Player-owned farm

The player-owned farm near Ardougne

The player-owned farm is an activity released on 3 September 2018. It allows players to manage their own livestock at Manor Farm north of East Ardougne, similar to managing their own house and port. It was developed by Mods Raven, Rowley, Chaose, and James H..

Players can start maintaining their livestock by speaking to Granny Potterington at the farm north of Ardougne, requiring at least level 17 in Farming and level 20 in Construction. As with farming fields, players see their own livestock (crops) and not other people's, so the player-owned farm is not instanced.

The player-owned farm features the Farming achievements, and four seasonal music tracks at the farm (which are required for completionist cape). These seasonal music tracks are only available during its season or can be listened to/unlocked by using the seasonaliser to change the season at the farm.

Getting there

The Ardougne lodestone is located directly next to the farm, and the Ardougne cloak provides a teleport into the middle of the farm. Granny Potterington is located just in front of the main farmhouse.

Tutorial

Players must first start the tutorial by talking with Granny Potterington and completing the following steps:

1. Pick up Jack the yak from behind the farmhouse and give him to Granny.
2. Sell Jack to Prezleek (yak buyer), located beside the well in front of the house.
3. Buy a deed for a small pen from the Farmers' Market (right-click "Farmers' market" on Granny).
4. Buy two rabbits from the market and check each of them in the inventory.
5. Build the small pen and place the two rabbits inside.
6. Check the rabbits by clicking on them in the pen and click "Cure Disease". Then investigate all options and choose "Administer treatment". Click flu.
7. Check the rabbits have some food by placing the mushed fruit in the trough, and head back to Granny.
8. Pass the time with her until the rabbits have matured.
9. Take the two rabbits out of the pen and bring them to the breeding pen behind the main farmhouse.
10. Once a baby rabbit has been bred, it can then be sold off to Myfi (rabbit buyer) (next to the well).
11. Speak to Granny for the optional information of how buying and selling works (this will be helpful for later).

Gameplay

After completing the tutorial players may purchase pen deeds from the reward shop to unlock more pens. They can then build pens in which to keep their livestock using Construction materials. Players can build a maximum of 2 pens of each size; small, medium, and large.

Players can place livestock in their pens and raise them. The types of livestock that players can raise includes rabbits, chickens, chinchompas, sheep, spiders, zygomites, cows, yaks, and dragons. Animals have a "checked" and "unchecked" state. Unchecked animals are bankable, and stack in the player's bank. Once an animal is checked it will no longer stack in the bank and will have unique stats. Checked animals will not be tradeable on the Grand Exchange, but it is possible to trade them directly with other players.

An animal's stats will include its health and happiness levels and its weight, speed, and attractiveness which will be measured in grammes, gallopers, and beauty marks. Animals will have names; there will be up to 30 possible names for each gender of each different type of animal. Animals will advance through the growth stages of egg, baby, adolescent, adult, and elder. Players must care for the animals by providing them appropriate food. Farming experience is gained for each stage advanced. Some types of animals may not have all of these stages. Animals may be sold at any stage of their development.

Animals

Different livestock can be obtained via hunter, combat or summoning. Buyers will appear corresponding with whichever livestock you've grown.

Animal type	Breed	How to obtain	Item	Buyer
Rabbit	Rellekkan Cream rabbit	Killing rabbits in Isfadar or near the Golden tree	Rellekkan cream rabbit	Myfi (rabbit buyer)
Rabbit	Piscatorian cottontail	Hunting Rabbits in Piscatoris Hunter area	Piscatorian cottontail rabbit	Myfi (rabbit buyer)
Rabbit	Common Brown	Obtained during the tutorial or killing rabbits at the Lumbridge Crater	Common brown rabbit	Myfi (rabbit buyer)
Zygomite	All	Harvesting Morchella mushrooms or Arc mushrooms	Gloomshroom zygomite, Zanarian zygomite, Arcspore zygomite, Daemoncap zygomite	Zoe (zygomite trader)
Dragon	All	Killing chromatic dragons	Green dragon egg, Blue dragon egg, Red dragon egg, Black dragon egg	Raptor (dragon expert)
Yak	Fremmenik	Killing yaks	Fremennik yak	Prezleek
	Spirit	Summoning - Making Pack yak pouches	Spirit yak	Prezleek
Chicken	All	Purchased from the Farmers' Market	Chicken egg	Henrietta (chicken chaser)
Cows	All	Purchased from the Farmers' Market	Kandarin cow, Chocolate cow, Strawberry cow, Vanilla cow, Bull	Milkshake (cow fancier)
Sheep	All	Purchased from the Farmers' Market		Ralph (sheep hugger)
Spider	All	Killing Spiders around Runescape	Spider egg	Rumbleguts (spider shopper)
Chinchompas	All	Hunting Chinchompa (Hunter)		Mieliki Tapio

Pens

There are two pens of each size in your farm and one breeding pen. You cannot have different animal types in the same pen, nor put animals in the incorrect sized pen.

Pen size	Max n° of animals (of same type)	Animal type
Small	6	Rabbit, Chicken, Chinchompa
Medium	4	Sheep, Spider, Zygomite
Large	3	Cow, Yak, Dragon

Feeding

Animals require feeding to grow effectively, and retain higher happiness and health levels. Once an animal has been added to a pen, you can fill their trough with suitable elements, listed under the animal's info in the pen or clicking "get info" for animals in your inventory. Add the appropriate food to the trough, which can hold up to 1000 produce. Food is eaten every ~2 hours and, if the animal eats it, will raise their health and happiness a bit. Foods can be taken out of the trough as mush in order to reuse with other pens, but the original seeds cannot be reclaimed.

An easy trick for maintaining food in the trough is to go to Arhein in Catherby and buy his daily stock of 40 pineapples for 2gp each. Alternatively, you can teleport to Karamja via lodestone and pick the pineapple plants, or go to the banana plantation.

To feed the dragons, any meat will do, so killing the cows east of Lumbridge is the fastest method to rapidly fill up on raw meat. You can also buy raw beef from Rufus's shop in Canifis, which stocks 100 beef, 30 chicken, and 10 of various other meats such as rat meat. Fish works as well, so non-ironman can buy 1000 cheap fish such as tuna off Grand Exchange to fill up the trough.

Seeds can easily be obtained by pickpocketing the Master Farmers near the Ardougne lodestone.

Animal	Food
	Seeds	Vegetables	Fruits	Flowers	Mushrooms	Meat	Fish
Rabbit
Chicken
Chinchompas
Sheep
Zygomites
Spiders
Cows
Yaks
Dragons

Disease

There is a chance of animals becoming diseased. There are 6 different diseases with different symptoms. Players will have to correctly identify the animal's disease and cure it to gain Farming experience. To do this players must examine different parts of the animal (such as the mouth, eyes, legs, and stomach) to gain information about symptoms. From this the player can identify the correct disease and create a potion cure. Animals cannot die from a disease, their stats are lowered instead. Using the incorrect treatment would result in lowering the animals' stats further.

Disease	Symptoms
	Head	Eyes	Mouth	Stomach	Legs and Feet
Flu	Sneezing / Light Fever	Blood shot		Nausea	Sweaty
Curse	Lumpy nose/Smelly breath/Light within throat/mumbles something	Glazed/Glowing		Strange noises	Tapping
Dry nose	Dry nose/Sore nose
Wooting Cough	Cough	Darting Around/Mirth on Eyes	Spots at jawline	Swollen/Gas	Unsteady
	Nose is fine	Mirth, more mirth than normal		Not in gastronomic distress	Fine
	"hu hu huu" Cough	Fine		Coughs regularly	Fine
Foot-in-mouth	Smelly breath	Fine	Fine	Fine	Fine
	Inflamed gums/nasty marks			Smell like shoes	Slightly chewed on
	Breath smells oddly like socks	Fine	Fine	Doesn't appear to be in gastronomic distress	Fine
Bone Rattle			Teeth click	Shivering	Click

Breeding

Older animals can be added to a breeding pen to create baby animals. Animals can only breed in the adult and elder stages, and only one male and one female should be placed in the breeding pen, to leave the most room for babies. The breeding chance of a pair of animals will be affected by their stats. If their health and happiness is low, their breeding chance is reduced. Make sure they have food, their pen is mucked free of droppings, and wait. There are treat items, such as honey and fruit milks, that speed up the process a bit. Diseased animals will not breed, so cure them and come back. Players are able to use the breeding process to create baby animals with particular traits. Desirable traits include jovial, where the animal's happiness is more easily maintained; robust, where the animal is always healthy; and golden, where more Farming experience is gained from raising the animal. If an animal has the "infertile" trait, it will never breed. Animals are able to have up to 3 traits. There is a chance for players to receive "shiny" animals from breeding. Shiny animals have a different appearance to regular ones, give more Farming experience as they are raised, and are more valuable when sold. You can boost breeding chance by using the farming perk totems on small pens with elder rabbits in them. The master farming outfit should also help. To keep track of all the breeds you have already collected, you can go to Granny's faithful companion, Sam the sheepdog, and view your breeding log.

Animals	Breeding rate	Success chance
Rabbit	5 minutes	25%
Chicken
Sheep	1.5 hours
Spider
Zygomite
Cow	5 hours	70%
Yak
Dragon

Selling

Players may sell their animals for magic beans. The number of beans depends on the species, stage of growth, traits, etc. The buyers change daily and will default to the lowest level animal type of that size (rabbits, sheep or cows). It will always want what you have in your pen. If you have more than 1 type of animal, the buyer has an equal chance of wanting either of them.

• Small buyers reset every day
• Medium buyers reset every 2 days, stays for 1 day.
• Large buyers reset every 3 days, stays for 3 days.

Players can sell up to 12 small animals, 8 medium and 6 large, daily, to their respective buyer.

Animals		Growth stage
		Egg 10%	Baby 20%	Adolescent 100% (base value)	Adult 85%	Elder 70%
Small	Rabbit	N/A	5	25	21	18
	Chicken	4	8	40	34	28
	Chinchompa	N/A	50	250	213	175
Medium	Sheep	N/A	16	80	68	56
	Spider		50	250	213	175
	Zygomite	N/A	170	850	722	595
Large	Cow	N/A	34	170	144	119
	Yak	N/A	165	825	701	578
	Dragon	200	400	2,000	1,700	1,400

This table does not take into account animal traits, buyers' preferences nor master farmer outfit bonuses.

Growth stages

Each animal has four growth stages: Baby, Adolescent, Adult and Elder. Each growth takes a certain length of time and will only advance if the animal is in the pen, even if you are logged out. Animals will not advance growth stages while in your inventory or bank. [J-mod comment on Reddit said that] Being at your farm will speed up the rate of growth by 7%.

Time per stage

• Rabbits: 15 min
• Chickens: 1 hour
• Chinchompas: 7.5 hours
• Sheep: 30 min
• Spiders: 4 hours
• Zygomites: 9 hours
• Cows: 1 hour
• Yaks: 15 hours
• Dragons: 17 hours

Gathered produce

Every time one of your animals grow, you can gather its produce for items and Farming XP.

Animal	Farming XP				Items
	Egg to Baby	Baby to Adolescent	Adolescent to Adult	Adult to Elder
Rabbit	N/A	100	175	225	2 Rabbit teeth1 Rabbit foot
Rooster	250	375	750	1,125	10 Feather
Hen					10 Feather 1 Egg
Chinchompa	N/A	6,000			2 Chinchompa residue
Sheep	N/A	250			3 Wool
Spider				9,000	2 Spider fangs 3 Spider silk
Zygomite	N/A	16,000			2 Mort myre fungus 2 Zygomite fruit
Bull	N/A	1,000	1,750	2,250	2 Bull horns 1 Cowhide
Cow					1 Bucket of milk 1 Cowhide
Yak	N/A	13,000			2 Yak tufts
Dragon	20,000

This table does not take into account animal traits, nor master farmer outfit bonuses.

Perks

Once an animal reaches the elder growth level the player will receive less for selling them. However, elder animals may be added to a pen with a farm totem for a chance to gain a perk that affects gameplay outside of the area. Possible perks include a chance to gain a clue scroll from harvesting; increased damage to all spiders including Araxxor/Araxxi; and a chance to save skillchompas. There will be a total of 12 animal perks: 1 per gender for cows, chickens, and sheep; and one each for the other animal types.

By adding an elder animal to a pen equipped with a farm totem, players receive a Tier 1 perk. By putting the same species of animal in the second pen that is also equipped with a farm totem, players instead receive the Tier 2 perk. Animals that have male/female perks that differ but occupy the same pen (equipped with a farm totem) will receive both the male and female version of the perk.

Pen Size	Animal Source	Perk Name	Tier 1 Effect	Tier 2 Effect
Small	Rabbit	Like Rabbits	Breeding success increased by 7%.	Breeding success increased by 10%.
	Chicken	Headless Chicken	A 3% chance to halve feathers used (minimum 1) when fletching arrows, darts, or bolts.	Chance of halving feathers increased by 5%.
	Rooster	As the Rooster Crows	A 7% drop chance increase to receive ghostly essence while fighting enemies that drop it, for a number of kills after hearing a rooster's crow.	Drop chance increased by 10%.
	Chinchompa	Unknown	A chance to save a skillchompa on use.	Unknown
Medium	Sheep	Have Ewe (Many Wool)	Gain 2 pieces of wool on successful shearing.	Unknown
	Ram	Randomly Accessed Memories	Gain divine strands from farming activities at 50% of the rate from Divination.	Unknown
	Spider	NopeNopeNope	Increases damage against all spiders by 2% (including Araxxor/Araxxi).	Damage increased by 3%.
	Zygomite	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Large	Cow	Milky, Milky	All Cooking XP earned from churning is at 2x normal.	Unknown
	Bull	Bully for You	A 1 in 5 chance to not deplete a compost bin when collecting compost from it.	Unknown
	Yak	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
	Dragon	Unknown	A chance to get an ancient effigy while checking a fully grown farming patch, only if ultracompost is used.	Unknown

Ultracompost can be made with dragon poo, which increases yield of Farming patches and dramatically decreases disease chance.

Traits

Any animal may have up to three different traits. The amount and nature of these traits is random but can be influenced by various traits. Traits can also be re-rolled by using a trait re-roller, though only one trait can be re-rolled at a time

Trait name	Description
Baroo	What does this ancient word mean?
Baroo?	Is it a question? What is the question? Speak to me, oh noble yak.
Baroo Baroo	Well, that's just rude.
Big Boned	This animal puts on weight more easily.
Butterface	A fantastic physical specimen, just not much to look at.
Chatty	This animal won't be quiet.
Chaotic	This chicken walks the path of chaos.
Charmed	This animal is happier and healthier than other animals
Chief	This rabbit commands the warren.
Chocolatey Goodness	Its hide tastes ever-so-slightly chocolatey. It's hard to resist licking it.
Constipated	This animal never produces dung.
Curvy	This big-boned beauty will win many competitions, just not a race.
Enigmatic	You're not sure what this trait does. If, indeed, it does anything.
Evil	This animal is not nice.
Exalted	This animal is so special it awards more XP on harvesting.
Fearless	Why are you running? Dogs aren't dangerous.
Fortunate	This animal is considered very special and farmers will pay more beans for it.
Freak of Nature	This creature is a medical marvel. Curing it is worthwhile.
Frost Breath	It can breathe a deadly stream of frost.
Fussy Eater	This animal puts on less weight.
Genetic Inferiority	Offspring of this animal are less likely to have multiple traits.
Genetic Instability	The unusual genetics in this animal means its offspring are more likely to have multiple traits.
Genetic Mutation	The unusual nature of this animal means its offspring are more likely to have multiple traits.
Genius	This animal is super smart.
Giver	This animal awards more XP when harvested.
Glistening	This animal is more likely to produce shiny offspring.
Glorious	This chinchompa is simply glorious.
Golden Gift	There are no golden eggs, but this creature will occasionally pass...'nuggets'. Wash hands after handling.
Good	This animal is really rather pleasant.
Good Breeding	This animal carries some rare breed ancestry in its genetics.
Handsome	This animal is better looking than most others.
Hyperactive	This animal is faster than most others.
Immune	This animal is practically immune to disease.
Incy	Involuntarily cynical, like many spiders.
Insane	This animal thinks it's a biscuit. We have no idea why.
Jovial	This animal always sees the glass as half full.
Joyful	This animal is almost always happy.
Lawful	This chicken walks the path of law.
Limited Efficiency	Harvesting this animal will award more materials, but at the cost of lower XP and bean value.
Lithe	Fast and beautiful, but not terribly sturdy.
Lucky	This animal is worth more beans when sold.
Loyal	You're not sure what this trait does. If, indeed, it does anything.
Mysterious	Does something mysterious.... or nothing, but if nothing it does so mysteriously.
Neutral	This chicken walks a neutral path.
Nice but Dim	Generous with XP, but less popular with farmers and is not so good with materials on harvesting.
Nuclear	Be REALLY careful with this one!
Nightmare	Kill it with fire!
Old at Heart	This animal ages faster than most others.
Owsla	This rabbit guards the warren carefully.
Perfected	This animal is a perfect example of its breed.
Plain	This animal is not as attractive as some of the other animals.
Prize Specimen	A shining example of what this breed is capable of.
Producer	This animal awards more materials when harvested.
Poisonous Breath	It can breathe a deadly cloud of poison.
Radiant	This animal is practically shining.
Ravensworn	This animal knows the secret handshake and has knowledge of the deeper mystery that is the Ravensworn. It won't share.
Regular	This animal produces dung regularly.
Robust	This animal is more resistant to disease.
Shock Breath	It can breathe a deadly blast of lightning.
Sickly	This animal gets sick more easily.
Slowpoke	This animal is slower than most others.
Smelly	This animal smells really bad.
Sparkling	There's something almost 'shiny' about this animal.
Stingy	This animal isn't as generous with harvested materials.
Strawberry Scented	It smells delicious.
Stressed	This animal suffers from 'performance anxiety'.
Strong Genes	This animal is more likely to produce offspring of the same breed.
Studly	This animal has a much higher breeding chance than other animals.
Sullen	This animal always sees the glass as half empty.
Surly	This animal is unpleasant and so worth fewer beans.
Taker	This animal isn't as generous with harvested XP.
Touch of Vanilla	It sweats vanilla essential oils for some reason.
Unlucky for Some	Other farmers will happily purchase this animal, but it's not so good for you for XP or materials.
Unstable	Careful, this one could explode at any moment.
Virile	This animal has a higher breeding chance than some others.
Wincy	Keeps flinching. Seems to expect everyone to crush it with a rolled-up paper.
Whimsical	You're not sure what this trait does. If, indeed, it does anything.
Young at Heart	This animal ages much slower than most others.

Mucking out

Each animal produces different types of muck in their paddock. Muck does not affect happiness or health of the animals. When you "muck out", you gain farming experience depending on the type of muck that you attempt to clear. The amount of muck in each pile varies (minimum = 1, maximum = unknown).

Animal	Muck	How often piles appear	Experience per action
Rabbit	Mammal Droppings		20
Chicken	Bird Droppings	10 minutes	20
Sheep	Manure	4 minutes	50
	Green Manure		120
Zygomites	N/A	Never	N/A
Chinchompas	Mammal Droppings		20
Spiders	N/A	Never	N/A
Cows	Manure		50
	Green Manure		120
Yaks	Manure		50
Dragons	Manure		50
	Green Manure		120

You can collect the manure from cows and sheep if you have an empty bucket in your inventory.

Manure - used for regular compost

Green manure - used for super compost

Other activities

Manure mound

Main article: Manure mound

The manure mound can be found northeast of Granny Potterington's house. It may be continuously turned for Farming experience. Strange rocks, golden rocks, and master farmer fragments can be obtained from turning the manure.

Pickle the cat

Main article: Pickle the cat

Pickle the cat may be talked to using a catspeak amulet or a cramulet. If he has caught 10 or more mice, talking to him will complete the In a Pickle achievement.

Beehives

Main article: Beehives

Players can interact with the beehives behind the large pen on the east side of the farm. Certain types of plants may be added to a beehive which can result in a variety of different honeycombs.

Plant	Honeycomb	Chance	Production time	Boost
Marigolds	Delicious honeycomb	?	?	Happiness
Rosemary	Dense honeycomb	?	?	Weight
Woad leaf	Medicinal honeycomb	?	?	Health
Nasturtiums	Runny honeycomb	?	?	Speed
Snape grass	Sweet honeycomb	?	?	Attractiveness

Farmers' Market

Main article: Farmers' Market

The Farmers' Market is the shop operated by Granny Potterington.

Miscellaneous

Summoning pets that are near a paddock will reappear inside that paddock.

When first starting out, it may be easier and faster to buy baby animals from the farmers' market for the specific seller. Buy 2 extra animals (one male and one female). Once all babies are adolescents, keep the best two and sell the others. At adolescent, you'll receive more beans than you spent and this will help get the breeding off the ground.

Music unlocked

• Autumn Breeze
• Ms Granny Potterington
• The Sight Of Spring
• Summer Lovin'
• Winter Workin' Night and Day

Pre-release teasers

The teasers are no longer active. They were removed when Player-Owned farm was released.

With the update on 28 August 2018, strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate cows replaced all regular cows in RuneScape (except Zanaris) as a teaser for player-owned farm. They were replaced by regular cows again when the player-owned farm was released.

During Double XP Weekend (31 August to 3 September) seven special farm animals were also available to spot around RuneScape, doing so awarded a small experience lamp for each of them. Finding an animal prompted the message:

You've found X/7 special farm animals. Keep an eye out for more.

The animals wander around a general location and disappear after being clicked on, similarly to spotting the raven in Prifddinas. Finding all seven animals awarded an additional large experience lamp and prompts a dialogue box from Granny Potterington inviting the player to the farm: Thanks for finding them all for me, these little blighters really like to cause me trouble. You seem like a handy sort, pop by my farm sometime and say hello. -Granny Potterington.

Animal	Location
Golden chinchompa	Menaphos Merchant district
Golden ram	Burthorpe
Harlequin cow	Aminishi
Jackalope	Prifddinas Hefin district
Lizard chicken	Lumbridge
Magical zygomite	Prifddinas eastern gate
Sacred yak	Daemonheim