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Rust Farm Planner

Pick a crop, your planters and your clone's six genes. Need the best genes first? Breed them with the gene calculator.

Your farm

Six letters from G, Y, H, W and X - e.g. GGGYYY.
Ripe in
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Harvest
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vs a plant with no Y genes
Clones per cut
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Plants
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Growth stages

Genes

GGrowth+25% growth speed per G
YYield+25% harvest per Y, and one extra clone per two Y
HHardinessBetter soil and temperature tolerance
WWater+10% water use per W (a bad gene)
XEmptyDoes nothing - a wasted slot

A plant grows at the pace of its WORST condition out of light, water, ground and temperature. Facepunch doesn't publish base harvest amounts and fan sources disagree, so harvests are shown relative to a plant with no Y genes. Grow times assume default server settings and ideal light and temperature; without fertilizer a plant takes about half as long again. Medium - stage times, water and gene effects come from one fan tool reading the game files (oct 2026); planter sizes are confirmed. Checked 2026-11-13. Sources: Facepunch - Farming Update devblog (2020-04-02); Facepunch - Crafting Update devblog (2025-03-06); Godclone farming guide (fan tool, game files Oct 2026); Godclone growth stages (fan tool, game files Oct 2026).

Plan a Rust farm: pick a crop, a planter and your clone's genes to see how long it takes to ripen, how many clones each cut gives, how much more it yields than a plain plant, and how much water the planters drink.

Frequently Asked Questions

About 112 minutes from planting to ripe with fertilizer and good conditions, faster with G genes (each adds 25% growth speed) and roughly half as long again without fertilizer.

G (growth) and Y (yield) are the useful ones, and H (hardiness) helps in poor conditions. W (water) makes the plant drink more and X does nothing. GGGYYY and GGYYYY are the usual targets.