How To Fertilize Crops And Keep Them Growing In Luma Island

Like many cozy games and life sims, Luma Island has its own farming system, but with some unique spins on the classic game mechanic. Between plants and trees, you’ll have a wide variety of crops to grow and make food and drinks out of, but that’s not all. Much like real life, you’ll need to deal with pests.

Weeds and insects will impede the growth of your crops, so you’ll need small farm animals to help you out, but they’ll get preyed upon by foxes if you aren’t careful. There’s automation that makes things easier, magical Everseeds mean you won’t have to replant things after you harvest them, and more to discover if you’re willing to live the life of a farmer.

How To Grow Crops

Crops will be the main way to get ingredients for recipes if you’ve chosen the Cook or Brewer Profession, and to get them growing, you’ll need the Hoe and Watering Can obtained at the start of the game, and seeds.

First, remove anything that breaks up the area you want to grow things in, such as Ferns or Trees, then use the Hoe to plow a section of land and turn it into tilled earth.

Plant groups of tree-based crops like Apples and Starfruit in every other row so you can easily walk between and tend to them.

Now you can plant your seeds in the tilled earth. Each plant takes up one tile worth of space, including trees, but only plant-type crops, such as Blueberries and Chili Peppers, can be walked through.

If you want to remove a crop so you can place it somewhere else or change what you’re growing, you can approach them with any type of axe and hold down Interact to remove it.

You’ll get the seed back, and if it’s a tree, you’ll get a small amount of Farm Wood, Twigs, and Farm Resin as well.

You can harvest multiple crops at one time with the Hoe by charging it up near at least one harvestable crop, and it won’t destroy the plant.

Where To Buy Seeds

There are two types of seeds you can get: regular and Everseeds. For regular seeds, these can be bought at the Farmer’s Shop and new crops will become available as you unlock Cooking and Brewing recipes.

When a crop grown from a regular seed is harvested the maximum number of times, it’ll disappear, and you’ll need to replant it using another seed, unless it’s a tree or one of three naturally regrowing crops: Grapes, Chili Peppers, and Kiwi Fruit.

Trees don’t have an Everseed variant, as they’ll endlessly produce fruit as long as you keep them healthy and don’t cut them down.

With Everseed versions of crops, they’ll become infinitely regrowing, as the seed will automatically replant itself after being harvested.

Everseeds can be found in chests of any rarity once you’ve found the crop once, though they’re much more common in Purple or Orange chests, or they can be purchased from the Mushroom Man’s shops for their respective Nature currencies.

How To Water Crops

At first, your only way to water crops will be using the Watering Can to do it one tile at a time, but as you progress in the game, you’ll unlock ways to do it more efficiently: the early game Gardening Hose and the two mid-to-late-game Sprinklers.

Gardening Hose

The Gardening Hose’s drawing costs 2000 Gold and takes five Forest Wood Planks and five Iron Bars to make and takes up a single tile of space. Once placed down, you can interact with it and equip the hose in your hand.

While holding it, you can use it to water multiple plants around you within a nine-by-nine area, though you can walk around with the hose to increase the amount of coverage you can get.

Small And Large Sprinklers

The Small and Large Sprinklers allow you to automatically water and dispense Fertilizer to your crops, but in return, they take more advanced materials and their drawings cost more.

After being placed, either type of Sprinkler will automatically water any dry crops once per day. You can also interact with them while holding any of the four Fertilizer types to add them to its inventory, and they’ll automatically distribute them to crops within their range as needed.

How To Make And Use Fertilizer

Any type of tree or naturally regrowing crop you plant will always require Fertilizer while it’s growing and after being harvested, or else its growth will stall.

When a crop needs fertilizer, it loses its bright color, and you’ll get a small symbol indicating the type of fertilizer needed above your head when getting near it.

Fertilizer is made in a Kiln from one of the four wood types – Farm, Forest, Mountain, or Jungle. Each one produces its respective type, and they’re used on crops considered to be from that region, such as Orange Trees needing Farm Fertilizer.

To apply fertilizer to a plant, approach the crop when its coloring is faded while having the correct type of fertilizer in your inventory, and then interact with it. Your character will sprinkle some onto the crop, and it will be rejuvenated, allowing it to continue growing.

You can put Pigs into a Pig Pen and feed them Hay from a Feeding Trough to have them produce a few pieces of random Fertilizer each day, as well as Ginger.

How To Remove Beetles And Weeds

Each day, all your crops have a chance to grow weeds on them or attract beetles, both of which will stop the crop’s growth, and in the case of weeds, will also begin to ruin your tilled soil.

When this happens, go over and interact with the affected plant. This will either remove the weeds from it or squash the beetles, and return the plant to its healthy state so it can continue growing.

You can also catch Beetles with your Bug Net and use them as a food source for Chickens or as Bait for catching Farm fish.

How To Automate Weed And Beetle Removal

If you want to automatically remove weeds or beetles, you’ll need to have Rabbits and Chickens, along with either a Rabbit Hutch or a Chicken Coop, near or inside the area where you’re growing crops.

When around any crops, Rabbits eat any weeds that grow on them, while Chickens feed on beetles that arrive, and you won’t need to feed them ​​​​Hay to make them do it, as feeding them only makes them produce their respective material.

Having at least two of each around your crops means they’ll constantly tend to your field as long as they aren’t asleep, and you won’t need to manually remove them anymore.

You can pick up any type of farm animal with your Bug Net to relocate them without breaking down their pen.

Both Rabbits and Chickens don’t need to be enclosed in a field of crops to tend to them, but putting them into an enclosure makes them stay close to their home pen and navigate to nearby crops on their own. If you don’t keep them properly fenced in, they’ll be exposed to danger in the form of wild foxes.

How To Protect Chickens And Rabbits

Wild Foxes periodically appear and will attempt to hunt down your Rabbits and Chickens, even if they’re protected by a fence, and will frighten them, disrupting their ability to tend crops, and they’ll stay inside their pen until the fox is chased away.

Foxes will circle a Rabbit Hutch or Chicken Coop surrounded by fences, but they won’t be able to get in unless there’s a gap in the fence.

To permanently keep Wild Foxes away from them, you’ll need to have a pen with Goats near your enclosed Rabbits and Chickens, or just keep all three types of animals in the same enclosure.

The Goats will prevent any Wild Foxes from spawning or approaching the Chickens and Rabbits as long as they’re within a 15-tile radius of each other, preventing them from scaring and interrupting your smaller farm animals.

How To Pollinate Crops

Certain late-game crops, such as Pumpkins and Mango Trees, require an additional mechanic to grow even if they also need Fertilizer, and that’s being pollinated by bees. Crops that need pollination include:

• Pumpkins.
• Cocoa Bean Trees.
• Potatoes.
• Coffee Bean Trees.
• Watermelons.
• Mango Trees.

To get them or any crop pollinated, you’ll need to have them within range of a Beehive. Each Beehive covers a nine-by-nine tile area, and each day they’ll automatically pollinate any crops within that range and keep them growing if they require it.

As long as the bees have at least one crop near them, they’ll also produce one Honey per day per Hive, and these can be sold for 250 Gold each at any shop in town, giving you an additional source of income regardless of profession.

How To Find Queen Bees

Queen Bees are found randomly while exploring forested areas in any region, or after chopping down a large number of trees around you.

Once you find a single Queen Bee, more can be purchased from the Farmer’s Shop for 7,000 Gold each, and you can buy five per day.

They make a loud buzzing noise as long as you’re near them, and unlike other Critters, they don’t disappear unless you go into a cave or exit a region completely.

Use your Bug Net to catch them, and each one is used to make a single Beehive, which generates a full hive to pollinate any nearby flowers without needing to be fed or given a type of fuel.

All Cook Profession Recipes

For the Cook Profession, your mentor NPC is Enzo and your main crafter is the Stove. All the main food recipes will be made there except for base ingredients like Flour, each of which has their own crafter.

All Cook recipes need a certain amount of Luma Energy to be crafted for the first time, but after that, the recipe no longer needs it.

Once a basic ingredient has been crafted, you can buy them at the Bakery in town, but you’re limited to five of each type per day.

Dish	Ingredients Needed	Selling Price	Profession Tier
Bread	Flour x2	600 Gold	Novice
Grape Pie	Flour x1 Grape x10	1,200 Gold
Blueberry Muffin	Flour x1 Blueberry x10	1,400 Gold
Apple Pie	Flour x1 Apple x10	1,600 Gold
Strawberry Pie	Flour x1 Strawberry x10	1,800 Gold
Fruit Salad	Orange x10 Apple x10	2,000 Gold
Fruit Popcorn	Corn x10 Blueberry x10	3,000 Gold	Skilled
Cherry Pie	Flour x2 Cherry x10 Chicken Egg x2	3,300 Gold
Blueberry Donut	Flour x1 Plant Oil x2 Blueberry x10	3,700 Gold
Starfruit Salad	Starfruit x10 Strawberry x10 Chicken Egg x1	4,000 Gold
Pizza	Flour x1 Plant Oil x1 Tomato x10 Chicken Egg x2	4,100 Gold
Spicy Corndog	Plant Oil x1 Corn x10 Chili Pepper x10 Chicken Egg x2	4,400 Gold
Candy Fruit	Flour x2 Apple x10 Starfruit x10 Grape x10	6,000 Gold	Expert
Almond Cookie	Flour x4 Plant Oil x3 Almond x10 Goat Milk x2	6,600 Gold
Ratatouille	Plant Oil x2 Eggplant x10 Tomato x10	6,800 Gold
Kiwi Tart	Flour x1 Sugar x2 Kiwifruit x10 Cherry x10	7,200 Gold
Gingerbread	Flour x2 Plant Oil x4 Pumpkin x10 Ginger x2	7,600 Gold
Chocolate-Dipped Fruit	Chocolate x2 Sugar x2 Strawberry x10 Cherry x10	8,000 Gold
Spicy Fries With Ketchup	Plant Oil x1 Potato x10 Chili Pepper x10 Tomato x10	10,000	Master
Tiramisu	Flour x4 Chocolate x2 Coffee Bean x10 Cow Milk x2	11,000 Gold
Watermelon Kiwifruit Icecream	Sugar x1 Watermelon x10 Kiwi Fruit x10 Cow Milk x2	12,000 Gold
Chocolate And Mango Mousse	Chocolate x2 Sugar x1 Mango x10 Goat Milk x2	13,000 Gold
Wedding Cake	Flour x2 Sugar x4 Blueberry x10 Cow Milk x2	14,000 Gold
Royal Cake	Flour x2 Mango x100 Chocolate x5 Strawberry x500	100,000 Gold

All Brewer Profession Recipes

In the Brewer Profession, your mentor NPC is Bill, and you’ll make drinks in one of four types of casks, with each region having a particular cask for its associated recipes.

All Brewer recipes need a certain amount of Luma Energy to be crafted for the first time, but after that, the recipe no longer needs it.

Besides casks, this Profession also makes the most use out of Bottles and the regional Colors, as each recipe needs at least one of the four types of colorings added to it.

• Bottles are crafted in a Simple Workbench, and require one Glass to be made. Glass is made in a Kiln with Sand and Charcoal.
• Farm Coloring is crafted in a Simple Workbench from Farm Berries.
• Forest Coloring is crafted in a Simple Workbench from Forest Berries.
• Mountain Coloring is crafted in a Simple Workbench from Mountain Berries.
• Forest Coloring is crafted in a Simple Workbench from Jungle Berries.

Brew	Ingredients	Cask Type Needed	Selling Price	Profession Tier
Northman’s Juice	Wheat x10 Farm Color x1 Bottle x1	Farm Cask	1,000 Gold	Novice
Sailor’s Tonic	Grapes x10 Farm Color x1 Bottle x1		1,200 Gold
Blueberry Bliss	Blueberry x10 Farm Color x1 Bottle x1		1,400 Gold
Ambrosia	Apple x10 Farm Color x1 Bottle x1		1,600 Gold
Strawberry Dream	Strawberry x10 Farm Color x1 Bottle x1		1,800 Gold
Orange Tonic	Orange x10 Farm Color x1 Bottle x1		2,000 Gold
Highland Nectar	Corn x10 Forest Color x2 Bottle x1	Forest Cask	3,000 Gold	Skilled
Cherry Twist	Cherry x10 Forest Color x2 Chicken Egg x1 Bottle x1		3,300 Gold
Sunrise Juice	Sunflower x10 Forest Color x2 Bottle x1		3,700 Gold
Starfruit Smoothie	Starfruit x10 Forest Color x2 Bottle x1		4,000 Gold
Tomato Juice	Tomato x10 Forest Color x2 Bottle x1		4,100 Gold
Spicy Juice	Chili Pepper x10 Forest Color x2 Bottle x1		4,400 Gold
Pirate Punch	Sugarcane x10 Mountain Color x3 Bottle x1	Mountain Cask		Expert
Almond Dew	Almond x10 Mountain Color x3 Goat Milk x1 Bottle x1		6,000 Gold
Violet Delight	Eggplant x10 Mountain Color x3 Bottle x1		6,400 Gold
Emerald Burst	Kiwifruit x10 Mountain Color x3 Bottle x1		6,800 Gold
Pumpkin Juice	Pumpkin x10 Mountain Color x3 Ginger x1 Bottle x1		7,200 Gold
Hot Chocolate Drink	Cocoa Bean x10 Mountain Color x3 ​​​​​​​Bottle x1		7,600 Gold
Oriental Elixir	Potato x10 Jungle Color x4 Bottle x1	Jungle Cask	10,000 Gold	Master
Coffee	Coffee Bean x10 Jungle Color x4 Cow Milk x1 ​​​​​​​Bottle x1		11,000 Gold
Watermelon Dew	Watermelon x10 Jungle Color x4 ​​​​​​​Bottle x1		12,000 Gold
Mango Smoothie	Mango x10 Jungle Color x4 ​​​​​​​Bottle x1		13,000 Gold
Royal Tonic	Grapes x10 Jungle Color x4 ​​​​​​​Bottle x1		14,000 Gold
Grand Star Nectar	Watermelon x500 Honey x20 Jungle Color x20 ​​​​​​​Bottle x1		100,000 Gold