Farming is there any explanation on this?

[Tanyon]

So I have 2 farms.

The first time I planted something it was flax and hemp and I got like an entire stockpile of each.

Which is nice because it is a common resource you will always need but now I have onions, garlic, radish, potatoes, wheat, cotton etc.. is there a way to make it so they will like split the farms into like 4 areas and just grow 4 crops per farm?

I have farm one set to wheat and cotton both on priority 1. They planted all wheat and then all wheat again?

My other farm I have set to garlic, onion and radish all at priority 1 and they planted all garlic.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there no better control to farming than this. Do I just have to grow one crop then turn it off then grow the next etc.. it just seems like I don't have as much control as I want.

Ideally it would be cool if I could pick what goes in each row on the farm. That would be cool.

I'm just looking for any advice.

TY.

[Zaltor]

Seeds, if you don't have seeds they will plant what they can.

[tamu1997]

For most of the vegetables they rarely get enough seeds back to repeat full production and you'll have to go buy more. At this stage of the game its just easiest to have 1 field for each crop, or do a full rotation if you dont have the space or want to deal with all the fields. Also, if you plant the fields yourself they'll still work them

[Petrouchka]

they should just make so that you cant put how many crops that you want to plant in one farm plot. like the 1 farm plot can plant 24 crops. than you can adjust like 6 hemp 6 flax and so on until max 24 crops.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Petrouchka:

they should just make so that you cant put how many crops that you want to plant in one farm plot. like the 1 farm plot can plant 24 crops. than you can adjust like 6 hemp 6 flax and so on until max 24 crops.

That would be awesome and perfect...

For now what I'm gonna do is what another guy suggested and just plant what I want myself then let the NPCs work the fields. It only take a few second to plant so not too bad. Still unsure how seeds work though like do I have to always buy them.. is there a way to get some when you harvest crops. That stuff eludes me.

[Agent707]

From my experience, if you set one farm with say, 3 crop types at the SAME priority level... they'll plant all 3. Won't be even, but good chance you'll get all 3 planted.

Key is, they have to be the same priority, or they'll just plant the highest one.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Agent707:

From my experience, if you set one farm with say, 3 crop types at the SAME priority level... they'll plant all 3. Won't be even, but good chance you'll get all 3 planted.

Key is, they have to be the same priority, or they'll just plant the highest one.

Well that is not my experience at all.. hence what I typed out.. I literally have 3 crops on each farm all set to the same priority. So I guess you're just luckier than I am.

[RAZ0RFANG]

I made the mistake of having 1 farm per each resource think it was around 12-14 farms, yeah your soon find that your food cellers and storage will overstock ended up with 700 hemp and 200 potatoes as the dam chefs cant cook the stuff fast enough.

Cut back on the farms for now and been experimenting with mixing them, would love to see an actual stock amount like we have with other items like the weaver, mining, lumber camp etc

[Agent707]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Originally posted by Agent707:

From my experience, if you set one farm with say, 3 crop types at the SAME priority level... they'll plant all 3. Won't be even, but good chance you'll get all 3 planted.

Key is, they have to be the same priority, or they'll just plant the highest one.

Well that is not my experience at all.. hence what I typed out.. I literally have 3 crops on each farm all set to the same priority. So I guess you're just luckier than I am.

It was a long time ago. Maybe I only had a few seeds. So my bad.

FWIW, I usually just rotate a few crops based on what I need. I normally load up on non-perishables, like wheat and garlic. Then rotate them with what I need.

I agree with you though, the farms (like many other things), needs some good work done to the interface.

Man, do I miss the farming fields of Medieval Dynasty. They did those right!

[c-*****]

I think I'm getting more seeds back if I use fertilizer - usually 2 per plot - but I don't think village farmers ever use fertilizer themselves - even if you have it sitting next to the farm in its own container...

So: the near farm, I block all planting and either let them hoe or if I'm bored do it myself, then throw fertilizer everywhere, and finally plant maybe 1 row of each type. Though I usually do 2 rows of garlic: 1 for cooking, 1 for selling to all the herbalists.

The somewhat-distant farm, I let it auto-farm with flax, wheat, and hemp. I mistakenly had sage in there, and now have 777 sage sitting around :(

But this is a Tier 1 strategy. I haven't gotten into Tier 2 techs yet.

And yeah: from early experiments I have a stockpile of rotting beets, onions, and potatoes no one wants...

[macbraveheart68]

leave the farm priority at 5
turn all crops to zero
Plant whatever you want in each plot it really doesn't take much time
your villagers will still work whatever is in the field. even with the crop at zero
this way you never plant things unless you need them.

there really is no point in planting anything but sage, garlic, hemp and flax early. As you get further up the tech ladder and need ingredients plant other things.
your people want stews and smoked meats
warm/cooked food makes them happy and more productive.
when you liberate a town you can dump all those unused veggies and even excess spoiled food