Cultivation

Cultivation allows you to grow items yourself, by taking care of them each day! This guide will tell you exactly how it works. Here are some useful things you can cultivate on Realms Away:

1. Out of season Seasonal Trait Items, which use to get the correct cultivation item for.
2. A money tree, to help you earn some coinage passively.
3. Apples, which you can feed to your companions to change their elements/appearance or awaken them into an artefact.
4. A Synthetic Soul, which is used in the crafting of MYO items (in case you don't wish to straight up buy one).

For now, here are the basics of cultivation, though!

1. Unlocking the Area

When first starting out, you will be unable to enter each cultivation area. They can be unlocked by completing their respective activities!

• Serpent Glade: Unlock through "Of Snakes and Apples"
• Greenhouse: Unlock through "Your very own Greenhouse"
• Workshop: Unlock through "The workshop contract"
• Magic Laboratory: Unlock through "Magical Creations"

2. Preparing the Plot

Upon your first visit to a cultivation area, you will see that none of the plots are ready for cultivation. You will need to prepare them first with tools! Each tool creates a different type of plot. If you are unsure what plots exist and which tool they are created by, check out the Cultivation Quick Guide!

Tools can be purchased at many shops, so you can either shop around for them - or just click on the tool from the Quick Guide, which will lead you to a page that lists where it is sold at.

1. Go to the cultivation area.
2. Click the plot you want to prepare. Select "prepare plot" and choose the tool you wish to use. 
3. The plot will be prepared and is now ready for cultivation!

3. Start Cultivating

Now that the plot is prepared, you need to plant something in it to start the cultivation process. For this, we need cultivation items. Similar to the step above, you can use the Cultivation Quick Guide to find out what items can be planted in which plot. Clicking the item will tell you what it yields once it is ready for harvest.

1. Go to the cultivation area.
2. Click the plot you want to prepare. Select "cultivate" and choose the item you wish to use. 
3. The is now cultivating, and will need care.

4. Care

A plot that is currently cultivating needs both time and care. Depending on the item planted, this can take a different amount of days - seasonal trait items take 11 days of care until harvest, while the money tree takes almost a month to be ready! But how do you care for the plot?

1. Go to the cultivation area (in this example, Serpent Glade). The daily task checklist is a useful tracker for you to get your daily care in as well!
2. Click the plot you want to care for. Select "tend to plot" to care for it.
3. The plot will be cared for, and you will see the days towards the next stage increase! 
4. Each day, you can care for 10 plots total.

All that is left to do is return to care for each plot until it is ready for harvest.

5. Harvest

The day will come where your plot tells you it is ready for harvest! Here's how you do that.

1. Go to the cultivation area (in this example, Serpent Glade). 
2. Click the plot you want to harvest. Select "harvest" to claim your cultivated item.
3. The item will be moved to your inventory.
4. The plot will return to its empty state. Note: you do not need to use a tool again to prepare the plot, unless you wish to change the plot type.
5. If you want, you can plant a new item now!

And that's the full loop! Have fun and get cultivating!