FarmerOwl
A Farmer Owl that runs your whole garden: plows, plants seeds, waters, fertilizes and harvests garden beds automatically.
About this mod Author’s original text
Farmer Owl
Farming got pretty tedious for me — especially all the hoeing — so I built an owl to run the whole garden. It's my first mod; hope it saves you a few hundred clicks!
A helper owl that takes care of your entire garden. Place its house near your
garden beds, stock it with tools and seeds, and it runs the full crop cycle on its own:
- Plows abandoned beds
- Plants seeds into plowed beds
- Fertilizes (for the +50% harvest bonus)
- Waters (doubles growth speed)
- Harvests grown plants back into its house
It always does the most valuable job first (a ready harvest before watering somewhere else).
How to use
Buy the Farmer Owl House from the shop and place it. Open the owl's container and drop in:
- A hoe or pro hoe — to plow
- Seeds — any plantable seed; it plants them into plowed beds
- Compost / fertilizer — for the yield bonus
- A watering can (with charges) — to water
Harvested crops are deposited back into the owl's house for you to collect. While the
house is full the owl just skips harvesting (and keeps doing everything else) until you
empty it.
Multiplayer
Garden beds are managed by the host, so install on the host. The farming works for
everyone in the session. For the owl/house to also look right (green tint + name) on a
client's screen, that client can install the mod too — but it is not required for the
farming itself. Installing it is safe on clients (it stays out of the way).
Compatibility
Designed to stay out of other mods' way: it only patches the minimum needed and never
lowers your own hoe's hit count or alters unrelated systems. Known to play nicely with the
common Ale & Tale Tavern mods (FurnitureAnywhere, MoreWater, Infinite Tool Durability,
One Click Interactions, TavernTweaks, etc.).
Credits
Original HelperFarmer concept by Sayrus
(). This is an
independent, from-scratch reimplementation inspired by that idea, with the garden cycle
completed (seed planting + harvesting) and the item/owl names fixed. Not affiliated with
or endorsed by the original author. Made for fun, not for profit.
Source
Built with BepInEx 5 + HarmonyX. Source is included in the src/ folder of the dev repo.
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
- For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.
Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: