Milling flour for bread issue..

[Mr B. Lessed]

Hello, I have an issue with the milling.
I current have 1k odd of wheat in my farm and adjacent the farm is a mill as well as a granary for storage but, for whatever reason, the villagers are not collecting the grain from the farm whatsoever... so no flour and then no bread.. Anyone know how to get them to start feeding themselves lol?

[XrystalBelle]

Have you got workers in the granary ? Space ? If you upgrade, get a second worker in there to benefit from the 2nd carriage. They worked so hard in my village that the 250 storage capacity was overflowing with 2k of grain rofl.

Also, the hitching post allows a worker there which increases the farm to granary transfers. So might be worth putting a worker there too.

My last game resulted in me having 3 mills and 3 bakers each with their own granary to hold all the stuff from farm to grain to flour to bread to villager with 80+ people and a comfortable 10 months of food in stock.

[Maxhat]

The farmers need to thresh the wheat into grain. Granary worker takes grain from farm and miller takes grain from farm (miller can also go straight to farm for grain). Oven workers take flour from mill to make bread. Not sure if this helps.

[XrystalBelle]

The threshing could be a factor.. I never touched mine so it was set at medium on the farm.

[Martin]

Having idle workers and workers in store houses and granaries will help. In mills etc it's usually ideal to have at least 2 employees.. however I find a windmill only ever needs 1 as it takes quite a long time to grind the flour.

[Mr B. Lessed]

Thanks for the replies -->

Originally posted by XrystalBelle:

Originally posted by stevenirons:

Originally posted by Martin:

Much appreciated! I tried all of the above although it just seemed to be bugged. I ended up restarting and the issue no longer occurs on this run!

Thanks again.

[guuplanewalker]

I had 2k grain with 4 mills and 4 ovens, workers everywhere, but the ovens couldn't make enough food and everyone kept dying. Is it a known bug?

[Mr B. Lessed]

Originally posted by guuplanewalker:

I had 2k grain with 4 mills and 4 ovens, workers everywhere, but the ovens couldn't make enough food and everyone kept dying. Is it a known bug?

Honestly, I can't say for 100% certainty but it is a demo after all and, from my own experience, it probably is a bug. You'll probably find on your next play it'll not be an issue, as I did.

[SinisterSlay]

Originally posted by guuplanewalker:

I had 2k grain with 4 mills and 4 ovens, workers everywhere, but the ovens couldn't make enough food and everyone kept dying. Is it a known bug?

I had noticed there was a balance issue here.
Bread takes months to make somehow. I expect 40 loafs a day, not 2 loaves a month. These are super lazy workers.
This means meat, berries, and vegies are much better sources of food. Just use grain for trade is what I have found works. A small grain field, a medium flax and barley field. Set all your housing to make vegies, chickens, goats.

Grain also has a bad habit of overflowing your storage. You might want to control your fields manually and leave them fallow until you actually need the supplies.
When you start needing lots of storage, it tends to spiral out of control because it's not possible to have enough workers for all that storage.

[what.handbasket]

I was just having the same issue with nothing being produced by my windmill, and until looking here I didn't realize that the problem was probably that the wheat was't getting threshed. There needs to be something to indicate the difference between threshed and non-threshed wheat, and perhaps we need to be able to dedicate workers in the farmhouse *just* for threshing and transporting, as distinct from field hands doing plowing/planting/harvesting etc.

On a distantly related note, I think we need an option to use either a two year cycle or a three year cycle for crop rotation, so we can do one year fallow/one year planted.

[Ranger]

communal oven

[Martin]

Originally posted by Mr B. Lessed:

Hello, I have an issue with the milling.
I current have 1k odd of wheat in my farm and adjacent the farm is a mill as well as a granary for storage but, for whatever reason, the villagers are not collecting the grain from the farm whatsoever... so no flour and then no bread.. Anyone know how to get them to start feeding themselves lol?

The trick is to put the mill and ovens away from the fields.

Put the mill and ovens in middle of your housing, with a granary next to it. Focus the granary on the mill and ovens only. Grain will be transferred from the Farm to the nearest granary then to the mill, the flour then to the granary next to it, then to the ovens, I usually have 2 ovens per mill, both ovens with 3 people in them and the mill with 1-2. The granary with 2-3. Last game I had 4k bread and almost no flour. Previous games to that I was around 15k flour and 1-2k bread.

As for supply to the houses, many markets spread around with food stalls. The food/bread granary will supply those stalls.

[Biggus_Dikkus]

In the latest plays i skipped farming production altogether.
Rush to the trader and upgrade every household with goats and chickens.
After establishing food security may build a farm/sheep farm for clothing.
Presently all the grain/bread line is too manpower-consuming and clogs all pantries forever