Farming efficiency

[Zyw0o]

the output of farm is tool low and the transportation efficiency is
also too low, After the wheat is mature, it needs to be transported to the warehouse, ground into flour, stored in the warehouse, and then baked.
Compared with fruits and vegetables grown in the backyard, relying on the output of farmland will only cause famine.

[Schwift Master]

This is true.. my several Morgan's of fields are out produced by vegetable gardens. I wonder if the development perks make that much of a difference.. Like the rye and fertilization

[Ele]

You can set your granary not to accept wheat and flour, then place your windmill and your oven very close to the farmhouse--the windmill worker then just picks up the threshed wheat at the farmhouse and the baker picks up the flour at the windmill. Then your granary worker only needs to come get the bread from the oven.

[Gorf2010]

You also have to remember that people working in their backyard can't do anything else while they're making food/hides, and vice-versa. If they're employed, they can't make food. They can't be in two places at once.

[Lucius Corvus]

That's just like the market them demanding stalls with just 15 people to start bit off. Farms bit off to when get around 100 people can support such a thing. These all things that will come much later as town grows.

[Slim Reaper]

Ele lähetti viestin:

You can set your granary not to accept wheat and flour, then place your windmill and your oven very close to the farmhouse--the windmill worker then just picks up the threshed wheat at the farmhouse and the baker picks up the flour at the windmill. Then your granary worker only needs to come get the bread from the oven.

This. Efficiency matters. Also, incorporate more farmhouses and invest in the ox plowing perk. More farmhouses = more ox available to plow and help carry the loads to where they go. You will also notice that even when a zone of farm land shows "+++" meaning it's "great" farmland, you will almost never find said land over 65% fertility. With that being said, I feel like the pasture fertilization perk is rather important.. but I've heard it's bugged at the moment.

So basically, farming is not as full fledged as it will be when the game is finished. I'll give you that, but you can still make them plenty feasible with strategically placed buildings, more farmhouses, and more oxen.

Also, don't forget to rotate your crops!

[HiGenX]

i've got 8 fields keeping my tavern up, flax up and a surplus of 200 bread a year atm with a pop of 200. Its all about them sheep :)

[≠, Warrior of Love]

The issue I'm running into is that despite employing something like 10 families in farmhouses, I see exactly one guy with an ox plowing my fields, all the others are wandering around town. I think they're tending to the vegetable gardens, but they're labeled as "waiting" in the people tab. I think the game's mechanics like that need a bit more transparency so it's easier to manage them.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

shuaibi lähetti viestin:

the output of farm is tool low and the transportation efficiency is
also too low, After the wheat is mature, it needs to be transported to the warehouse, ground into flour, stored in the warehouse, and then baked.
Compared with fruits and vegetables grown in the backyard, relying on the output of farmland will only cause famine.

Growing wheat and making bread is more mid-game IMO. Once you establish better population and require the T3 homes, bread is a good option to boost your food variety. You can just completely skip it and import all food too by the way.

That said, people above have already told you how to optimize your work-flow. Don't bring grain to the Grainery (oxy-moronic I know) but completely skip it and go straight to the mill. Also make sure you are setting your fields priorities correctly. For example, If you have three fields, one should be fallow, and two should be set to grow, and one of those two fields should be set to a higher priority so that it gets done faster.

Farming is a very large time-investment with low early returns but the long-game returns are well worth it.

Make sure that if you enable the advanced plows, that you have enough Oxen to support your fields. One Ox will not be enough.