One of the first things you should do when exploring a new world in Core Guardian You are starting a farm to grow food. With a handful of seeds collected from nearby caverns, you can ultimately create anything from a humble garden to sprawling fields. You can even create a monster ranch to easily get alchemical ingredients with little danger!
With this guide, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to create a cavernous farm capable of fueling all of your underground adventures. Almost any vegetable dish or magic potion can be produced from these easy-to-produce ingredients.
As of the publication date of this article, Core Guardian it’s still in early access. The information in this guide may be subject to change as more content is added to the game.
Updated June 23, 2022 by Matt Arnold: The Sunken Sea update adds new crops and spawners, expanding your farming operations! We have added these new items to the guide.
Gardening Basics
Growing and harvesting plants uses the Explorer’s gardening skill, which unlocks Talents that make farming more efficient. Each harvested plant earns points towards your next Talent Point (TP) in Gardening, so it can be beneficial for grow more food than you need. In the worst case, you can always sell excess product or eat at merchants for a few extra ancient coins.
To grow a plant, you will need three things; a hoe to till the land, a seed to plantand a watering can to feed the crops.
pressing the secondary action button with a hoe equipped style the target mosaic, making it capable of sustaining a crop. Cutting the same tile again reverts it to its original state.
When you have carved the tiles you plan to use for landscaping, equip the seeds you want to plant and press the secondary action button aiming at the farmed tiles. To speed things up, you can simply hold the button while moving. Your Explorer will only plant seeds on tilled tiles, so you won’t waste seeds if you target an untilled tile.
If you place the wrong type of seed on a tile or decide you don’t want to grow a seed, you can dig seeds planted again with a shovel or without tilling the soil with a hoe As long as the seed has not started to grow, it will pop out of the ground and can be returned to your inventory.
When your seeds are planted, equip your shower and press the secondary action button while aiming at each seeded tile to water them. The plants will not grow until they are watered, but each seed only needs to be watered once. If your shower runs out of water, you can refill it use it on any water mosaic. For this reason, it is best to grow near a source of water, no matter how small.
Once watered, the seeds will fully grow after ten minutes. After this time has passed, you can harvest the plant. Each plant you harvest has a seventy-five percent chance of also producing a fresh seed of the same type, which you can use to replant the crop.
Plants only grow in the correct soil type for its species. This is the same tile you find them growing on in the wild.
all types of seeds
Gardening is useful for more than just food, as critical raw materials can also be grown from seed. Remember plant Root Seeds away from the rest of your gardenas roots can overgrow your crops if it’s out too long.
| Seed | Yield | I usually | effects |
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| root seed | Wood | Dirt |
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| Glowing Tulip Seed | glowing tulip | Dirt |
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| heart berry seed | heart berry | Dirt |
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| Bomba pepper seed | pepper bomb | Dirt |
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| Kapok Grub Seed | Fiber | Dirt |
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| Carrot Seed | carroca | Stone |
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| puffed oat seed | puffed oats | Dirt |
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| puffungi seed | puffungi | Mold |
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| coral seed | coral wood | Beach sand |
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| pineapple seed | pineapple | Beach sand |
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| pewpaya seed | pewpaya | Beach sand |
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gardening talents
Every five ranks in the Gardening Skill unlocks one Talent Point. Each Talent can have up to five TP invested, and each TP increases the bonus granted by that Talent.
Most talents have prerequisites. To invest a TP in a Talent, at least one of the Prerequisite Talents must have a full five TP already invested.
| Talent | Prerequisite | TP Bonus |
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| grateful gardener |
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| Eat your vegetables! |
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| Bottomless Water Can |
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| thorny weapons |
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| poison coated weapons |
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| prickly skin | EITHER |
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| expert gardener | EITHER |
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| powerful poison | EITHER |
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monster breeding
By covering the ground spawn tokens, you can make monsters appear at your base. Building an enclosure with walls or fences allows you to safely contain spawned enemies until it’s time to kill them.
A fence on a wall is recommended, as it can attack or shoot over fencesallowing you to harvest your aggressive cattle without them hitting you back.
the more spawn tokens are concentrated in a single areafaster enemies will appear.
| spawn tile | monster(s) | Common Yield(s) | Applications |
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| ground slime |
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| fungal soil |
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| Chrysalis |
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| stone moss |
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| lush moss |
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| ground poison slime |
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| Mold |
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| ground slippery slime |
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Mold is also the soil used to grow Puffungi. Don’t worry, mold that’s been hoeed away. will not spawn infected Cavelings so that your garden does not cause your base to be invaded.
