How to make silage ?

[V.Francis]

Hi
It's been like 1hr i'm trying to figure how to make silage.

I've searched on the internet, someone said that it needs to be 63% grass, 15% crop and 21% straw in the storage.
I've set these values,i have an employee assigned to the storage. No silage is made.

Any idea ?

[Rafał]

No, you don't have to mix anything. Making something from each resource is different process so best idea is to enable one type of input resource (checkbox enabled). Setting production speed to 100% and enabling full efficiency by allowing processing all capacity of that resource by clicking infinity icon.

It could be some king of bug so, please check if
a) there is neededa amount of selected resource in warehouses
b) did assigned employee move that resource to silage processing - inner warehouse
c) did you try reloding your savegame
d) if it still won't work, please, send us your savegame

[V.Francis]

Thank you.

I will try that and give you an update of the situation

[V.Francis]

Okay, i managed to make some silage.
The problem was that i didn't have enough grass (i had 70kg instead of the 100kg requiered to make silage).

Thanks for your help, i'm having a great time playing your game.

[Rafał]

Originally posted by V.Francis:

Okay, i managed to make some silage.
The problem was that i didn't have enough grass (i had 70kg instead of the 100kg requiered to make silage).

Thanks for your help, i'm having a great time playing your game.

Great, nice to hear that :)

[Ultum]

For silage, I usually go around 66% grass, 16% straw and 16% crops. It seems to crank out a nice amount of silage.

[Rafał]

Originally posted by lemansgranprix:

For silage, I usually go around 66% grass, 16% straw and 16% crops. It seems to crank out a nice amount of silage.

But as i said before, each resource makes each one "silage", so at the end you will have silage much slower

[Camzillasmom]

There is an issue with the silage though. I think it's when the grass storage and the silage production buildings are too close together, the silage is stored with the grass in the barn? (I'm currently not in game, so wherever the grass is stored.) Then the silage in the grass storage is not accounted for and the step, where you have to produce 2u of silage can't be ticked off.
I had 450u of silage in the grass storage instead of the silage storage and didnt know how/ if i could move it over. I redid the mission step and placed the silage building further away from grass storage. Then it worked.

[hightechproductions]

I think the issue with the silage is that the Campagin field is SO large that it looks like the farmers are collecting the grass; but really, you have to run it on fast mode for about 15 mins for the farmers to first have to cut it, then pile it up, then bag it up. Playing on the first mission I thought I was doing something wrong as all the other task only took 30 seconds.

[DorLaGon]

i can see in the warehouse of the 'Storage for silage' there are 228k of silage stored in there, and i had assigned worker to it, but it is still not taking the silage to the barn and my animals are not getting any food at all

[Truthowl]

In case an English speaker has trouble understanding what the developer meant. He means you don't need 1 of each of those resources to make silage. Each of those resources by themselves can make silage. I chose to make it out of Grass since that is what I had the most of. Works great. Now to look up what silage is... lol

[hmabboud]

Originally posted by Rafał:

Originally posted by V.Francis:

Okay, i managed to make some silage.
The problem was that i didn't have enough grass (i had 70kg instead of the 100kg requiered to make silage).

Thanks for your help, i'm having a great time playing your game.

Great, nice to hear that :)

I have the same problem as this guy. The silage isnt moved out of the Silage stockpile. Now I do not have space to bring in grass. I have a worker and all.

[Necrophyle]

Originally posted by Dragon:

i can see in the warehouse of the 'Storage for silage' there are 228k of silage stored in there, and i had assigned worker to it, but it is still not taking the silage to the barn and my animals are not getting any food at all

This. Am I missing something on making that silage move out from the facility?

[Robbie Taliban]

You probberly got the silage making at 100%.
You must set it to 50% (the bar).
And let it make 2 silage at a time dont set it to auto(infinte sign)and your worker will make 2 badges of silage in his work time rest of the time he will move the silage to the barn.

If your silage store is full set making silage to make 1 silage at 1% (no infinte sign)now he will make 1 silage in 1 %of his time working so the rest of the time he will start moving the silage out of the silage storage and dropp it in your barn.

Hopes this helps people it works for me.

set up silage
Must have grass off course or 1 of the other resources.
step1 place worker in silage bin
step 2 set it that it makes 2 silage (i use grass only) (will be 160 units)
step3 set the % bar to 50%
so 50% of the time he will make silage other 50%he will move it to barn.

Silage storage full
step1 clear worker
Step2 put worker back
step3 set it to make 1 silage (will be 85 units)
step 4 set the % bar to 1 %
now you will see it go down slowly and it will be transported to your barn because 99% of the work time your worker will be transporting silage .

If you have the problem that the grass wont go to the silage storage the cows are the problem .they will take your grass for food because you dont have silage.
to solve this set feeding cows to manual and exclude them from grass and feed them something else.
or buy a big load of grass

[Bear]

Don't forget to make sure the worker you assigned has good production skills... I am now producing using straw as there doesn't seem to be a need for it for the animals, etc and you can sell grass for 6x the price of straw!!

Crops is another name for chaff - I wasn't paying attention when I had my big field of corn harvested as the 'Auto Fill' selected the forage harvester and I ended up with more 'crops' than I could shake a stick at!!! They have the same value as straw so use them for silage if you end up with shedloads!!