Rusty

Rusty works the farm himself. Whenever he's free, he first clears any wasteland you've marked, then rests on a Bench if he's tired, then takes the first job there is, by default in this order: moving a building you’ve picked up, building, stocking a Biofuel Converter, harvesting and watering. You can reorder those jobs in his priority list, moving any one up or down.

He builds everything, houses included: a house in 5m, anything else in 1 to 2 minutes (a 1×1 crop patch in half that, a 2×2 in three quarters), and a farm's very first building in 30s. His watering can holds 8 waterings, one a second, and refilling it at the nearest water takes half a second.

With the Supporter Pack(opens in a new tab) DLC installed he's golden, trailing sparkles; in December he wears a Christmas hat, and on 30 and 31 October he's in costume for Halloween. On the crossover farms, he's the one who comes to sell the Reaper's chips.

Between jobs, Forbic, Pinion or Echo may come over for a 30-second chat, and Rusty stops to talk.