Rice Farming Guide

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a game that is renowned for the realistic nature of its rice farming aspect - in fact, the developer Edelweiss' "official strategy guide" is...a link to the Japanese ministry of agriculture's website. It's not uncommon for people, even outside of Japan, to refer to this site for rice farming problems ingame they cannot find the answer to. Questions such as, "what is hopperburn?", or "what exactly is the purpose of ducks in rice farming?"

Hopefully, this guide will be a source of much rice farming information in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, taking information from all kinds of sources. Two things must be said about this guide, however:

1) This guide is just that, a guide. They are not absolute rules, and you can choose to ignore them if you so believe it will improve your rice further - there is no one right way to grow rice.

2) To summarise: there is no one right way to grow rice.

There are many intentions you can grow rice with, and you may want something different of your rice to another person's rice. This game's rice farming does not display 1:1 realism with the real world's rice farming, and so the Japanese ministry of agriculture's site may contain information that cannot be acted on ingame, not to mention the language barrier between Japanese and whatever language you may speak may complicate things, but help is always useful, and so, this guide ideally will help you improve the way you grow rice in your own way. Do not take this guide or show it to others as gospel, but instead use it as something to improve yourself. Just like real rice farming, there are a wide variety of techniques each person prefers.

You can leave most of the farming to Tauemon - however, the quality of the rice will be greatly reduced the more you rely on him, resulting in lower stat gains, and so, if you care enough about your rice to even seek this guide, it is recommended that you do everything yourself.

Firstly, a brief summary of the rice process:

1. Sorting and Sowing
2. Raising (or sowing)
3. Tilling
4. Planting
5. Growth
6. Harvesting
7. Laying
8. Drying
9. Threshing
10. Hulling (or "polishing", depending on the terminology)

There are many things to know about each one of these processes, and these will be detailed in later steps of this guide. The first steps of rice preparation are made in the winter; some start with tilling and some start with sorting, though for this guide, sorting shall be the first step - unless you're in your very first year and you're looking to make progress ahead of time, in which case you can move forward to Planting.

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