Crimson Desert: Ranching and farming guide
Here's what I know so far:
Reaching 100 trust with the following NPCs
Bremer and Ibano also have a chance to spawn in Hernand in the evening, either on the square or at the tavern outside.
General Ranching
You don't necessarily need to feed the animals but doing so allows them to reproduce if you have enough of them. so it's a good idea to do so.
It also increases the quality of your animals allowing them to produce more goods.
There's a limit of 25 animals on your ranch, once the camp is fully upgraded the limit becomes 35 animals.
You can feed your animals grains and fruit. The grains (barley, oats, wheat) + corn are your easiest and safest bet. Pigs also do really well on acorns.
The products your animals produce; milk, eggs, shorthorn, and feathers are transported to your personal storage chest at the end of every day. Check the chest in camp to find them. The products from butchering also go directly to your personal storage.
Selling livestock
Livestock can be sold for silver at the livestock fence. This means that the ranch can also make you a profit for yourself. You can however also just butcher animals and sell the materials. That too can become quite profitable.
Each class multiplies the price. So a class 3 nets you 3x the buying price for the animal.
So a class 5 cow should sell for 11 silver a piece if I'm correct.
Between culling the ranch and a skyroot and wild ginseng harvest I made almost 100 silver almost entirely passively in the span of minutes.
The animals you can keep:
Another user has made a list on animals you can keep: https://www.reddit.com/r/CDguides/s/f6czx8e9m1
So far that includes:
Goats (milk + shorthorn) butchered: small bone, short hair hide, fine meat, shorthorn
Sheep (fleece) butchered: small bone, short hair hide, fine meat, shorthorn fleece
Cows (milk + shorthorn) butchered: large bone, short hair hide, tender meat, shorthorn
Chickens (feathers and eggs) butchered: feathers, small bone, lean bird meat
Ducks (feathers and eggs) butchered: small bone, feather, lean bird meat
Pigs butchered: small bone, thin hide, marbled meat
Not able to keep/register:
Turkeys
Donkeys
Mountain goat
Kuku bird
Highland cows (more testing needed)
Wild Geese
The ranking system for animals is 0-5. 5 yields the most product and comes from regularly fed animals. (Every 2-3 days at least.)
The easiest way to acces all information is through Ben and manage ranch.
Farming
After a harvest the produce goes directly in your own personal inventory.
The things you can grow:
Abyss cells
Apples
Cacao
Chaya
Coffee cherry
Corn
Enset
Figs
Grapes
Oranges
Peaches
Pears
Prickly Pears
Pomegranates
Shineberries
Skyroot (requires research)
Taro
Tomatoes
Wild Ginseng
Rubber
The things you can't grow*:
Acorn
Barley
Beans
Beets
Blackberries
Blueberry
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumber
Desert Melon
Elderberries
Flax
Garlic
Lentils
Turnips
Oats
Onion
Sweet Potato
Pineapple
Potato
Pumpkin
Raspberry
Strawberries
Wheat
but I figured i could start a thread and get things going. if you have something figured out please add it.
* As of yet
The most useful crops to grow for Abyss Gears (Blueprints required)
Tools:
Tools that are useful:
Fertilizer spray (unlocks through spider queen side quest)
Water sprayer (unlocks through velua pirates side quests)
If these ever break you need rubber to repair them, the quickest and easiest way to get rubber is to bring plenty of thin hides to the troll scholars in scholarstone and gift then 10 thin hide each. (If you're a hoarder like me, you'll likely have 100s of them). The scholars gift you mercury, rubber, and brimstone. Mercury has the highest drop rate, followed by rubber, and brimstone is the rarest. This also is useful for getting gold bars.
When it comes to using the sprayer tools, it's enough to aim at the planted seed and tapping the spray button once so the soil changes color. You do not need to hold the button down.
Axe for chopping down fruit trees, you can also chop them down with the fruits still on it and pick them up from the ground. It's up to preference.
A base shovel for sky root (confirmed)
(Magic) Scythe, plants can be quickly harvested in bulk with it.
Kuku Gardening pack (Requires blueprint, sanctum questlines and progression past chapter 4.)
Any other tool (rake, hoe) cannot be used in the farm as the game sees them as a weapon
For basic mechanics and how to unlock the farm and ranch check out:
From completing faction quests to harvesting your first crops, here's everything the farming system requires.
You can climb your fruit trees if there's ever fruit in them that your character can't reach. As of yet, fruit trees are a single use and need to be chopped down manually. I have not figured out a way to regrow fruit from the same tree.
Special tools at camp Your house can be furnished with special items like cauldrons or special cooking tools, that way you can have everything at camp.
Ways to obtain rare seeds in the early game
In the first hours of the game it may pay off to visit the manors in Hernand and look for boxes that say; Engraved wooden box. These boxes hold seeds, and though it is random, there's a good chance you'll get rare or exotic seeds like Rubber, Cacao, Enset, etc.
Yields:
Fertilizing and watering crops yields massive harvests.
1 tomato seed -> 14 tomatoes
3 corn seeds -> 62 corn
2 skyroot seeds -> 16 skyroot
1 grape seed -> 37 grapes
1 pomegranate seed -> 14 pomegranates
2 wild ginseng seeds -> 18 wild ginseng
2 luminous seeds -> 13 shineberries
2 orange seeds -> 38 oranges
2 apple seeds -> 40 apples
Skyroot and wild ginseng are the most profitable to cultivate as they sell for > 1 silver each.
Yielding a field with singular seeds and a singular spray of fertilizer in the beginning yielded me:
1 fig seed -> 9 Figs
1 pear seed -> 14 pears
1 pomegranate seed -> 15 pomegranates
1 peach seed -> 8 peaches
1 tomato seed -> 14 tomatoes
1 grape seed -> 12 grapes
2 corn seeds -> 25 corn
1 wild ginseng seed -> 4 wild ginseng
1 luminous seed -> 5 shineberries
2 skyroot seeds -> 13 skyroot
2 orange seeds -> 27 oranges
2 apple seeds -> 25 apples
In short, depending on the crop it's better to fertilize daily to maximize yield, but even only doing it once has better results than unfertilized crops.