Which RimWorld crops are worth growing, and where? Pick a category below, then compare crops across terrains. Numbers are pulled from the RimWorld Wiki.
Fertility sensitivity is how much a crop cares about terrain: a crop at 0% grows at the same speed everywhere, a crop at 100% grows proportionally slower on poor terrain and proportionally faster on rich terrain or Hydroponics. Hydroponics gives the highest fertility in the game (280%), but every basin needs continuous power — a blackout (including a solar flare) can rot an entire hydroponics crop within about 8 hours, so it's a high-yield, high-risk choice compared to a field.
The wiki's own "Plants per pawn" formula: hunger rate ÷ (nutrition/day × meal-type efficiency × Plant Harvest Yield) — how many of this crop, growing at once, feed one pawn indefinitely. Lower is more space-efficient. n/a for anything that isn't human food.
How efficiently the raw crop turns into edible nutrition once cooked — a nutrient paste meal stretches a harvest 3x further than eating it raw, while a lavish meal is the most nutrient-hungry way to eat it. Pick whichever meal type your colony actually cooks, or dial in a custom % if you're modeling something else entirely (a mod, a different food chain, etc).
Plant Harvest Yield is how much of the average harvest a colonist actually collects — it depends on their Plants skill, Manipulation/Sight capacities, and the difficulty setting. 100% is roughly a Plants-8 colonist with no bonuses or penalties; a skilled specialist can push well past 100%, while an unskilled or injured one can fall much lower. Hunger rate is how much nutrition one pawn burns per day — 1.6 is the human baseline, but animals and some xenotypes/genes differ a lot (e.g. an alpaca only hungers at 0.44/day), so override it if you're modeling something other than a baseline human.
Light requirement
worst → bestMost plants need at least this much light to grow at all, then keep speeding up until 100% (a Sun lamp). A couple of species (Nutrifungus, Timbershroom) invert this entirely — any light kills them, so there's no "more is better" range to show for those.
Crop shape comparison
- Showing: Speed · Yield · Nutrition / day · Tolerance · Grazing / day.
- Yield is the raw harvest size (e.g. Corn's 22 vs Rice's 6), not divided by grow days — Speed already covers how fast that harvest comes, so a per-day yield axis would just double-count it. Grazing nutrition/day is kept as the animal-feed angle.
- Speed = inverse of real grow days; Work efficiency = inverse of total sow+harvest ticks; Tolerance = inverse of fertility sensitivity — all three read "bigger shape = better" like every other axis, even though their underlying stat is lower-is-better.
- Speed, Tolerance, and Beauty are scaled against every crop in the tool, not just this view, so a weak crop in a small category doesn't look artificially maxed-out. Other axes (Yield, Grazing/day, Work efficiency, Longevity) are scaled within the current view only.
* hover a marked crop's name for notable growing quirks.
Data source table
- The raw numbers behind every chart above, one row per crop — color is a heatmap on top of the real value, not a replacement for it.
- Only fixed properties of the crop itself are shown — nothing here changes with the terrain toggle above (Yield/day, Nutrition/day, Grazing/day, Grow days and Plants/pawn are terrain-dependent, so they're left to the bar chart above instead).
- Each column's color scales against only the crops currently in view — darker teal always means "strongest in this table," not a fixed universal threshold. Direction (lower vs. higher = better) follows the same rule noted in each metric's full name — hover a header for it.
| Crop | Yield | Nutrition | Graze | Grow days | Total work | Sow work | Harvest work | Fert. sens. | Min fert. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potato plant | 11.00 | 0.05 | 0.25 | 5.80d | 370 ticks | 170 ticks | 200 ticks | 40% | 70% |
| Rice plant | 6.00 | 0.05 | 0.17 | 3.00d | 370 ticks | 170 ticks | 200 ticks | 100% | 70% |
| Corn plant * | 22.00 | 0.05 | 0.40 | 11.30d | 370 ticks | 170 ticks | 200 ticks | 100% | 70% |
| Strawberry plant * | 8.00 | 0.05 | 0.20 | 4.60d | 370 ticks | 170 ticks | 200 ticks | 100% | 70% |
| Nutrifungus * | 11.00 | 0.05 | 0.25 | 6.00d | 370 ticks | 170 ticks | 200 ticks | 15% | 30% |
| Toxipotato plant * | 7.00 | 0.05 | 0.25 | 4.90d | 370 ticks | 170 ticks | 200 ticks | 0% | 50% |