Heartlands Farming Guide

Read This First: The Farm Is What You Make

Heartlands has no documented in-game currency, no drop rates and no price list. “Gold” is only MMODude’s category label, not a developer-named currency. So this guide does not farm a currency — it farms creations: the things other players collect, wear and use.

That sentence reframes the whole guide. In most MMOs, farming means repeating a loop until a number goes up — silver per hour, drops per run, gold per week. In Heartlands there is no number to go up, no mob to kill for loot, and no vendor who buys your haul. What there is: a shared world where everything is player-made, a 50-slot collection every player carries, and a social system — likes, profiles, leaderboards, notifications — that decides whose work spreads and whose work sits unseen.

So the farm here is a portfolio. You make creations other players want to use, you place them where players can find them, and the return is measured in collections, wears, likes and reputation rather than coins. A skin that a hundred players wear is a better farm than a mount nobody rides. A block set that builds half the realms on the server is a better farm than a weapon nobody equips. This guide is about making the creations that get used, in the order that pays off, and about reading the world to find out what it wants next.

It is also, deliberately, a different guide from our Heartlands Leveling Guide. That guide teaches the tools — the editor, the creation types, the states and the options. This one teaches the market for what those tools produce: which creations get collected, how the 50-slot collection works as a bank, how likes and profiles turn work into reputation, and what a daily farming loop looks like when the product is art.

The Currency That Isn’t There

Say it plainly, because every other farming guide on this site can name its currency and this one cannot: no in-game currency name or amount has been documented anywhere for Heartlands. The developer has never named a coin, a gem, a token or a credit. There is no shop that sells creations for currency, no auction house, no trade window with a price field, and no published price list for anything a player makes.

That absence is itself the most important farming fact in this guide, and it has three consequences. First, you cannot farm Heartlands the way you farm a normal MMO — there is no loop that converts time into money, because there is no money. Second, any website, video or post that quotes a Heartlands price, a drop rate, or a “best gold farm” is inventing numbers; treat it as fiction. Third, and most usefully, the absence of a currency means the economy is purely social: the scarce resource is attention, and the currency is use. A creation is valuable when another player uses it. Everything in this guide follows from that.

Two related warnings. MMODude’s game page lists Heartlands under a “Gold” category, but that is MMODude’s category label for the site’s vendor coverage, not a developer-named currency — and the November 2026 review found no verified listing in any category, so do not pay a third party for Heartlands Gold or items. And the game’s own systems offer no way to convert a creation into money, so anyone selling you “Heartlands currency” is selling something the game does not have.

The 50-Slot Collection Is Your Bank

If Heartlands has a bank, it is the collection system. Manage all your custom creations from one place — the Creation Menu, opened with Tab — and collect creations you find in the world to add them to your 50-slot inventory to use later. Fifty slots is the whole economy’s carrying capacity, and it shapes every farming decision in this guide.

Think of the 50 slots the way a WoW player thinks of bank space in the first month of an expansion: small, precious, and the thing that forces you to decide what is worth keeping. Your own creations live in the Creation Menu alongside what you collect, and the collection is where other players’ work enters your hands. A full collection is not a hoard — it is a portfolio of other people’s best work that you can place, wear and use, and a portfolio full of junk is worse than a portfolio half full of good pieces.

The farming discipline follows directly. Collect deliberately: take the block set that finishes a build, the skin you will actually wear, the mount you will actually ride, the instrument you will actually play. Leave the rest where it is — it stays in the world for someone else, and your slots stay open for the next good find. And manage the menu: the Creation Editor now has pagination (added in v0.4.2), so a large library is browsable, but a large library is still a library that needs weeding. Every slot spent on a creation you will never use is a slot that cannot hold one you will.

Your own creations have no slot limit problem in the same way — the constraint on making is time, not space — but the same discipline applies in reverse. Each creation you publish is a claim on other players’ 50 slots. A player who collects your skin is spending one of their fifty on you. Make it worth the slot.

What Gets Collected: Reading the World

There is no published best-seller ranking for Heartlands, and no sales data to read. What there is: the world itself, which is a live record of what players use. The way to read demand is to walk the world and look at what is placed, worn and ridden — because in a game where everything is player-made, usage is the only sales chart.

Start with the leaderboards. The game tracks top builders, top creators, most playtime, and newest creations and skins. The “newest” boards are the most useful for a farmer: they show what is being made right now, and a new creation type that appears on the newest board three days running is a trend you can join while it is still fresh. The “top creators” board is the long game — the names on it are the players whose work the world has already voted for, and studying their creations is the fastest education in what the game rewards.

Then read the realms. Walk the popular player realms and look at what their builders used: which block sets appear in every build, which skins the regulars wear, which mounts are parked outside the spawn. A block set that appears in five realms is a block set with demand. A skin worn by three players in one realm is a skin with demand. A mount nobody rides, in a realm full of riders, is a mount without it. Player profiles help here too — browse them to see a creator’s stats and recent designs, and you can see at a glance whether a player is prolific, popular, or both.

Finally, watch the notifications. The game pings you when someone wears your skin or interacts with something you made. That ping is the only feedback loop the game gives you, and it is the most honest one: a creation that generates pings is a creation that is being used, and a creation that generates none is a creation the world walked past. Farm the pings. When a type of creation starts generating them, make more of that type; when it stops, move on.

Skins: The Fastest Farm

Skins are the fastest farm in Heartlands, for one reason: they are the creation type most likely to be worn by someone else, and wearing is the most visible form of use in the game. A block is placed once and seen by visitors. A skin is worn everywhere its wearer goes, and every player who sees it can collect it. A good skin advertises itself.

The farming approach to skins is different from the leveling approach. The leveling guide teaches you to draw the full animation set — Stand, Run, Jump, Double Jump, Crouch, Dash, Wall Slide, Swim, Fall, Climb, Ice Slide, Damaged, plus crouching variants, flying states and actions. The farming approach asks a prior question: which skins get worn? The answer, from how the game works, has three parts. First, readability: a skin must read at 64 pixels, in motion, at a glance — bold shapes, clear silhouette, colours that separate from the background. Second, completeness: a skin with only Stand and Run drawn looks broken the moment its wearer jumps, and a broken-looking skin gets taken off. Third, personality: the skins that spread are the ones with a joke, a style or a reference that makes a player choose them over the default — the game’s own copy says to show off your style and creativity, or your sense of humour.

Volume matters too, but only after quality. One excellent skin that a dozen players wear beats ten mediocre skins that nobody collects, because each wear is a notification, each notification is a profile visit, and each profile visit is a chance for a player to collect your other work. The farming loop for skins is: draw one, wear it yourself everywhere for a day, watch whether anyone else picks it up, and only then draw the next one in the same style. A style that gets worn is a farm; a style that does not is a hobby.

One mechanical note: since v0.4.2, set the collision box when you finish the skin — 10 sizes to choose from — because a skin that collides wrong gets taken off even if it looks right. And use the sound editor to give the skin jump and walk sounds; a skin with its own sounds is a character, and characters get worn longer than sprites.

Blocks and Building Pieces: The Volume Farm

Blocks are the volume farm. A block is 38 pixels square, the smallest serious canvas in the game, and a set of blocks — a wall, a floor, a trim, a roof piece — is the material every realm builder needs. Where a skin is a single creation that one player wears, a block set is a creation that a hundred builders place a thousand times.

The economics of blocks are the economics of sets, not singles. One block is a curiosity. A set of six to ten blocks that work together — matching palette, matching style, covering walls, floors, edges and decoration — is a toolkit, and toolkits get collected. The four layers matter here more than anywhere: a set that covers Far Back, Back, Main and Front gives a builder depth, and a builder with depth builds a place instead of a wall. Draw the set together, test it by building a small room with it, and publish it as a set, not as loose singles.

Wallpapers and emojis are the small-volume companions to blocks. Wallpapers dress the background layer; emojis at 25 pixels are tiny, but they are the flavour of chat and signage, and a good emoji set spreads the same way a good skin does — one player uses it, another player sees it, a third collects it. Neither will make you famous. Both will make you useful, and useful is the farm that never dries up, because every new realm needs walls and every new player needs a way to say hello.

Weapons, Mounts and Instruments: The Showpieces

Weapons, mounts and instruments are the showpieces: bigger canvases, longer builds, higher payoff when they land, and a longer tail of nothing when they do not. Farm them second, after skins and blocks are paying, not first.

Melee weapons were the game’s original combat creation — hand-drawn swords and their kin — and they are still the most direct showpiece: a weapon is held, seen in every fight, and judged instantly. A good weapon drawing is a good drawing, full stop; there is no mechanical stat to hide behind. Mounts are the bigger bet. A ridable mount is 126 pixels square, a flyable is 196 — the largest canvases in the game — and a mount that is drawn well and given a sensible collision box (10 sizes, since v0.4.2) is the most impressive single creation you can put into the world. It is also the most work, and a half-finished mount is worse than no mount at all: publish only when the mount reads cleanly at full size and rides without snagging.

Instruments are the dark horse of this section. A guitar, drum or piano with your own sound effects is a social object: it gathers players, it starts jam sessions, and because the sounds are player-made, every session sounds different. An instrument that sounds good gets played; an instrument that gets played gets collected. If you can make a sound as well as draw, instruments are the highest-leverage farm in the game per hour spent — a single good instrument can be the reason players visit your realm.

Lights are the quiet showpiece. You set the graphic, the light colours and the intensity, and a well-lit build at night is the difference between a place and a screenshot. Lights do not get collected the way skins do, but they get remembered — and a builder who lights a realm well is a builder other realm owners come to for help, which is its own kind of farm.

Shootables as Farm Goods

Shootables, added in v0.4.2, are the newest farm good in Heartlands, and the newest farm good is always the most interesting one — because nobody has settled what a good one looks like yet. A shootable is five sprite states (Holding, Firing, Reloading, Projectile, Clip), three types (Automatic, Semi-Automatic, Charge), and a set of options with published ranges: rate of fire 0.05 to 5 seconds, velocity 1 to 30 fps, projectile lifetime in seconds, recoil min/max, ammo, reload time.

The farming question for shootables is not “how do I make one” — the leveling guide covers that — but “what makes one worth collecting?” The answer is feel. A shootable with a readable projectile, a sensible rate of fire, and a reload that does not punish the shooter is a weapon players reach for. A shootable with a pretty sprite and a broken projectile point is a drawing that disappoints. The rule from the devlog still governs: always draw the weapon facing right in the editor, set the reference points (Holding clip point, Projectile Frame and Projectile Point, Clip Frame and Clip Point) before tuning numbers, and edit the options in the Creation Menu (Tab) → Options.

Start the farm with a semi-automatic: one click, one shot, the simplest feel to get right, and the easiest weapon for another player to pick up and understand. Then an automatic, where rate of fire, recoil and ammo interact — the weapon type where tuning is the product. A charge weapon (hold to charge, release to fire, like a bow) is the connoisseur’s farm: harder to tune, but the most distinctive when it works, and distinctiveness is what gets collected. And because shootables are new, the market is unsettled — the first players to publish a set of good ones, one of each type, will be the names other players associate with the type.

Signs: Wayfinding as a Service

Signs are the least glamorous farm in Heartlands and one of the most useful. A sign is a placeable creation that shows text when a player collides with it, with two visual states — Empty and Filled — and a setting to open automatically on collision. Their job is to explain the world: label a realm’s districts, mark a parkour route, name a build, state a realm’s rules at the spawn.

The farm here is service, not art. A realm owner who needs signs needs a lot of them, in a consistent style, and will collect a set that matches their realm rather than draw twenty signs themselves. Draw sign sets the way you draw block sets: a consistent frame, a readable Empty state, a clear Filled state, and enough variants to cover a whole realm — direction signs, rule signs, name signs, warning signs. A sign set that a realm owner collects is a sign set that gets placed twenty times in one world, and every placement is an advertisement for the next set.

Signs also teach you what the world wants. A realm that needs signs is a realm with visitors; a realm with visitors is a realm where your other creations will be seen. Placing good signs in popular realms is the cheapest advertising in the game, because the sign does its job and carries your name while it does it.

NPCs: The High-End Farm

NPCs are the high-end farm: the most work, the most skill, and the most durable payoff. Added in v0.2.0, the NPC system lets you design characters from scratch — look, behaviour, interaction — with a Behaviour Editor built on 8 triggers, up to 23 actions, variables, timers, if/else logic and a mini script language. An NPC can be a shopkeeper, a quest giver, an interactive character, or a whole emergent system designed by a player.

The farming logic for NPCs is the logic of the realm economy. A realm owner who wants a living world wants NPCs, and most realm owners cannot build a good one — the Behaviour Editor is a programming task wearing an art tool’s clothes. A player who can build a reliable NPC — one trigger, two actions, working every time — has a skill the market wants. The farm is not to publish a hundred NPCs; it is to publish a few excellent ones and to be the player realm owners come to when they want their world populated.

Start with the simplest NPC that earns its keep: a greeter that speaks when a player comes close, or a guide that points players toward the realm’s best builds. Test it until it behaves. Then add one behaviour — a timer, a variable, a conditional — and test again. The NPCs that get collected are not the ones with the most actions; they are the ones that work, every time, for every visitor. Reliability is the farm. Complexity is the trap.

Realms: Farming a Whole World

Realms are the largest-scale farm in Heartlands, and the only one where the product is a place rather than an object. Anyone can own a realm, and the Realm Admin menu — spawns, permissions, whitelists and blacklists, default skin — lets an owner run it however they want: roleplay realms, parkour realms, pure build-space realms where anything goes.

A realm farms in two ways. First, directly: a realm that attracts visitors is a realm where your creations get seen, used, liked and collected, all at once. Every visitor is a potential collector of everything in the realm. Second, indirectly: a realm that works — good spawns, clear rules, a default skin that makes newcomers look like they belong — becomes a destination, and destinations attract builders, and builders bring their own creations, which makes the realm better, which attracts more visitors. It is the only compounding farm in the game.

The farming discipline for realms is curation, not construction. Set the spawn where the realm starts, not where it ends. Set permissions so builders can build and visitors can visit without wrecking each other. Set the default skin so a new arrival looks like they belong. Use warps — personal warps, shared warps, portals — to move people to the good parts instead of letting them wander. And keep the realm’s creations fresh: rotate in new work, retire what nobody uses, and let the realm be a gallery of your best farming, not a warehouse of everything you ever made.

Likes, Profiles and Leaderboards: The Reputation Ledger

Reputation is the ledger this whole guide balances on. Like other players’ creations to show appreciation. Browse player profiles to see their stats and recent designs. The leaderboards track top builders, top creators, most playtime, newest creations and skins. Notifications tell you when someone wears your skin or interacts with something you made.

Use that ledger the way a trader uses a market report. Likes are the demand signal: a creation with likes is a creation the world wants more of. Profiles are the competition report: the creators on the top boards are the standard you are measured against, and their recent designs are the trend you need to understand. Notifications are the sales receipts: each ping is a use, and uses are the only revenue in the game.

Two habits compound reputation faster than anything else. First, like other players’ work generously and honestly — the players whose work you like are the players who visit your profile, and profile visits are the top of the funnel for everything else. Second, keep your profile fresh: a profile whose recent designs are all from last month is a creator who has gone quiet, and a quiet creator stops being collected. The farm never closes, but it does notice when you do.

A Daily Farming Loop

Without a currency, a farming loop is a making loop. Here is one that fits in an hour a day and compounds over a month.

• Check the pings (5 minutes). Which of your creations got worn, liked or interacted with since yesterday? That is your demand report. Make more of what pinged.
• Walk the newest board (10 minutes). What is new, what is trending, what creation type is appearing that was not there last week? That is your market research.
• Make one thing (30 minutes). One block set piece, one skin state, one sign, one shootable tune — one finished thing, placed in the world the same day. A finished thing beats a perfect thing still in the editor.
• Place it where it will be seen (10 minutes). Your realm, a popular realm you build in, a warp point players pass through. A creation placed where nobody goes is a creation that was never published.
• Collect and weed (5 minutes). Collect one good creation you found today into your 50 slots; drop one you no longer use. The collection is a portfolio, and portfolios need weeding.

Over a month, that loop is thirty creations placed, thirty demand reports read, and a profile that is visibly alive. Over three months, it is a reputation. The players on the top-creator board did not get there with one masterpiece; they got there with a hundred placed things, each a little better than the last, each placed where someone could find it.

Collaborating: Remixes, Shared Warps and Jam Sessions

Heartlands is a multiplayer game, and the farming that ignores other players is the farming that stalls. The systems for collaborating are built into the game, and each one is a farm multiplier — because a creation made with another player reaches both players’ audiences, and a creation made for a community gets used by the whole community.

Start with the simplest collaboration: shared warps. Save your own warp points, share them, use other players’ shared warps, or drop a portal so other players can follow you. A shared warp is an invitation, and an invitation is traffic: a warp to your build brings players to your creations, and a warp to a popular realm brings you to creations worth collecting. Share warps to your best work, use warps to the best work of others, and keep a warp at your realm’s spawn so visitors can always find their way back to where the good things are.

Then the deeper collaboration: building together. The world is shared and live — what one player builds, others can instantly see — so a build is never a solo act unless you make it one. Join a realm build, contribute a block set or a skin to a shared project, and your work is seen by every player who visits that build. The players who farm fastest in Heartlands are rarely the ones who build alone in a quiet corner; they are the ones who build in the busy realms, where every creation has an audience the moment it is placed.

Remixing is the third form, and the game’s own copy names it: share your pixel art for others to remix, and vote on your favourite community creations. A creation that gets remixed is a creation that has become a template — and a template is the most durable farm in the game, because every remix carries the original’s style forward. If another player remixes your block set into something new, that is not theft; it is distribution. The original still carries your name, and the remix brings players back to it.

Jam sessions are the fourth, and the most fun: instruments with player-made sounds, played together, in a realm, in public. A guitar, a drum and a piano, three players, one crowd. The instruments get collected, the players get followed, and the realm gets a reputation as a place where things happen. A realm where things happen is a realm where your other creations get seen. Collaboration is not a break from farming. In Heartlands, collaboration is the farm.

A Month of Farming: What Compounds

A day of farming in Heartlands makes a creation. A week makes a portfolio. A month makes a reputation — and reputation is the only thing in the game that compounds, because every creation you place makes the next one easier to find.

The compounding works like this. In week one, you place your first skin and your first block set, and a handful of players collect them. In week two, those players wear your skin in realms you have never visited, and players who have never met you collect it from them. In week three, your profile — which now shows a week of recent designs — starts drawing visits from players who liked one creation and want to see the rest. In week four, a realm owner who has collected three of your block sets invites you to build in their realm, and your work is suddenly in front of every visitor they get. Each step feeds the next, and none of it requires a single sale, because there is nothing to sell. The currency is attention, and attention compounds.

What does not compound is volume without quality. A hundred mediocre creations do not add up to a reputation; they add up to a profile full of things nobody collected, which is worse than a profile with ten good things. The month that works is the month of the daily loop in the previous section: one finished thing a day, placed where it will be seen, with the demand report read every morning. Thirty finished things, each a little better than the last, each placed where someone could find it — that is a portfolio. And a portfolio with a month of likes behind it is a name.

Measure the month the way the game measures it. Not in coins — there are none — but in pings: how many times did someone wear your skin, like your creation, interact with something you made? In collections: how many of your creations sit in other players’ 50 slots? In invitations: how many realm owners asked you to build with them? Those are the numbers that matter, and they are the numbers that grow. A month from now, the players who kept the loop will have all three. The players who waited for a currency to farm will still be waiting.

Common Mistakes

• Chasing a currency that does not exist — any “Heartlands gold farm” you find online is invented.
• Paying a third party for Heartlands Gold or items: no listing was verified, and no in-game currency has even been documented.
• Filling all 50 collection slots with things you will never use, then having no room for the one good find.
• Publishing ten mediocre skins instead of one excellent one that players actually wear.
• Drawing a shootable facing left in the editor — always face it right, per the devlog.
• Drawing a flyable mount before you have a block set anyone collects.
• Building an NPC with all 23 actions before you have one that does a single thing reliably.
• Placing creations where nobody goes and wondering why nothing gets liked.
• Treating likes as vanity instead of the demand signal they are — a creation with no likes is a product with no buyers.
• Letting your profile go quiet: a creator who stops publishing stops being collected.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Checked November 12, 2026. Game systems change with patches, so confirm numbers in game. Where a number is not published, this guide says so instead of inventing one.

• MMODude: Heartlands (Steam Early Access Nov 5, 2026, $3.99, free browser alpha, no verified listing)
• Steam: Heartlands (Early Access FAQ: 6–12 months, price to rise gradually)
• itch.io: Heartlands | Art/Social MMO (pixel editor, skins, layers, realms, voting, mounts, 50-slot collection)
• Wizirdi devlog: Heartlands v0.4.2 (shootables, signs, collision-box control, $3.99)
• Wizirdi itch.io profile (editor canvas sizes, skin states, realm admin, NPCs, warps, leaderboards, no-wipe note)
• Wizirdi Patreon: Heartlands v0.2.0 Alpha (NPC creations: 8 triggers, up to 23 actions)