Farming & Animal Husbandry

Learn the basics of farming and animal husbandry in Hytale! Discover how to grow crops, domesticate animals, and manage your farm for renewable resources. Your friendly guide to getting started.

Hey there! So you're looking to get into farming and raising animals in Hytale? Awesome! It's a super rewarding part of the game, letting you create your own renewable resources. Let's break it down. ## Food To start growing your own food, you'll need a [hoe](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Hoe "Hoe"). Use it to till up some [dirt](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Dirt "Dirt") into farmland. Once you've got your plots ready, you can plant seeds. Crops will grow over time, taking several in-game days to mature. Keep an eye on them! ## Livestock Raising animals is pretty neat too. It involves domesticating [animals](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Animal "Animal"). The key thing here is their happiness system. It reacts to a bunch of stuff like how hungry they are, if they have comfy bedding, and if they've got other similar creatures nearby. Happy animals are productive animals! ## A Little History Farming has been a part of _[Hytale](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Hytale "Hytale")_ since the very beginning. It was first shown off way back in the [trailer](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Trailer "Trailer") on December 13, 2018. Later, on November 27, 2019, a [blog](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Blog "Blog") post gave us more details. By January 29, 2020, they'd added even more cool stuff like new [crop](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Crop "Crop") types, new growing assets, and even [manure](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Poop "Poop") which can be used as fertilizer. Pretty cool how it's evolved! ## Gallery Want to see some of this in action? Check out these: * A farm with [pumpkins](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Pumpkin "Pumpkin"), [eggplants](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Eggplant "Eggplant"), and [carrots](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Carrot "Carrot"). * Farming as it looked in the _[Hytale](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Hytale "Hytale")_ [trailer](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Trailer "Trailer"). * A [player](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Player "Player") getting ready to till some [dirt](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Dirt "Dirt"). * A farming house in [zone 1](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Zone_1 "Zone 1") with [wheat](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Wheat "Wheat") fields. * A look at the animal [manure](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Poop "Poop") – useful for fertilizer! * A [player](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Player "Player") watering some [corn](https://hytale-game.fandom.com/wiki/Corn "Corn"). That's the gist of it! Farming and livestock are great ways to sustain yourself and add to your world. Happy farming!