Farm Calculator

Farm Profile

Vanilla ships read-only. Duplicate it to add modded crops and recipes, then export the profile to share it or move it between machines.

Profile: Rename:

Crops

Selected crop Name: Grown in a farm plot

Uncheck for auto-farmed crops like Algae — they cost no plots, no water, and never gate the craft rate.

Grow (min): Net / cycle: Ice/min growing: Ice/min grown: Harvest: Avg: Replant:

Net / cycle is harvest average minus replant — vanilla is 2. Ice/min growing is 10 × the crop's water multiplier; once grown it drops to 0.1× that.

Recipes

Selected recipe Name:

Calories %: Heal %:

Counts are per craft. Price is derived from calories — Cal% × (150000 ÷ 71), anchored to Spaghetti = 150k.

Target & Plots

Pick a target meal and how many plots you have. The split keeps every crop's supply balanced so nothing bottlenecks. Algae is treated as free (auto-farm + backlog).

Target recipe Farm plots available

Plot Allocation

Crop	Plots	% of plots	Output /min	Needed /min	Ice /min

All the numbers — crop economics & full recipe table

Crop economics

Ice = water (1:1). A growing plot draws 10 × the crop's water multiplier in ice/min; once fully grown that drops to 0.1×. Each Irrigation Controller supplies up to 600 ice/min (0.25 MW). Algae uses a Solar Food Generator — no water or ice.

Recipes — ranked by calories per net farm-minute (Algae = free)

Net farm-min = Σ(count × grow ÷ net), algae counts as 0. Price = Cal% × (150000 ÷ 71), anchored to Spaghetti = 150k. Price/cal ≈ 2113 by design. Fm = farm-min.

Net yield per cycle = 2 (harvest avg 3, minus 1 replant). A plot makes 2 / growtime units per minute. Plots are allocated ∝ (units needed × grow time). Price = Calories% × (150000 / 71), anchored to Spaghetti = 150k. Algae farm = 1 / 180 s.