Farming Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Basic Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Farming recipes.

Notes

The Farming Upgrade is a Basic Efficiency Module that significantly reduces resource cost and craft time at a station when crafting Farming recipes. It is placed into a Module Component slot on compatible stations, with higher-quality upgrades (five levels exist) providing greater efficiency, though Update 13 capped the total benefit at roughly 25%. Once a Farming Upgrade is installed, players working Farming-related recipes will consume fewer materials and less labor per craft.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

⚙ Craft calculator — adjust for your modules, skill & talents

▶ Open the full recipe page

Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Farming Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Farming level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Nutrient Deficient (Farming Lv 3) Seed Sorting (Farming Lv 3) Natural Selection (Farming Lv 6)

Reset to base

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Agriculture Research Paper Basic	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Garbage	0.22
Bio Residue	0.03

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	3000 calories
Craft time	10 min
Throughput	≈ 6 Farming Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

• -5% Resource Cost when crafting with Farming.
• -25% Craft Time when crafting with Farming.

How the Update 14 module system works

Recycling & waste

• 1× Garbage

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 80× Electronic Scrap
• 60× Limestone
• 23.5× Crushed Limestone
• 20× Crop Seed (any)
• 20× Raw Food (any)
• 9.03× Clay
• 7× Wood (any)
• 3.75× Iron Ore
• 0.09× Silica (any)

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Product
• Specialty Module
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Farming Upgrade

See also

Advanced Baking UpgradeAdvanced Cooking UpgradeAdvanced Masonry UpgradeAdvanced Smelting UpgradeBaking UpgradeBasic Engineering Upgrade