Manure

[Merlin69]

Why don't the barn people use this to make fertiliser? I seem to be the one that clears it from the sheds and make fertiliser? The other thing is why don't the peeps collect stones, sticks etc from our village?

[TheMole]

Workers don't collect items you can see, if it's visible it is there for you to collect if you wish too. Only exception to this is the farmers who will collect the crops in the field

[Morri]

I'm confused. There's two recipes for fertilizer you can have your barn workers make. One makes fertilizer out of rot, and the other makes it out of manure.
So if you want your barn workers to make fertilizer out of manure, you can.

Your workers do not interact with actual items in the game world. When they collect sticks or stones, produce logs, pick berries, collect pig manure, they don't actually pick up sticks or stones, chop down trees, take away any berries or remove the manure.
Those are left for you and you alone to interact with, if you want to.

Only exception to that are sometimes the hunters, since they can actually shoot and kill an animal, and the farmers when they harvest.

[Lailantie]

To automate fertilizer production, you need a worker at your pigsty which gathers manure and puts it into the resource storage. You need at least one second worker in the barn and set the barn production to produce fertilizer out of manure.

[Merlin69]

I've got animal/bird shed workers but they don't pick up the manure!

[Lailantie]

I said pigsty :)

[Morri]

Originally posted by Merlin69:

I've got animal/bird shed workers but they don't pick up the manure!

As said before, your workers won't interact with physical objects. So the manure that you see on the floor of your animal buildings will stay there til YOU pick it up.

Your workers can collect manure from the pig building, by assigning the collection of manure in the building tasks, like you do with all buildings. They will then produce manure but will still not pick up the manure laying on the floor.

[Dutchgamer1982]

medieval times employed kids.

picking up sticks and stones layning arounds toddlers can easely do.

kids could do chores.. like shipping that manure from location A to B.
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or even assist their parents.. carring tools and water in the mines to miners. holding the treaths so their parents weaves a bit faster.. walking. after their harvesting parent picking up what is dropped.
**all that should lead to kids boosting parents prodyctivity.

[Merlin69]

But not on here in Medieval Dynasty!

[Kwalyz]

@Merlin69 In the original game release there was no way to get manure, eggs, feathers, wool, milk and honey unless you assigned an NPC as an animal breeder to the appropriate building
However, many people requested the ability to gather these resources without the need for an NPC to do it for them.
Therefore, the visible resources in the animal sheds (manure, feathers and eggs) and the ability to shear sheep, gather honey and milk cows & goats were added by the developer several patches after the game release. The developers decided to put manure in multiple sheds not just the pigsty even though it is only the pigsty which produces manure as an output.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by Kwalyz:

@Merlin69 In the original game release there was no way to get manure, eggs, feathers, wool, milk and honey unless you assigned an NPC as an animal breeder to the appropriate building
However, many people requested the ability to gather these resources without the need for an NPC to do it for them.
Therefore, the visible resources in the animal sheds (manure, feathers and eggs) and the ability to shear sheep, gather honey and milk cows & goats were added by the developer several patches after the game release. The developers decided to put manure in multiple sheds not just the pigsty even though it is only the pigsty which produces manure as an output.

it would be nice however if :
-dung/manure would also be found in wild (annimal droppings)
-laying around wherever annimals are (including annimals you not own).. and it is NOT stealing if you pick it up, even if you don't own the stable (could even make it a seasonal sidequest "cleaning the stables"
-any manue/dung not picked up at the seasons end, would just disapear (to prevent it from accumulating to unsurmountable piles of items on the ground over time)

[genosound]

wow just learned a lot about pig poop! didn't know if i assigned someone the npc dont clean the pens. so you said in another post you actually get MORE manure by assigned NPC than by cleaning it yourself??? how much any idea? might be worth it semi soon for me to do the barn worker and pigsty combo thing. trying to keep taxes down...that dang king!

[Kwalyz]

Well my pigsty animal breeder is currently level 7 in farming skill and can collect 483 pieces of manure per day. I changed the animal breeder to few other levels = a level 2 farming level worker could pick up 138 pieces, a level 10 could collect 690 pieces, a level 3 could pick up 207. Note: I have diplomacy production bonuses and the workers had 100% mood.
Picking up myself:
Pigsty 60 pieces
Cowshed 40 pieces
Sheep/goat fold 20 pieces
Horse stable 20 pieces
Donkey - I don’t have one.
So that’s 140 pieces collected before I’d have to wait until it regenerated.

You would only save on taxes for the NPC houses if you don’t use an animal breeder and barn workers.

Went back to a very old save - an NPC at level 1 farming skill and mood of 27%, no bonuses from my diplomacy skill tree gathers 10.53 manure per day from one adult pig. A level 2 at 35% mood gathers 21.41, a level 3 at 52% mood gathers 33.14.

[genosound]

yeah i AM the barn and animal worker at moment lol i got everything but goats and cattle unlocked animal wise..i think theres goats dont remember should be if not lol about to build a sheep fold now thanks mate!

[Kwalyz]

The goats and sheep are both housed in the fold. You can have a mixture of both in the one building.

When you are setting production for animal breeder you need to remember that only the adult female goats will allow milk to be collected and only adult sheep (male or female) will provide wool.

Re: fertiliser. I’m hoping you know that there are two recipes for fertiliser. You obviously know about the manure to fertiliser recipe. The other uses 10 pieces of Rot to make one piece of fertiliser. You can put food into a compost bin and after the season change it will be Rot. The best return is cabbage to Rot but Meat is only one less. Especially in the early days of a game it’s easier to get your hunters to gather an excess of Meat and move it to the compost bin than planning excess cabbage crops. You do need to move the food and rot manually - but as you said you are both animal breeder and barn worker at the moment I don’t think you will shy away from doing these additional tasks.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by genosound:

wow just learned a lot about pig poop! didn't know if i assigned someone the npc dont clean the pens. so you said in another post you actually get MORE manure by assigned NPC than by cleaning it yourself??? how much any idea? might be worth it semi soon for me to do the barn worker and pigsty combo thing. trying to keep taxes down...that dang king!

pigs require a fixed 1.251 annimal feed/day. and upto 5 can be in a pigstry

labourours in a pigstry :
1 manure / hour & skill level per pig

so with 5 pigs and a lvl 10 worker thats 500 manure per day.
(with 100% mood + lvl 3 motivational speach ability, you get +50% so than its 750 manure. per day for just that 1 worker..

more sh!t than you ever can use..