Renting Fences

To run a garden, the most important thing you’ll need to prepare is contribution points.
Since fences are an absolute necessity for this life skill, they aren’t items that can be purchased, and instead need to be rented through NPCs. These tend to be farm owners, material vendors, and Old Moon Guild managers.

There are different types of fences, and each costs a different amount of contribution points. As with all items obtained with contribution points, fences can be returned to get the contribution points back.

➤ You can read more about contribution points in the [Contribution] page.

The following table shows the different types of fences available, and how to obtain them.

In the Place Mode view, you can place fences only in areas where the (install) box pops up in green.

When you have completed installing a fence, move within the borders of the fence that you just placed and press the R key to start managing your garden.

Planting seeds is similar to installing furniture in a house. At the top left corner of the screen, you will see the available slots for planting. Select a seed from the window to the right and then click the area of the garden you want it planted in.

Note that there is a limited total number of slots when you plant seeds in a garden. These depend on the type of fence you have, as detailed in the previous section.
Each seed type’s item description will let you know how many slots they take up. You’ll need to take this into account when you are planting.

As seen in the picture above, haystacks take up 4 slots.

When you are done planting a seed, the plant / hypha / haystack will display with 0% growth. It will grow nicely as time goes by.

If the yellow growth bar turns red, it indicates there is a problem with the plant, such as a pest infection caused by blight, or entangled branches.

In these cases, approach the crop, and interact with it (hotkey: R) to prune or kill the insects in it. These actions consume 1 energy.

There are a couple of activities you can do yourself to help the crop you’ve planted grow.

There are a couple of activities you can do yourself to help the crop you’ve planted grow.

If the crop needs water and it hasn’t rained lately, get some distilled water (or purified water) ready in your inventory and take it to your garden. You can right-click on the item and the crop will be watered.
You can also use fertilizer in the same way in order to boost the growth rate.

In order to obtain distilled water, purchase an empty bottle from any Material Vendor NPC and go to the nearest river to fill it, which will result in a bottle of river water. After this, bring up the Processing window (hotkey: L) and heat it up, which will give you distilled water.
Similar to that, you can instead filter the bottle of river water to obtain purified water. While the filtering process is dependent on the weather, it can net you additional items such as alluvial gold.

The simplest fertilizer, inorganic fertilizer, can be obtained through drying grains such as wheat or barley. This is also done in the Processing window, via the drying option.
Better types of fertilizer can be obtained by processing inorganic fertilizer further. Shaking it with leavening agent will result in byproduct fertilizer, and shaking this with any source of water (distilled water for example) will result in the best type of fertilizer: organic fertilizer.

Lastly, if you find all these methods too burdensome (having to water the crops, fertilize the soil, ward off bird attacks, prune the plants, and fight off blights), you can send a worker to do the work for you, or just leave the garden unattended and hope for the best.

If you send a worker, they’ll have trouble taking care of the moisture level or bird attacks, but will take care of pruning and killing insects, which will help you conveniently run your garden and have a more consistent growth rate on all your plants.

Leaving the garden unattended means leaving your crops to be eaten by birds or insects.
If unattended, your crops will take longer to grow to 100%, but it also means that you can do other things in the meantime.

You can choose your strategy according to your own preferences.

Click the Garden icon on the top left part of the screen, below your health bar to view the list of gardens you have installed. Then click the Worker icon to send a worker to your garden.

You require a single worker for each fenced garden you install, and when you start out it may be difficult to assign them to this task due to a lack of enough workers, or contribution points for their lodging. Thus, we recommend you take care of your gardens yourself as you begin your adventure, and then assign workers to take care of them for you once you’ve established your own place in the world of Black Desert.

➤ You can read more about how to obtain and manage workers in the [Workers] page.

The My Gardens window will help you keep track of the status of your installed fences. It will show you the territory each fence is in, as well as let you create a path to their location. It will also tell you the type of fence, the type of crop you have in it, if a worker is currently assigned to it, and additionally it will also warn you with a yellow and red icon when the Scheduled Removal Time reaches 7 days and 2 days, respectively.

On the left, with general harvesting you can obtain, for example, onions. On the right, with plant breeding you can obtain the same or better quality seeds of the crop you planted.

When you harvest your crops, you may obtain blush leaves. This is one of the items that are considered to be byproducts from life skill activities. You can exchange them for other useful items at the designated NPC.

Since it takes up more slots in your garden, it can reduce the time you have to spend on maintaining your garden.

When breeding mysterious crop seeds, you can gain a sizable amount of fruits with a fixed chance. If you’re looking for ingredients needed in alchemy, it can be a good option to use the mysterious seeds you obtain.

At first glance, it will be hard to tell the difference between mysterious and magical seeds. A quick way to differentiate them is by their icon. Mysterious seeds portray a glowing aura around the seed that magical seed icons lack.

Mysterious seeds can only be obtained with a low chance randomly by breeding, so it is hard to sustain long cycles of farming with only them.
On the other hand, 1 or more magical seeds can be obtained by breeding with a fixed chance, so they’re self-sustainable.

Another notable difference between them is that, while breeding mysterious seeds will guarantee you fruits needed for alchemy, breeding magical seeds will only give you the fruits randomly at a certain chance. Thus, there are pros and cons to harvesting and breeding either type of seed.

If you’ve reached the artisan 1 level of farming and want to take less time planting, harvesting, and breeding, then we recommend the use of magical seeds. Conversely, if you haven’t reached this life skill level or if you need alchemy ingredients, then employ mysterious seeds as much as you can.

◈ Special to Magical

If you’re in need of magical seeds, you can try shaking x1 special seed, x2 mysterious seeds, and x10 purified water together. This will result in a magical seed, and the same applies for hyphas.

You can talk to the Old Moon managers in each town to rent this type of fence. If you don’t know the location of any of these NPCs, please search it by using the Find the NPC feature, the looking glass icon you can find to the left of your minimap.

 The Old Moon fence is only about half the size of the strong fence, but allows you to plant the same amount of crops!

* The content of the game guide may differ from the actual game content, depending on the update and content changes.