# Yuanyuan Manor Auto-Farm Layout (1.6) > Yuanyuan Manor auto-farm layout for Endfield 1.6 Innkeeping: Xiragen and water setup, crop placement, and Auto-Farmer slot rules that stop clogging. Source: https://endfieldhub.org/guides/yuanyuan-manor-auto-farm-layout Published: 2026-10-17 Updated: 2026-10-17 The best Yuanyuan Manor auto-farm layout in Arknights: Endfield 1.6 grows Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry in a Xiragen strip and six more crops on sprinklers, sized so the Auto-Farmer's 24 slots fill in about 8 hours without clogging. T Endfield Hub Team October 17, 2026 Patch 1.6, checked 2026-10-17 ### Share this layout Help fellow innkeepers keep their Auto-Farmer from clogging. Keep Endfield Hub free If these Yuanyuan guides saved you a few inn sessions, $3 a month on Ko-fi or Patreon keeps them current every patch. [Support on Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/gachaguy94)[Join on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/c/gachaguy94/membership) Table of Contents Innkeeping at Yuanyuan Manor runs on crops, and in patch 1.6 the farm in Si's Painting comes with an **Auto-Farmer** that plants and harvests every plot in its area by itself. Your job shrinks to two things: keep the plots watered, which Sprinklers handle, and empty the Auto-Farmer's storage before it fills. This guide builds one farm that grows every Innkeeping crop in a balanced ratio and is sized so storage lasts about 8 hours between visits. You do not need to chase maximum refined output. An inn session recovers once every 6 hours, so you will run 3 or 4 sessions a day at most, and a farm stacked with Green Touch chains produces refined crops you can never cook. Spreading plots across every crop unlocks more recipes and keeps any single item from eating the Auto-Farmer's slots. ## The Layout at a Glance The farm splits into two zones. The top is a **Xiragen strip**: three Gas Dispersing Units turn the area into a Xiranite environment, which is where Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry refine. The bottom is a **sprinkler block** for the six crops that never refine. The three Wuling staples go to a different farm entirely. | Zone | Crops | Plots | | ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | | Xiragen strip (top) | Cabbage, Relishroom, Sourberry | 3 each | | Sprinkler block (bottom) | Matoberry, Pingtuber, Crunchcane, Ballpea, Oilseed Bloom, Whitemelon | 3 each | | Wuling City Agricultural Test Site | Tartpepper, Reed Rye, Amber Rice | 4+, 2, 2 | ## What the Auto-Farmer Does The Auto-Farmer is an Endfield Industries facility that sits at the edge of the Yuanyuan Manor farm. It germinates and harvests every plot in its area and drops the harvest into **Auto-Farmer Storage**. You level it with Spirit Money from Innkeeping, and each level needs a matching Inn Rating. | Level | Inn Rating needed | Storage slots | Adds | | ----- | ----------------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------- | | Lv.1 | 1 | 6 | Auto-Germination, Auto-Harvest | | Lv.2 | 2 | 12 | More storage | | Lv.3 | 3 | 18 | Refined Farming, Refined Crop Green Touch | | Lv.4 | 4 | 24 | More storage | Every slot holds up to 50 of one item. **Refined Farming** works only on Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry: a plot in its growing phase inside a Xiranite environment fills a refinement meter, and at the top the plot yields Refined Crops. Some inn dishes need Refined Crops and earn more, but refined crops never give seeds that keep their quality, so you keep growing them from normal seeds. **Green Touch** lets a refined plot boost the yield of touching plots of the same crop. This layout leaves Green Touch out on purpose. ![Auto-Farmer upgrade panel at Lv.3 of 4 showing Refined Farming for Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry and Refined Crop Green Touch](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/auto-farmer-refined-farming.webp) To reach Inn Rating 3 you need to run the inn for a while, but nothing stops you from building this farm on day one. Buy any seeds you are missing from Pantry Keep **Job Rusher** in the Main Hall. Until the Auto-Farmer hits Lv.3, the Xiragen strip simply grows normal crops. ## Step 1: Xiragen and Water Supply **Xiragen.** The gas vent at the northern tip of Si's Painting has two High Purity nodes. Place a Gas Extractor on each for 40 Xiragen per minute in total, merge both into a single Conduit Inlet, and you will pull it out of a Conduit Outlet at the farm. ![Map of Si's Painting with the Gas Vent north of the Yuanyuan Manor farm highlighted, showing two High Purity nodes](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/xiragen-gas-vent-location.webp)![Two Gas Extractors on the vent feeding Xiragen into one Conduit Inlet](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/xiragen-pipe-splitters.webp) **Water.** East of the farm the river runs right past the fence. Place two Fluid Pumps there, connect both into a double Conduit Inlet, and the water arrives through a double Conduit Outlet at the farm. ![Map of Yuanyuan Manor with the river spot east of the farm circled for Fluid Pumps](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/river-fluid-pump-location.webp)![Two Fluid Pumps on the river bank next to a double Conduit Inlet](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/fluid-pump-double-inlet.webp) ## Step 2: Build the Xiragen Strip Blueprints cannot be placed inside the farm, so build by hand in top view. Use **Sandleaf Plots as placeholders** while you lay out the grid; you swap them for real crops at the end. 1. Place the Xiragen **Conduit Outlet** in the top-right corner of the farm. 2. Put three Sandleaf Plots in a row just below it, then copy those three plots and paste them three tiles further down. 3. In the gap between the two rows, place a **Gas Dispersing Unit** in the middle with a Sprinkler on each side, both facing right. 4. Copy that six-plot cluster twice to the left so the strip has three clusters. 5. Run the Xiragen line from the outlet along the top and across to the leftmost Gas Dispersing Unit. Add a pipe splitter above the middle and right units and drop a branch into each. 6. Place three **Xiranite Pylons** above the strip to power it. ![Top view of the empty farm with the Xiragen Conduit Outlet placed in the top-right corner](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/xiragen-outlet-top-right.webp)![Three Sandleaf placeholder plots in a row under the Conduit Outlet](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/sandleaf-placeholder-plots.webp)![Copying the three Sandleaf plots and pasting them three tiles below](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/copy-plot-rows.webp)![Gas Dispersing Unit placed between two rows of three Sandleaf plots](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/gas-dispersing-unit-sprinklers.webp)![Xiranite Pylon placement above the Xiragen strip with pipe splitters feeding each Gas Dispersing Unit](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/xiranite-pylon-placement.webp)![Finished Yuanyuan Manor Xiragen strip in top view: three Gas Dispersing Units with Sprinklers between rows of plots, Xiranite Pylons above](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/water-splitter-six-sprinklers.webp) ## Step 3: Build the Sprinkler Block Move the double water outlet to the bottom-left of the farm. One water line feeds the strip's six Sprinklers through pipe splitters along the bottom edge of the strip. The second line feeds the sprinkler block below. ![Double water Conduit Outlet placed on the left edge of the farm](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/water-double-outlet.webp) The sprinkler block is deliberately small: 18 plots, 3 of each crop. That is all the inn needs, and keeping the plot count down is what stops the Auto-Farmer's storage from clogging. Do not copy the block across the rest of the farm. 1. Run the second water line in from the left along the middle of the block. 2. Put four pipe splitters on that line, evenly spaced. From each splitter, run one pipe up to a Sprinkler and one down to a Sprinkler, so you get a row of four Sprinklers above the pipe and four below it. 3. Place 18 plots in three rows of six on the right side of the block: one row between the top Sprinklers and the pipe, one row between the pipe and the bottom Sprinklers, and one row under the bottom Sprinklers. 4. Add Xiranite Pylons between the Sprinkler pairs until every Sprinkler is powered. ![Finished sprinkler block: one water pipe with four splitters feeding four Sprinklers above and four below, and 18 plots in three rows of six planted with Oilseed Bloom, Whitemelon, Crunchcane, Ballpea, Matoberry and Pingtuber](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/bottom-side-crops.webp) ## Step 4: Plant the Crops Now replace the Sandleaf placeholders. In the **Xiragen strip**, plant Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry, 3 plots each, and alternate them so **no two plots of the same refined crop touch**. Touching same-crop refined plots trigger Green Touch, which overproduces that crop and fills extra storage slots. ![Xiragen strip planted with Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry alternating along the row](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/top-side-refined-crops.webp)![Close-up of refined plots around a Gas Dispersing Unit, each timer showing about 8 hours to harvest](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/refined-crop-spacing.webp) In the **sprinkler block**, plant the six crops that do not refine, 3 plots each, as in the Step 3 screenshot: Oilseed Bloom and Whitemelon in the top row, Crunchcane and Ballpea in the middle row, Matoberry and Pingtuber in the bottom row. ## Auto-Farmer Slot Rules The whole layout is sized around one constraint: **when Auto-Farmer Storage is full, Auto-Harvest stops**. Ripe plots then sit idle, and refined plots start turning out normal and refined versions mixed together. A clogged farm wastes the hours until your next visit. * **24 slots, 50 per slot.** That is the ceiling at Auto-Farmer Lv.4\. Each crop you grow takes at least one slot, and every 50 more items of it takes another. * **3 plots per refined crop.** Three plots of Cabbage, Relishroom or Sourberry produce about 90 crops in 8 hours, which takes 2 slots each. * **No touching same-crop refined plots.** Green Touch adds yield you will not cook and pushes a crop into a third slot. * **Keep the staples out.** Tartpepper, Reed Rye and Amber Rice go to the Wuling farm (below), so they never compete for Si's 24 slots. Run that way, the farm fills Auto-Farmer Storage roughly every 8 hours without clogging early. If a future patch raises the slot cap, add plots to whichever crops you run short of; the grid already has room. ## Tartpepper, Reed Rye and Amber Rice The Wuling City Agricultural Test Site, the older Wuling farm, gets its own Auto-Farmer in 1.6\. It levels with Wuling Stock Bills and has **separate storage**, so it is the right home for the three Wuling staples. Their growth speeds differ, so use **at least 4 Tartpepper plots, 2 Reed Rye and 2 Amber Rice** to keep them roughly in step. For the plot and sprinkler basics of that farm, see the [Wuling planting guide](https://endfieldhub.org/guides/planting). ![Wuling City Agricultural Test Site in top view with Reed Rye, Amber Rice and Tartpepper plots on Sprinklers](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/wuling-core-aic-farm.webp) ## Collecting the Harvest Auto-harvested crops stay in Auto-Farmer Storage until you move them. Open the **Map**, select the Auto-Farmer icon at Yuanyuan Manor and use **Remote Crop Storage**. That sends everything to your depot without walking to the farm, the same way you empty the Ranch. Do it every 8 hours, or before each inn session, and the farm never stalls. ![Map view of Yuanyuan Manor with the Auto-Farmer panel open at Lv.3 showing Auto-Farmer Storage](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/auto-farmer-storage.webp)![Auto-Farmer Storage with two Relishroom stacks at 50, the per-slot limit](https://endfieldhub.org/images/guides/yuanyuan-manor-farm/auto-farmer-storage-full-stacks.webp) To turn the harvest into Ranch feed and bottled drinks automatically, deploy the [Yuanyuan Inn Items blueprint](https://endfieldhub.org/guides/yuanyuan-inn-items-blueprint) in your AIC. Pingtuber and Ballpea harvests also drop the leaves and pods that become feed, as our [Yuanyuan Manor ranch guide](https://endfieldhub.org/guides/yuanyuan-manor-ranch-guide-feed-pens-beasts) explains. For what to cook with it all, our [Yuanyuan Manor inn guide](https://endfieldhub.org/blog/endfield-yuanyuan-manor-inn-guide-blazing-stoves) covers how Innkeeping sessions play, and the [Yuanyuan inn recipes guide](https://endfieldhub.org/guides/yuanyuan-inn-recipes-chefs-themes) lists every dish each crop goes into, plus the best operator chefs for each Inn Theme. The [Yuanyuan inn strategy guide](https://endfieldhub.org/guides/yuanyuan-inn-strategy-gourmands-5-star-tips) shows why home-grown \[A\] ingredients are what make the top dishes profitable. _Method: built and checked on patch 1.6 (Sanctuary of Ink) on 2026-10-17\. Auto-Farmer slot counts, the 50-item stack limit, Inn Rating gates, refinable crops and the 6-hour inn recovery come from the 1.6 game data. Crop names use the official English text._ ## Frequently Asked Questions ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do I unlock the Auto-Farmer at Yuanyuan Manor? Clear the main mission Chapter Ⅱ Process Ⅷ: Paint with Fresh Ink, then the side mission A Painting Open for Business to open Innkeeping. The Auto-Farmer in Si's Painting levels up with Spirit Money, and each level is gated by Inn Rating: Lv.3 needs Inn Rating 3 and Lv.4 needs Inn Rating 4. ### How many storage slots does the Auto-Farmer have? 6 slots at Lv.1, 12 at Lv.2, 18 at Lv.3 and 24 at Lv.4, and every slot holds up to 50 of one item. When storage is full, Auto-Harvest stops, so ripe plots sit idle until you empty it. ### Which crops can be refined? Only Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry. A plot of one of those three that is in its growing phase inside a Xiranite environment fills a Refined Farming meter and turns into a Refined Crop. Refined Farming unlocks at Auto-Farmer Lv.3\. Some inn dishes require Refined Crops and pay more, and refined crops never give seeds that keep their quality. ### Do I need Green Touch for innkeeping? No. Green Touch lets a refined plot boost the yield of touching plots of the same crop, but an inn session only recovers every 6 hours, so 3 or 4 sessions a day cannot use the extra refined stock. Spreading plots across every crop unlocks more recipes and keeps the Auto-Farmer from filling up with one item. ### How do I collect crops from the Auto-Farmer? Open the Map, select the Auto-Farmer icon at Yuanyuan Manor and use Remote Crop Storage. That moves everything in Auto-Farmer Storage into your depot without walking to the farm, and it is the only way auto-harvested crops reach you. ### Where should I plant Tartpepper, Reed Rye and Amber Rice? Plant them in the Wuling City Agricultural Test Site, which has its own Auto-Farmer upgraded with Wuling Stock Bills. Its storage is separate, so these three crops never take slots from Si's Auto-Farmer. Use at least 4 Tartpepper plots, 2 Reed Rye and 2 Amber Rice to match their growth speeds. ### Can I build this layout before Inn Rating 3? Yes. Build the full grid with any plots you own and buy missing seeds from Pantry Keep Job Rusher in the Main Hall. Refining only starts once the Auto-Farmer reaches Lv.3, so until then the Xiragen strip simply grows normal crops.