Meet the farm that turns your modest base into a cloth-generating powerhouse. Built cheap, scaled easily, and needing no math or fertilizer juggling, this miracle mini farm is the culmination of two weeks of intense testing and bug abuse. Whether you’re solo or part of a group, if you want thousands of cloth per harvest without the mess of complicated irrigation systems, this setup delivers.

Why This Farm Exists

The design was born in response to a developer change that removed the ability to stack square planters using half blocks. While intended to curb excessive setups like Rahul’s 36-bush mega farms, the fix also broke many legitimate builds. Instead of giving up, the creator fought back—with a workaround that doesn’t just restore farm capability, but enhances it.

What Makes It So Good

This mini farm relies on several quirks and overlooked mechanics in Rust’s farming system. First, while square planters are limited, pots are not. They can still be stacked efficiently using shelf tricks and can be placed flush with no spacing issues. Combined with the ability to harvest through ceilings, and you’ve got a multi-floor setup that doesn’t even require player movement during harvest.

The result? A fully autonomous, vertically optimized, dirt-cheap farm that can yield over 4,000 cloth per harvest with default clones, and up to 6,000 cloth if you spend time breeding perfect genes.

Construction Walkthrough: From Foundation to Harvest

The build begins with a clever stacking method using two triangle foundations at slightly different heights. After snapping them into position using the ALT-key technique, the lower triangle becomes the base of your farm, while the higher one exists solely to support shelves. Remember: ceilings go up after walls, and shelves must align perfectly for optimal spacing.

From there, build a simple 2×1 shack connected to a triangle compartment that houses the tool cupboard (TC). Next to it, create a pump house with a central frame upgraded beyond twig. Install a pump to provide water to the entire vertical setup. A solo battery powered by a solar panel is enough to keep the whole system running, including your ceiling light and the pump.

Inside, stack four shelves vertically, ideally using wood. Wood shelves are thin, easy to craft, and don’t interfere with spacing. A ladder provides access between floors. Sprinklers are mounted at the shelf edges for best irrigation coverage and easy wiring. The topmost sprinkler is ceiling-mounted, and one additional sprinkler handles the seedling floor layer.

You can choose between placing individual pots or using a square planter box on the ground floor for gene work. Once you’ve achieved the perfect GGXY clones, replace the square box with more pots to maximize yield.

Pot Counts, Layouts, and Crops

Depending on what you grow, you can fit:

• 118 pots for corn
• 108 pots for cloth, sunflowers, and roses
• 98 pots for all others

Pumpkins cannot be grown in pots at all. The key is shelf access: corn can be harvested across all four shelves, but other crops require manual bottom-layer collection. For hemp (cloth), plant 25 pots on the top shelf, 24 on the next two, and 14 on the fourth (due to sprinkler interference). On the floor, 21 pots fit comfortably.

Sprinklers are connected top-down to the pump, while power is distributed from a solar panel on the roof to a battery behind the windowed TC. The small footprint and vertical scaling make this farm far more discreet than traditional mega-farms, significantly reducing the risk of being raided.

Planting and Harvesting Tips

Planting is easy. Prepare the exact number of clones for each shelf and climb the ladder to hit every pot with surgical precision. For comparison, planting 100 pots in a traditional square setup (about 11 planters) takes far longer and more effort.

When it’s time to harvest, stand on top, press E to collect everything in reach, and only descend for the floor layer. Adding two extra side pots simplifies the harvest even more. This setup’s harvest cycle is shorter, and with less movement, you’ll be collecting thousands of cloth faster than most players can plant their first rows.

Expansion and Optimization

Worried about space? Don’t be. Just knock out a wall and expand sideways. Every new unit adds 100+ pots, letting you scale cloth production infinitely. Want to breed better genes? Add a planter box for easier cloning. Need more storage? A shelf above the workbench fits a box perfectly.

Even the pump setup is efficient. It supports any plant consuming up to 8 ml of water per minute, covering everything except orchids. That means no guesswork and no watering timers.

Final Thoughts

This isn’t just a farm—it’s a statement. It proves that with the right knowledge and smart design, you can adapt and even thrive after gameplay changes that break the meta. While other players lament the loss of floor-stacked farms, you’ll be pulling in 6,000 cloth per harvest with zero effort, complete autonomy, and total discretion.

Whether you’re a solo player looking for efficient growth, or a group trying to mass-produce resources with minimal visibility, this mini miracle farm is one of the best Rust farming solutions available—no fertilizers, no timers, no problem.