[Solved] Settlement food farming

[ut]

I plant a lots of tatos, corns and mutfruits in one of my settlements. But for some reason the workshop only has corns and mutfruits and purified water all the time. At first I thought I didn't plant enough so I planted more tatos and assigned farmers but I still don't have tatos in the workshop.

I have 20 settlers, so do I need to plant more than 40 tatos in order to have any harvested?

[DouglasGrave]

From what I recall offhand, settlers consume tatos to cover their food needs before other food types. What you're seeing deposited in the workshop is what the settlement produces after accounting for that consumption.

If you've got multiple settlements linked by provisioners so that they share resources, this may mean that all your connected settlements are eating up the tatos (I've not personally heard of whether the tato preference applies across provisioner networks, but it's possible).

[Bugscuttle]

Lore says that everyone HATES tatoes...but I notice the same thing. Tons of mutfrootz in storage, nary a tato.
What gives?

[ut]

OK, I'll try planting even MORE tatos to see if it fixes my problem.

[Bored Peon]

Your ratio of food crops planted to what is harvested does not matter. The game is going to create X amount of food items into your workshop and randomize it according to what you have planted. You can literally harvest more of a crop type than you planted.

However I usually double up on the tatos anyways.

You should also look into raising happiness because a happy settlement produces more food and consumes less food.

Also get a brahmin for the settlement.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1306866253
For something funny, own no crops and only have brahmin. The bonus food production from brahmin and happiness goes nuts and creates food items in your workshop at random.

[oldrotorhead1]

Settler's crop preference is in alphabetical order - carrots are least desirable, tato the most.
https://youtu.be/_faSkUliYR8

There is also a limit to how many types of crops they can handle (I think it is 4), any more than that will grow and can be picked, but won't be automatically harvested.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by oldrotorhead1:

There is also a limit to how many types of crops they can handle (I think it is 4), any more than that will grow and can be picked, but won't be automatically harvested.

They handle 6 units each. Mutfruit are 1 unit per plant. All others are 1/2 unit per plant. So they can do 12 tato plants per farmer.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by oldrotorhead1:

Settler's crop preference is in alphabetical order - carrots are least desirable, tato the most.

That be reverse alphabetical you mean?

[oldrotorhead1]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

Originally posted by oldrotorhead1:

There is also a limit to how many types of crops they can handle (I think it is 4), any more than that will grow and can be picked, but won't be automatically harvested.

They handle 6 units each. Mutfruit are 1 unit per plant. All others are 1/2 unit per plant. So they can do 12 tato plants per farmer.

I was talking about TYPES of crops: corn, carrot, tato etc.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

OK. But you can grow all 7 types of crops in each settlement. No idea where you got limited to 4.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by oldrotorhead1:

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

They handle 6 units each. Mutfruit are 1 unit per plant. All others are 1/2 unit per plant. So they can do 12 tato plants per farmer.

I was talking about TYPES of crops: corn, carrot, tato etc.

Well in that case your information was wrong.

Scroll up to the screenshot I posted. The game deposited six kinds of food items when doing the food production.

I also previously pointed out that what the game places as production into your workshop is random. So you would need a really big food production to get a full variety of what you planted.

[ut]

I spent another night planting tatos, still nothing.
At sanctuary hills I have 90 units of food, most of which are tatos. And I have only 20 settlers there. Every time I look at the workshop, it contains lots of mutfruits, a few corns, and lots of purified water (nothing else except junks).

Another settlement has lots of tatos too but none in the workshop. So maybe the settlements are really networked? But it was like that even before I had supply lines.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by ut:

I spent another night planting tatos, still nothing.
At sanctuary hills I have 90 units of food, most of which are tatos. And I have only 20 settlers there. Every time I look at the workshop, it contains lots of mutfruits, a few corns, and lots of purified water (nothing else except junks).

Another settlement has lots of tatos too but none in the workshop. So maybe the settlements are really networked? But it was like that even before I had supply lines.

You need to remove the food items and store them in another container.

Since you have 20 settlers you are limited to 30 food items (10 base +1 per settler) in the workshop then production shuts off if the amount in the workshop is over your limit.

Also, yes, when food is eaten it will consume all the tatos in the settlement first, then it will draw tatos from other settlements to consume if they have any available.

[*Logan*]

Originally posted by ut:

OK, I'll try planting even MORE tatos to see if it fixes my problem.

You could always I dunno, PICK the plants yourself from your settlement plantations.

I figured that was obvious but it seems you need a reminder.

Everytime I need to craft I go to my settlements, pick all the plants, craft tons of adhesive and move on. Why are you waiting for a deposit?

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by *Logan*:

You could always I dunno, PICK the plants yourself from your settlement plantations.

I avoid picking the plants manually because it seems to really screw with your production cycle.

[*Logan*]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by *Logan*:

You could always I dunno, PICK the plants yourself from your settlement plantations.

I avoid picking the plants manually because it seems to really screw with your production cycle.

It doesn't.

I pick everything, go do a quest, come back, and it's all grown back.
Settlement is 13 most are farmers.
The key is MORE farmers. MOAR!