Stone Picker

[UNCLEBOB]

So just bought a new feild. harvested it. then cultivated it and stones stated to appear. Bought a stone picker and it doesnt work.

Any one got any ideas?
It has been lowered and turned on.... even the AI is like no feild here.

Thanks in advance if there are any helpful suggestions out there... really stuck.

[UNCLEBOB]

so i had to get some sort of plow and replow my feild... not just cultivate it then the stone picker worked

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Personally I always have Field Stone turned off but IIRC stone pickers only pick up the larger stones such as get revealed by a plough. Small stones can be rolled in.

[Liquid Todd / Slash]

I seen a new player try to use the wrong machine for the job a few times. What tool are you using?

[Psycho]

Not sure if the default stone picker can pick up small stones, they are usually rolled. As a newbie I'm not convinced about the stone process, seems like busy work. If they were a hidden 'crop' that you could clear from a field after buying it, sure. I'm all for field improvement but digging up new stones all the time seems like weeding but with more steps. Damage is also pretty punishing on the finances.

I just got a Nordic FL stone collecting rake, job done. Bonus is I can turn the stones into a profit stream or production chain.

[Gage]

Since the beginning of FS most maps have a problem with needing to be plowed by the player before AI would work them...........oh and on the stone issue, just turn it off. That was the most useless waste of time ive ever seen put in a FS game yet. Well besides lime.....

[UNCLEBOB]

Originally posted by Liquid Todd / Slash:

I seen a new player try to use the wrong machine for the job a few times. What tool are you using?

I was using the base cultivator it gives you on easy mode... but after harvesting a new feild it auto put big stones in my field.... i had to by some bigger plow and replow my feild.... then the stone picker worked.

[Liquid Todd / Slash]

Originally posted by UNCLEBOB:

Originally posted by Liquid Todd / Slash:

I seen a new player try to use the wrong machine for the job a few times. What tool are you using?

I was using the base cultivator it gives you on easy mode... but after harvesting a new feild it auto put big stones in my field.... i had to by some bigger plow and replow my feild.... then the stone picker worked.

Please do not listen to those who just say 'turn it off'. Why they bother buying a "simulator" and just turn things off that they do not like is beyond me. It is all about the struggle! Oh...I don't like the other 11 months of a year that I can't just harvest. I know, I will just turn the 11 months off lmao!

There is a great guide regarding what and plows/cultivators do. I will post a link to the page as its on the devs farm academy page. Not all the plows/cults produce the same results. So buy the tool which suits your playing style. If you h8 stones then use a tool that doesn't produce stones at the expense of more weeds & vice versa.

I notice that there are a few peeps on here giving poor advice as they haven't bothered to do their homework or work in the Agri field.

https://www.farming-simulator.com/newsArticle.php?&news_id=294

Oh btw I tend to clear rocks straight after I plow/cultivate. Do not be afraid to slow time down if need be.

[UNCLEBOB]

Originally posted by Liquid Todd / Slash:

Originally posted by UNCLEBOB:

I was using the base cultivator it gives you on easy mode... but after harvesting a new feild it auto put big stones in my field.... i had to by some bigger plow and replow my feild.... then the stone picker worked.

Please do not listen to those who just say 'turn it off'. Why they bother buying a "simulator" and just turn things off that they do not like is beyond me. It is all about the struggle! Oh...I don't like the other 11 months of a year that I can't just harvest. I know, I will just turn the 11 months off lmao!

There is a great guide regarding what and plows/cultivators do. I will post a link to the page as its on the devs farm academy page. Not all the plows/cults produce the same results. So buy the tool which suits your playing style. If you h8 stones then use a tool that doesn't produce stones at the expense of more weeds & vice versa.

I notice that there are a few peeps on here giving poor advice as they haven't bothered to do their homework or work in the Agri field.

https://www.farming-simulator.com/newsArticle.php?&news_id=294

Oh btw I tend to clear rocks straight after I plow/cultivate. Do not be afraid to slow time down if need be.

Yeah i couldnt agree more with that. I havent turned them off bc now i know what im doing. Its just part of the game in my mind.
appriecaite the link ill be sure to have a look. There is one slightly frusterating part of the game.... but i tend to stay away from it... Potatos. So much work hahaha

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Originally posted by Liquid Todd / Slash:

Please do not listen to those who just say 'turn it off'. Why they bother buying a "simulator" and just turn things off that they do not like is beyond me. It is all about the struggle! Oh...I don't like the other 11 months of a year that I can't just harvest. I know, I will just turn the 11 months off lmao!

It's not that unreasonable to turn Field Stone off for some of us. In the area I lived most of my life in we simply don't get a problem with stones in the fields (bar the occasional pebble) and I don't know any local farmers who own a stone picker as they'd have absolutely no use for it. Since I play almost exclusively on UK maps I refuse to have simulated stones appearing on land where they would not appear in real life.

And even where I live now in the north of Scotland where the fields are FULL of stones (and I mean it's like walking on the beach) the farmers around me do not use stone pickers, they just live with the stones.

[Gage]

Originally posted by Liquid Todd / Slash:

Originally posted by UNCLEBOB:

I was using the base cultivator it gives you on easy mode... but after harvesting a new feild it auto put big stones in my field.... i had to by some bigger plow and replow my feild.... then the stone picker worked.

Please do not listen to those who just say 'turn it off'. Why they bother buying a "simulator" and just turn things off that they do not like is beyond me. It is all about the struggle! Oh...I don't like the other 11 months of a year that I can't just harvest. I know, I will just turn the 11 months off lmao!

There is a great guide regarding what and plows/cultivators do. I will post a link to the page as its on the devs farm academy page. Not all the plows/cults produce the same results. So buy the tool which suits your playing style. If you h8 stones then use a tool that doesn't produce stones at the expense of more weeds & vice versa.

I notice that there are a few peeps on here giving poor advice as they haven't bothered to do their homework or work in the Agri field.

https://www.farming-simulator.com/newsArticle.php?&news_id=294

Oh btw I tend to clear rocks straight after I plow/cultivate. Do not be afraid to slow time down if need be.

Grew up on a farm and ranch and yes we had rocks in the fields but we never ran a stone picker. The only stone picker i ever saw was a 1950 model one that was a pile of rust and that was 30 years ago. What rock was there in the fields never did any real speakable damage anyway. I did bend a ripper shank sideways on a shelf of rock 2ft down once but that was about it. Sheer bolts do their jobs very well

Now if they would give me a Lime toggle that would be great because we dont have to lime where i grew up either, We have natural limestone rock that leaches enough into the ground already. If that wasnt enough you just had the fertilizer people mix you up a special cocktail of fertilizers to put out with your normal fertilizer application.

Giants gave you "their" version of a "farming simulator". Most farm areas are geologically different and Giants threw them all in a blender and spit out FS.

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by Liquid Todd / Slash:

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Oh btw I tend to clear rocks straight after I plow/cultivate. Do not be afraid to slow time down if need be.

But it's a SIMULATOR? Surely you do not mess with time?

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Originally posted by Gage:

Now if they would give me a Lime toggle that would be great because we dont have to lime where i grew up either, We have natural limestone rock that leaches enough into the ground already. If that wasnt enough you just had the fertilizer people mix you up a special cocktail of fertilizers to put out with your normal fertilizer application.

I did see a "No Lime" mod recently, I don't remember what it was called but i might be worth a search...

Originally posted by Gage:

Giants gave you "their" version of a "farming simulator". Most farm areas are geologically different and Giants threw them all in a blender and spit out FS.

Precision Farming helps (a little) by adding Soil Maps but the range is still limited.

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by Gage:

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Now if they would give me a Lime toggle ...
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Am I misunderstanding this or are you joking? :)

[Gage]

No misunderstanding, Lime is one of the worst things about FS IMO.....we dont do it where i live so let me turn it off , just like stone picking.

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by Gage:

No misunderstanding, Lime is one of the worst things about FS IMO.....we dont do it where i live so let me turn it off , just like stone picking.

You can. Same place in options as stone.