Farming, Beekeeping & Clam Farming

The Farming Expansion introduces several connected home-based systems to UO Enigma.

Grow your own produce, maintain Beehives, raise Clams, discover rare Pearls, craft Pearl Enamels, and turn harvested ingredients into a new selection of Cooking recipes.

Home Farming allows players to grow crops directly at their house using special Planters.

Plants require care as they grow and can be affected by their condition over time.

Once a plant reaches maturity, it can be harvested for fresh produce.

The following crops can currently be grown:

Harvested vegetables are normal edible Food items and may also be used in the new Garden Cooking recipes.

Seed Bags contain seeds used with the Home Farming system.

Seed Bags can be discovered through gameplay and provide the starting point for growing crops in your Planters.

Different seeds can produce different types of vegetables and plants.

Plants are not completely maintenance free.

Depending on their condition, plants may require attention while they grow.

Plant conditions progress over time rather than rapidly changing every few minutes.

This gives players time to maintain their garden without needing to constantly monitor it.

When a crop reaches maturity it can be harvested.

Harvest amounts can vary.

Fresh produce can be:

• Eaten normally
• Used for Cooking
• Stored
• Traded with other players

The Beekeeping System allows players to keep and maintain their own Beehives at home.

A healthy hive can produce Honey, Honeycombs, Large Honeycombs, and occasionally uncover rare decorative items.

Keeping a hive productive requires regular care.

Bees need to be fed, checked for pests, and given time to fill their Hive Frames before they can be harvested.

To begin Beekeeping, you will need:

• A Beehive Deed
• Hive Frames
• Sugar Water

Place the Beehive inside your house and add Hive Frames to begin producing honey.

Hive Frames are placed inside the Beehive and slowly filled by the bees.

A newly placed frame requires approximately 48 hours before it can become ready.

The hive must have at least 60% Happiness for the bees to continue filling frames.

Once harvested, the frame slot becomes empty and a new Hive Frame must be added before production can begin again.

Every Beehive has a Happiness level between 0 and 100.

The current condition of the hive is displayed in the Beehive menu.

A happier hive is easier to maintain and allows the bees to continue filling their frames.

Neglected or infested hives gradually lose Happiness.

Bees can be fed using Sugar Water.

Feeding the hive:

• Consumes one Sugar Water
• Restores 20 Happiness
• Cannot raise Happiness above 100
• Can be done once every 24 hours

Regularly tending to the hive helps prevent it from falling into poor condition.

Beehives can occasionally suffer from a Pest Infestation, particularly when the hive is in poor condition.

Use Check for Pests from the Beehive menu to inspect the hive.

If an infestation is discovered, it becomes visible in the Beehive menu.

A revealed infestation can be treated using a standard Cure Potion.

Before harvesting, players can Smoke the Hive.

Smoking calms the bees and protects the player during the next harvesting action.

If a Full Hive Frame is harvested without smoking the hive first, the bees may attack and deal a small amount of damage.

Smoking is consumed after one harvesting action.

Each Full Hive Frame produces one harvest roll.

Possible results include:

Each frame is rolled independently.

A Beehive with all three frames ready can therefore produce several different honey products from the same harvest.

Well-maintained Beehives may occasionally uncover rare decorative items.

Only one rare find can be waiting inside a hive at a time.

Possible discoveries include:

• Honeyed Frame
• Decorative Beehive
• Honeystick
• Partial-Hue Decorative Beehive
• Rose in a Carafe
• Beehive Mailbox

Rare finds are collected directly from the Beehive menu.

Some decorative Beehives can appear in a variety of unusual colors.

Beehives placed inside houses use the normal house security system.

By default, a newly placed Beehive is secured to the House Owner.

The access level can be changed using the normal house security options.

Depending on the selected access level, the Beehive can be restricted to:

• Owner
• Co-Owners
• Friends
• Anyone

Beekeeping introduces several materials that can be used throughout other crafting systems.

• Jar of Honey
• Honeycomb
• Large Honeycomb
• Pure Honey

Pure Honey is not harvested directly from the hive and must instead be produced through crafting.

Some Beekeeping products are also used when creating special pigments and other crafted rewards.

Clam Farming introduces another home-based activity using special Clam Ponds.

A Clam Pond can hold up to 8 Clams at the same time.

Every Clam grows independently.

This means a Clam added today and another added tomorrow will mature at different times.

Players must maintain the pond, keep an eye on its water quality, feed developing Clams, and deal with sickness or neglect before conditions become too severe.

Use the Add Clam option from the Clam Pond menu and target a suitable Clam inside your backpack.

Each occupied position displays the type of Clam currently growing there.

Empty positions remain empty.

Clams progress through several different conditions.

A newly added Clam begins Fresh and gradually matures over several days.

A healthy Clam normally becomes Ready after approximately 4 days.

Leaving a Clam for too long after it becomes Ready can cause it to become Overripe and begin losing quality.

Because every Clam keeps track of its own growth time, Clams added on different days will mature separately.

The Check Clams option allows players to inspect the condition of their Clams.

Rather than displaying exact numerical quality values, the system provides descriptive hints.

Possible messages include:

• “This clam feels light…”
• “Something shifts inside…”
• “This clam feels heavy…”
• “You sense something forming within…”

Sick and Ready Clams also provide clear status messages.

Clam Ponds have their own Water Quality.

Changing the water requires a full glass pitcher of water.

The water is consumed, while the empty glass pitcher remains and can be reused.

The overall Clam Pond can display several different states.

Healthy ponds display bubbling water inside the pond interface.

Unhealthy or neglected ponds begin showing weeds and signs of poor conditions.

A completely collapsed pond visibly changes to reflect its ruined state.

Developing Clams can be fed using Plankton.

Feeding can improve the quality of developing Clams and increase the potential value of their eventual harvest.

Clams cannot be repeatedly fed without limit.

A recently disturbed pond cannot be fed until conditions settle.

Clams can occasionally become Sick.

Poor water conditions make sickness more likely.

Sickness can also spread between nearby Clams.

Changing the water can sometimes help a Sick Clam recover.

Players can remove any Clam from the pond using Remove Clam.

This allows Sick, Dead, unwanted, or otherwise unsuitable Clams to be cleared from the pond.

Once a Clam becomes Ready, it can be extracted.

Players may harvest an individual Ready Clam or use Extract All to harvest all Ready Clams at once.

Possible results include:

• Sand or grit
• Small decorative pebbles
• Common shells
• Pearls
• Higher-quality Pearl rewards

Higher-quality Clams have better chances of producing valuable results.

The player's Luck can also slightly improve the highest-end results from excellent Clams.

A well-maintained Healthy Clam Pond has an extremely small chance of discovering something unusual while the Clams are growing.

These rewards are separate from normal Clam harvesting.

The pond must be Healthy and have Good Water Quality before a rare find can appear.

When something unusual is waiting, the pond interface displays a special indicator.

Possible discoveries include:

• Great Pearl on Display
• Decorative Aquarium
• Rare Seashells
• Hanging Buoy
• String of Shells
• Stacks of Clams
• Painted Shells on a String
• Giant Clam

Items recovered this way are marked:

Retrieved from a Clam Pond

Clam Ponds placed inside houses use the normal house security system.

A newly placed pond is secured to the House Owner by default.

The access level can be changed using the normal house security options.

Players without the required access cannot manage, feed, harvest, or collect rewards from the pond.

Clams do not have to be raised inside a pond.

Loose Clams can also be opened directly.

A sharp blade must be equipped before attempting to open one.

Opening a Clam consumes it and may result in:

• Nothing
• Grit
• Plankton
• A Pearl

Regular Clams can occasionally be found while Fishing.

They can contain Pearls in a variety of colors.

Regular Clams can produce the normal collection of Pearl colors but cannot produce the special Red or Orange Pearls.

Ember Clams are a much rarer type of Clam associated with Lava Fishing.

Because Ember Clams are considerably harder to obtain, they have an increased chance of containing one of their special Pearls.

Ember Clams can produce:

• Red Pearl
• Orange Pearl

There are currently 13 Pearl colors available.

Some Pearl colors are considerably rarer than others.

Pearls are primarily used through the new Pearl Enameling system.

Pearl Enameling is available through Alchemy.

Pearls can be converted into special one-use pigments which retain the exact color of the Pearl used during crafting.

There are five types of Pearl Enamel:

Used to recolor suitable equipment such as:

• Armor
• Weapons
• Shields
• Spellbooks

Used to recolor suitable cloth and clothing items.

Used to permanently recolor an owned pet.

Used to recolor suitable furniture.

Furniture must belong to you or be properly placed inside a house where you have the required access.

Multi-part furniture addons are colored as a complete object.

Used directly by the player to recolor their character's skin using the Pearl color stored inside the Enamel.

There is no separate color selection menu.

Fresh produce from Home Farming, together with ingredients from Beekeeping, can be turned into a variety of new foods through Cooking.

• Spinach Pan Pie
• Onion Pan Pie
• Sweet Potato Pan Pie
• Artichoke Pan Pie
• Aubergine Pan Pie
• Kale Pan Pie

• Aubergine Jam
• Onion Marmalade
• Sweet Potato Preserve
• Tomato Chutney
• Marigold Jelly

• Pickled Artichokes
• Pickled Cucumbers
• Pickled Radishes
• Pickled Onions
• Pickled Green Beans
• Pickled Cauliflower

The Garden Cooking system introduces Vinegar as a new Cooking ingredient.

Vinegar is stackable and is primarily used when preparing pickled vegetables and other preserved foods.

The new recipes make use of existing Jar Honey rather than introducing another sugar resource.

Honey obtained through Beekeeping can therefore be used directly in recipes such as:

• Jams
• Marmalades
• Preserves
• Chutneys
• Jellies

This creates a natural connection between Farming, Beekeeping, and Cooking.

Planters, Beehives, and Clam Ponds are designed for use inside player housing.

These systems retain their persistent state through normal world saves and server restarts.

House-based systems also use appropriate house access controls where required.

The Farming Expansion is designed as a collection of connected systems rather than several isolated activities.