Crops | Buildings Banished Guide

You don't have to spend any money to grow grain and vegetables on crop fields because you select the area to do it by yourself. However, it does not provide food all the year - work in the fields begins in early spring and ends in late autumn. During the game you can grow following crops:

• Cabbage
• Corn
• Potato
• Pumpkin
• Squash
• Wheat

Working hard in the field

Availability of crops from the beginning of the game depends on selected difficulty:

• Easy - all crops available;
• Medium - two types of crops;
• Hard - no crops available.

You can buy seeds of plants mentioned above in the trading post when merchants visit you. Each of them costs 2500 units. Maximum size of a crop field is 15x15 units of area.

The number of workers should match the size of the field. In case of maximum size (15x15), 4-5 citizens should work there. If you see that the farmers can't harvest all crops before winter, you can select early harvest, however in this case they won't plant seeds on all of the field.

Remember to plant various seeds on a field - if you keep planting the same vegetable or grain, soil may become barren, it can also cause a plague that will affect nearby fields as well. Crop rotation should prevent it.

Start growing plants after you build basic sources of food like hunting cabin or gatherer's hut.