shed help

[person]

I need personal advice for how to organize my sheds. So in my new save, I'm in the middle of constructing some sheds. I have one shed pretty much directly in front of the farmhouse, and two sheds to the left of the greenhouse. below the greenhouse are my animals.

I was planning on keeping my chests and furnaces, crystalariums, and stuff in sheds, and I thought I would put my artisan stuff there too. I wasn't sure if it would all fit in the same shed, or if I should use 2 and put them separately? I need advice please

[tes]

I have all of my mashines for making mayo and cheese and wool in one, then the furnaces etc. in another one, it works very well for me. maybe try to move your sheds closer together ?

[NBOX21]

I have a whole bunch of furnaces for smelting ore in one shed, a bunch of crystalariums in another and one shed full of wood chippers.

There are a few ways you can better organise or manage your sheds - you can place signs right outside the sheds so you know what they're for before you go inside and others can even see what they're for when you share a screenshot of your whole farm, you could try grouping them together if you find keeping track of where they are difficult, and, as of the 1.5 update, sheds can now be repainted so you can change their colours according to their purpose. My furnace shed uses flame colours, for example.

But in the end, it's all up to you to decide what to do with them and what goes inside.

[person]

thanks for the advice! I think i'll do something similar and put my mayo, cheese, and wool machines in one shed and then the other stuff in another

[wilky]

I usually do one of two things with my Machines: sometimes I will put them inside their respective barn/coop (probably also with one chest, etc). This is nice on farm layouts where space is kinda limited, and you maybe don't want 20 machines sitting outside on the farm.

However on one of my farms, I decided to construct my "fences" out of the Machines, and I actually found this to be an elegant solution to the whole "fences degrade over time" predicament, because Machines never degrade haha, and it's pretty convenient to click them as I'm running on by throughout the day. (I would add a couple fence posts + gate in a few locations also, to get inside.)

[person]

oh wow. i never even thought of that lol. maybe i'll try it

[Bobywan]

I got bored of doing things manually so I use the automate and better chests mods which means any adjacent machine to a chest will automatically grab the requested items in the chest and put the result in the same chest. I dont need that much furnace cheese and mayonnaise maker that way and I can check the content of chests at a distance with the better chest mod.

My sheds contain 100% kegs for the first one and 100% casks the next 3. I dont event need to have space between machines with this mod and dont even need to enter the shed, just check the content of the chests.