Farming on Blight Light is built around advanced farm blocks: chicken coops, beehives and planters that never need feeding, watering or babysitting. Place one, and it keeps producing while you are out fighting the Blight.
Everything here comes in three tiers. T1 is the entry level, T3 is the fastest.
At a glance#
| What you can get | Advanced chicken coops, advanced beehives, advanced small and large planters |
| Tiers | T1, T2 and T3 for each one |
| Upkeep | None. No food, water, love, sunlight, temperature or humidity to manage |
| Where to buy | The Chimera Coin shop, SPECIALITEMS tab (/shop or /mshop) |
| Price range | 5,000 to 40,000 Chimera Coins (CC) |
| Works indoors | Yes. All of them run fine inside your base |
Step 1: buy your farm blocks#
Open the shop with /shop (or go straight to the Chimera Coin shop with /mshop) and pick the SPECIALITEMS tab.
| Item | T1 | T2 | T3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small planter | 5,000 CC | 7,500 CC | 10,000 CC |
| Large planter | 12,500 CC | 15,000 CC | 17,500 CC |
| Advanced chicken coop | 15,000 CC | 25,000 CC | 40,000 CC |
| Advanced beehive | 15,000 CC | 25,000 CC | 40,000 CC |
There is no daily or per-wipe buy limit on these items.
Voting milestones 7 and 17 also hand out an advanced large planter (T1, then T3). See Rewards. New to Chimera Coins? Start with Economy.
Step 2: advanced chicken coops#
Place the coop like a normal chicken coop and raise chickens in it the usual Rust way. Every chicken that hatches in an advanced coop gets that coop's boost.
- Hunger, thirst, love and sunlight stay locked at 100%. You never feed, water or pet them.
- The coop still holds the normal 4 chickens.
- The tier only changes how often each chicken lays an egg:
| Tier | One egg every |
|---|---|
| T1 | 5 to 6.25 minutes |
| T2 | 4 to 5 minutes |
| T3 | 2.67 to 3.33 minutes (about 2 min 40 s to 3 min 20 s) |
Tip: Eggs are a key ingredient for Cooking. Scrambled eggs, pancakes, packed lunches, sponge cake and more all need them.
Step 3: advanced beehives#
Advanced beehives hold ideal conditions all the time. They do not care if they are outside, and temperature and humidity are held at the perfect level for them.
| Tier | Production speed | Honeycomb per cycle |
|---|---|---|
| T1 | 80% of a normal hive | 2 (same as normal) |
| T2 | 100% of a normal hive | 2 (same as normal) |
| T3 | 150% of a normal hive | 3 (50% more) |
Note: A T1 hive is a little slower than a perfectly placed normal hive. What you pay for is zero upkeep. The T3 hive is the one that clearly out-produces a normal hive.
Tip: Jar of Honey is one of the three ingredients in the M16A2 recipe. See Crafting.
Step 4: advanced planters#
Advanced planters need no water, no light and no temperature care. Plant seeds as normal and they grow on their own.
| Tier | Growth speed |
|---|---|
| T1 | 80% of a plant in perfect conditions |
| T2 | 100% of a plant in perfect conditions |
| T3 | 150% of a plant in perfect conditions |
- Small and large planters of the same tier grow at the same speed. The large one simply holds more plants.
- Every G (growth) gene on a plant adds another 25% of normal speed on top of the planter's tier. For example, a plant with two G genes grows at 130% in a T1 planter and 200% in a T3 planter. Good genes and a T3 planter stack.
- Ripe crops stop aging. A ripe plant waits for you and does not wither, so you can log off without losing your harvest.
Tip: Grow pumpkins, potatoes and corn. They are ingredients in several Cooking recipes, such as Horse Feed and Packed Lunch.
Tips#
- Build your farm indoors. None of the advanced blocks need sunlight or open sky, so they are safe inside your walls.
- Buy the tier you will keep. A T3 block costs less than buying T1, T2 and T3 one after another.
- Chickens, honey and crops feed the rest of the game. Eggs and crops go into meals (Cooking), and honey goes into gun crafting (Crafting).
- Want resources that mine themselves? See Quarries & Pump Jacks. Want to smelt faster? See Industry.