HAY PROBLEM

[[HLL ITA] LIPTON]

I produce a lot of hay but it is not used for anything, where am I wrong?

[GunRunner89X]

You have animals? It's only used as fodder for feeding them, nothing else.

[[HLL ITA] LIPTON]

Yes, I have a lot of them.
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong

[Synopse]

There was an issue with priority of using hay introduced in 0.92. Crate tried to fix that in 0.92a. Maybe it didn't work?
I don't use hay, because I like to be more flexible by using grain.

[[HLL ITA] LIPTON]

Thank you very much

[Sleeper]

I have 3 * Cow farms, 2 * Chicken farms and 1 Goat farm. All use hay as they are now meant too.

However, to ensure this I have built a store house next to the farms and then by manipulating the demand levels of all my Store houses I have forced all the hay produced too the Store next to the farms and forced that Store to push all other crops elsewhere.

[Ninjafroggie]

I just have 3 hay fields and a storage barn built in the middle of all my animal facilities. The barn stores nothing but hay, and the various barns and coops all draw from it. Some of the facilities will still grab some grain from time to time, as 3 fields of hay isnt quite enough for 4 coops, 4 goat barns, 4 cattle barns, and 3 stables, but by and large they use the hay.

[Zantai]

If the hay is stored very far from the barns, the villagers will still grab more readily available roots and grains. This will be addressed in the future so hay is prioritized regardless of distance, but something to keep in mind for now.

[ungamer]

long distances are solved now with quotas for each item in each storage. use it .

[Chuckw34]

I have the same issue. My Storages were overrun with Hay but my Barns still stock grain instead. I just stopped growing hay until it is fixed.

[Sleeper]

Chuckw34 - You can make sure the grain box in all your barns is ticked, then set the lower maximum figure to one. This should push the grain out of your stores. If you do this to all your stores then the only place it can go too is the grain Silos.

Do the same for the Hay to move it to the store you want it in, leaving that one to accept infinity Hay.

Farms will still, once in a while, take grain instead of hay but Devs state above they are aware. Put your Hay store next to your farms and the Grain Silos as far away from them as you can.

Not a great solution but works 80% of the time.

[LadyMiska]

I've been keeping Storage for just Hay close by to where my Livestock is kept - this has helped with this issue.