Farm Idle Game

Grow, harvest, preserve, and profit—build your farming empire one plot at a time!

Farm Idle Game is a relaxing and strategic idle clicker. Plant and harvest crops, can them into preserved goods, keep bees, join a guild, expand your farm and start a new Legacy for bigger rewards. Four seasonal events run on real dates, each with its own farm and currency, and the farm keeps growing while you're away. Nearly every image is cozy 32×32 pixel art.

✨ Latest Updates (v0.17.0)

🍉 The Summer Watermelon Festival - Opens June 21

• The fourth seasonal event: Grow watermelons, chill and carve them at the Juice Stand, and sell them at the Festival Grounds for Tickets
• Challenge Board: Three challenges at once against Maggie Pickett, Earl Boone and the Vance Twins, who are also the County Fair's rivals now
• Seven achievements: Including Summer Sun, a permanent +5% summer crop yield

🌷 Archie's Gardener Outfit

• A spring look for Archie: Earned with Regular Customers, 50 bunches sold at the Spring Market. Players who already have it can pick the outfit in Settings now

🛠️ Fixes

• Tree Farm buttons: Harvest All and Plant All sit beside the title, as on the other events' patches
• Crop choice: Each event's patch remembers the crop you picked, through tab switches and reloads

Earlier Updates

• v0.16.0: The Spring Farmer's Market, the Tree Shop face lift, Soilbound Pact and guild mastery
• v0.15.0: The Merchants Guild, Payroll, Hostile Takeover and Ferdinand the cat
• v0.14.0: The Engineers Guild, the Cannery, Stanley the cat, smooth progress bars and a steadier header
• v0.13.0: The Preservers Guild, Dunkin the Glutton, Legacy, and the Garden, Kitchen and Honeycomb tabs
• v0.12.0: Fall Pumpkin Rush event, cozy pixel art rework, more ways to earn Guild Tokens, canning in background tabs
• v0.11.0: Guild system with the Growers Guild, 10 fruit crops, Ritual Harvest
• v0.10.0: Achievement and recipe unlock fixes, recipe filters in the Canning tab
• v0.9.0: Bee system with honey, Golden Honey, honey recipes and crop yield bonuses
• v0.8.0: Christmas Tree Shop seasonal event
• v0.7.0: Game event logging added
• v0.6.0: Achievement system, accessibility features, Chrome 142+ freeze fix, UI polish
• v0.5.0: Canning System, Unified Tab Interface, Improved Farm Tiers
• v0.4.0: Advanced Stash Display, Vegetable Sell Controls, Enhanced Archie
• v0.3.0: Four Auto-Purchaser systems
• v0.2.0: Archie bonus system, comprehensive help documentation

Gameplay Overview

🌱 Growing System

• Simultaneous Growth: All unlocked crops grow at the same time, each with its own growth rate and favorite seasons
• 10 Vegetables: Radish, Lettuce, Green Beans, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Peppers, Carrots, Broccoli and Onions, unlocked in order with experience
• 10 Fruits: Strawberry through Watermelon, opened by the Growers Guild's Fruit Cultivation upgrade and unlocked with 50,000 to about 60 million experience
• Harvesting: Click to collect grown crops or buy an Auto Harvester for each crop
• Strategic Selling: Choose which crops to sell or stockpile with each crop's Sell or Hold button
• Reward Balance: Manual harvesting gives full experience and knowledge; auto-harvesting gives half, except for the Engineers, whose machines get full rewards

🥫 Canning System (Unlocks at Farm Tier 3)

• Recipe Processing: Turn raw crops into preserved goods worth more than their ingredients
• 42 Recipes: Simple, complex and gourmet recipes; 16 need Golden Honey, 2 jar honey alone once you buy Honey Jars, 10 Cellar recipes belong to the Preservers, and new ones unlock with canning experience
• The Kitchen: The pantry shows your crops and honey, the stove shows every batch cooking, and the recipe book shows each recipe's ingredients, value and time
• Stove Slots: Run up to 16 batches at once (upgradeable with Batch Canning)
• Automation: The Canner starts a batch every 10 seconds, using the first recipe in your sort order that your stash covers
• The Cannery: Engineers run a factory floor instead, where each machine makes the recipe you set
• Enhanced Rewards: Earn money, experience, AND knowledge from completed recipes; Canner batches give less knowledge

🐝 Bee System (Unlocks at Farm Tier 4)

• Bee Hives: Start with 2 hives and buy more with honey, up to 30
• Honey: Each hive makes a 15 lb batch every 132 days and keeps stockpiling until you collect; bees rest in winter unless you buy Winter Hardiness
• Golden Honey: Each batch has a 1% base chance to be golden; used in premium recipes
• Pollination: Every hive adds +0.5% crop yield, raised further by Meadow Magic and Flower Power
• Beekeeper Assistant: Hire him at 4 hives for 750 honey; he collects every batch as it's made and speeds up the bees
• Honey Jars: For 1,000 honey, the Kitchen jars honey and Golden Honey on their own
• Honey Recipes: Honey unlocks new canning recipes

🛡️ Guilds (Unlock at Farm Tier 5)

• Four Guilds: Growers, Preservers, Engineers and Merchants, each with its own philosophy, bonuses and trade-offs
• Guild Tokens: Before you commit, earn tokens from manual harvests (+1 each), canned goods (+1 per 5), batches of honey (+2 per batch) and auto harvests (+1 per 10)
• Sampling: Try up to two starter upgrades from each guild before you choose; unspent tokens don't carry over when you join, and a guild's currency is earned only as a member. The Merchants' starters cost money instead of tokens
• Growers Guild: Commit to earn Sigils from manual harvests and spend them on 8 guild upgrades, including Fruit Cultivation
  • Bonuses: Extra crops on manual harvests, stronger bee pollination, and with Soilbound Pact, ripe crops that harvest themselves
  • Trade-offs: Auto harvesters run 25% slower and canning pays 15% less
• Ritual Harvest: With Ritual Circles, spend 5 Sigils to harvest every ready crop at once
• Preservers Guild: Commit to earn Wax Seals from batches you start and spend them on 10 guild upgrades, including Cellar Recipes and the Pressure Canner
  • Bonuses: Jars sell for 20% more, Recipe Mastery, Prize Jars and Rush Batch
  • Trade-offs: Raw crops sell for 10% less, and Dunkin the Glutton raids the pantry
• Engineers Guild: Commit to earn Gears from auto harvests, factory floor batches and Stanley, and spend them on 10 guild upgrades, including Bulk Purchasing and Night Shift
  • Bonuses: Every crop gets a faster Auto Harvester with full rewards, batches run 30% faster, and the Kitchen becomes the Cannery
  • Trade-offs: No manual harvests or canning, crops sell for 15% less and jars for 25% less, and the bees make 25% less honey
• Tune-Up: Click Stanley the cat when he visits, and every machine runs twice as fast for a minute
• Merchants Guild: Commit to spend money on 10 guild upgrades, including Wholesale, Additives and Hostile Takeover
  • Bonuses: Crops and jars sell for 15% more, Payroll lays off or rehires every auto-buyer at once, and Ferdinand brings Hot Tips
  • Trade-off: Knowledge from harvests and canning is 15% lower
• Hot Tip: Click Ferdinand the cat when he visits, and crops and jars sell for double for a minute
• Legacy: From Farm Tier 6, end your Legacy to start the farm over and keep half your guild levels, one unlock and your special achievements; then choose a guild again. An upgrade bought up to its max always keeps at least one level

🏆 Progression Systems

• Experience Unlocking: Gain experience from harvesting to unlock crops in sequence
• Farm Expansion: Buy a larger farm for more max plots (+1 per 100 experience, up to double); crops and upgrades reset, but you keep your knowledge and leftover money
• Knowledge: Earn knowledge from harvesting and canning to buy upgrades
• Farm Tiers: Each tier adds knowledge to every harvest, starts you with more experience, and opens new systems: Canning at Tier 3, Bees at Tier 4, Guilds at Tier 5

🎃 Fall Pumpkin Rush Event (Seasonal: Sep 22 - Thanksgiving)

• Four Activity Tabs: Pumpkin Patch, Carving Barn, Farm Stand and County Fair
• Pumpkin Growing: Plant Sugar Pie, Carver and Atlantic Giant pumpkins; Prize Seeds grow Blue Ribbon pumpkins worth double
• Materials and Crafting: Harvests give Seeds, Pulp and Vines for pies, candles and carving stencils
• Carving: A stencil carves a pumpkin (+2 Candy Corn), a candle lights it (+3 Candy Corn), and both make a Jack-o'-Lantern worth triple
• Candy Corn: Event currency from sales, harvests, the Hayride and Archie; demand doubles by Halloween and holds until Thanksgiving
• County Fair Weigh-Off: Once a game year, enter an Atlantic Giant against Maggie Pickett, Earl Boone and the Vance Twins for ribbons and Candy Corn; each win gives champion seeds for heavier giants
• Event Upgrades: 16 upgrades for the Patch, Barn and Stand, from Compost Heap and Prize Seeds to the Hayride and Fortune Teller
• Automation: The Scarecrow Crew crafts supplies and finishes pumpkins for you
• Sales Achievements: Five achievements for pumpkins sold pay Candy Corn and farm rewards; the 2nd unlocks Archie's Fall Sweater, and the 5th his Warlock Costume and a permanent +5% fall crop yield
• Offline Progress: Pumpkins grow, the crew works and the Hayride pays while you're away

🎄 Christmas Tree Shop Event (Seasonal: Nov 1 - Dec 25)

• Three Activity Tabs: Tree Farm, Workshop and Shopfront
• Tree Growing: Plant and harvest Pine, Spruce and Fir trees with quality variations; harvests give Wood, Pinecones and Branches
• Crafting and Decoration: Make Ornaments, Candles and Garlands, then decorate trees to multiply their sale value
• Holiday Cheer: Event currency earned by selling decorated trees
• Event Upgrades: 15 upgrades for the Tree Farm, Workshop and Shopfront, from Fertilized Soil and the Elves' Bench to the Golden Bell Counter and Star Forge
• Automation: The Elves' Bench crafts and decorates trees at 1-20 items a second
• Achievements: Six achievements for trees sold, from 1 to 5,000, pay 50 to 8,000 Holiday Cheer, and their rewards include Archie's sweater and reindeer hat, Frost Fertilizer (+5% winter crop yield), a cocoa canning recipe and falling snow
• Offline Progress: Full support for tree growth, crafting, and passive income while away

🌷 Spring Farmer's Market Event (Seasonal: Mar 20 - Memorial Day)

• Four Activity Tabs: Flower Beds, Herb Garden, Potting Shed and Market Stall
• Flower Beds: Plant Tulips, Daffodils and Roses in six beds; each harvest gives a bunch, greenery and seeds
• Herb Garden: Mint, Basil, Chamomile and Lavender are planted once and grow a sprig every 20 to 60 days, up to 10 each, or 25 with the Trellis
• Finishes: Greenery makes a bunch Arranged (+2 Petals), a lavender sprig makes it Scented (+3 Petals), and both make a Gift Bouquet worth triple
• Potting Shed: Mint Tea, Chamomile Tea, Pesto and, with the Packet Press, Seed Packets
• Petals: Event currency from sales, harvests, the Busker and Archie; demand doubles by Mother's Day and holds until Memorial Day
• Market Day: Load the Cart, and every 60 days, or 40 with the Pony Cart, it sells everything on it for 50% more
• Event Upgrades: 19 upgrades for the Beds, Garden, Shed and Stall, from the Rain Barrel and Trellis to Silk Ribbons and the Busker
• Automation: The Gnome Crew gathers herbs, makes teas, ties bouquets and, with the Cart Loader, loads the Cart
• Achievements: Five for bunches sold pay Petals and farm rewards, the 2nd Archie's Gardener Outfit and the 5th April Showers, a permanent +5% spring crop yield; and Best Mom for 50 Gift Bouquets on Mother's Day
• Offline Progress: Flowers and herbs grow, the crew works, Market Day sells the Cart and the Busker plays while you're away

🍉 Summer Watermelon Festival Event (Seasonal: Jun 21 - Labor Day)

• Four Activity Tabs: Melon Patch, Juice Stand, Festival Grounds and Challenge Board
• Melon Patch: Sugar Babies (free, 180 days), Crimson Sweets (200 Tickets, 240 days) and the Carolina Cross (1,000 Tickets, 540 days) in six plots, up to 12 with Patch Expansion; each harvest gives seeds, splits and a Ticket
• Sweetness and Weight: Melons are measured in Brix, and one at 12.0 or more is a Sugar Melon worth double. The Carolina Cross is weighed at harvest and waits on a shelf of 12
• Juice Stand: The Ice House freezes a block of ice every 20 days; Melon Balls, Agua Fresca, Pickled Rinds and Roasted Seeds come from splits, rinds and seeds
• Finishes: Ice chills a melon (+2 Tickets), a cup of melon balls carves it (+3 Tickets), and both make a Picnic Basket worth triple
• Tickets: Event currency from sales, harvests, the Parade Route, the Carousel, Dunk Tank tips, challenge prizes and Archie; demand doubles by the Fourth of July and holds until Labor Day
• Heatwave: Chilled melons, Picnic Baskets, Snow Cones and Agua Fresca sell for 50% more while the farm has a Heatwave
• Challenge Board: Three year-long challenges at once against Maggie Pickett, Earl Boone and the Vance Twins, from five kinds: Harvest Race, Sales Sprint, Sweetest Melon, Seed Spitting and Heaviest Melon. Prizes of 100, 50 and 25 Tickets, and champion bonuses for sweeter and heavier melons
• Event Upgrades: 23 upgrades for the Patch, Stand, Grounds and Board, from Straw Mulch and the Ice House to the Carousel and Spitting Practice
• Automation: The Picnic Crew packs baskets, scoops melon balls, mixes Agua Fresca, pickles rinds and roasts seeds
• Achievements: Five for melons sold pay Tickets and farm rewards, the 5th Summer Sun, a permanent +5% summer crop yield; Record Breaker for a Carolina Cross past the world record; and a hidden one
• Offline Progress: Melons grow, the Ice House fills, the crew works and the Carousel pays while you're away; the Challenge Board waits until you're back

Upgrade Details

Per-Crop Upgrades (Growing Tab)

• Fertilizer: Increases growth rate by +5% per level for the selected crop
• Better Seeds (Knowledge): Raises the selected crop's sale price by 25% per level (50% with Heirloom Seeds)
• Additional Plot: Adds +1 crop per harvest for the selected crop, using one of your farm's plots
• Auto Harvester: Harvests the selected crop on a timer, every 50 seconds at first; click it to pause or resume
• Harvester Speed: Makes the Auto Harvester 5% faster per level

Global Upgrades

• Farmer's Almanac: Increases knowledge gain by +10% per level
• Irrigation: Provides a constant +15% growth rate bonus AND negates drought penalties ($750 + 75 Knowledge)
• Merchant: Sells every crop set to 💰 Sell once every 30 days ($1,000 + 100 Knowledge)
• Greenhouse: Removes winter and snow growth penalties for all crops (cost scales with farm size)
• Heirloom Seeds: Doubles the effect of Better Seeds (cost scales with the highest crop you've unlocked); Engineers know it as GMO Seeds

Auto-Purchaser System

• Assistant: Auto-purchases Fertilizer upgrades every 7 days using money
• Cultivator: Auto-purchases Better Seeds upgrades every 7 days using knowledge
• Surveyor: Auto-purchases Additional Plot upgrades every 7 days using money (respects limits)
• Mechanic: Auto-purchases Harvester Speed upgrades every 7 days using money

Canning Upgrades (Canning Tab)

• Quick Hands: Reduces canning time by 5% per level
• Family Recipe: Increases the sale price of canned goods by 10% per level
• Heirloom Touch: Chance to get bonus canned goods from a batch
• Batch Canning: Adds processing slots to run more recipes at once

Bee Upgrades (Bees Tab)

• Production: Busy Bees, Super Frames, Nectar Efficiency and Swift Gatherers make more honey, faster
• Golden Honey: Royal Jelly, Queen's Blessing and Golden Touch raise the Golden Honey chance
• Crop Yield: Meadow Magic and Flower Power raise the pollination bonus for your crops
• Winter Hardiness: Bees keep producing honey through the winter

Features

🌦️ Environmental Systems

• Four Dynamic Seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter - each lasting ~90 days
• Seasonal Crop Bonuses: Each vegetable grows faster in its favorite seasons
• Winter: Crops grow at 10% speed unless you own a Greenhouse
• Weather Events: Clear, Rain (+20% growth), Storm (+10%), Drought (-50%), Heatwave, Snow
  • Heatwave: -30% in Summer; in Spring and Fall, summer crops grow 10% faster and the rest 30% slower; +20% in Winter
  • Snow: Stops growth unless you own a Greenhouse

🏅 Achievements

• 65 Achievements: Across farming, wealth, progression, canning, bees, visits from Dunkin, Stanley and Ferdinand, the factory floor, Hostile Takeovers, Legacies, guild mastery and all four seasonal events
• Rewards: Money, knowledge, Holiday Cheer, Candy Corn, Petals, Tickets, Archie outfits, a cocoa recipe and permanent crop bonuses
• Permanent Bonuses: Frost Fertilizer (+5% winter crop yield), Harvest Moon (+5% fall crop yield), April Showers (+5% spring crop yield) and Summer Sun (+5% summer crop yield)

💾 Save & Progression

• Auto-Save System: Progress saves to localStorage automatically every 30 seconds
• Export/Import: Timestamped save files for backup and sharing
• Offline Progress: Crops grow and auto-harvest, bees make honey, the Merchant sells with the Merchants' Futures, and the seasonal events keep running while you're away (the farm credits up to 8 hours, or 12 with the Engineers' Night Shift)
• Background Tabs: The game catches up when you return to a hidden tab, canning included
• Backward Compatibility: Seamless migration when new features are added
• Event Persistence: Seasonal event progress saves separately and persists across farm expansions

📚 Player Experience & Accessibility

• In-Game Help: Help pages explain each system with strategy tips, and a first-harvest tutorial gets you started
• Pause Button: Pause the whole game from the header; the button glows while paused
• Event Log: A running record of harvests, sales, weather, unlocks, achievements and event activity
• Archie: Shows up now and then; click him for bonus money, plus Holiday Cheer, Candy Corn, Petals or Tickets during events, with streak multipliers and sound effects 🐕. Choose his look in Settings, including winter, fall and spring outfits earned from achievements
• Accessibility: 100+ ARIA labels, keyboard navigation with focus trapping in modals, screen reader announcements for toasts, achievements and visits, 4.5:1 contrast on tabs and header buttons, alt text on images, landmark regions and a mute control for sound effects

Roadmap

• Root Cellar: Somewhere for finished jars to rest and gain value before they sell

🎮 New Player Guide

1. Start Simple: Begin with Radish and focus on Fertilizer upgrades for faster growth
2. Use the Help System: Click the "Info" button in the header for guides on each system
3. Manual vs Auto: Manual harvesting gives full experience and knowledge; auto gives half - balance active play with idle progression
4. Plot Management: Watch plot warnings! Don't fill all plots with Additional Plots or you can't unlock new crops
5. Weather Awareness: Check the weather icon and plan around seasonal bonuses for your crops
6. Sell Strategy: Set valuable crops to Hold on their beds to stockpile them for canning, and leave cheaper ones on Sell
7. Canning Strategy: Once unlocked, balance selling raw crops vs. processing them for higher profits
8. Pick a Guild: At Farm Tier 5, sample a few upgrades, then join the Growers for farming, the Preservers for canning, the Engineers for machines that run the farm or the Merchants for trade
9. Save Management: Use the Settings panel to export saves regularly as backups

🔧 For Developers

• React + TypeScript: Modern React 19 with full TypeScript support and strict mode
• Vite Build System: Fast development and optimized production builds
• Game Clock: one GameClock steps every system once per second, in a fixed order, so React renders once per step (useGameTick subscribes)
• Catch-Up: useOfflineProgress replays time away and hidden-tab time, capped at 8 hours (MAX_OFFLINE_MS); canning catches up through utils/canningSimulation.ts
• State Management: Centralized game state with localStorage persistence and ref-based access patterns
• Component Architecture: Modular BaseTab system with reusable upgrade panels; the seasonal events share EventUpgradesPanel and utils/eventUpgrades.ts
• Error Handling: A top-level error boundary shows the error and a Retry button instead of a blank page
• Test Suite: Comprehensive tests with Vitest, Testing Library, and coverage reporting
• Build Commands:
  • npm run dev - Start development server
  • npm run build - Production build with type checking; leaves images the game never loads, like Archie's full-size originals, out of dist
  • npm run test - Run test suite in watch mode
  • npm run coverage - Generate test coverage report
  • npm run lint - Run ESLint checks
  • npm run typecheck - Type-check the app, the tests and the Vite config
  • npm run check - Type check, lint and run all tests, the same checks CI runs
• Commit checks: npm install points git at .githooks/, whose pre-commit hook runs npm run check. A failing check stops the commit. GitHub Actions runs the same checks plus a production build on every push to main and on pull requests.

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Enjoy building your farming empire! 🚜🌾