how to build farms?

[Squashie]

i can make a district for it but on a fertile land but nothing gets built.

[sdarkpaladin]

You need to zone industrial

[desertrose0601]

I haven't done this yet, but I believe you have to zone a bit of industrial in that region. Instead of factories then, it'll build farm buildings.

[Squashie]

I did. nothing happened. Do I need more demand for industrial maybe?

[sheiky]

Originally posted by exxDUDExx:

I did. nothing happened. Do I need more demand for industrial maybe?

Probably. It does work, I tried it in my own game. I got farm buildings but no fields, unfortunately.

[spark.milanders]

I eventually got fields when I had a large area zoned Industrial and the district set to agriculture. One field looked nice and had a fence and animals inside, another field was just bright yellow green. What I'm wondering is do these farm industry areas need to be right on top of the fertile land? Or do you just need fertile land in the zone?

[sheiky]

Originally posted by spark.milanders:

I eventually got fields when I had a large area zoned Industrial and the district set to agriculture. One field looked nice and had a fence and animals inside, another field was just bright yellow green. What I'm wondering is do these farm industry areas need to be right on top of the fertile land? Or do you just need fertile land in the zone?

That's good to know that you eventually get fields although it seems backwards that you need a high population to unlock it. I'd like to be able to build something like that from the beginning to avoid polluting everything with factories.

[Squashie]

Originally posted by sheiky:

Originally posted by spark.milanders:

I eventually got fields when I had a large area zoned Industrial and the district set to agriculture. One field looked nice and had a fence and animals inside, another field was just bright yellow green. What I'm wondering is do these farm industry areas need to be right on top of the fertile land? Or do you just need fertile land in the zone?

That's good to know that you eventually get fields although it seems backwards that you need a high population to unlock it. I'd like to be able to build something like that from the beginning to avoid polluting everything with factories.

So does it depend on population, fertile land or both?

[Caz]

Originally posted by spark.milanders:

I eventually got fields when I had a large area zoned Industrial and the district set to agriculture. One field looked nice and had a fence and animals inside, another field was just bright yellow green. What I'm wondering is do these farm industry areas need to be right on top of the fertile land? Or do you just need fertile land in the zone?

If you have a district that is specialized in something and it's not directly on top of the natural resource, it will populate the industry squares with related industry. For example, lumber mills, oil refineries, iron smelters. I haven't done anything with agriculture yet, though. I assume it will behave the same way, perhaps populating butcher shops and farmer's markets.

[Gentoo]

I like that I can name all the Cows and Pigs after my friends.