Wowhead's Guide to the Tillers

By HalloranElder Updated: 2022/10/07

The Tillers

Farming: how to plant, grow, and maintain crops, as well as how to expand a farm.

Tillers Union: covers the main questline in which the player wins union votes from Halfhill residents, daily quests, and Tillers reputation rewards.

Friendship: the friendship reputation system, how to increase friendship through quests and gifts, as well as Best Friend rewards.

Patch 9.0.1 Changes

Reputation quests are now available from level 15.

Flying is not available to characters until level 30, meaning some of the reputation quests are not soloable until level 30.

Patch 5.2 Additions

You can inherit the farm from Farmer Yoon if Exalted, in Inherit the Earth, when he's asked to take on a role at the Tiller's Council. You can then set your hearth to your farm, from the Farmer's Journal inside the home.

Sunsong Ranch now has Work Order quests that can boost your reputation with two factions per day. You must have unlocked that faction's dailies in order to be eligible for Work Orders and plant various seeds, which award +400 reputation.

Seed bags have been added, that allow planting of crops 4 plots at a time.

Yoon's Mailbox has been renamed to Sunsong Ranch Mailbox.

The yield from special crops has been improved to make farming them competitive with gathering these items out in the world.

Running the Master Plow across underground Virmen will cause them to pop out of the ground at 30% health and stunned.

Wild Crops will now occur less often.

Patch 5.1 Additions

Players can now grow Unstable Portal Shard on their farms which turn into one of four capital city portals at random. Check out the complete details here.

Players can purchase Portable Refrigerator for 10 Ironpaw Token each.

Runty crops will look more visible in 5.1.

If you plant a vegetable crop and are already Best Friends with Tiller NPCs, you'll get useful bonus profession seeds instead of gifts you no longer need.

FarmingFarming Your Crop

Before you start, Farmer Yoon will give you a series of quests preparing you to manage your farm.

Your crop is a phased area unique to you by Sunsong Ranch (unexpected bonus in PvP areas). You start off with four soil patches, but it looks like it can be increased up to 16 as reputation is unlocked.

Buy seeds from Merchant Greenfield in Halfhill Market, and plant them in your patch of soil (click on the patch) at Sunsong Ranch. Higher reputation levels unlock more seed types.

When the crop is "growing," it is in danger of requiring maintenance (see next section). Tend to your crop and it should be good to go.

After a day or so (there's inconsistent growth patterns), you can harvest the crop.

Harvesting the crop will yield 50 reputation at level 90 (no reputation below), and vegetables as well as a chance of additional seeds.

Jogu the Drunk will make a prediction as to which crops will yield good harvests tomorrow. However, if you are not Best Friends with Jogu he will charge you an amount of money to make the prediction, starting at and reducing down for each level of friendship.

If you want to plant something else, Dented Shovel removes the existing crop, but your initial seeds will be lost.

You can start tilling at level 10, but you won't gain reputation for crops until level 15.

Planting Your CropMerchant Greenfield

Vegetable Seeds used in Cooking cost --this should help out with Cooking ingredients too. They can grow all vegetables.

Blossom Tree Seeds cost and are available at various reputation levels. Planting these seeds allows you, one day later, to harvest an item that plants a tree, lasting for 3 minutes anywhere in the world.

Profession Seeds require Revered with The Tillers and cost . These seeds passively acquire various profession reagents.

Vegetable

Blossom Tree

Profession

Green Cabbage Seeds

Autumn Blossom Sapling, Honored.
Creates: Autumn Blossom Tree

Enigma Seed: "The enigma seed is named for its mysterious ability to germinate into a random Pandaren herb." 2-4 herbs.

Jade Squash Seeds

Spring Blossom Sapling, Revered.
Creates: Spring Blossom Tree

Magebulb Seed: "Magebulbs absorb latent magic from the soil, coalescing it into materials which can be used in Enchanting." 2-4 Spirit Dust

Juicycrunch Carrot Seeds

Winter Blossom Sapling, Exalted.
Creates: Winter Blossom Tree

Raptorleaf Seed: "The raptorleaf is a carnivorous plant which is known to devour virmen, hawks and other small creatures. It dies after a single meal, releasing seeds into the air and often leaving behind the remains of its catch." 1 Mist-Touched Leather

Mogu Pumpkin Seeds

Snakeroot Seed: "Snakeroot reaches deep into the earth, coiling itself around mineral deposits." 2-4 Ghost Iron Ore

Pink Turnip Seeds

Songbell Seed: "The harmony of light and dark bell flowers on this plant has inspired Pandaren song and poetry for millenia." 1 Mote of Harmony

Red Blossom Leek Seeds

Windshear Cactus Seed: "The windshear cactus is covered in millions of fine needles which filter air as it passes through. Windwool fibers and scraps of material drifting in the breeze often collect on the cactus." 1 Windwool Cloth

Growing Your Crop

Crops can be in one of 10 negative states that need your assistance to be remedied. 8 are found in freshly-planted crops, while an additional 2 can be encountered between harvesting and tilling.

Farmer Yoon offers some farming tips, but they're more confusing riddles instead of helpful advice.

State

Solution

Alluring

Defend the crop from Plainshawk.

Infested!

Use Vintage Bug Sprayer, found on the ground.

Occupied

Kill the nearby virmen. Special state after harvesting.

Parched

Use Rusty Watering Can.

Runty

Tab Spacebar to jump.

Smothered

Use Pull!, available after interacting with the crop.

Stubborn

Use Pull! again. Special state after harvesting.

Tangled

Pull the Tanglevine weeds 15 yards away: Pulling Tanglevines

Wiggling

Defend the crop against the summoned Virmen.

Wild

Use Flex to get stacks of Dominance. Interrupt Vine Slam, which removes 6 stacks, with Gnaw. Once 50 stacks are reached, the crop is subdued.

Expanding Your Farm

All players start out with 4 soil squares on their farm. You'll most likely reach 16 soil squares at least.

Completing the quest chain for the Tillers Union, in which you befriend and gain votes in Halfhill Market, will unlock more squares.

At Honored, you can clear weeds for Growing the Farm:
Growing the Farm I: The Weeds

Growing the Farm I: A Little Problem

Revered

Growing the Farm II: The Broken Wagon

Growing the Farm II: Knock on Wood

ExaltedGrowing the Farm III: The Mossy BoulderGina Mudclaw

"Jinyu Princess" Irrigation System: Requires weeds cleared from farm. This creates a sprinkler system that waters up to 8 parched crops at once.

"Thunder King" Pest Repellers: Requires broken wagon fixed. This creates a pesticide system that sprays up to 8 infected crops at once.

"Earth-Slasher" Master Plow: Requires mossy boulder removed. This allows you to plow four crops at once.

Tillers UnionTillers Union VotesFarmer YoonFarmer YoonGina MudclawScallionsRusty Watering Can

Learn and Grow I: Seeds

Learn and Grow II: Tilling and Planting

Learn and Grow III: Tending Crops

Learn and Grow IV: Harvesting

Learn and Grow V: Halfhill Market

Learn and Grow VI: Gina's Vote

Mung-MungJuicycrunch Carrot

Mung-Mung's Vote I: A Hozen's Problem

Mung-Mung's Vote II: Rotten to the Core

Mung-Mung's Vote III: The Great Carrot Caper

Farmer FungGreen Cabbage

Farmer Fung's Vote I: Yak Attack

Farmer Fung's Vote II: On the Loose

Farmer Fung's Vote III: Crazy For Cabbage

Nana MudclawWitchberries

Nana's Vote I: Nana's Secret Recipe

Nana's Vote II: The Sacred Springs

Nana's Vote III: Witchberry Julep

Haohan MudclawStriped Melon

Haohan's Vote I: Bungalow Break-In

Haohan's Vote II: The Real Culprits

Haohan's Vote III: Pure Poison

Haohan's Vote IV: Melons For Felons

Haohan's Vote V: Chief Yip-Yip

Daily QuestsFarmer Yoon

A Pumpkin-y Perfume

It's Melon Time

Red Blossom Leeks, You Make the Croc-in' World Go Down

Squash Those Foul Odors

That Dangling Carrot

The Cabbage Test

The Pink Turnip Challenge

The White Turnip Treatment

Which Berries? Witchberries.

Why Not Scallions?

Andihere

Farmer

Quest

Friendship

Requires Flying?

Chee Chee

Not in Chee-Chee's Backyard

+2000

Yes

Ella

You Have to Burn the Ropes

+2000

Yes

Farmer Fung

Water, Water Everywhere

+2000

Fish Fellreed

The Kunzen Legend-Chief

+2000

Yes

+2600

+3300

+2000

+3000

+2000

Yes

Tina Mudclaw

They Don't Even Wear Them

+2000

Yes

The Lesser of Two Evils

Stealing is Bad... Re-Stealing is OK

Stalling the Ravage

The Kunzen Hunter-Chief

Simian Sabotage

Tillers RewardsThe TillersReveredExalted

Revered

Exalted

Pandaren Scarecrow

Reins of the Black Riding Goat

Spring Blossom Sapling

Reins of the Brown Riding Goat

Enigma Seed

Reins of the White Riding Goat

Recipe: Spicy Vegetable Chips

Windshear Cactus Seed

Winter Blossom Sapling

Friendship with Tiller NPCsOverview and Rewards

10 Tiller NPCs have Friendship bars, which are similar to reputation but don't have normal Normal/Friendly distinctions. Instead, there are six segments of 8400 friendship each, with the best level obtainable at 42000 friendship. While gaining friendship, you'll also gain some Tillers reputation.

You can check up on your friendship status at the Tillers Shrine in Sunsong Ranch.

Friendship levels:
Stranger: 0-8400

Acquaintance: 8400-16800

Buddy: 16800-25200

Friend: 25200-33600

Good Friend: 33600-42000

Best Friend: 42000-42999

The easiest way is to give each NPC 5 of their favorite food each day. Completing these meal quests will grant 1,800 friendship.

A harder way to gain reputation is to give friends specific gifts. These are found in piles of Dark Soil to the north of Halfhill which unfortunately cannot be tracked on the minimap. Each friend will grant 540 friendship per gift. In addition, there's one gift each NPC really wants, and turning that item into the specific NPC will grant 900 friendship instead.

Some quests give friendship--either quests that signal you've reached a new friendship level or select dailies.

Best Friends with Old Hillpaw will add chickens to your farm and send you Straw Hat.

Ella adds Luna the cat to your farm, and sends Tree Seed Pack with Blossom seeds inside.

Fish Fellreed adds 3 pink pigs and mails Special Seed Pack, which has profession seeds inside.

Farmer Fung adds Shaggy the Prize Yak and sends Enigma Seed.

Gina Mudclaw adds a mailbox and mails Celebration Gift which has fireworks inside.

Sho mails a Red Cricket and adds an orange tree to the farm.

Chee Chee sends Chee Chee's Goodie Bag which has cloth and leather, and adds sheep to your farm.

Haohan Mudclaw sends 3 Songbell Seed and adds "Miss Fifi," a mushan pet, to your farm.

Jogu the Drunk sends Secret Stash with alcohol in the mail and won't charge you anything for crop predictions.

Tina Mudclaw sends food and adds furniture to the farm.

You'll also complete the following achievements as you befriend more NPCs: Friend on the Farm, Friends on the Farm

Food and Presents

Food can be turned in once a day for 1,800 friendship.

Gifts can be turned in as many times as possible per day. The are BoP and cannot be traded.

Mousing over an NPC's friendship bar will tell you what food and gifts they really like.

NPC

Favorite Food

Ideal Gift

Chee Chee

A Dish for Chee Chee, Valley Stir Fry

A Blue Feather for Chee Chee, Blue Feather

Ella

A Dish for Ella, Shrimp Dumplings

A Jade Cat for Ella, Jade Cat

Farmer Fung

A Dish for Farmer Fung, Wildfowl Roast

A Marsh Lily for Farmer Fung, Marsh Lily

Fish Fellreed

A Dish for Fish, Twin Fish Platter

A Jade Cat for Fish, Jade Cat

Gina Mudclaw

A Dish for Gina, Swirling Mist Soup

A Marsh Lily for Gina, Marsh Lily

Haohan Mudclaw

A Dish for Haohan, Charbroiled Tiger Steak

A Ruby Shard for Haohan, Ruby Shard

Jogu the Drunk

A Dish for Jogu, Sauteed Carrots

A Lovely Apple for Jogu, Lovely Apple

Old Hillpaw

A Dish for Old Hillpaw, Braised Turtle

A Blue Feather for Old Hillpaw, Blue Feather

Sho

A Dish for Sho, Eternal Blossom Fish

A Lovely Apple for Sho, Lovely Apple

Tina Mudclaw

A Dish for Tina, Fire Spirit Salmon

A Ruby Shard for Tina, Ruby Shard

Friendship Quests

Daily quests Andi gives you. You need to give a gift (not to be confused with the Dark Soil gifts) to a friend, for 1400 friendship.

Other daily quests (generally collecting or killing) that end at various friends, like Not in Chee-Chee's Backyard for 2,000 friendship and 150 reputation with the Tillers.

Regular non-daily quests that are accessible once you hit a new friendship level, like Lost Sheepie, for 2,000-6,000 friendship.

Tina Mudclaw is a popular lady with a lot of jewelry that gives 3750 friendship when returned: Nice Necklace, A Very Nice Necklace, Tasteful Tiara, Exquisite Earring, Beautiful Brooch

NPC

Gifts

Normal Quests

Dailies

Chee Chee

A Gift For Chee Chee

Lost Sheepie (Buddy: +3750)
Lost Sheepie... Again (Friend: +3750)
Oh Sheepie... (Good Friend: +3750)
A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (Good Friend: +3750)

Not in Chee-Chee's Backyard

Ella

A Gift For Ella

The Beginner's Brew (Buddy: +5000)
Ella's Taste Test (Friend: +5000)
A Worthy Brew (Good Friend: +5000)

You Have to Burn the Ropes

Farmer Fung

A Gift For Fung

Farmer Fung's Vote I: Yak Attack (+1000)
Farmer Fung's Vote II: On the Loose (+7000)
Farmer Fung's Vote III: Crazy For Cabbage (+7000)

Water, Water Everywhere

Fish Fellreed

A Gift For Fish

The Kunzen Legend-Chief

Gina Mudclaw

A Gift For Gina

Learn and Grow V: Halfhill Market (+3000)
Learn and Grow VI: Gina's Vote (+6000)

Money Matters

Haohan Mudclaw

A Gift For Haohan

Haohan's Vote I: Bungalow Break-In (+2000)

Pest Problems

Jogu the Drunk

A Gift For Jogu

Buy A Fish A Drink? (Aquaintance: +1000)
Buy A Fish A Round? (Buddy: +3000)
Buy A Fish A Keg? (Friend: +5000)
Buy A Fish A Brewery? (Good Friend: +6000)

Weed War II

Old Hillpaw

A Gift For Old Hillpaw

They Don't Even Wear Them

Comments

Comment by Silden

"For 1 (or free with Best Friend status), Jogu the Drunk will make a prediction as to which crops will yield good harvests tomorrow. However, it seems his predictions are a bit off as the mentioned crops yield nothing special."

The amount varies, it's not just 1 or free - it's something like 25 gold when he doesn't know you, progressing through 10 gold, 1 gold, and 10 silver as you go through the friend status, until it is free when you're his best friend.

Also his predictions are bang on, so I wouldn't say that his predictions are a bit off. On the contrary, plant his predicted veg today, and tomorrow you'll get 7 of each instead of 5. Haven't checked to see if they fixed it, but there used to be small time period when it didn't work, it was something like 1am to 4am where he would still tell you the same prediction but the veg has moved onto the next day (in effect being "today's" veg not tomorrows, which means you couldn't plant them and harvest up the bonus)

Comment by fwcain

Since each type of gift can be given to two different NPCs (while each of the favorite foods can be given to just one NPC), I would find it useful to have a table (within the tab "Food and Presents" in the section "Friendship with Tiller NPCs") listing the various gifts and their corresponding NPCs...

Gifts and Corresponding Tiller NPCs

Blue Feather	Chee Chee, Old Hillpaw
Jade Cat	Ella, Fish Fellreed
Lovely Apple	Jogu the Drunk, Sho
Marsh Lily	Farmer Fung, Gina Mudclaw
Ruby Shard	Haohan Mudclaw, Tina Mudclaw

(Edits: Sorry, I forgot to use the "Preview" option...) :-P

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Addendum: Notes on Work Orders

So, now that you're Exalted with the Tillers, and you've got some extra seeds laying around, who can you earn +Rep with by planting those seeds?...

Crops and Corresponding Factions

Green Cabbage	Shado-Pan
Juicycrunch Carrot	Kirin Tor Offensive
Mogu Pumpkin	The Klaxxi
Red Blossom Leek	Dominance Offensive
Scallion	Sunreaver Onslaught
Striped Melon	The August Celestials
White Turnip	Golden Lotus
Witchberry	Operation: Shieldwall

Comment by Dsilver

Is there any benefit after hiring a friend in my farm?

I can't seem to find an answer by my self.
When I hire someone I just see him/her standing near my farm.

Comment by kenetha65

Here's the data presented alphabetically three different ways:

Blue Feather- Chee Chee, Old Hillpaw
Jade Cat- Ella, Fish Fellreed
Lovely Apple- Jogu the Drunk, Sho
Marsh Lily- Farmer Fung, Gina Mudclaw
Ruby Shard- Haohan Mudclaw, Tina Mudclaw

Blossom Fish - Sho
Braised Turtle - Old Hillpaw
Charbroiled Tiger Steak - Haohan Mudclaw
Eternal Blossom Fish - Sho
Fire Spirit Salmon - Tina Mudclaw
Sauteed Carrots - Jogu
Shrimp Dumplings - Ella
Swirling Mist Soup - Gina Mudclaw
Twin Fish Platter - Fish Fellreed
Valley Stir Fry - Chee Chee

Chee Chee Blue Feather, Valley Stir Fry
Ella - Jade Cat, Shrimp Dumplings
Farmer Fung - Marsh Lilly, Wild Fowl Roast
Fish Fellreed - Jade Cat, Twin Fish Platter
Gina Mudclaw - Marsh Lilly, Swirling Mist Soup
Haohan Mudclaw - Ruby Shard, Charbroiled Tiger Steak
Jogu - Lovely Apple, Sauteed Carrots
Old Hillpaw - Blue Feather, Braised Turtle
Sho - Lovely Apple, Eternal Blossom Fish
Tina Mudlcaw - Ruby Shard, Fire Spirit Salmon

Comment by Scii

On the tillers union quest line you have Mung-Mung's Vote in the wrong place, it happens before Farmer Fung's Vote midway through honored.

Comment by 523477

Just wondering if anyone knows about rep with each member of the Tillers faction. I am exalted with the Tillers, and Best friend with each member, yet when I complete a daily that is turned in to Gina or Tina or Yoon or whomever, I am getting rep points. Not sure if this applies to some other group or what. Any ideas where this rep is going since I don't appear to have anything more to gain with Tiller or members?

Comment by 1138398

Plant the crops you need for the next vote the day before, this gives you a faster going up with the votes :D

Comment by jpaul9567

Does anyone know why some of my 90 toons can purchase bags of seeds for 27G while the others pay 30G. They are all exalted with Tillers and Best Friends with each of the NPC's. Does it have to do with their level within each of the Ways? I really didn't want to level ALL of them for the cooking but they all plant for profession mats. Thanks in advance for any help with this.

Comment by TheBigMike

Mung Mung's vote is actually BEFORE Farmer Fung's Vote

Comment by Rakoi

A cool thing that happened to me when I was 374 rep into exalted for The Tillers and had about 7/10 best friends was getting a quest from a dog at the co-ordinates 42.39, 49.99, which is about a third of the way between half hill and Ella's house. The quest was called "Lost and Lonely" and all you have to do is get 20 "Tasty T-bone" from the Skyrange Mushan beasts near where Sho usually is. Doing this quest will get you a cute dog on your farm! :)

It is a cosmetic quest but it also gave me 640 rep for the tillers (575 bonus rep from the tillers commendation that you can get at revered) I'm also a human so I might've of gotten about 20 extra rep from the racial benefit. When you have completed the quest you will get a notice in your chat that says "The dog wags its tail happily. It heads towards your farm!" I haven't seen anything on this guide about getting a dog on the farm so I thought I would share my find for all the dog lovers out there!

Happy Farming! :)

Edit: I added the message you get about the dog after you complete the quest.

Comment by deadlaserman

here some tips for extra rep, if u alredy reverd u can buy will give u extra rep with tillers and friends benefit, u can also buy Darkmoon Top Hat and guild perk, total of 1080 rep with item they love, items they dont like its around 645 or something.
im doing it with alts to get extra farms for more mets, gl to all btw :)

Comment by 659423

I seem to be having trouble getting the last part of the farm revealed. i have the first three but the fourth one, the one with the boulder i cant seem to get the quest to get it removed, i am exalted with the tillers, i have two of the votes but i also cant find anymore quests the only ones im given are the ones for the daily quests for the tillers rep grind which im exalted at already, I was also wondering about something in the guide, under the expanding your farm tab under farming the first thing it says "All players start out with 4 soil squares on their farm. You'll most likely reach 16 soil squares at least." how do you get more than 16 soil plots,. any help is appreciated thanks
P.S. also keep an eye out for the Ghostly Pandaren, he gives u the woodcutters axe which sells for 110 gold, he does trigger the rarenpc addon, and u can find him at coords 45;38 its next to a boulder and a tree in the area with all those hopper vermin running around.

Comment by Jovio

Thought to add some info as well, despite most having already stated most. This was what I was looking for but didn't find full out.

Who	Wants (item, dish)	Ingredients for the dish
Chee Chee	Blue Feather, Valley Stir Fry	Reef Octopus + Wildfowl Breast
Ella	Jade Cat, Shrimp Dumplings	Giant Mantis Shrimp
Farmer Fung	Marsh Lily, Wildfowl Roast	Wildfowl Breast
Fish Fellreed	Jade Cat, Twin Fish Platter	2x Krasarang Paddlefish
Gina Mudclaw	Marsh Lily, Swirling Mist Soup	Jade Lungfish
Haohan Mudclaw	Ruby Shard, Charbroiled Tiger Steak	Raw Tiger Steak
Jogu the Drunk	Lovely Apple, Sauteed Carrots	2x Juicycrunch Carrot
Old Hillpaw	Blue Feather, Braised Turtle	Raw Turtle Meat + 5x Juicycrunch Carrot
Sho	Lovely Apple, Eternal Blossom Fish	Jade Lungfish + 5x Striped Melon
Tina Mudclaw	Ruby Shard, Fire Spirit Salmon	Emperor Salmon + 5x Scallions

Edit: Hmm.. Looks a bit messy; i wonder how I get to make tables?
Edit 2: Found out how to make tables, so edited for easier overlook.

Comment by kitkat2

I don't know whether the order of the quests has changed for the Tiller's Union votes, but in Patch 6.1, I was given the Mung-Mung set of quests (plant and harvest 2 Juicycrunch Carrot) before the Farmer Fung quests (plant and harvest 3 Green Cabbage). The guide above indicates the Mung-Mung quests are given after the Farmer Fung ones.

Comment by 1501288

This part of the game reminds me so much of Harvest Moon...very first game I played. Mostly the part of giving gifts to make friends. In Harvest Moon you could give almost everyone gifts, but mostly for the girl you wanted to marry someday...such a cool game.

Comment by Gnecdea

For those that would like to know how many gifts to get without doing Math (like me), you'll need 60 gifts from Stranger to Best Friend for each NPC; without counting dailies and food turn-ins.

Comment by JaxxyLupei

This is my second time doing this and I'm honestly super annoyed that the Hozen dailies require flying to do them, unless there's a secret passage I'm not aware of. The only way I can get up there is if I'm killed close enough for my spirit to spawn on the mountaintop shrine. So far that's happened once due to an overzealous Horde player and I can't recreate it.

Comment by Rakattack

Maybe people smarter than me could figure this out on their own, but I think it's worth mentioning that the work orders for rep with other factions at exalted require you to use the plots on your farm and wait for crops to grow the next day to harvest them. This isn't shocking or unreasonable, as the lore reasoning behind the work orders is that you're growing crops for those factions. But if you're like me and raised your Tillers rep because you want Songbells for Motes of Harmony (or any other rare crop), you can't get rep at the same time.

Comment by Qoko

Some of the info in this guide is slightly off, and anno 8.0 I think some rep flow info for players that want to unlock the farm is in order. I assume you do have Grand Commendation of the Tillers, if you're doing it on your first character this whole process will take twice as long.

Neutral: the Tillers starts with A Helping Hand at Farmer Yoon. Doing this whole chain will get you approximately to Honored.
Honored: starts off with Growing the Farm I: The Weeds for 2k rep and more slots. Requires 15 minutes login time. Then unlocks "Jinyu Princess" Irrigation System.
Honored ~50%: at 5.6k you will get Mung-Mung's Vote I: A Hozen's Problem for 1.6k rep, requires 2x Juicycrunch Carrot planted.
Revered: starts off with Growing the Farm II: The Broken Wagon for 2k rep and more slots. Requires 15 minutes login time. Then unlocks "Thunder King" Pest Repellers.
Revered 20%: 4.2k will unlock Farmer Fung's Vote I: Yak Attack for 1.6k/rep, requires 3x Green Cabbage planted.
Revered 40%: 8.4k will unlock Nana's Vote I: Nana's Secret Recipe for 1.6k/rep, requires 3x Witchberry planted.
Revered 60%: 12.6k will unlock Lost and Lonely for 1k/rep, theoretically this is optional, but don't you dare!
Revered 80%: 16.8k will unlock Haohan's Vote I: Bungalow Break-In for 4.4k/rep, requires 4x Striped Melons planted, netting you Exalted.
Exalted: will unlock Growing the Farm III: The Mossy Boulder to max out the farm after 15 minutes, also unlocking "Earth-Slasher" Master Plow.

The Neutral chain doesn't exactly net Honored (don't have a character left that has to start from scratch), but considering it is (and it is close), you'll get 23.2/42k from base to Exalted just from the chain. The remaining 19k can be obtained from dailies and harvests:

Any set of dailies nets 2.1k rep.
Any harvest nets 100 rep, so 400 for a Friendly farm, 800 for a Honored farm and 1200 for a Revered farm.
You can force rep by re-planting crops until you get a Bursting crop for 100 each, but this isn't a viable way to farm.

All in all, on an alt you'd require about a week to get to Exalted, which is not terrible for the benefit of a fully developed farm.

Comment by cynikal24

As of 8/5/18 (BFA pre-patch 8.0.1), the level required to begin the Tillers is level 86. The only setback is you will not earn any rep for picking the herbs in the garden. You will need level 90 for that. All of the quest chains and the daily quests will give the rep beginning at level 86. If you're trying to rush up a whole garden for farming materials only, forget about getting reputation with any of the Tillers NPCs - they are worthless for gold making and they do NOT help you to get exalted with the actual Tillers reputation in any meaningful way. They simply add pointless extras to your garden and make you waste your time on them.

I know this is stated above in the guide, but the 86 is very easy to overlook. Check Qoko's comment for exactly all you need to know.

Comment by SpakyTwo

Created this five years ago but just ran across this guide. I thought it would fit nicely.

You may want to plant the next item in the "votes" list so that you don't have to wait for the dailes to reset (in this case 2 Juicycrunch Carrots) .
I have compiled the five people and their votes below.

For example: When you go to plant the scallion for Gina, you also plant the Juicycrunch Carrots for Mung Mung. This will make it so that as soon as you hit honored you can do Mung Mung's questline all at once and not have to wait until the next day. If you have bought the Grand Commendation of the Tillers, you should be just over honored when you get to this quest.

The five people and their veggies to plant and their votes are as follows (including this quest)

Plant and harvest 1 Scallions, then deliver 5 Scallions to Gina Mudclaw.

Mung-Mung's Vote III: The Great Carrot Caper (Requires level 90)

Plant and harvest 2 Juicycrunch Carrot, then deliver 10 Juicycrunch Carrots to Mung-Mung.

Farmer Fung's Vote III: Crazy For Cabbage

Plant and harvest 3 Green Cabbage, then deliver 15 Green Cabbages to Farmer Fung.

Nana's Vote III: Witchberry Julep

Plant and harvest 3 Witchberries, then deliver 15 Witchberries to Nana Mudclaw.

Haohan's Vote IV: Melons For Felons

Plant and harvest 4 Striped Melon, then deliver 20 Striped Melons to Farmer Yoon.

Comment by daninero

For those of you, who like me, needed a few hundred rep to get to the next quest and decided to spam-plant crops, here's a macro I made to speed things up.
If you keybind this macro you can use the same button to plant/remove crops without having to click on the crop/dirt, just mouseover it
Change the name of the seed to whichever one you intend to plant

#showtooltip Striped Melon Seeds
/castsequence [] Striped Melon Seeds, Dented Shovel

Comment by Neldorn

BfA 8.3 - practical way for slow leveling your alts in bracket 82(81)-90. It seems that required level was lowered and you can start at 82, maybe even at 81 (unfortunately I did 80-82 in dungeon). Definitely not 80.

Also you can go LFD for extra +600 reputation with Tillers if you mark them in you reputation tab.

However, you will not earn any rep for picking the herbs in the garden. You will need level 90 for that.

Comment by MrPineapple

as of 9.0, you need to be level 15 to start this, and level 30 to get flying to do most of the dailies. lower than 30 and you will be limping along through this. barely worth the effort without flying.

though to be fair, the planting daily is super easy and still gives a ton of rep, so it's an easy place to park an alt, do a 2 minute daily, and build some rest xp while you work on other toons.

Comment by Difdi

Does anyone know how to get up to the quest areas for the killing daily quests without flight? The quests are now level 15, but flight is a lot higher level than that.

Comment by Forrestmajor

Despite the level squish, you can gain reputation from farming at level 50, no longer 90.

Comment by dimestorecandy

How to get to Skyrange (or any area where flight seems to be required) without flight

Now that the Skyrange quests are only level 15 you might be wondering how to get your lowbie up there:

Get your toon somewhat near your goal location and near a quick death (from mobs or a fall).
Queue for both dungeons AND battlegrounds.
Let your toon die.
Fly your ghost toward Skyrange.
If a queue pops before you get there, let it hang until it expires.
Once you've reached your goal location, accept a queue pop.
Either play out your dungeon/BG or just quit it (gives you debuff and maybe irks others though).
Either way, you'll materialize alive and right where you wanted to be.

Comment by Tequima

Ways to buffs your Tillers reputation gains include:

For alts, buy Grand Commendation of the Tillers from Gina Mudclaw in Halfhill Market on your main once you have Revered with the Tillers and right click on the item to use it. This grants a battle net account-wide buff to Tillers reputation gains, including from Revered to Exalted on your main. Note there is nothing to stop you from buying the item twice in error and it is NOT refundable. To check if you have it already, carry out any Tillers quest or harvest a crop from your farm. If the chat message is "Reputation with the Tillers increased by X. (+X/2 bonus) then you have already used it (there's no longer a golden arrow on the Reputation tab to show it after Shadowlands expac).
Monthly Darkmoon Faire WHEE! buff from using the Roller Coaster or Roundabout.
Once every 7 months (as of Shadowlands), MoP Timewalking week. You can use the badges earned to buy Tiller's commendations from the Timewalking vendor on the Timeless Isle (Tushi's Landing flight path). Note that there is no flying on the Timeless Isle and if flying in manually, you will be dismounted when you get near. It also grants max level characters the buff Sign of the Mists which increases the reputation earned from MoP factions.
Annual World Event buffs The Spirit of Sharing and Unburdened

The Celebration Package and Battle Standard of Coordination only grant rep on kills, so aren't of use for Tillers. As of Shadowlands expac 9.0 you can no longer choose a MoP faction to gain extra rep from MoP dungeons.

Comment by Tarneil

Compiled NPC TomTom coordinates, Ideal Gift and Favorite Food. Paste addon can be helpful in executing the commands at once.

/way Valley of the Four Winds 34, 46 Chee Chee: Feather, Fry
/way Valley of the Four Winds 31, 58 Ella: Cat, Dumplings
/way Valley of the Four Winds 48, 33 Farmer Fung: Lily, Roast
/way Valley of the Four Winds 41, 30 Fish Fellreed: Cat, Platter
/way Valley of the Four Winds 53, 51 Gina Mudclaw: Lily, Soup
/way Valley of the Four Winds 44, 34 Haohan Mudclaw: Ruby, Steak
/way Valley of the Four Winds 53, 52 Jogu the Drunk: Apple, Carrots
/way Valley of the Four Winds 31, 53 Old Hillpaw: Feather, Turtle
/way Valley of the Four Winds 29, 30 Sho: Apple, Blossom Fish
/way Valley of the Four Winds 45, 34 Tina Mudclaw: Ruby, Salmon

Comment by stpaul

Seems like you can do farming on trial accounts and make some money while unsubbed

Comment by Taraezor

To assist you all with Dark Soil farming I made an AddOn which I put up at Curse.

It has almost all the Dark Soil locations. I threw in some other stuff too such as the NPC home locations and the gifts that they prefer as well as a brief guide to questing to help you get started.

For those who don't like AddOns: Stick to Valley of the Four Winds for optimal availability of Dark Soil. Avoid Dread Wastes as the locations are too sparse and wide spread to justify the time wasted flying around in the blue washed out landscape.

To give me feedback on how to improve the AddOn so that it may better assist you then please click the above link. Many thanks for your support over the years!

Comment by Apollomantis

For those working towards getting dog for TWW, unfortunately it seems they may have changed the quests a bit to where you not only have to plant crops for the votes, but you have to harvest them now too. Someone mentioned in a comment about pre-harvesting what you needed before hand to speed up the vote questlines. That doesn't seem to work anymore, I will say though its definitely best to plant an entire farms worth of the crop that is required, as sometimes you can get a bursting crop. In which there is always that small chance of getting enough bursting to finish the quest in one go, but this seems to be very rare.

Comment by svetlanky

if you are leveling up your relationship with the tillers for a preemptive furniture run like me, don't forget to set ground clutter to zero! it makes finding the dirt piles so fast and easy. :)

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