Farm Points/en

Description
Farm Points are the brown currency gained by harvesting Berries on the Farm. Berries that wither do not grant farm points, and different types of berries give differing amounts Farm Points as detailed in the Farm Points Earned Table below.

Uses
Farm Points can be used to purchase the following:

Farm Items
Farm Items purchasable at the Berry Masters.

Berries
One of some exclusive Berries in Challenge Modes.

Oak Items
The one-time purchase and upgrades of the Squirtbottle and Sprinklotad.

Farm Hands
Farm Hands are unlockable and purchasable "Items" that allow the player to automate their farm. Below are the Farm Hands purchasable via Farm Points. Once hired, farm hands will work until they are fired for an hourly wage. Below are the hourly wages per Farm Hand.

Obtaining Farm Points
 Note: The three most efficient Berries to gather Farm Points quickly (excluding late-game berries when gathering Farm Points is largely irrelevant) are, in order:
 * 1) Lum Lum.png
 * 2) Hondew Hondew.png
 * 3) Pinkan Pinkan.png

The Farm Points per Second column in the following table can be used for other Berry efficiency comparisons.

Earning Farm Points with Farm Hands
While there is no efficient way to earn Farm Points (FP) with Farm Hands when using the Cheri berrry, you can use farmhands to earn FP efficiently when farming either Lum or Hondew Berries. For farming Lum without the sprayduck, the most efficient Farm Hand to use is Bailey. With the sprayduck, Kerry is most efficient. For Hondew, regardless of using the sprayduck or not, Charlie is the most efficient Farm Hand. The method of farming with farmhands is pretty simple, though there are two different methods to do so.

Set and Forget - set the Farm Hand to use the proper berry, fill the farm with the chosen berry, ignore the farm until you have sufficient FP. This method is fast and easy, but loses efficiency as the Farmhands will leave empty plots on the farm between harvesting and planting berries (Farm Hands first attempt to harvest as many berries as they can, and then plant new berries if there are no berries left to harvest).

Maximum Efficiency - Set the Farm Hand to use the proper berry, plant the Farm Hands' Efficiency stat / 2 number of berries as a group at a time, each grouping being at least the Farmhands Work Speed stat apart. This setup takes a bit of time, but earns you more FP per hour, and once the setup is done you can ignore the farm until you have sufficient FP. This will lead to the farmhand harvesting and replanting the berry grouping as soon as they can, earning more FP with less wasted time. For example, using Bailey while farming Lum, plant groups of up to 6 berries at a time, each 5 minutes or more apart for maximum efficiency.