Silo won't hold hay?!

[PenGwenni]

I started the game over after I fizzeled out the fist time I played because of school.
I wanted to get on to of things early so I bought a silo near the first half of spring. I noticed that no mater how much grass I sythe up, I still have zero. I was told that it was a bug. you can only get hay after the first year. So the next year I got a coop and a barn as well as chickens and a cow and bought some hay for the start of spring. Then I demolished my Silo and built a new one and even now when I harvest the grass I still don't get any hay.
My farm is amazing and im almost done with the community center. Plus im married and is only my second year, but I really dont wanna start over..

Any help?

[ffets]

Hod do you cut your grass? You need the scythe, not the sword. When you use it, it shows small hay icons. You can also buy hay and right click the silo with it. Should be stored then.

[timewar]

You can't get hay if you don't have an animal. I'm not sure why it didn't work after you got the animals.

[SilentCaay]

You do know that hay is automatically added ot the silo, right? It doesn't appear in your inventory unless you go to the silo/hay dispenser and pull it out.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by timewar:

You can't get hay if you don't have an animal. I'm not sure why it didn't work after you got the animals.

That's not true, I built and stocked my silo before building my first chicken coop.

OP, I was gonna ask what SilentCaay asked - you won't see the hay in your inventory - go to the silo and right click on it to get a hay count.

[Abalister]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Originally posted by timewar:

You can't get hay if you don't have an animal. I'm not sure why it didn't work after you got the animals.

That's not true, I built and stocked my silo before building my first chicken coop.

OP, I was gonna ask what SilentCaay asked - you won't see the hay in your inventory - go to the silo and right click on it to get a hay count.

You're right. It's a silo you need to be able to stock hay from grass. I filed up four silos before buying any animals.

[PenGwenni]

Originally posted by SilentCaay:

You do know that hay is automatically added ot the silo, right? It doesn't appear in your inventory unless you go to the silo/hay dispenser and pull it out.

I know but no matter how much grass i sythe no little icons appear for hay and when I check my silo it says zero of 240. Im in my second year, I have a barn and a coop, as well as two chickens and a cow. I dont understand why it isnt working.

[SilentCaay]

That sucks. Definitely sounds like a bug, then. I would work around it by either buying fodder and putting it in the silo or just save game edit myself a couple stacks of it, throw as much as will fit into the silo and then put the rest in a chest for later.

[YetiChow]

Crazy idea worth trying only if you don't want to save edit... but perhaps it's your scythe that's bugged rather than your silo? If that's the case, you could go into the caves/forest/anywhere hostile with just that and then take a dive (spend all your money on useful stuff first, you can't lose money you don't have). If you lose the sythe that way, you'll get a new one in the mail and there's a slight chance that could "refresh" it.

If you've already upgraded the scythe though, then I would think that would also refresh it and so it's probably not a problem with the scythe... I honestly don't think this is a likely solution; I only suggest it because it's free and easy to try

I don't know if luck is a factor in how likely you are to get hay; although I have noticed that cutting more grass at once seems to yeild more than cutting sparse tufts. That could just be because the dense grass patches are hard to "count", so there's probably more grass in a small dense patch than a large sparse patch... either way, if you've got some space it can't hurt to let a bunch of grass grow and then try harvesting it on a lucky day. If you do that close to your existing barn or coop then worst-case scenario you at least have a paddock of fresh fodder for your animals, keeping them fed through until winter.

[Abalister]

Originally posted by YetiChow:

Crazy idea worth trying only if you don't want to save edit... but perhaps it's your scythe that's bugged rather than your silo? If that's the case, you could go into the caves/forest/anywhere hostile with just that and then take a dive (spend all your money on useful stuff first, you can't lose money you don't have). If you lose the sythe that way, you'll get a new one in the mail and there's a slight chance that could "refresh" it.

If you've already upgraded the scythe though, then I would think that would also refresh it and so it's probably not a problem with the scythe... I honestly don't think this is a likely solution; I only suggest it because it's free and easy to try

I don't know if luck is a factor in how likely you are to get hay; although I have noticed that cutting more grass at once seems to yeild more than cutting sparse tufts. That could just be because the dense grass patches are hard to "count", so there's probably more grass in a small dense patch than a large sparse patch... either way, if you've got some space it can't hurt to let a bunch of grass grow and then try harvesting it on a lucky day. If you do that close to your existing barn or coop then worst-case scenario you at least have a paddock of fresh fodder for your animals, keeping them fed through until winter.

You can upgrade the scythe?

[PenGwenni]

thanks guys. you've been a big help :D

[Dread Head 444]

Try upgrading the scythe :)

[YetiChow]

Originally posted by Abalister:

You can upgrade the scythe?

TBH I just assumed you could. It would make sense to upgrade it for a larger AoE; but I never really checked.

So far I've only upgraded my pick and axe for game progression (an irridium meteor landed in the middle of the orchard I was laying out, bugged the hell out of me before I could upgrade to a gold pick to clear it lol); and the watering can to copper. But, given that the tools you get later (e.g. the gold pan or milk bucket) are made from the same sorts of materials, it stands to reason they could have upgrade paths. What benefit an irridium milk bucket would give is a tough one to come up with though lol

[Dieforce of Awesome]

OP are you cutting the right kind of hay? You dont want to cut the ones that take up a whole square that only give you fiber. You want to cut the ones that are like smaller looking and more vertical.

[reis.emily.catherine]

I had this same problem too. If you are in the forest farm and the top of your silo is not expose (i.e. it's in the tree cover, the hay will not work. This is easy enough to fix---go to robin, click "construct farm buildings", and at the bottom there is a row of icons. One of them says "move buildings". Move it so the top is exposed and the issue should be fixed.

[PepeMilagro]

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