yasimiranda3268 Anytime! :)

[@Capsoulan1]

just wonder would it be possible to make a diagram of ur electricity and water connections? :D especially when i dont live near water so i have to go to use water catchers and/or manually throwing water.

[@sypher0101]

5:44 confused me a bit. I don't quite get the mix / match of genetic coding. Do you have a video (or can you make) that goes into detail of what you do for that part. Maybe a 5min video showing it being done in-game ?

[@Malonik]

Yeah that's fair enough, I've actually got an advanced genetics guide in the works which will properly explains genetics and how to manipulate them. Just waiting on the patch next week to see if they've changed anything major with how it works. :)

[@loganwitham6669]

Nice video! Been doing good farming. How do i setup a timer for the sprinklers??

[@Malonik]

Thanks! That's exactly what my next video is on. :)

[@abidinberkay1]

i am also working on crossbreeding but i just realized that, it is always going bad. I have never seen that a red gene becomes green one after crossbreeding. always red genes are dominating the green. have you seen the opposite scenario yet ?

[@Malonik]

Yes we have seen bad genes go good. Still trying to understand what dictates it though. Also sometimes you get flawless seeds which is an insane starting point if you grow it in good conditions.

[@boodi1170]

da fuq how did i miss this

[@rawtrain9055]

With how many people do you play? I was wondering how many farming blocks do you need per x amount of people? I was thinking of using one block for 4 people.

[@ignasipc780]

is there any way you can heat the plants? Because at night, the temperature, drops to 33% which is very low.

[@adamdagoat9879]

If i have 2 water barrels set up for one pump is there a way to get the second water barrels watter in the first one?

[@Inuitman]

Where do you have the most chance to find ceiling lamps?

[@Malonik]

Crates have a 1% chance of dropping them however you can buy one for 30 scrap from the bandit camp. :)

[@MrUnisteez]

I've connected several water catchers in series. Does that actually increase the flow rate out? I thought it was working.

[@Malonik]

I'll have to double check incase they've changed it but as far as I know linking them doesn't change the flow rate.

[@GrandpaRust]

@@Malonik that's one of my super farm with 30 water catchers is still slow as piss

[@NickolasBerdzenishvili]

Can somone explain me, what is the profit of farming? It is very time consuming, besides that, i need recourses to craft planters, sprinklers, lights, batteries, slar pannels or wind turbines, water catchers, water purifiers, barrels... That's not all, i also need to build, upkeep and protect another building only for farm. What will I get for such hard work? I can hunt some bears, gather some corns and pumpkins near rivers and that will be enough for me or my group. In addition, i will get food from raids. I can buy scrap for food? Yes, but i will get scrap from looting and recycling stuff and from raids. What can i do with tons of scrap? I don't need that much...

[@Malonik]

As it currently stands it isn't at its full potential. This is only step 1 of the farming upgrade. They are working on tier 2 recipes which will have added bonuses which will benefit you for your roaming and PvP. Also while you can farm heaps of scrap without it, having it means you get an easy 1k scrap an hour once it's setup which isn't bad. Ultimately rust has an absolute ton of things to do and different ways to achieve the various goals. Farming just might not be your thing. I enjoy it but I'm a base bitch for the most part lol. :)

[@NickolasBerdzenishvili]

@@Malonik bro, i'm kinda housewife in rust )) I like to build, sort loot, messing with electricity, decorate base etc, :D . But farming looks little bit pintless for me. I will try to build some farm next wipe, maybe i will like it )

[@hellsinger1996]

so what do we achieve by beign farmers in rust?

[@Malonik]

Well for starters you know how it works so that when they drop the tier 2 recipes that have added perks you're already sorted with farming. Plus if you get creative with your bandit camp and outpost trading you can make a lot of scrap. Our local discord mad scientist wavey has a farm setup on vanilla that's producing about 5k scrap an hour from trading cloth to the bandit camp. :)

[@alzathoth]

hello! new sub here. could you do a video on using automatic water timers for limited water supplies via water catchers?

[@TimothyFrancisco]

You can turn in corn and fertilizer for scrap, does this pay off for the work involved for farming? Can you make farming a profession or is it a hobby?

[@Malonik]

Yes. Turns out you can make about 1k scrap per hour with corn fairly easily. I might see how far that can be pushed while still being realistic. Like if it worth focusing on a massive farm on a BP wipe to bang out all the BP's super fast.

[@shiftlessdrifter692]

Suspect and Blaze built a massive hemp base on Twitch a few days ago, or I suppose at the beginning of the wipe, on a vanilla server. They were generating 9k cloth every 1.5 hours which was giving them 1,800 scrap per run. Not sure how that all works, but that's what they said. They used the gene GGGGYY for their hemp plants, and sold the cloth at Bandit Camp.

[@poisonis165]

What do u reckon is the best way to get electrical bp's It always takes me a while to get em. Any specific monuments or strats? Cheers.

[@Malonik]

Personally I've always found I get them the fastest via diving to the wrecks. Easy, usually pretty quiet and plenty of boxes for a higher chance of them. That being said there is a ton of them so it's going to take a while regardless.

[@poisonis165]

@@Malonik cheers

[@Malonik]

@@poisonis165 No worries! :)

[@jopo178]

Hello can ask where can find potatoes in rust

[@Malonik]

You find them in the brown patches of the forest. :)

[@droid2474]

how would you recommend keeping up water demand for just one farm block when not near rivers or oceans for salt water? (center map)

[@Malonik]

Roads / supermarket for Jerry cans and large catchers to try and keep generate some. The Jerry cans won't be full but it's better than nothing. Alternatively you might get lucky and find one of the water pump monuments near your base.

[@nickmaddz]

Just get like 6 to 12 water jugs. Fill them with 4000mls and depo the water when required. It's the quickest way to get water imo. But have some catchers is good as well so you don't need to travel to the river or another fresh water source.

[@ezenelex]

live next to a swamp for infinite fresh water, buy water jugs from bandit camp for 5 scrap each

[@NewAgeCulture44]

How do you dump out the water in big water jug. Nothing works for me!

[@Malonik]

If you're wanting to manually pour the water out on your crops you stand over them, get the jug out and right click.

[@Mekose]

I believe the jug has to have at least 1000 water in it; otherwise you can't dump it out.

[@enzanto]

should have water in/out on the purifiers!

[@Malonik]

To be honest I haven't actually checked for them... I'm gonna make sure I do incase they are there because omg that would make so much sense lol.

[@enzanto]

@@Malonik that would make them sooo Good all of a sudden. From zero to hero

[@Malonik]

@@enzanto I feel like that's going down a dangerous road because then I'm going to want something that feeds the wood in.... and then something to get the charcoal out.... and a few jumps away from that I'll have a satisfactory style warehouse pumping out AK's... lol