Exploring the world of Pokemon has always been a fun experience and it's no different in Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Putting on your Scout clothes and setting off on this adventure with your Pokemon pals is a delight. The game now includes crafting as well, a new mechanic that just feels like a right addition to the series. However, to craft you're going to need ingredients.
Although there are tons of materials and ingredients scattered through the Hisui region, it's much faster and easier to follow the agricultural path and grow them yourself in Jubilife Village. So, if you want to learn everything there is to know about the farm in the village, keep on reading.
SPOILERS AHEAD: This article contains light spoilers regarding Pokemon Legends: Arceus' main story and the game's mechanics.
Jubilife Village Farm
Farming in Pokemon Legends: Arceus isn't too different from Poke Pelago's Isle Aplenny back in Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. It's a way to passively earn specific items but instead of having your Pokemon farm them for you if you give them berries, you have Jubilife Village farmers, who are part of the Agriculture Corps, who will do it in exchange for monetary compensation.
Location
The farm is located on the western side of the village. If you open up your map using your Arc Phone, you'll notice a large brown patch of dirt with a sapling icon in the middle, that's the farm. There's a blue feather symbol indicating that you can fast travel to the location.
How To Start Farming
It's pretty easy to get the farm up and running and you don't need to advance too much in the main story to do it. To unlock the ability to grow crops, you have to meet the requirements to pay for a harvest. The first two harvests you gain access to are unlocked once you catch eight Pokemon, so that's exactly what you have to do.
Then, once you've caught eight Pokemon, you have to talk to Colza, the man in charge of the field. He'll tell you that in exchange for a fee they'll grow crops for you. The crops take a while to grow, however, so it's best to go out and keep doing survey work, such as working on research tasks or completing some requests for the village folk.
Available Crops
In Pokemon Legends: Arceus there are five crops that you can grow and harvest in the Jubilife Village fields. To unlock all crops you have to catch a certain number of Pokemon, each crop has a minimum requirement of Pokemon caught before you can access and grow it on the farm. You'll have to pay a certain amount of money to grow these crops, the fee depends on which crop you've chosen to grow since they all differ in price.
The apricorn and medicinal harvests don't have any other requirements except having to have caught eight Pokemon. However, if you want to unlock the other crops there are some extra tasks you'll have to upgrade your farm twice. Here are all the crops in the game, how much it costs to produce a harvest of each crop, and how many Pokemon you have to catch in order to unlock it.
| Harvest type | Cost | Number of caught Pokemon needed to unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Apricorn | 500 | 8 Pokemon |
| Medicinal | 1,000 | 8 Pokemon |
| Vegetable | 1,500 | 12 Pokemon + first farm upgrade |
| Mushroom | 2,000 | 12 Pokemon + first farm upgrade |
| Mint | 10,000 | 20 Pokemon + second farm upgrade |
How To Expand Your Farm
As you progress through the game you'll get requests from villagers more and more frequently. Miller, one of the farmers at the Jubilife Village farm, will have a request for you once defeat the Kleavor, the game's first boss. The request is titled 'Help Wanted: Plowing the Fields' and your task will be to lend a Ground-type Pokemon so that he can plow some land and prepare another field at the farm.
Then, later on, once you get to Cobalt Coastlands, he'll ask you for another favor. This request is titled 'Help Wanted: Watering the Fields' and now he wants to borrow a Water-type Pokemon that will help water the fields so he can get more land ready.
Lastly, after defeating Arcanine, yet another new request from Miller will become available, this one titled 'Help Wanted: Watering the Fields', and this time you'll have to lend a Pokemon that knows Rock Smash. After this, even more fields will become available.
All of these Pokemon that you are giving to Miller can be switched out, but another Pokemon will always have to take the original's place. So, don't panic if you've chosen a Pokemon you want on your team, you can just get a substitute.
