Farming

The subject of this article is from the Expeditions update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 1 June, 2021.

A freighter farm

Farming is one of the major methods of fund-raising in No Man's Sky.

Summary

Farming provides the ability to plant farmable agricultural products and then harvest resources from them after a certain period of time. Haz-Mat Gauntlets are generally required, except for Echinocactus. The harvested products can then be sold at Galactic Trade Terminals in their raw form, used as ingredients for crafting, or transformed into other products that can be sold. Most of these resources are referred to in-game as Harvested Agricultural Substances.

Crops may only be grown after learning their blueprint from the Farmer that has been hired for your base or freighter. This NPC character will require an Agricultural Terminal to provide research capabilities. Although some of the provided plants may be grown outdoors in the proper conditions, most farms are built inside Bio-Domes as they provide slots for Hydroponic Trays and more convenient harvesting. Crops can also be grown on freighters, as Hydroponic Trays can be built on the second floor and higher.

Blueprints for crops can be bought from the Construction Research Station in the Nexus for 3 Salvaged Data.

An index of player farms can be found at Community Farms.

Available crops

Product	Resource	Grow Time (hour)	Base Sell Value ()	Amount per harvest	Amount per hour	Total Sell Value per harvest ()	Required Materials for Blueprint	Outdoors Biome
Albumen Pearl Orb	Albumen Pearl	2	10,640	1	0.5	10,640	Indium x60 Paraffinium x20	Indoors only
Echinocactus	Cactus Flesh	16	28	100	6.25	4,368	Cactus Flesh x50 Pyrite x25	Barren
Gutrot Flower	Faecium	4	30	25	6.25	1,170	Faecium x40	TBC
Frostwort	Frost Crystal	1	12	50	50	936	Frost Crystal x50 Dioxite x25	Frozen
Fungal Cluster	Fungal Mould	4	16	50	12.5	1248	Fungal Mould x50 Ammonia x25	Toxic
Gamma Weed	Gamma Root	4	16	50	12.5	1,248	Gamma Root x50 Uranium x25	Irradiated
Gravitino Host	Gravitino Ball	2	40,024	1	0.5	40,024	Chromatic Metal x25 Silver x120 Magnetised Ferrite x25	Indoors only
Mordite Root	Mordite	8	40	25	3.125	1,560	Mordite x40	TBC
NipNip	NipNip Buds	4	17,776	1	0.25	17,776	NipNip Buds x1 Faecium x20	Lush
Solar Vine	Solanium	16	70	50	3.125	5,460	Solanium x50 Phosphorus x25	Scorched
Star Bramble	Star Bulb	4	32	25	6.25	1,248	Star Bulb x50 Paraffinium x25	Lush
Venom Urchin	Sac Venom	3.33	60,800	1	0.3	60,800	Emeril x100 Gold x50	Indoors only

Crafting products

Here are the minimum number of resources required to set up a self-sustaining farm for one of each of the higher-end Advanced Agricultural Products, with highest possible yield per hour:

The best value is Living Glass as it grows much more rapidly as both Liquid Explosive and Circuit Board grow in roughly 24 hours.

• Living Glass (1 hour / 4 hours)
  • Harvesting once every 1 hour (partial harvest -> high cost, high yield): 1600 Gamma Root, 800 Uranium, 200 Frost Crystal, 100 Dioxite and 320 Faecium => 32 Gamma Weed, 4 Frostwort and 8 Gutrot Flower
  • Harvesting once every 4 hours (full harvest -> low cost, medium yield): 400 Gamma Root, 200 Uranium, 200 Frost Crystal, 100 Dioxite and 80 Faecium => 8 Gamma Weed, 4 Frostwort and 2 Gutrot Flower

• Liquid Explosive (1 every 16 hours)
  • Harvesting once every 4 hours (minimum resources): 150 Fungal Mould, 75 Ammonia, 200 Cactus Flesh, 50 Pyrite, and 40 Mordite = 2 Fungal Cluster, 2 Echinocactus and 1 Mordite Root
  • Harvesting once every 16 hours (full harvest): 600 Fungal Mould, 300 Ammonia, 200 Cactus Flesh, 50 Pyrite, and 40 Mordite = 8 Fungal Cluster, 2 Echinocactus and 1 Mordite Root

• Circuit Board (1 every 16 hours)
  • Harvesting once every 4 hours (minimum resources): 100 Star Bulb, 50 Paraffinium, 200 Solanium, 100 Phosphorus, 50 Frost Crystal, 25 Dioxite, 50 Cactus Flesh and 25 Pyrite = 3 Solar Vine, 1 Star Bramble, 1 Frostwort and 1 Echinocactus
  • Harvesting once every 16 hours (full harvest): 400 Star Bulb, 200 Paraffinium, 200 Solanium, 100 Phosphorus, 100 Frost Crystal, 50 Dioxite, 100 Cactus Flesh and 50 Pyrite = 4 Solar Vine, 8 Star Bramble, 2 Frostwort and 1 Echinocactus

Additional information

• Resources can be harvested by anyone finding a working farm, not just the player who created and planted it.
• You can build farms inside your Freighters. A Construction Limit might be triggered if there are too many items in the same room. If this occurs, try building in separated rooms. (It appears NipNip plants use a higher construction limit and only 6 of them can be planted in a freighter room.)

Release history

• Foundation - Introduced to the game.
• Atlas Rises - Farming related products and resources renamed. Blueprints of these products were changed.
• NEXT - Blueprints of farming related products were changed.
• NEXT 1.55 - Growing time of farming related products were changed.
• NEXT 1.58 - Blueprints of farming related products were changed.
• Beyond - Amounts per harvest were changed; blueprints can be bought for Salvaged Data
• NextGen - Amounts per harvest were changed