Community Farm: signup, group score and rewards

Community Farm runs in the Hanging Gardens on the hour. Sign up with Arlo during the five minutes before it starts. The reward tier depends on the group’s score; the individual leaderboard also has a separate first-place Memory.

Join through Food for All

Complete A Call From the Gardens, then take Herb’s Food for All side quest. It introduces the Community Farms, asks you to play a round and sends you back to Arlo afterward. Merely standing in the farm area does not complete the participation step.

Signup places can fill. Arrive during the signup window and speak to Arlo rather than waiting for the round to begin. If the round is already full, the next scheduled round is an hour later. Players report different results from changing instances, so that is not a guaranteed extra place.

Use the crop order board

Plant and water crops, harvest them when ready and deliver the requested crops. Read the active order board before filling an available bed. Crops that match an outstanding order advance the group’s result; growing unrelated produce does not solve the current request.

Watering and planting still support the shared result when another player takes the harvest. The leaderboard can make these jobs feel less rewarding than collecting a crop, but the event’s reward rank uses the combined score.

Group ranks

Group score	Rank	Examples of rewards
1,000–1,399	Good	One Bloom, seeds and outfit pieces
1,400–1,599	Awesome	Two Bloom, one Skill Point and outfit pieces
1,600 or more	Perfect	Three Bloom, two Skill Points, keys and outfit pieces

Some rewards are optional rolls, including Golden Chest Keys and Tortoise Location pieces at the upper ranks. A Perfect rank is not a promise of a particular pet fragment.

A low individual placement does not put you in a lower group reward tier. First place has its own Memory, which is the reason a completionist may still care about personal placement after earning the available group rewards.

Three different farming tasks

Community Farm is the timed group activity. The Community Farms Research Station accepts crop bundles to unlock tools and recipes. Your private island’s Garden Beds grow your own crops and use placement permits.

Patch #2 changes one Community Farms research bundle from pineapple to berries, with increased berry, cinnamon and cumin requirements. That research change does not turn an hourly event into a pineapple or berry donation task. Use research and permits for permanent upgrades and Treasure Hunt for the other hourly activity.