Getting farmed means another player repeatedly raids your village for resources. This can slow down your development, especially when you're still building up your avatar.
The most important thing you can do is make your village as unattractive as possible to farm. Farmers are looking for resources with as little effort and risk as possible. If there is little to steal and raiding your village isn't worth the effort, they may eventually move on to other targets.
Fighting back immediately isn't always the best solution. First, understand what's happening, protect your resources and troops, and make it increasingly difficult for the farmer to profit from your village.
Start by checking your battle reports.
Look at:
who is raiding you and how often
which troops they are sending
how many resources they are taking
whether they are scouting you
A few small raids are very different from repeated attacks by a much larger army. Knowing what you're dealing with will help you decide how to respond.
Players who farm regularly are looking for resources while trying to keep their own losses low.
If your village provides plenty of resources every time they raid, they have a reason to keep coming back. If their troops repeatedly return with little or nothing, your village becomes a much less attractive target.
You don't necessarily have to defeat the farmer. Making their raids unprofitable can be enough.
Understanding how farmers choose their targets and organize frequent raids can help you understand what makes a village attractive to farm.
Learn more in The Art of Micro-Farming.
A Cranny protects part of your resources from being stolen during raids. If your current capacity isn't enough, upgrading your Cranny or building additional ones can help.
You can also use resources before incoming raids arrive:
Start building or upgrading resource fields and buildings.
Train troops when appropriate.
Send resources elsewhere where they can be used.
Don't stop developing your village just to fill every available building slot with Crannies. They should protect your progress, not replace it.
Learn more in Cranny.
Keep an eye on incoming movements and reports and react when the situation changes. Use your resources instead of leaving large amounts available for repeated raids.
If you regularly can't be online for longer periods, a trusted Sitter or Dual can help manage your avatar while you're away.
Learn more in Dual & Sitter.
If you're part of a kingdom, let your fellow kingdom members know that you're being farmed.
They may be able to assess the attacker, provide advice, or help organize a defense. Don't simply fill your village with a few Reinforcements and hope for the best. Against a significantly stronger attacker, this may only create additional losses.
If your kingdom decides to defend the village, coordinate the defense so that enough troops are available at the right time.
Sometimes the simplest solution is to talk to the player farming you.
A friendly message shows that you're active and may be enough to make the attacker reconsider. You can explain that you're a new player or simply start a conversation.
There is no guarantee that this will work, but communication can sometimes solve the problem without a battle.
Avoid leaving small groups of troops in your village if they are repeatedly being killed by a much stronger raiding force. This makes it difficult to build up a useful defense.
If necessary, temporarily send your troops away while you're building up your forces. For example, you can send them as Reinforcements or on a longer troop movement so they aren't at home when a raid arrives.
Another option is the Boots of the Chicken. When equipped, they allow your Hero and a certain number of troops to evade an incoming attack. The number of troops that can evade depends on the Boots. They return to the village 180 seconds after the attack.
This can help you preserve a growing army if your troops would otherwise be repeatedly killed. However, use the Boots carefully. An attacker can see that troops have evaded and how many fled. This may also reveal that they can raid your village without having to fight those troops.
The Boots are therefore particularly useful for protecting troops when you're already under pressure, rather than as a general way to discourage potential farmers.
Learn more in Hero's Equipment.
Scouts can prevent other players from gathering information about your village unnoticed.
If an opponent scouts you successfully, they may learn about your troops, resources, or defenses and use that information to plan future raids.
Stationing Scouts in your village increases your scouting defense. As your avatar grows, consider increasing the number of Scouts protecting your villages as well.
Learn more in Troop Actions: Scouting.
If you play as a Gaul, the Trapper can make your village less convenient to farm.
Traps can capture troops sent on Raids. Once an attacker knows that traps are present, repeatedly sending small raiding parties becomes risky. To release trapped troops by force, the attacker needs to send a successful Attack instead of another Raid.
This adds extra effort to farming your village and may encourage the attacker to look for easier targets.
However, traps aren't a guaranteed way to stop repeated raids. An attacker can adapt by sending larger attacks, and repeatedly replacing traps can become expensive. Consider the cost before continuously rebuilding them.
Learn more in Trapper.
You don't need to defend every raid.
If the attacking army is much stronger than your available defense, fighting may simply cost you troops without stopping the farmer. Sometimes protecting your resources and troops while continuing to grow is the better choice.
When you have enough defensive troops, preferably with support from your kingdom, you can consider defending the village. Your wall increases the strength of the defending troops and becomes particularly valuable when you're preparing an actual defense.
Don't let repeated raids bring your development to a halt.
Continue improving your resource production, buildings, Hero, and troops while protecting what you can. As your avatar grows stronger, you'll have more options for dealing with attackers.
Remember, you don't have to destroy the farmer's army to improve your situation. If there is little to steal and attacking your village becomes increasingly inconvenient or costly, other targets may eventually become more attractive.
