🧪 Crafting

Crafting is one of the main resource sinks in Rise of Farms.

It allows players to convert crops into high-impact items that improve efficiency, speed, and XP generation — while permanently removing raw materials from circulation.

Crafting is intentionally:

• 🔥 Deflationary (items are burned on use)
• 🧠 Strategic (trade-offs between XP now vs XP later)
• 💱 Market-relevant (crafted items are tradable)

⚙️ What Can Be Crafted

There are two crafting categories:

1. Perks
   • Booster
   • Fertilizer
2. Seeds
   • By burning crops of the same type

Both paths destroy crops and help regulate inflation.

🧪 Crafting Perks

Perks provide temporary but powerful advantages and are always burned upon use.

🚀 Booster

Boosters increase the XP gained from a harvest.

• Effect: +80% XP on harvest
• Consumed on use: Yes
• Tradeable: Yes

Recipe

When to Craft Boosters

• During high XP seasons
• Before harvesting long-cycle crops (Corn, Chili)
• When pushing leaderboard positions

🌿 Fertilizer

Fertilizers reduce the growth time of planted crops, allowing faster rotations.

• Effect: –50% growth time
• Consumed on use: Yes
• Tradeable: Yes

Recipe

When to Craft Fertilizers

• To accelerate slow crops
• To complete time-based quests
• To compress production windows late-season

🌱 Crafting Seeds (Crop → Seed)

Players can burn crops to mint new seeds of the same type.

• Burn Tomato → Tomato Seed
• Burn Corn → Corn Seed

This system:

• Recycles excess crops
• Feeds seed liquidity into the market
• Prevents infinite seed inflation

🎲 Seed Mint Probabilities

🌈 Seed Variants Probabilities

When you mint seeds from a burned crop, the seed type is always the same crop (burn tomato → tomato seeds), but the variant received is randomized.

📊 Practical Examples

• ⚡️ Speed Seeds → Best when you can harvest frequently (active play, shorter sessions)
• 💥 Yield Seeds → Best for passive play or when you can't check in often
• 🟢 Basic Seeds → Solid baseline; sell Speed/Yield seeds on market if you don't need them

• The variant roll is applied per minted seed (so if you mint 2 seeds, each seed rolls variants independently).
• This roll is the same whether the crop was harvested or bought on the market.
• Randomness uses a commit → reveal flow to keep it verifiable onchain.

🔄 Crafting vs Silos

Crafting and silos both burn crops, but serve different purposes.

Players must decide:

• Burn for power
• Burn for XP
• Burn for liquidity

There is no strictly optimal path, only trade-offs.

💱 Crafting & the Marketplace

All perks and seeds are fully tradeable.

This enables:

• Crafter-specialized playstyles
• Arbitrage between raw crops and finished items
• Price discovery driven by seasonal demand

Many players never craft for themselves, they craft for the market.

🧠 Strategic Considerations

1. Crafting is front-loaded
   You pay crops now to gain efficiency later.

2. Items are ephemeral
   Every use destroys value — prices reflect this.

3. Markets absorb inefficiencies
   If crafting isn’t worth it for you, someone else will do it and sell.

4. Late-season crafting spikes
   Demand for Boosters and Fertilizers increases near leaderboard deadlines.

🎯 Design Philosophy

Crafting exists to:

• Destroy surplus supply
• Reward foresight over brute force
• Create non-linear advantages
• Support multiple viable roles

You don’t have to farm the most, you just have to convert value better than others.