Farming
Doloc Town Farm Layout
The farm is rotated 90 degrees. You build planters, set them on platforms, and stack sprinklers, chests, generators and walkways upward. Reviews agree on that. They do not agree on “6 tiles wide” or “three pots per floor,” so those numbers stay off this page. Layout, platforms, and ranching placement are the same problem — not three articles.
Why you build up
Polluted soil cannot be hoed (GameGrin). Steam sells the same idea: construct a vertical farm one platform at a time. Gazettely: convenient space is scarce — a basin three ladders above storage gets annoying; a basin next to water, fertiliser and shipping feels like a tiny factory.
What you can move, what you dismantle
Basins can be carried indoors when weather turns. Chests pick up into the backpack and drop again. Buildings must be dismantled first (GameGrin). Tents and containers add both floor space and cover (RPGamer). Year-end patch notes name a Vertical Planter Rack — the name is official; no size or capacity was printed, so none is invented here.
Weather is part of the blueprint
Acid rain hits exposed crops and buildings. Heat raises water use. Lightning rods turn storms into power. Ordinary rain can water outdoor crops. Patch 1.00.04 stopped agricultural drones from tarping crops inside undamaged buildings — indoor planting is a real layout, not a workaround.
Where the ranch sits
Ranching is not a second farm. The animals loop starts after a Small Barn / Small Livestock Shed and Kenenimuu’s tutorial. Keep food crops on platforms: ground plants still get eaten even with full troughs (1.0 tips video). Player reports: animals walk into the shed in rain; a barn is a poor place for crop growth, but a planter can still sit there. Put the shed where you can refill troughs without climbing past every basin.
1.0 extra plots
1.0 news added the final farm expansion tier, farming plots in the wild unlocked by quests, and a wetland farm after players asked for more space. Official previews did not give tile counts. Automation (powered sprinklers, farm drones) changes the daily loop once you can afford it. Do not spend day-one gold on a full factory.