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Grow crops for crafting ingredients
Maintain a settlement crop supply for vegetable starch and other recipes.
WHERE & HOW TO FARM
Grow crops for crafting ingredients
Farm plots in a connected settlement, such as Sanctuary Hills.
Before you go
- A settlement workshop and plantable corn, mutfruit, and tato.
- Settlers to tend crops if available.
- A cooking station for recipes that use harvested ingredients.
Farming steps
- Choose a connected settlement with room for the three crop types.
- Plant corn, mutfruit, and tato within workshop range.
- Assign settlers to maintain the plots when you have available settlers.
- Harvest the crops when they are ready and check the resulting inventory.
- Reserve enough of each ingredient for vegetable starch or another planned recipe.
- Take the reserved produce to a cooking station and craft the recipe when needed.
- Store or use the finished ingredient rather than selling the entire harvest by habit.
- Keep a small reserve of each crop so one imbalanced harvest does not block the starch recipe.
- Track which recipes actually use your crops before choosing what to sell.
Repeat, collect and use
Harvest as crops become available and replant or maintain plots as needed. This is a recurring settlement loop whose output depends on crop readiness and settlement conditions.
Common mistakes
- Growing only one crop can leave a recipe incomplete; plant the full ingredient set for the recipe you want.
- Selling all harvested produce can undermine crafting plans; reserve ingredients before trading.
- Assuming settlers automatically produce every ingredient you need can lead to shortages; check the crop mix and harvest inventory.
When to stop or switch
Stop expanding plots when your ingredient reserve meets planned crafting needs; use spare space for other settlement priorities.
Sources & fact checks
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