Best Crops in Rune FactoryGuardians of Azuma

While farming isn’t a huge focus of the gameplay in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, it is the best way to make money and keep your villages profitable. However, with limited space in your development zones for businesses, houses, barns, and fields, you’ll want to make sure that the crops you’re planting are giving you the best return on your investment. In this guide, I’ll run you through the best crops in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma for the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter villages.

Best Crops to Grow in the Spring Village in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

A Double Combo That’ll Keep the Money Rolling In

As the first village you start out in, chances are you’re going to experiment with lots of different crops in the Spring Village. However, once you’ve got enough money, do yourself a favor and buy the five Strawberry Seeds that Iroha has on offer every day from her teahouse. Strawberries take five days to grow initially, and will get you a yield of five to six strawberries per seed planted.

Each of these sells for 53G, which is the best of all the spring crops, and better yet, each plant will be ready for another harvest two days later. Once they’re planted, you can assign villagers to take care of the watering and harvesting of strawberries, and visit once a day to use your drum to speed up the wait time between harvests. This is easily one of the best cash crops in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma.

Another viable option is the lowly turnip. Despite being the starter crop in the game, its incredibly short grow time of three days (which can be cut right down with your drum) actually means the return on time investment isn’t that bad. They do require replanting after every harvest, which can be a bit time-consuming, but they’re worth focusing on until you get access to some of the other crops in this list. Each seed will get you five to six turnips, each of which sells for 30G.

Best Crop to Grow in the Summer Village in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

I Can’t Imagine a More Beautiful Thing

The Summer Village’s crops are all pretty closely matched, with sale values and grow times ultimately balancing out to offer around the same rate of return on your investment for the most part. However, corn stands out from the pack thanks to its slightly higher sell value, and low maintenance cost. Once planted, corn will initially take five days to grow until it’s ready to be harvested. At this point, you’ll get five to six corn per seed that you planted, each of which can be sold for 38G.

This equates to about 190G per plot, but corn then regrows a crop to be harvested again after two days. You can get about two to three harvests out of a corn plant before it dies and needs replanting. Speed the second and third harvests up with the help of the drum again, and occupy a large space in your development zone, and you’ve essentially got a low-maintenance cash crop. You can even assign villagers to deal with the watering, harvesting, and replanting once you’ve done the initial setup, as there isn’t much they can do to mess it up after that.

Another option for your summer village development zones is the Pink Melon. While these do take 5-6 days to harvest, they sell for 67G each, and you’ll get about 5-6 yields from each seed planted. Plus, if you manage to get its giant variant, the Conqueror Melon, these can be sold for 405 each, making it the most valuable ‘non-gold’ crops (more on those later) in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma.

Best Crops to Grow in the Autumn Village in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

The Best Crops in the Game

Rice and sticky rice are the undisputed GOATs of the crop world in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma. While they require a bit of faff to set up in your development zone, requiring rice paddy tiles to be placed directly next to a waterway tile, once they’re planted and set up, it’s only a matter of time until the money starts rolling in. Both rice and sticky rice take six days to grow until they’re ready to harvest.

However, with the help of your drum every day, you can reduce this to around three days. Once its ready to harvest, you’re looking at a yield of 24-25 rice per plot of land, each of which sells for 60G for standard rice, and 62G for sticky rice. This works out at just under 1,440G per plot of standard rice, assuming you get 24, which is by far the best return you’ll get.

Best Crops to Grow in the Winter Village in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

A Bit of a Mixed Bag

The Winter Village crops aren’t my favorite, purely for the fact that all of them feel more or less the same. Radish, Napa Cabbage, and Carrot all take around the same time to grow and offer more or less the same sell value of 38G. Carrots have a slightly higher sell value of 40 in my experience, so they just about nudge the other winter crops for second place.

The only exception is the mandarin, grown from trees that can only be planted in the Winter village. These will take six days to grow until they can be harvested, but will have a yield of 4-5 mandarins per tree, each selling for 55G. Given you don’t have to water trees and the fruit regrows every five to six days after the initial harvest, planting an orchard of mandarins is therefore the best use of the development zone space in your winter village that isn’t used for buildings.

Gold Crops in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

The Highest Sell Value Crops in the Game

Golden Crops are the rarest and most valuable crops in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma. These sell for 200G each, but require players to track down their seeds within the game world. Golden seeds do not have regions where they do or don’t grow well. They can be planted in any of the villages and will grow in the same amount of time, have the same yield, and sell for the same price. Below, we’ve listed all golden crops, where to find them, and their sell values.