Not getting seeds back from a Field ???

[†👁️⃤ Ŀ]

We put a worker on a field and put seeds in the box, he planted seeds and harvest the crops but we didn't get a single seed back.

What are we doing wrong?

[Rogue]

1. NPC farmers suck, they don't have good planting skill or care about seeds.
2. You need perfect harvest for seeds, even if it's your own character doing the farming. See crops ready to be harvested(NPC farmer) and it's perfect, you must collect crops yourself. Aka some micromanagement.
3. Better farm yourself and gain the expertise for More Seeds.... Only the player has the special bonus. Actual micromanagement.

[†👁️⃤ Ŀ]

Are you saying auto farming doesn't work? I think your wrong. I think the issue might be the fertilizer but I'll double check.

[Baby Cakes]

If its a weak harvest, you wont.
Make sure the field has enough Water, Ash, Etc throughout the crops life to ensure a good harvest.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Jack:

Are you saying auto farming doesn't work? I think your wrong. I think the issue might be the fertilizer but I'll double check.

Of course it works. The amount of plowing to ensure high porosity especially for higher tier crops and mulching the dead roots to claim back fertilizer is a real pain if you do it manually.

Still have to watch out for balance. Some plants can mean doom for the harvest. E.g All peas farm... Mouse over the seeds to know why.

[†👁️⃤ Ŀ]

Originally posted by Baby Cakes:

If its a weak harvest, you wont.
Make sure the field has enough Water, Ash, Etc throughout the crops life to ensure a good harvest.

Thanks. We got it figured out now :)

[Chief Wudafungawie]

I have the same problem what did you figure out?

[DocBockNstein]

Make sure you have water for them as well plants like basic rice will suck an entire farm dry with just half the field planted and need a dedicated well for whatever field you plant them in. If fertilizer runs out it will also cause a ♥♥♥♥ harvest meaning no seeds. NPC's are best not used at all or only to till the field then removed. You also get a ♥♥♥♥ load more crops when you harvest a field with the end game two handed sickle it even cuts the husk down and turns it straight into fertilizer. When doing mid to endgame planting what I do is let my best field regenerate fert with the adult premium crops on it until it's time to use the "hour of power" blessing then harvest it.

[Slamz]

Npc farmers use seeds from the harvest to replant, which probably isn't what you want (this makes it hard to keep up with fertilizer and eventually they ruin the crop and lose all your seeds).

"Best practices" is use them to raise porosity but take them off before the harvest. You harvest, you get the seeds, you decide when or how to replant.

[Dom79]

The only real use for npc farmer is to stack up fertilizer over weeks, use them for getting rid of tons of unneeded Seeds. Anything else only works when u stack up mio of Fertilizer first and than let them harvest. But there still get due to the player bonus a lower amount of resources. Specially due to the Harvest machine u can easy harvest tons of fields in a minute. Making it easier and faster to do it by yourself, instead of using npc´s for it. The Skillgain for the npcs is also very bad, better use the Resource field for getting skill to 900 for your npc´s.