Rustys Retirementis a chillindie farm simthat you play at the bottom of your monitor.

As such, its perfect to play between tasks on your box.

Rest easy like Rusty with these beginner tips.

Left to right: Slate harvesting a fossil, Pigs eating at the feeding trough, a Waste Bot transporting animal waste past a Storage Unit

First and foremost, you have to recruit Slate to your farm.

You do this by building Slates Barn,which costs 3,000 Biofuel and 10,000 Spare Parts.

Building Slates Barn will unlock the Animals tab, represented by a bird.

Rusty’s Retirement_Rusty Sitting Outside In Center Of Image While Gameplay Is Pictured Below of Rusty Farming

What Are The Benefits Of Fertilizing Crops?

While growing on fertilized soil, each cycle takes instead 150 seconds.

Make a living off of these pixel-based produce options.

Left: Slate’s Barn circled in orange in the Desert Oasis map, Slate circled orange in the building menu in Rusty’s Retirement

Youll want to alternate between buying Cattle and Swine.

Harvested fossils and Biofuel are whats used to add animals to your farms.

you might build multiple Animal Feeders, but at increasing cost.

A desert oasis farm in Rusty’s Retirement

Your animals will wander around your farm but never stray too far from their Animal Feeder.

What Do you oughta Generate Fertilizer?

Each tile of soil fertilized uses up one unit of fertilizer.

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When fertilized, soil will look different, being speckled by brown and white dots.

Once thedurationisup, thesoil will revert until its once again re-fertilized.

Slate Harvesting Fossil 2 Circled

Left to right: The Fertilizer Facility circled in orange, the Animal Feeder pointed to by an orange arrow, various farm works circled or pointed to in orange in Rusty’s Retirement

The desert oasis map in Rusty’s Retirement. An orange arrow points to the Animal Feeder, the orange circle highlights its effective radius

The desert oasis map in Rusty’s Retirement. An orange arrow points at the Waste Bot base, the big circle shows its effective radius, and the small circle shows a Waste Bot carrying waste

The desert oasis map in Rusty’s Retirement, circled in orange is the Fertilizer Facility

Two farms: One with fertilized soil in the crop patches (left) and one without (right) in Rusty’s Retirement

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