Efficient apple orchard

Orchards Main farm

The Efficient apple orchard is a key building for the end of the cycle and given its low entry level it pays to build it early and then upgrade it step by step.

Quick overview

Farm	Main farm
Category	Orchards
Size	7 × 7
From level	5
Max level	9
Price	400 Gold
Build time	25 min
Workers	4
Priority	Build from level 5

What it's for

This efficient apple orchard uses fertilizer from the silo to produce apples and fallen leaves with a higher production output than the regular apple orchard.

Produces

Fallen leaves

Apples

Windfall apples

The Efficient apple orchard is the last link in the farm's cycle, where fertilizer made in the silo grows apples and drops leaves for the compost, and occasionally the rarer windfall apples too. Compared to the regular apple orchard it gives more apples and more leaves from the same batch of fertilizer. It takes up an area of 7x7 and on the Main farm I unlock it as early as player level 5. I use the apples further in the kitchen and on the market and pass the leaves on to the composter, so the orchard closes the chain of field, mill, animals, silo, orchard.

When to build it

I build the orchard as soon as I have fertilizer production from manure running in the silo, because without fertilizer the orchard does nothing. Thanks to the low entry level of 5 I can build it fairly early and one is enough for me for a long time, because the orchard has nine levels and the last one only unlocks at level 66.

Is it worth upgrading

Upgrading pays off a lot, because with the same time of three hours per batch of fertilizer the yield of apples and leaves rises substantially. At level 1, 10 units of fertilizer give 325 apples and 8 leaves, at the highest of the nine levels the same batch in the same three hours gives 700 apples and 16 leaves. It is clearly the most efficient way to get more out of a single orchard without taking up more space.

Tip from a veteran playerMake the fertilizer for the orchard in the silo in larger batches ahead of time, because the three-hour apple production is easier to plan when you are not waiting for ingredients to arrive in between.

Most common mistakePlayers often build a second orchard even though the silo cannot keep up with fertilizer, so both orchards end up waiting for ingredients anyway, and a higher level on the one they already have would help them more at that point.

Building levels

Level	Price	Build time	XP	Workers	From level
1	400 Gold	25 min	800	4	5
2	1 200 Gold	7 h 30 min	3 800	5	8
3	2 500 Gold	15 h 50 min	9 000	6	18
4	5 500 Gold	18 h 20 min	10 000	7	29
5	9 600 Gold	23 h 20 min	14 000	8	39
6	13 000 Gold	1 d 4 h	18 000	9	47
7	19 300 Gold	1 d 10 h	22 000	10	56
8	24 800 Gold	1 d 18 h 13 min	26 000	12	61
9	30 000 Gold	2 d 6 h	29 000	14	66

Production at level 1

Output	Ingredients	Time	Cost	XP
Fallen leaves × 8 Apples × 423	Seaweed fertilizer × 10	instant	—	2 000
Fallen leaves × 8 Apples × 390	Super fertilizer × 10	3 h	—	1 500
Fallen leaves × 8 Apples × 325	Premium fertilizer × 10	3 h	—	1 000
Fallen leaves × 8 Apples × 325	Fertilizer × 10	3 h	18 362 Dollars	—
Fallen leaves × 1 Apples × 33	Speed fertilizer × 10	18 min	—	—
Fallen leaves × 9 Apples × 546	Seaweed fertilizer L × 10	instant	—	3 000
Fallen leaves × 9 Apples × 598	Seaweed fertilizer XL × 10	instant	—	4 000
Fallen leaves × 8 Apples × 643	Seaweed fertilizer XXL × 10	instant	—	5 000
Windfall apples × 15	Windfall fertilizer × 20	10 min	52 500 Dollars	—
Windfall apples × 18	Seaweed fertilizer × 20	instant	52 500 Dollars	1 200
Windfall apples × 22	Seaweed fertilizer L × 20	instant	52 500 Dollars	1 200
Windfall apples × 23	Seaweed fertilizer XL × 20	instant	52 500 Dollars	1 200
Windfall apples × 26	Seaweed fertilizer XXL × 20	instant	52 500 Dollars	1 200

Yield by level – Fallen leaves

Level	Amount	Time
1	8	instant
2	9	instant
3	10	instant
4	11	instant
5	12	instant
6	13	instant
7	14	instant
8	15	instant
9	16	instant

Game data, version 8052 (14. 8. 2026).

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