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# Crop Fields

Public farms that replant themselves and drop straight into your bags.

Around the server you'll find **crop fields** — large communal farms where crops grow far faster than they do in vanilla, and where harvesting is designed to be fast and lossless.

## How to harvest

Just **break a ripe crop**. That's it.

Three things happen automatically:

|                                   |                                                                                                                                                     |
| --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 📥 **Straight to your inventory** | The harvest goes directly into your bags. Nothing drops on the ground, so nothing despawns and nobody can steal your crops by standing next to you. |
| 🌱 **Instant replant**            | The crop replants itself at stage zero on the very next tick. You never have to carry seeds or re-sow anything.                                     |
| ⚡ **Fast regrowth**               | Fields grow on an accelerated timer that runs whether or not a player is nearby. Come back in a minute and the row you cleared is ready again.      |

A sound and a burst of happy particles confirm each successful harvest.

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## Rules of the fields

### Only ripe crops

Breaking an unripe crop does nothing — the block simply refuses to break. Wait for it to finish growing.

### The farmland is protected

You **cannot break or trample the farmland** itself, and you can't right-click it with a hoe or seeds. The field's layout is fixed, so nobody can grief it — including by accident, by sprinting across it.

### Some fields are restricted

Certain fields are reserved for specific ranks. If you try to harvest one you don't have access to:

> **Error »** You do not have permission to harvest in this field.

Other fields are open to everyone.

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## Custom crops

Some fields grow **custom crops** that don't exist in vanilla Minecraft, with their own textures and their own seeds. They harvest exactly the same way — break them when ripe, and they replant themselves.

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Crop fields pair extremely well with [daily quests](/androlia/economy-and-progression/quests.md). Missions like *"Harvest 64 ripe wheat"* come up regularly, and a field clears that in a couple of minutes.
{% endhint %}