Farming
Farming is the heart of StepHarvest: plant seeds, water them with banked steps, and harvest crops to sell, craft, or gift.
How crops work
- Buy seeds from Maple's shop (or earn them), then plant them on your farm grid. Planting costs steps, with the exact cost varying by crop.
- Water each crop (
50 base cost) to keep it growing. Unwatered crops never die, they just pause until you return. - Crops grow in real time. When a crop is ready, harvest it for free.
- Harvests roll a quality tier: Regular Silver Gold Pristine.
- Some crops grow on a trellis, and special crops (marked ★ on their pages) are rarer finds with higher payoffs.
Crops are not season locked. You can plant any crop in any season, but a crop grown out of its season always comes out at the lowest quality tier. To have a shot at the higher tiers, grow a crop during its own season. 
Parsnip, for example, is a 
Spring crop, so it does best planted in spring.
Crop index
This table is generated automatically from each crop page's infobox, so it stays current as pages are updated.
| Crop | Seasons | Planting (steps) | Growth (days) | Base value (gold) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lettuce | spring | 30 | 2 | 40 |
| Turnip | spring | 30 | 2 | 45 |
| Wheat | spring • summer • fall • winter | 35 | 2 | 40 |
| Parsnip | spring | 35 | 2 | 55 |
| Garlic | spring | 45 | 2 | 75 |
| Radish | fall | 60 | 2 | 50 |
| Red Pepper | summer | 60 | 3 | 90 |
| Eggplant | summer | 60 | 3 | 100 |
| Rice | spring | 70 | 4 | 60 |
| Green Bean | spring | 75 | 5 | 40 |
| Potato | fall | 75 | 3 | 80 |
| Tomato | summer | 75 | 3 | 110 |
| Sunflower | summer | 75 | 4 | 130 |
| Beet | fall | 80 | 3 | 90 |
| Kale | spring | 80 | 3 | 110 |
| Corn | summer | 80 | 4 | 120 |
| Cabbage | fall | 90 | 4 | 110 |
| Blueberry | summer | 100 | 4 | 50 |
| Grapes | fall | 100 | 5 | 60 |
| Cauliflower | spring | 100 | 6 | 175 |
| Red Grapes | fall | 110 | 5 | 70 |
| Cranberry | fall | 120 | 4 | 75 |
| Fireberry | summer | 120 | 4 | 85 |
| Dewdrop Vine | spring | 120 | 5 | 140 |
| Pumpkin | fall | 120 | 6 | 180 |
| Banana | summer | 140 | 5 | 130 |
| Coffee | summer | 150 | 5 | 90 |
| Queen's Bloom | spring | 150 | 2 | 100 |
| Strawberry | spring | 150 | 4 | 120 |
| Mango | summer | 160 | 5 | 150 |
| Dragon Fruit | summer | 180 | 6 | 200 |
| Moonberry | winter | 200 | 5 | 250 |
| Sunpetal | summer | 200 | 6 | 280 |
| Duskroot | winter | 200 | 5 | 280 |
| Faebloom | spring | 200 | 6 | 300 |
| Amberfruit | fall | 200 | 6 | 300 |
| Starbell | winter | 250 | 6 | 320 |
| Emberberry | summer | 250 | 7 | 350 |
| Hearthgourd | fall | 250 | 7 | 350 |
| Rubymelon | fall | 250 | 7 | 400 |
| Enchanted Vine | winter | 300 | 7 | 450 |
Animals
The coop and barn house animals that produce goods on their own schedule. More on this soon.