Meadowlight Farm
A cosy farming game with robots you teach yourself. You've inherited a little cottage at the edge of the woods, a watering can, a bag of parsnip seeds and a wide meadow nobody has tilled in years. Down the road is a small town, two neighbouring farmers, and Sol, a seeder who now builds farm robots called farmclaws.
You program the farmclaws with snap-together blocks and give each one standing rules. They do exactly what you tell them, which is the good news and the bad news. Along the way the game shows how automation really behaves: loops, conditions, cost, limits, and why a robot that says ✓ might still have done the wrong thing.
No download and no account. It runs on a laptop or desktop with a keyboard, and your farm saves itself every morning and whenever you close the tab.
How to play
The farm
- Step outside. You wake at 6:00 am on the doorstep. The white box on the ground shows the tile you're facing.
- Till some soil. With the hoe selected (slot 1), press Space on a patch of grass.
- Scatter your seeds. Pick the parsnip seeds and press Space. One handful covers the 3 × 3 patch in front of you and plants every tilled tile in it.
- Water them. Grab the watering can (slot 2). Thirsty seedlings show a blue droplet. Refill the can at the pond.
- Go to bed. Press E at your front door, or N anywhere. Watered crops grow a little every night.
- Harvest and sell. Parsnips are ready after four nights. Pick them with E, drop them in the shipping bin beside the house, and wake up to gold.
Every tool swing costs a little energy, and sleep gives it all back. Stay up past 2:00 am and you pass out, waking with half your energy. Rocks need the pickaxe and stumps the axe, which gives you stone and wood. Press I for your backpack and its Crafting tab: chests, fences, paths, sprinklers, fertiliser and more. Mushrooms and snozberries grow wild in the shade along the woods; forage them with E.
Each season lasts 28 days, crops wither when their season ends, and rain waters everything for you.
| Crop | Seasons | Days to grow | Good to know |
|---|
| Parsnip | Spring | 4 | Your starter crop |
| Potato | Spring | 6 | Sometimes gives two |
| Carrot | Spring, Fall | 5 | |
| Cauliflower | Spring | 12 | Worth the wait |
| Strawberry | Spring | 8 | Keeps fruiting every 4 days |
| Spectraherb | Spring to Fall | 10 | Slow, rare and very valuable |
| Wheat | Summer, Fall | 4 | Cheap and quick |
| Blueberry | Summer | 13 | Keeps fruiting every 4 days |
| Blackberry | Summer, Fall | 10 | Keeps fruiting every 3 days |
| Melon | Summer | 12 | |
| Corn | Summer, Fall | 14 | Keeps fruiting every 4 days |
| Pumpkin | Fall | 13 | The prize of autumn |
The town and its hours
Walk off the farm's south-east corner to reach the town, and through the town's east gate to the Neighbours, where Cosmo and Barnaby farm. The forest lies off the farm's west edge.
Everyone keeps a daily routine. The shopkeepers are at their shops from 8:30 am, eat lunch together in the square at noon on a dry day, and head home in the evening; Cosmo and Barnaby walk into town for that lunch. Shops open 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Outside those hours the door says when it opens again. SLOPMART 24/7, a booth in town run by a robot called DEALZ, never closes. It sells mystery boxes, 3 a day: mostly slop, now and then a gem.
The people
Walk up to anyone and press E to chat. What they say changes with the day and with what's happening on your farm.
| Who | Where | What they do |
|---|
| Marigold | General store | Seeds, and the backpack upgrade: 36 slots for 2000g. B opens her shop from anywhere during shop hours. |
| Sol | Parts exchange | Gives job 1. Sells robot parts and buys them back at half price, once job 2 is done. |
| Juniper | Carpenter | Builds robots once job 1 is done: Minis first, Standard and Big robots after job 3. |
| Cosmo | The Neighbours | Gives job 2. His Big robot says hello to the chickens. |
| Barnaby | The Neighbours | Gives job 3. Four robots, one field, never finished. |
| Berlioz | Blacksmith | Chats. |
| Tallulah | Ranch | Chats. |
Six townsfolk walk their own short loops around town and have a line each day.
The jobs
Talk to a job's giver, press Job, then Take the job. The jobs come in order, and each one opens more of the game.
| Job | Giver | The goal | When it's done |
|---|
| 1. The spinning robot | Sol | Rewrite Sprinkle's spinning program to water the bed by your workbench, then power down with tokens left. Taking it teaches the Wood Burner recipe. | 500g, and Juniper's workshop opens |
| 2. Show him what it can do | Cosmo | Harvest every ripe crop in Cosmo's field, with a program that uses a sensor and an If. | 1000g, Sol's parts shop opens, and Cosmo teaches the Quality Fertiliser and Speed-Gro recipes |
| 3. Know the limits | Barnaby | Harvest Barnaby's whole field by 6:00 pm in one day, at 6 tokens a crop or less. | 2000g, Juniper builds Standard and Big robots, and Barnaby teaches the Quality Sprinkler recipe |
Each job also unlocks the blocks and cards it needs when you take it. For jobs 2 and 3 you work on the neighbour's own robots: face one and press E to open its screen where it stands.
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