jam makers

[BlueRose]

i have two jam makers, and i harvest fifty apple trees, yet can only get one jam maker, the second one says need 20 more apples. ? should it not work two of the jam makers on 50 trees ?
or really 40 trees ?

[BlueRose]

it seems i have to harvest twenty trees , then do one jam maker, then twenty more trees then do the other jam maker, unable to harvest all fifty trees and do two jam makers ?

[WaaghMan]

Hi!

Jam factories and other production buildings will keep leveling up with use. This increases their production speed and capacity.

A level 1 jam maker can queue up to 10 jams, that means up to 200 apples + 200 fruits (the pear icon) stored on a single maker.

So if you have less than that, you'll spend all your resources in the first maker and not have enough left for the second one.

I know it can be a bit bothersome to spend all your resources this way, but we wanted to avoid additional UI panels that could add complexity and annoyance on the general use case.

[Ivydoom]

I would like to request more advanced control UI panels so I can decide how many of a resource to spend on a production building.
It could be quite easy: queue n of production resource (jam cheese and such) and spend x of this and y of that to do so. Not complicated at all!

[✨Bearnwyn✨]

What level do the factories (jam/cheese etc) go up to?

[Frieren]

I would love to use all the fruits my farm produces as jams/marmalades ... not having enough fruit of the apple/pear category is exhausting as i always don't get around to harvesting these trees.

[Kerbyboo]

@WaaghMan I wanted to make a suggestion. I accidentally recycled one of my jam stations and put one back down to find that it was level 1 (they were all the same level, so I didn't notice this). Why can't they share a level? Or why have levels at all with them?

[WaaghMan]

Originally posted by Kerbyboo:

Why can't they share a level?

To encourage having fewer of these buildings: If building level was shared, having several buildings together would become a much stronger strategy. This way, it's possible, and probably still better, but not by that much compared to the increase in space/interaction time.

As for why have levels at all, same reason: So a few buildings can still be enough at high farm levels, without the need of having tens of them to keep a proper production rate.

[Ivydoom]

Originally posted by Ivydoom:

I would like to request more advanced control UI panels so I can decide how many of a resource to spend on a production building.
It could be quite easy: queue n of production resource (jam cheese and such) and spend x of this and y of that to do so. Not complicated at all!

Any dev response to this please? Will you think about it or is it a no-go at all?

[WaaghMan]

Not that complicated (although UI panels take work), but it can become bit annoying if you have several buildings and each one opens an UI (yes, that's what happens with town shops right now, I know...). Not a priority right now.

[BW]

making jam is not the effective way to obtain medal so no that building in my farm.

[mskitty]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

Not that complicated (although UI panels take work), but it can become bit annoying if you have several buildings and each one opens an UI (yes, that's what happens with town shops right now, I know...). Not a priority right now.

What's annoying is that it gets really expensive as it levels up, my jam maker is level 77 and it takes 260 of each to load it, over 500 fruit is a lot, seems a bit excessive actually for the 13 jam that I get out of it.

[WaaghMan]

The conversion rate is fixed no matter the level.