Farming Guide - How to Farm

Farming Guide for Cult of the Lamb (CotL). See how to start farming, list of farm buildings, best building for farms and which rituals to choose.

How to Farm

Unlock Farm Plot & Farming Bundle

All you need is the Farm Plot to start farming crops, but unlocking the Farming Bundle will give you the Farmer Station and Seed Silo. This will allow your followers to work on the farm for you, although you will still need to harvest them yourself.

You can invest more Devotion in the Divine Inspiration tree for farming related buildings to produce food resources, but the Farming Bundle is all you really need in the early game. So we recommend prioritizing other buildings once you unlock the Farming Bundle.

Farming Buildings

List of Farm Related Buildings

Buildings	Effect
Farming Bundle	Farmer Station: Allows Followers to water nearby crops Seed Silo: Put seeds here for your Followers to sow
Scarecrow	Prevents birds from stealing the seeds from Farm Plots within range.
Fertiliser Silo	Put Fertiliser here for your Followers to use on Farm Plots
Harvest Totem	Increase growth speed of all Farm Plots within range.
Farmer Station II	Farmers will be able to harvest your crops and deposit them in a chest for you to collect.
Compost	Deposit grass to turn into fertilizer
Trap Scarecrow	Catches birds that try to steal seeds from Farm Plots within range.
Devotion Harvest Totem	Increase the growth speed of Farm Plots within range, while slowly generating Devotion.
Seed Storage	After a Crusade, deposit seeds here. Followers will automatically distribute them to Seed Silos.
Fertiliser Storage	After a Crusade, deposit Fertiliser here. Followers will automatically distribute them to Fertiliser Silos.
Natural Burial	Deposit dead bodies to turn them into fertilizer.

Best Farm Buildings

The most important building to unlock would be Farmer Station II. The Farmer Station and Seed Silo only automates seeding and watering, but upgrading the Farmer Station will let your followers harvest them as well.

Other Recommended Buildings

Another building you'll want is the Fertiliser Silo which allows your followers to use the fertiliser. Once you have enough resources, you can also build a Scarecrow and Harvest Totem to make things more efficient. The other buildings cost a lot to build and are not necessary unless you like to have a very large farm.

Farming Rituals & Traits

Farm Related Perks

Doctrines	Ritual/Trait	Effect
Sustenance	Ritual of the Harvest	Perform a Ritual at your Temple that causes all seeds to be immediately ready for harvest.
Afterlife	Return to the Earth	Unlocks the "Natural Burial" building. The corpses of dead Followers may return to the earth by becoming fertiliser.

Sustenance

You can unlock Ritual of the Harvest in the Sustenance III Doctrine, but in general we recommend choosing the Ocean's Bounty instead since it gives you access to a lot more rare fish which is hard to get otherwise.

Afterlife

Return to the Earth can be unlocked in the Afterlife IV Doctrine. This will save a lot of space in your cult if you have many followers, especially if you plan to play the game for a while. Grieve the Fallen only gives you Faith, which you can get through other methods, so we recommend getting Return to the Earth.

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