Farming changes in Project Zomboid
- 24documented changes
- 15patches
- 15fixes
Every documented change to Farming
24 changes across 15 patches, newest first
42.19.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 1 June 2026
- FIXFarming
Fixed: players being able to dig furrows and plant seeds on occupied tiles
Fixed players being able to dig furrows and plant seeds on occupied tiles
Official source
42.18.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 11 May 2026
- FIXFarming
Fixed: Gardening Interactions from displaying incorrect growth phase for crops
Fixed Gardening Interactions from displaying incorrect growth phase for crops
Official source
Build 42 Multiplayer (42.13.0) Thursday, 11 December 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: undesired exploitable behaviour with packing food-seeds in packets
An exploit that came from packing food seeds into seed packets has been fixed.
Fixed undesired exploitable behaviour with packing food-seeds in packets
Official source - CHANGEFarming
Crop Farmer and Livestock Farmer renamed to Farmer and Rancher
Crop Farmer is now called Farmer, and Livestock Farmer is now called Rancher.
Crop Farmer and Livestock Farmer renamed to Farmer and Rancher.
Official source
42.12.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Thursday, 25 September 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: Mint Seeds returning an empty bag after packaging
Fixed Mint Seeds returning an empty bag after packaging
Official source - CHANGEFarming
Added Large Hooks to the pools of surface clutter items for Barns and Garages
Large Hooks can now turn up as surface clutter in barns and garages as well as in farm storage.
Added Large Hooks to the pools of surface clutter items for Barns and Garages; they already spawn as surface clutter in Farm Storage.
Official source - FIXFarming
Fixed: planting seasons being incorrect in crops' RMC when using agriculture cheat
The planting seasons shown in a crop's right-click menu are now correct when using the agriculture cheat.
Fixed planting seasons being incorrect in crops' RMC when using agriculture cheat
Official source
42.11.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 4 August 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: the amount of wheat seeds required for packing
Packing wheat seeds now needs the correct number of seeds.
Fixed the amount of wheat seeds required for packing.
Official source - FIXFarming
Fixed: farming magazine not teaching Create Flies Cure recipe
Fixed farming magazine not teaching Create Flies Cure recipe.
Official source
42.10 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 30 June 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: issues with food seed packing requiring more individual seeds than seeds returned
Packing seeds into seed packets no longer takes more seeds than you get back.
Fixed issues with food seed packing requiring more individual seeds than seeds returned.
Official source
42.9.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 10 June 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: duplication exploit with packing seeds that are also food, such as Sunflower Seeds
Fixed duplication exploit with packing seeds that are also food, such as Sunflower Seeds.
Official source - FIXFarming
Fixed: plant health not factoring into farming XP gain when harvesting plants
The farming XP you get from harvesting plants now depends on how healthy each plant is.
Fixed plant health not factoring into farming XP gain when harvesting plants.
Official source
42.8.1 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 20 May 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: plants not being highlighted properly when the "Wind Sprite Effects" option is enabled
Plants now highlight properly when the Wind Sprite Effects option is turned on.
Fixed plants not being highlighted properly when the "Wind Sprite Effects" option is enabled.
Official source
42.7.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 7 April 2025
- CHANGEFarming
QOL updates to farming when using a controller -combined mouse
Controller farming gets a big cleanup: it stays in the selected mode between actions and gets a tooltip and button prompts on the cursor, plus new cursors for removing many plants or curing many plants of pests and mildew at once.
- QOL updates to farming when using a controller -combined mouse and joypad farming modes to use the same methods. -farming with a controller now stays in the selected mode when harvesting, watering, checking plant info, etc. -fixed issues with submenu options staying open when selected. -added farming tooltip following the farming cursor when using a controller. -added button and trigger prompts to the farming cursor. -added "Remove" farming cursor for removing multiple plants with a shovel using gamepad or mouse. -added farming cursors for multiple aphid, mildew, slug, pest flies curing with joypad or mouse.
- FIXFarming
Fixed: farming water options menu stuck on screen when deselected in joypad mode
Fixed farming water options menu stuck on screen when deselected in joypad mode.
Official source
42.6.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 24 March 2025
- CHANGEFarming
Zones `Farm` and `FarmLand` now have the biome `farmmix_forest`
Farm and farmland zones now use a farm-mix forest biome, which cuts unwanted trees there to nearly none.
Zones `Farm` and `FarmLand` now have the biome `farmmix_forest`.
- Zones `Farm` and `FarmLand` now have the biome `farmmix_forest`. This reduce the number of unwanted trees to nearly 0.
42.5.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 11 March 2025
- FIXFarming
Fixed: Some plants have missing Best Month/Poor month/Min water
Some plants now have the best month, poor month and minimum water values they were missing.
Fixed Some plants have missing Best Month/Poor month/Min water
Official source - FIXFarming
Fixed: issues with seeds produced by crops
Fixed issues with seeds produced by crops
Official source
42.4.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 4 March 2025
- CHANGEFarming
Sledgehammers can spawn as surface clutter in Farm Storage and Garage roomdefs
Sledgehammers can now spawn lying on surfaces in farm storage rooms and garages, so they are easier to find.
Sledgehammers can spawn as surface clutter in Farm Storage and Garage roomdefs.
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42.1 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 21 January 2025
- CHANGEFarming
Double barrel shotguns can spawn as farm storage clutter
Double barrel shotguns can now show up as clutter in farm storage.
Double barrel shotguns can spawn as farm storage clutter.
Official source - CHANGEFarming
Dead farm plants now display mouse-over tooltips and the Plant Information window
Dead farm plants now show mouse-over tooltips and can be viewed in the Plant Information window.
Dead farm plants now display mouse-over tooltips and the Plant Information window.
Official source - CHANGEFarming
Adjusted the farming xp code so a player cannot get less than 0 xp from harvesting their own crop
Harvesting your own crops can no longer give you negative Farming xp.
Adjusted the farming xp code so a player cannot get less than 0 xp from harvesting their own crop.
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41.78.13 (Build 41) Tuesday, 29 November 2022
- FIXFarming
Fixed: the farming menu that limited squares watered after the first to 50 water units maximum instead of 100
Fixed an error in the farming menu that limited squares watered after the first to 50 water units maximum instead of 100.
Official source
41.67 (Build 41) Friday, 4 March 2022
- CHANGEFarming
Square must be valid to roll the item type (cannot be used to find plants on roads)
Search Focus only rolls an item type on ground where that item could be found, so you cannot use it to find plants on roads.
- square must be valid to roll the item type (cannot be used to find plants on roads)