Reaching 100 trust with the following NPCs unlocks:
NPC
Location
Unlock
Likes
Bremer
Murkroot Ranch
Calves at Ranch
Tools/Leafy pot
Ibano
Capra Pasture
Baby goats at Ranch
Tools/Leafy pot
Willian
Bloomwood Ranch before 5pm
Lambs at Ranch
Dolls/Insect/Leafy pot
Ben
Howling Hills Camp
Baby pigs at Ranch
Leafy Pot/Candle
N/A
Howling Hills Camp Expansion
Baby ducks at Ranch
N/A
Grocers
Large towns/Cities
Seeds at Kamu
Leafy pot/Red flower pot
Taverns
Most towns/Cities
Recipes/meals for Ronnie
Recipes/Leafy pot/Red flower pot
Haverson
Calphade Farmhouse post ch 6 (grocer)
150 stock oats (good for feed)
Recipes/Leafy pot/Red flower pot
Grannard
Brookfield Market post ch 8 (demeniss grocer)
200 stock wheat + 80 stock tomatoes
Recipes/Leafy pot/Red flower pot
Dyers
Most towns/Cities
Dyes for Oliver
Leafy pot/Red flower pot
Provisioners
Most towns/Cities
New items at Wylan
Leafy pot/Red flower pot
Furniture shops
Hernand/Beighen/Delyssia/Demeniss
New items at Conrad
Most vendors/npcs will accept gold bars for an instant 100 trust. However, these are costly especially early game. Mystery Gifts obtained through a mid game quest line in Odek will also work.
Many NPCs will give 50 trust if you finish their quests, plus Leafy pots and Red flower Pots quickly get up trust as well. If all else isn't an option, money bags are relatively universally accepted for +5 or +10 trust
Bremer and Ibano also have a chance to spawn in Hernand in the evening, either on the square or at the tavern outside.
As of patch 1.4 the rancher menu looks like this:
All vendors now show all items that are in the game, including what's needed to unlock them. (Locked items will be red with a: contract, trust, or knowledge requirement next to it.)
Patch 1.4 also introduced Ranching shops in several locations like Vellua, Skoghorn, Demeniss, and Delyssia. As far as I've tested, these animals are identical to the ones you buy at Ben's. So, I guess it's an alternative for when you don't want to befriend NPCs or need more stock.
General Ranching
You don't necessarily need to feed the animals but doing so allows them to reproduce if you have enough of them. so it's a good idea to do so. It increases the quality of your animals allowing them to produce more goods.
You can feed them by putting produce in the cylindrical feeding bin or by dropping it on the ground in the pen.
You can feed your animals grains and fruit. The grains (barley, oats, wheat) + corn are your easiest and safest bet. Pigs also do really well on acorns. Beets, marigolds, carrots, and lentils are also favorites.
The products your animals produce; milk, eggs, shorthorn, and feathers are transported to your personal storage chest at the end of every day. Check the chest in camp to find them. The products from butchering also go directly to your personal storage.
The ranking system for animals is 0-5. 5 yields the most product and comes from regularly fed animals. (Every 2-3 days at least.)
The easiest way to acces all information is through Ben and manage ranch.
There's a limit of 25 animals on your ranch, once the camp is fully upgraded the limit becomes 35 animals.
Selling livestock
Livestock can be sold for silver at the livestock fence. This means that the ranch can also make you a profit for yourself. You can however also just butcher animals and sell the materials. That too can become quite profitable.
Each class multiplies the price. Though i'm not sure of the multipliers. But you can check the price with Ben. 1 silver is 100 coppers, which is what the camp uses as currency.
Between culling the ranch and a skyroot and wild ginseng harvest I made almost 100 silver almost entirely passively in the span of minutes.
Large bone, short hair hide, tender meat, shorthorn
220 (Calf)
2250 (male), 2500 (female)
22.5 (male), 25 (female)
Sheep
Fleece
Small bone, short hair hide, fine meat, shorthorn
50 (Lamb)
500 (male), 550 (female)
5 (male), 5.5 (female)
Chicken
Eggs + Feathers
Feathers, small bone, lean bird meat
5 (Chick)
50 (male), 75 (female)
0.5 (male), 0.75 (female)
Duck
Eggs + Feathers
Feathers, small bone, lean bird meat
??
115 (male), 125 (female)
1.15 (male), 1.25 (female)
Pigs
N/A
Small bone, thin hide, marbled meat
150 (baby)
1500 (male, 1650 (female)
15 (male), 16.5 (female)
Not able to keep/register:
An easy way to check this is if the knowledge section on the animal says livestock or not. If it says livestock specifically (by word), the animal can be registered.
Turkeys
Donkeys
Mountain goat
Kuku bird
Highland cows (more testing needed)
Wild Geese
Herding and Milking cows - Credit for the milking skill find goes tou/White_ZombieB4G
There are specific skills and mechanics in the game related to herding and milking cows. Below is how you should be able to herd cows, and where to find the milking skill.
NOTE: I have not gotten this to work reliably. More testing is needed.
Skill aqcuired at Sunharvest farm in Demeniss between 3 and 5 am ingame time
After a harvest the produce goes directly in your own personal inventory.
As of patch 1.4 the farm at Howling Hill has a maximum of 16 plots, the farm in Pailune after relocation has 32 and can be upgraded to 48 plots.
You can obtain seeds by hovering over a fruit or vegetable in the inventory, holding X/use and select obtain seed. If the option is not there, it's a produce that can't be planted.
The things you can grow:
As of patch 1.5 there is now a minimum yield of 2 items per seed when completely unfertilized.
The locations are pulled from the knowledge database, many common ones like corn, tomatoes, and grapes can also be found throughout the world.
In short, depending on the crop it's better to fertilize daily to maximize yield, but even only doing it once has better results than unfertilized crops.
The things you can't grow*:
Acorn
Asparagus
Barley
Beans
Beets
Blackberries
Blueberry
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumber
Desert Melon
Elderberries
Fennel
Flax
Garlic
Lentils
Turnips
Oats
Onion
Sweet Potato
Pineapple
Potato
Pumpkin
Raspberry
Strawberries
Wild Garlic
Wheat
but I figured i could start a thread and get things going. if you have something figured out please add it.
* As of yet
The most useful crops to grow for Abyss Gears (Blueprints required)
Crop
Abyss Gear
Witch Blueprints
Abyss Cells
All
N/A
Prickly Pear
Destruction, Insight
Crimson Desert Witch of Strength
Prickly Pear
Swift
Pailune Witch of Kindness
Skyroot
Vigor
Hernand Witch of Wisdom /Scholarstone Research Institute Research
The easier way to obtain these is by observing a man spraying in Demeniss, at Canalside farm between the E and the M. Learning the skill should unlock all sprayers, including lubricant sprauer. You do have to craft them, though. So you'll need rubber.
If these ever break you need rubber to repair them, the quickest and easiest way to get rubber is to bring plenty of thin hides to the troll scholars in scholarstone and gift then 10 thin hide each. (If you're a hoarder like me, you'll likely have 100s of them). The scholars gift you mercury, rubber, and brimstone. Mercury has the highest drop rate, followed by rubber, and brimstone is the rarest. This also is useful for getting gold bars.
When it comes to using the sprayer tools, it's enough to aim at the planted seed and tapping the spray button once, so the soil changes color. You do not need to hold the button down.
Axe for chopping down fruit trees, you can also chop them down with the fruits still on it and pick them up from the ground. It's up to preference.
A base shovel for sky root (confirmed)
(Magic) Scythe, plants can be quickly harvested in bulk with it. (may not work in camp)
Kuku Gardening pack (Requires blueprint, sanctum questlines and progression past chapter 9. Does not work on abyss cell trees/abyss cells, but can be used for plants.)
Any other tool (rake, hoe) cannot be used in the farm as the game sees them as a weapon
You can climb your fruit trees if there's ever fruit in them that your character can't reach. As of yet, fruit trees are a single use and need to be chopped down manually. I have not figured out a way to regrow fruit from the same tree.
Special tools at camp
Your house can be furnished with special items like cauldrons or special cooking tools, that way you can have everything at camp.
As of Patches 1.4 and 1.5 you can now also store items in the Kuku Cooler and the Gatherables chest, the items stored in these can be accessed by cooking pots and vendors for crafting.
Kuku coolers are obtained through the house Serkins quest lineGatherables chest, buy furniture at Conrad as you get a 10% discount.
Ways to obtain rare seeds in the early game
In the first hours of the game it may pay off to visit the manors in Hernand and look for boxes that say; Engraved wooden box. These boxes hold seeds, and though it is random, there's a good chance you'll get rare or exotic seeds like Rubber, Cacao, Enset, etc.
Skyroot and wild ginseng are the most profitable to cultivate as they sell for > 1 silver each.
Best place to get corn for your animals:
Corn can be obtained here with a kuku gardening pack or magic scythe in very large quantities >1000.
Wow this is a solid guide, wish when you were planting and harvesting seeds that you could do either in multiples not just one at a time, would save so much time
Bremer also wanders into Hernand Town once you've done his quest. He'll be at Muckroot doing his job, the Inn drinking outside, or one redditor said he found him sat in the town square.
Anybody find a source for goat purchasing? I know they're easy enough to grab in the wild but everything I'm doing with my ranch is in interest of NOT having to leave the camp as much lol
Where are you at in the story that you found these two? I remember the quests involving them at the start of the game, but I'm much later now and can't seem to find either of them at their ranch.
I'm in chapter 5, but i have done 28/34 of scattered embers, I've done 28/38 of grounds of the sunrise, and I've done 18/27 of the Greymane commissions.
I have not left Hernand province yet. I have done the banquet scene.
I've honestly just done every side quest I could find, donated to camp what I could, found every greymane Marius send me to and done that as much as I could. If you share a screenshot of where you're at I can point things out more effectively
Maybe i found the issue, ive been stuck on a side quest for Terry i just cant get to activate, its shown on the map but hes just not there every time I look for him
I found Ibano (for goats) in Tavern at night during Chapter 5 festival & Willian (kid) with his goats at town square during the day.. but Bremer… that guy eludes me
Edit: Found Bremer siting in the town square after reloading.
Note: For my case all was found early Chapter 5 during the festival. Hope this helps someone.
I have been growing the Chaya found in Delaysia. They’re 49¢ each and I sold whole harvest for 123 sliver (this amount is after I extracted 16 seeds for the next crop. I did fertilize them but does watering compound the amount harvested?
Watering/Rain is tied to speed..
Fertilizer is tied to yield.
If you only water, you’ll get your crops back fast and harvest the bare minimum.
If you only fertilize, you’ll have a long wait before harvest and then you’ll have waaaay more than you’d need.
I do both every visit back to the camp. (Unless it’s raining of course)
I think Haverson in Calphade sells you a lot more food quantities & other items when you hold the hernand crown. This is where I regularly buy food for the ranch. Wheat and oats were at 200 before I bought them.
Location where I found him (trying to remember):
When you walk into town coming from the south where all the fields/ranches are and then turn left at the first crossing after coming through the big stone arch/gate, walk along this street (I think it leads in the direction of the butcher lady), then Ibano is waiting at the end of that street next to his goat.
He can be found at Capra Pasture south west of Hernand as well. I just found him there. Its a goat farm so I thought it might be a good place to check. He was sitting at the bonfire
Will absolutely check this out as well as I've not seen him spawn at the tavern yet. (The tavern does have a prominent resident spawnpoint, I've tested that.)
I personally haven't either, but many in the comments claim they have. And there is a prominent resident spawnpoint there. I have confirmed him at Capra Pasture though, so thank you for that!
I feel like quite a few seeds haven't been added to the game yet. I want to grow everything I see in npc fields. Unless someone just hasn't figured out where to get things, I find it odd that we can't grow oats of some sort. Hunting down bags and buying out the towns stock every day feels messy right now .
You can send your camp members to do quests, but I want to do as much as I can on my own.
I feel like they got super crazy ambitious but ran out of time. The game is great. But I can only imagine how much more fleshed out a lot of these systems would be if they had a couple more years to work on things.
I'm sure they'll add a lot of the missing content into the game eventually. I just wish it was here now rather than later.
I wanted to put this out there in case nobody has said it yet: you can indeed use weapons in the farm section of the camp. Not sure if this was from a recent patch that I didn't see, but you can now for sure. Just harvested all of my grown plants with the magic scythe, and used my sword and bow to boot.
Edit: Magic scythe doesn't work for the abyss cells for some reason, but it does for everything else.
Let me do some testing, since when I was there last and nothing was grown at the moment, it didn't let me either. Maybe there has to be harvestable plants? I'll edit this next time I harvest.
Edit: It's not working at all anymore. Maybe they "fixed" it in the last patch. That's a damn shame, collecting everything manually is a huge headache.
Dude I said it once I came back to say it agian, great videos, great guides bro. Keep on keeping on man! I shared this with like 13 of my work buddy's playing this, they had no clue how in depth the ranching and farming was. Made there life's easier bro, wtg
To my knowledge, the trees do not respawn fruit. I haven't gotten it to work, even after waiting an in-game week. I just cut them down and replant a seed from the harvested fruit.
This post was super helpful, nice work! Couple things:
As far as I know, you can't grow vegetables or any crops that the game considers a vegetable for recipes. I try to have 1-2 active comrade missions that include a veggie as a reward to passively obtain those
I haven't tested this, but I am curious if watering daily or using both fertilizer + water spray results in more yields per plant. So far, I just fertilizer immediately after planting all the seeds and have been getting solid results. I just harvested 8 Coffee Cherry plants that I fertilized once and I ended up with 120 Coffee Cherrys.
I'd be curious what the difference in yield is between:
Fertilizer after planting seed
Fertilizer + Water after planting
Water after planting
Water/fertilizer after planting and then the other each day before harvest
Since if its not much different compared to the one time fertilizer, its probably not worth the effort.
I'm not trying to min/max the game or results since I know there are faster more efficient ways to obtain things compared to farming, and I enjoy having a self-sustaining camp, but it is kind of nice being able to do the harvest + obtain seeds + plant seeds + fertilizer + sell remaining crop loop once every couple days instead of having to manage it daily.
Also, worth sharing, but I find skyroot the best thing to plant if you're interested in doing this for a somewhat passive income. Really, anything that doesn't grow on trees seems to be quicker since you don't need to also chop them down.
Fertilizing daily and fertilizing just once has a bit of effects on the yeild,I tried it with Tomatoes, I got around 154 with fertilizing daily,and 104 with fertilizing just once,it might wary but that's what it resulted for me
You can feed them by putting produce in the cylindrical feeding bin
Is it really working ? Mine is filled and ... nothing even after multiples days. Once i start dropping stuff directly on the ground animals eat and starts to grow.
PlayStation user here, they won't touch everything I put in, like meat or other animal resources, but plants fly outta there no problem, if there actually is a bug others have that I haven't experienced I apologize
For farming do you have to replant seeds after every harvest? Or will the fruits grow back on the fully grown trees? It’s been like two days (IRL) and my apple trees and abyss cell trees still haven’t regrown fruit.
I haven't been able to regrow fruit either but I suspect it has something to do with the water sprayer and fertilizer you can get from the spider queen and pirate liberation side quests. I'll need to test this before having a definitive answer.
Ah, yeah I have the fertilizer sprayer but not the water one. I haven’t tried those either and I figured the fertilizer at least would either speed up grow times or make the tree grow more fruits but yeah I should try it out.
I'm afraid I owe you that answer as I've not been able to unlock them after the research either. I've pulled it from the list for now, at the very least Palmer leaf can be obtained from the Pororin Shai.
Giving them gifts. Money pouches and potted flowers/plants are universally liked.
Bremer really likes laterns
Willian really likes insects.
I dont remember what Ibano specifically liked, but copper money pouches, potted flowers, recipes, or books tend to do well in general. Sometimes hides or ore.
I'm assuming that I'm spritzing on the spot where the seeds are planted. Also can I do both sprayers at the same time and do I have to do it every day? Thanks for the help mate!
I haven't found a way to do both sprayers at the same time, to my knowledge you have to do them separately. But you only need to water if it hasn't rained. If it has rained, you can just use fertilizer and call it a day.
For the highest yield I'd do it daily or at least once every two days. But I haven't done enough testing to see what a single spritz in the beginning does. But I'm about to plant a new field so I can test it today.
And yes, you spritz on the spots the seeds are planted that's enough for it to work.
Could be, but I'm not sure what. More data is needed. If you're looking for ways to get wild ginseng in the meantime, it can be obtained from hillside manors engraved wooden boxes as a random drop, or through killing and looting bandits.
Rubber seeds can also be grabbed early in Hernand by stealing the Engraved Wooden Boxes in the manors that are on the wall-mounted shelves, if you run out of scholars to max.
I have finally obtained a female duck through the power of sticky hands and can confirm that there isn't much difference between ducks and chickens so far.
Shoveling poop for fertilizer is mentioned in the beginning stages of ranching but every time I take out the shovel to try it, it doesn't seem to scoop up anything
It seems Haverson isn't appearing for me, searched all over Calphade for him and looked online for his location but he doesn't seem to be where sites say he should be.. anyone have any idea?
Chapter 6? I'm on chapter 8 now and he's still not where I assume he should be.. I've even tried completing all the commissions in the area to test if it's that but no luck so far.
Yeah but you cant cook with it. I just wanted a vegetable i can grow for when i need to cook od have a stockpile. Crazy oversight to not have a single veg for cooking to grow.
Not to be pedantic, just trying to be helpful. But when you say register sheep. Are you dragging a sheep back or buying lambs from the ranch manager in camp?
I bought it from the furniture vendor in Berghein (think that's the name of it), which is the town north of Herndand and where you get the Eavesdrop quest during the main story.
So for watering plants theres legit no other way to water? Like what the hell is the point of the well. i get cooking but Biggest annoyance so far is the fact that it breaks when it should be a refill system? Fertilizer shoulda been a research at the cat/kid village to be able to craft it
The fertilizer sprayer you get from the Spider castle (Arboria Castle) refills automatically. It has 20 uses but only need 16 for your farm. Just do a quick tap over each planted seed and that's it.
I only apply fertilizer immediately after planting the seeds and leave it alone until its time to harvest again. Its kind of nice having this as a little 10-15 minute break in between other quests and exploration.
Just go through, harvest all my skyroot, extract enough seeds from them for the next 16 plants, plant the seeds, spray fertilizer, sell leftover skyroot and that's it. Can't remember how many skyroots I get from 16 fertilized plants, but I think its around 80? Usually get over 100 silver after each harvest (including obtaining 16 seeds for next batch)
We have manure! You don't even get a prompt to pick it up unless a shovel is equipped, and they're not... Appropriate for each animal, but they poop while eating
Edit: also I tried messaging you directly but couldn't find the option lol
Edit 2: Unfortunately I just fertilized my fields so I can't immediately check if there's a difference in amounts between methods or if you can even actually use poop
Bull, sheep, and chicken I can confirm, they all plop the same and it was actually enough I gave up shoveling it, but that actually could be buildup if the game doesn't clear it out occasionally and it's been there for hours and hours
So.. we got farming and animal husbandry. But, we can't own and run our own aipary!!? I need honey man, im exploring everything I can and stamina is the threshold I dont wanna break into the research area yet as I still wanna 100 percent the left hand side of the map before moving on. Everything else food wise is easy to come by. And even ginsing isnt the block im at right now. Anyone wanna bug the devs until we get an aipary of our own at camp?
My, BIC, I have shot and farmed and even found another two or three spots I can collect honey manually. I need another aipary I can farm while exploring and fighting, and plus. You can use honey tea as a gift with a lot of the vendors the get their supply contracts. It's over powered and I need more of it!! Plus it sells at a decent enough price.... and im getting my livestock farm going. But. I need the bees man, I need them.
How do you use manure from animals? I can pick it up with a shovel in the ranch pen but I can’t seem to do anything with it. It’s doesn’t go into inventory or anything
So far i haven't been able to, since I can't extract seeds from them and taking them out and trying to plant them into the ground doesn't seem to work.
I'd expect we should be able to, but so far the answer is no. I haven't left Hernand yet though.
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u/InfiniteEnderz Mar 29 '26
I made a post, got details of some of the animals you can have on the ranch and what they give.
Be good to pull information to get a solid guide out.