Farming Contests

When you want a short, sharp competition, Farming Contests deliver.

How a contest runs

A contest targets a specific crop for a set window of time. Everyone races to harvest the most of that crop by hand; when time’s up, the top finishers earn medals. Check the live contest, your standing, and your medal count with /contest.

The live /contest view shows you:

• The target crop and remaining time.
• Your current count for the contest window.
• The live standings so you can see exactly how far behind (or ahead) you are.

Crucially, contest counts only move from hand-harvesting — exactly like season score. No automation can pad your contest total. The contest and the main leaderboard measure the same underlying action: you swinging your Harvester Tool at mature crops.

Community goals

Alongside individual contests, community goals are server-wide targets the whole player base works toward together. Every player’s relevant harvesting chips away at a shared progress bar, and the reward unlocks for everyone when the bar is reached.

Community goals serve a different function from contests: they’re collaborative pressure that briefly aligns the entire server around one crop or milestone. Contributing to a community goal during a contest window is often possible simultaneously — the same harvests can count for both.

The reward: medals

Contests pay medals, a one-way vanity currency you spend in the Medal Store. Medals never convert to season score or balance — they’re purely cosmetic. This keeps contest competition separate from the main leaderboard: winning a contest doesn’t directly help your season standing. The two competitions are parallel, not nested.

Higher placements earn more medals; top finishers pull ahead in the Medal Store economy without touching the competitive leaderboard.

Strategy & use-cases

Pre-plant the target crop before the contest starts. If you can see an upcoming contest in /season events, plant a full island of that crop so it’s mature when the window opens. Walking into a contest with a farm full of ready wheat versus starting from scratch mid-contest can double or triple your final count.

Use AoE harvesting if you have the upgrade. The AoE harvest upgrade lets a single swing score neighbours in a radius. Every crop in the swing counts toward the contest total, and all of them score individually — it’s the highest-efficiency hand-harvesting method. If you’ve purchased the AoE radius in the shop, a contest is exactly when to use it.

Watch the live standings, not just your own count. If you’re within striking distance of a top-3 finisher, a focused 20-minute sprint can be enough to overtake them. If you’re already guaranteed a medal tier, you might stop early and save your replant cycle for the next session.

Don’t ignore community goals while chasing placement. If a community goal is active alongside a contest, the same harvests contribute to both. There’s no opportunity cost — harvest your target crop, score the contest count, and chip away at the community goal simultaneously.

Common mistakes

• Harvesting the wrong crop. Contest counts only move when you harvest the specific target crop announced in /contest. Harvesting your usual rotation earns score but doesn’t move the contest counter.
• Farming the target crop after the window closes. Once time is up, the count is locked. Post-window harvests earn season score as normal but don’t affect your final placement.
• Treating medals as unimportant. Medals are the only currency in the Medal Store — cosmetics there can’t be purchased any other way. Building a medal reserve opens exclusive options later in the season.

What’s next

Cash in on bonus windows: Festivals.