What is the sparkly farm dynamic?

[Stretchytall]

I noticed that, during the Storm season, my farmers dig in the farm plots and turn them "sparkly." What exactly is this? Is it a yield multiplier?

Also, I noticed my farmers weren't able to bring in all of the harvest before the Storm season deleted what remained. Any tips for getting all my crops in?

[kennethproseus]

They're prepping the soil for next planting. Farms usually don't have the capacity to harvest all the fields available because the wprk is slow and ylu can only have a few workers, so if you have a lot of farm land, use two farms next to one another to add more workers. I believe that will increase the amount you can harvest.

[Dagy47]

the "sparkly fields" are called plowed fields and give u around 25% chance for a double yield if i remember corectly, and ye its not very well explained in the game at all....

also for harvesting everything - it rly depends on multiple factors like the size of the field, distance to warehouse and hearth, carrying capacity, quality of roads, any perks for speed up of harvesting/planting, etc..... so yeah sometimes adding an extra farm on the field for that 3rth. worker helps, but again it depends on the situation

[madzai]

If i'm really tight on population I usually make one farm to cover the whole big field and make them plant, they usually manage to do the whole field. Andi only add people to other farm during harvest.

[kory]

The sparkly fields are explained in the farm itself, there is a little diamond icon you can hover over that brings up a tooltip for it. (theres actually a few diamond icons, so you may have to hunt for the right one)

[свалов семен]

You can read about plowing purpose in game, using '!' sign in Fields section in any farm. In general, plowing give 10% chance to create additional crop during planting.

In order to use all farm fields you can do several things:
1. If you have no Humans (best race for farming obviously), place foxes or beavers there, not lizards/harpies. Last ones have 20 less seconds between breaks so they will go to break 3 times each season instead of 2 sometimes.
2. Build another farm if you not sown all fields.
3. Place farm close to the heart (if possible) if you sown all fields but not harvested all of them
4. Build warehouse close to the farm in all cases (except if you have main wh close)
5. Get the perks on planting/harvesting speed
6. Upgrade human houses in order to get planting/harvesting speed