Field too far from barn??

[invivo4u]

I planted a field less than 40m from the barn and now I get the message "lower efficiency". That was never the case in 0.6 where I had fields much farther from a barn with no problem.

[DEATHLORD]

do you not get a greater distance with the higher barns now

[Sarke]

Where do you see this message? Can you post a screenshot?

[subwaybananas]

this is just an information, that your farmer have a long way. They have to do their job physicaly. Every extra meter is less time for work on fields.

[invivo4u]

The barn is tier one ... I'll check that out when I build a larger barn. Good idea! I'm not sure what lower efficiency means ... will find out. Thanks, again, for the suggestions!

[simeon]

You have to keep in mind:
Tthe more days you have per season, the more time the farmers have, to do the work needed to be done in that specifc season.
Just observe it a bit (via field management tab) and make sure, that they're able to finish up.

[invivo4u]

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[subwaybananas]

Originally posted by invivo4u:

The barn is tier one ... I'll check that out when I build a larger barn. Good idea! I'm not sure what lower efficiency means ... will find out. Thanks, again, for the suggestions!

lower efficiency doesn´t mean, that the field give less harvest. Its only the information, that your farmers have a lot of worktime needed for travel. The worktime is 10 hours from 8am to 6pm. At 8am all workers start to walk to their workplaces. In case of farmes its the barn chest. After arrive the barn chest, they walk to the fields. And if the way between the house/tavern/seats in the morning to the barn, and the way between barn and the fields are long, they need perhaps 2-3 hours for walking. 7-8 hours from 10 possible for fieldworking. A better barn building doesn´t change it.

The farmers are the only workers, that have do their job physically. Or in other words

farmers animation is their real work

[Naryoril]

Btw: Do lvl 10 farmers do their animations faster than lvl 1 farmers? At the very least i didn't see a difference in speed when a lvl 3 farmer and a lvl 1 farmer were working on the same field, in other jobs the lvl 3 farmer would have been 3 times as fast as the lvl 1 farmer. But the might just have been using a lvl 4 animation speed to be in line with other jobs.

[subwaybananas]

no, farmers doesn´t affected at different skills. Farmers are a little bit unique

[Naryoril]

Well, that explains why my lvl 5 and lvl 4 farmer are struggling to tend to my fields even though i didn't build that many more fields compared to when a lvl 3 and lvl 1 were easily enough... Guess it's time to get them a farmhand.

[Lailantie]

In the early game I always put everyone in the fields in the beginning of a season. It's nice because skills don't matter. When they are done, they are allowed to go back to their normal jobs.

[invivo4u]

very helpful info! Thanks!