Yo why are my farmers planting before winter

[ridiculousjakson]

I wanted to build up my army but i feel like im always focused on food because the farmers forget when to harvest, then i have to wait an entire year before i can stop starvation...

[Delle(DK)]

its quite common that some crops in real life are planted before winter.
Example "winter wheat" is planted before winter and it give the plant a longer time to mature and the farmer dont have to plant it in spring where the fields often are very wet OR it can save him time to spred out the work and seed some fields before winter and other in the spring.
Also when spring comes the plants so to speak are example 20cm tall and then are taller than the weeds that will start to grow in spring.. it give the plant some advantage and a head start.
There are also other reasons both lets keep it short and simple ;-)

In the game i will call it realistic to plant wheat before winter and you can also do that with barley.

But for gameplay reasons and to keep things simple i dare to say it would be better if the game seed the fields in spring since that is how most people will think is supposed to work.
OR maybe if the player had a choice would also be interesting to make things a bit more flexible.

[TK421]

Delle(DK) eredeti hozzászólása:

its quite common that some crops in real life are planted before winter...

While true, this is not that. This is a clear bug. They harvest in like late sept, then plow until winter when everything resets.

[marc477]

it doesnt reset for me. the game description clearly says that fall is the plow and sow season. they will harvest in september and then plow and sow right after, which is thematically correct as its possible to sow seed in fall and they will survive winter and start growing in spring. In game you can also plow and sow in april/may it will still work. so you can do either.

[~Keik~]

marc477 eredeti hozzászólása:

it doesnt reset for me. the game description clearly says that fall is the plow and sow season. they will harvest in september and then plow and sow right after, which is thematically correct as its possible to sow seed in fall and they will survive winter and start growing in spring. In game you can also plow and sow in april/may it will still work. so you can do either.

The game clearly states this yes but mine also end up resetting come winter time. This has happened two seasons in a row with my wheat and barley. Either way, this mechanic is bugged or should state that there is a chance for the plants to be lost come winter.

[Decard]

~Keik~ eredeti hozzászólása:

marc477 eredeti hozzászólása:

it doesnt reset for me. the game description clearly says that fall is the plow and sow season. they will harvest in september and then plow and sow right after, which is thematically correct as its possible to sow seed in fall and they will survive winter and start growing in spring. In game you can also plow and sow in april/may it will still work. so you can do either.

The game clearly states this yes but mine also end up resetting come winter time. This has happened two seasons in a row with my wheat and barley. Either way, this mechanic is bugged or should state that there is a chance for the plants to be lost come winter.

Yup farmers are planting prior to winter and crops are dying during winter. Only to have to be replanted again. It would be nice if the planting during winter thing actually worked. Then it would give spring more time to grow.

[Zimmy]

im having this issue and they crops need to be harvested early? there just dieing before harvest season idk the days untill harvest comes up before harvest season seems to be a bug in there somewhere no clue what is happening but i am not getting wheat

[Bartendern]

Same issue here, three fields and I have two farmers houses packed with people but they cant harvest in time, tried to add cows to plow but it seems to almost take longer time if you dont make perfect squares as fields. Its still EA so lets give them time :)

[Clovis Sangrail]

Bartendern eredeti hozzászólása:

Same issue here, three fields and I have two farmers houses packed with people but they cant harvest in time, tried to add cows to plow but it seems to almost take longer time if you dont make perfect squares as fields. Its still EA so lets give them time :)

You're doing it wrong.

How big are those fields?

This isn't Kansas, and you don't have a big ass John Deere.

How about a picture and maybe someone can help you.

[MooMarMouse]

Delle(DK) eredeti hozzászólása:

its quite common that some crops in real life are planted before winter.
Example "winter wheat" is planted before winter and it give the plant a longer time to mature and the farmer dont have to plant it in spring where the fields often are very wet OR it can save him time to spred out the work and seed some fields before winter and other in the spring.
Also when spring comes the plants so to speak are example 20cm tall and then are taller than the weeds that will start to grow in spring.. it give the plant some advantage and a head start.
There are also other reasons both lets keep it short and simple ;-)

In the game i will call it realistic to plant wheat before winter and you can also do that with barley.

But for gameplay reasons and to keep things simple i dare to say it would be better if the game seed the fields in spring since that is how most people will think is supposed to work.
OR maybe if the player had a choice would also be interesting to make things a bit more flexible.

So I was totally confused and my google searches lead me here. I don't wish for it to be changed to spring. It think it's cool to have something accurate to the area, and I got to learn something new :) My only wish is the game eventually adds that education bit in there to remove that confusion lol

[jhughes]

My crops do not die in winter .. planted in October, this is what it says in March:
1/3 growth, 183 days left, still alive:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3414436559

NOTE: I always build 1.0 Morgan fields .. I have 6 fields, 4 active and 2 fallow, 1 farm house, 4 families in the farm house. I have never missed getting everything out by the end of Sept.

[Clovis Sangrail]

jhughes eredeti hozzászólása:

My crops do not die in winter .. planted in October, this is what it says in March:
1/3 growth, 183 days left, still alive:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3414436559

NOTE: I always build 1.0 Morgan fields .. I have 6 fields, 4 active and 2 fallow, 1 farm house, 4 families in the farm house. I have never missed getting everything out by the end of Sept.

Same here. Slightly smaller field and usually more of them. Plow and plant in October/November, harvest following September. Always hundreds of bread in the granary.

If you make your fields too big and they don't get totally planted, they will die over the winter.

But if you do it right, your people will always have bread.

Fields should look like this --

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3397087628

Or this --

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3273472537

In both cases, half of the fields were left fallow, and the other half were plowed and planted before the end of October.

No loss over the winter.

One more thing -- Don't fart around with the crop rotation during the fall, and don't touch the current year after it has been planted.

[Temp950]

The farming system in this game is really tedious because of how the AI thinks it needs to plant if its anything other than harvest time. And for some dumb reason there is no way to get your oxen to plow empty fields before the harvesting is done without having to micromanage. Wish there was an option to just have oxen plow all empty fields when they have nothing else to do, regardless of whether its set to fallow or not.