☁️ COTTON FARM

Grow cotton in the desert, level up and expand your ranch

🎯 Goal

You're a farmer on a fenced plot. Plant cotton, wait for it to ripen, harvest and sell it for coins 💰. Spend the earnings on seeds, dig new plots and hire helpers. The goal: reach level 5, open every field and build a fortune.

🌱 Cotton & plots

• Stand on a plot and press E to plant a seed (buy it first at the warehouse).
• The plant grows on its own; once ripe (☁️) press E again to harvest.
• Carry harvested cotton to the market and sell it for coins.
• Don't dawdle: overripe cotton dries up and is lost.

📈 Levels & types

Harvesting earns XP. Each level unlocks a new type: Cotton → Pima → Brown → Egyptian → Sea Island — pricier and slower to grow, but sells for far more. Max is lvl 5.

⛏️ Shovel & new plots

Yellow plots are locked. Buy a shovel at the warehouse (120💰, from level 1) and dig a locked plot while standing on it (~10 sec). One shovel lasts 3 plots, then it breaks.

🌾 Scarecrows

Crows steal ripe cotton. Place scarecrows (from lvl 2, up to 5) — the more you have, the rarer the thefts.

🤠 Farmhands

Hired hands at the recruiter on the left (from lvl 3) harvest cotton and carry it to the market on their own. They don't last forever: after 45–80 harvests the guards shoot them — drag the corpse to the cemetery (E). There you can also buy a 🐕 dog (700💰) — it sometimes waters a freshly planted bush and it grows instantly.

🤠 Around the ranch

Beyond the fence — a town and mounted guards with rifles; NPCs and gunmen sometimes spit at you. Weather changes: ☔ rain speeds growth, 🌪 a sandstorm slows you down.

🎮 Controls

WASD move · E action · 1–5 pick type · M sound