Overview
Operations opens at Stage 3 (Farm Operator). It is where a hobby field becomes a farm business: propagating plants, hiring a seasonal team, buying machines, hosting paid events, filling wholesale orders and keeping records.
The ten tabs
| Tab | What you do |
|---|---|
| 🌱 Nursery | Take cuttings in trays and grow rooted plants (needs a greenhouse) |
| 👩🌾 People | Hire and release seasonal workers with weekly wages |
| 🚜 Equipment | Buy and repair six farm machines |
| 🔬 Crop Health | Solve diagnostic cases |
| 💍 Private Events | Book weddings, dinners, field days and more |
| 📦 Wholesale | Fill plant and product contracts |
| 🧬 Breeding | Run multi-year seedling trials (Level 8) |
| 🏗️ Infrastructure | Build facilities such as a propagation greenhouse, well, parking and cool storage |
| 🧪 Product Lab | Complete batch-record checklists |
| 📒 Finance | See cash, assets, inventory, liabilities and equity |
Crop Health cases
| Case | Right first response |
|---|---|
| Cuttings collapse at the soil line in a cool, wet tray | Improve sanitation, drainage and airflow; discard affected material |
| Established plants yellow while crowns stay wet after rain | Open drainage and inspect roots before adding inputs |
| Plants are pale, stretched and leaning toward fixtures | Increase usable light gradually and check spacing |
| Many stems are woody with green only at the tips | Plan moderate shaping while keeping leafy growth |
| A cutting batch roots unevenly across one bench | Compare cultivar, media moisture, light, source and bench position |
| Leaves stay wet and spotting spreads through dense rows | Improve airflow, sanitation and diagnostic observation |
Crop Health rules
- Pick the good response for +2 reputation and +6 XP; the case is marked resolved.
- The poor response costs 20 coins and counts as a crop loss.
- "Next unresolved case" cycles through all six.
Every week (Advance Week)
- Wages for every worker are paid.
- Each owned machine loses 1–3% condition and costs 2 coins upkeep.
- Nursery batches grow, root or fail.
- Wholesale deadlines count down; unfilled orders expire (nothing is taken from you).
- Breeding trials age one year at the first week of spring.
Finance tab
Shows cash, capital assets (buildings plus machines by condition), estimated inventory (4 coins per rooted plant, 12 per finished product), liabilities, simulated equity and cumulative operating margin, plus weekly payroll and maintenance. Borrowing and repaying now happen in the Farm Bank and Farm Capital Lab.
See also
Written from the game itself. Spot something out of date? and our farm team will check it.
