What This Question Actually Means
This question is about the water side of your homestead: keeping a clean water supply on hand so you can tend plants with watering cans, fight off crop disease, and harvest everything from useful herbs to decorative greens.
The practical answer is to build your base near water, because you need a constant supply for drinking, cooking, farming, and later on potion making.
From there, collect dirty water and turn it into clean water. Stockpiling well over 100 early is normal because you will use it constantly throughout the game for food.
Farming itself arrived with the Fellhollow Major Update, which added the Farming skill, a new building kit, two new NPCs, and a shop for trading Soul Fragments with Death himself.
Fishing and Farming were added as skills to give you even more ways to thrive and build out your cozy homestead.
Because the game gives you a huge amount of freedom, it is also very easy to waste hours farming the wrong resources or crafting equipment you will replace five minutes later.
A useful framing is to ask what you should be doing next: which upgrades are worth prioritizing, which resources to start farming early, and when to upgrade your gear.
Clean Water and Watering Can FAQ
- What do I actually need clean water for?
- You need a constant supply of water for drinking, cooking, farming, and later on potion making, and you use it to tend plants with watering cans.
- Where should I put my base to make water easy?
- Build near water. That keeps a constant supply within reach for drinking, cooking, farming, and later potion making.
- How do I turn dirty water into clean water?
- Start collecting dirty water and turn it into clean water. Stockpiling well over 100 right at the beginning is normal because you will use it constantly for food.
- Does the watering can interact with crop disease?
- Yes. You tend your plants with watering cans, fight off crop disease, and harvest everything from useful herbs to decorative greens.
- Which update brought Farming and the related building kit?
- The Fellhollow Major Update arrived with the Farming skill, a new building kit, two new NPCs, and a shop for trading Soul Fragments with Death himself.
- What changed about deleting water and compost containers?
- The Water Barrel, Rain Catcher and Compost Bin's "Hold to Delete" button has been reverted to a one-tap delete.
- Does a roof block Humidify on farming plots?
- The Roof on the Yew Farming Plots no longer blocks the Humidify Skill Spell from reaching other plots.
- Does Humidify waste a Plant Cure on diseased plants?
- An issue was resolved where casting Humidify on Diseased Plants would automatically consume a Plant Cure if one was available in the player's inventory.
- What should I do next after sorting out water?
- Keep asking what to do next: prioritize the upgrades that matter, farm the resources you will need early, and set up ash farming spots at your base so you can plant flax seeds, then craft yourself an ash bow and some arrows.
- Is there a video walkthrough for early progression?
- Yes. A progression-focused gameplay video covers which upgrades are worth prioritizing, which resources to farm early, and when to upgrade gear.