Jacob's Farming Contest

Jacob's Farming Contest is an event that takes place every three Skyblock days, and lasts for 20 minutes (real life time), during which three random crops from the Farming Collection are selected for players to collect.

Requirements
The player needs to be at least to participate, and must talk to Jacob at least once. At least 100 of the current event crop must be collected to earn any rewards.

Rewards
There are 3 levels of rewards: ', ', and . Each level earns better rewards.

Jacob's Tickets are items that can be spent with Anita in the Farmhouse, on items that help build farms quicker, and items that harvest farms quicker. They are also used to increase players' level cap to 60 (LX).

Strategy
To place in a Farming Contest usually requires a farm on the player's Private Island. Using the tools provided by Anita can help build farms faster, although such items are not marketable and will need to be procured through their intended purchase method (which requires placement in Farming Contests), or through direct trade with another player. Crops planted by Minions will not count towards the Contest, despite giving full XP.

With a large enough farm, a player will be able to farm for the full 20 minutes of the Contest on their Private Island. This should be a player's first goal if they wish to place  in the Contest.

Wheat can be farmed easily by all players without a farm on their Private Island. Players can enter the Hub and use the Hub Selector to quickly bounce between hubs, reaping the Wheat in the Farm. A Wheat Crystal can be placed on a Private Island, and may be useful for beginners. Also Wheat doesn't work with personal compactor so getting a medal is easy for early-game players.

Potatoes and Carrots are best farmed with a flat layer of Dirt, with as few breaks for Water as possible. Water hydrates crops within a flat 4 block radius.

Nether Wart is best farmed the same way as Carrots and Potatoes, with Soul Sand instead of Dirt, and needing no Water, so a flat layer with no breaks is possible. A Nether Wart Crystal can be placed on the player's Private Island, which will generate Nether Wart faster than the public Crystals in the Blazing Fortress.

Pumpkins and Melons will need a farm on the player's Private Island. Because of the need for a Stem to grow the crop, Pumpkins and Melons are best farmed in straight lines, perhaps two at a time to increase yield speed.

Sugar Cane needs to be farmed on the player's Private Island, because the Mushroom Desert's Sugar Cane spawn rate is too low. There are various ways to farm Sugar Cane, with some players preferring to maximize space usage with a design closer to a Wheat farm, and other players preferring the harvesting speed efficiency of the straight line Pumpkin and Melon farm.

If players are online and do not wish to participate, or know they will not score highly in the currently selected crops, farming at least 100 of the crop will give the player 1 Jacob's Ticket as a participation prize, as well as increasing the amount of participants in a given Contest, allowing more players who wish to participate to score higher. Collaboration can make the game easier for everyone.

Farming Medals
Farming medals are gained by being in the top X% of players farming that specific crop, as said above. These are the average and max crop count necessary to obtain a medal (within a margin of error, operating off a limited sample size, please submit your scores to this post to add to the data and help increase the accuracy). [Updated Nov 14, 2020 23:57 MST (Spring 21st Year 102 Skyblock, 4:00 am SST)] These data are variable and subject to change, as new data is gathered, the tables will be updated about weekly if new data is statistically relevant.

[Updated Nov 30, 2020 15:03 GMT (Spring 9th Year 104 Skyblock, 10:00pm SST)]