Research and buildings
Spend coins on new crops, hives, composters and a bigger satchel.
Research
A new farm can only plant carrots. Everything else is research, bought once with unlock name and kept
for good. Unlocking is a farm action: it costs no ticks, doesn’t end the bot’s turn, and returns false without
doing anything if you can’t afford it yet. Research counts toward your net worth.
| Research | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
carrot | Free | Unlocked from the start. |
wheat | 40 coins | Lets you plant wheat. |
clover | 60 coins | Lets you plant clover. |
pumpkin | 250 coins | Lets you plant pumpkin. |
berry | 400 coins | Lets you plant berry. |
apple | 900 coins | Lets you plant apple. |
hive | 300 coins | Lets you build hives. |
composter | 200 coins | Lets you build composters. |
satchel | 500 coins | Every bot carries 30 units instead of 20. |
Check what you have with unlocked(wheat) and what something costs with unlock_cost(berry).
Orders only ask for crops you have researched.
Buildings
A bot builds on the tile it stands on with build hive or build composter. The tile must be plain grass:
not the barn, not tilled, and without a crop. Building takes 4 ticks and costs coins on top of the research.
clear removes a building (or a crop, or tilled soil) for good, with no refund.
Hive, 120 coins to build
Composter, 80 coins to build
Hives
A hive makes one jar of honey every 400 ticks and holds up to 6. A bot standing on the
hive collects it with harvest. Honey sells for 8 coins, more than any crop. scan().honey tells you how
many jars are waiting.
Hives also pollinate. When a ripe crop is harvested, every hive on the four tiles directly next to it (north, south, east, west) adds 25% to the harvest. A crop surrounded by four hives yields double.
Composters
Stand on a composter and compost turns every four crop units the bot is carrying into one unit of compost.
Compost can’t be sold or deposited. Carry it to a tired tile and fertilize uses one unit to add 25 nitrogen
and take away 20 fatigue. That keeps your best tiles producing without resting them.