saltworks

[HOUSE_D]

So I built the saltworks and drug two oxen to it. They loaded 5000 firewood and water and hay to the building but I have yet to see any production going on. There are two workers right now. What am I missing?

[HOUSE_D]

Also it says no draft animals even though I put ntwo oxen there.

[wordchutney]

How old are your oxen? They have to be 1 year to work.
Also, are you seeing the brine stored bar filling with blue? When it's full, you'll start seeing salt.

[allxander]

Originally posted by HOUSE_D:

Also it says no draft animals even though I put ntwo oxen there.

If it says "no draft animals" this is the reason for it not working. You need to go to the cowshed and drag and drop 1+ year old ox into the saltworks until blue dotted line appears. In the cowshed after successful operation the status of the ox changes to "relocating".

P.S. I suppose you know that but just in case - you actually need 2 oxen.

[HOUSE_D]

I have two oxen in there. They are no longer showing in the cowshed and yes they are a year old. The bar never starts filling. I don't know how I could get the oxen out of the saltworks to put them back in and try again. The path turned blue when I dragged and dropped them on the saltworks.

[Claybot]

Originally posted by HOUSE_D:

I have two oxen in there. They are no longer showing in the cowshed and yes they are a year old. The bar never starts filling. I don't know how I could get the oxen out of the saltworks to put them back in and try again. The path turned blue when I dragged and dropped them on the saltworks.

Slaughter the oxen (check off the box next to them) replace.

But you shouldn't have to, sounds like something else is going on.

[Bjørn]

If everything is in place, it should work.

Observe your workers in there for a while, and see what they do. Maybe hire a few more. 2 should be fine, though, but there may be issues with their way to work or something...

Good luck anyway. Frustrating when someone has problems where there should be none...


One thing I tend to do with most production buildings, including the saltworks:

Uncheck workers to supply materials to the building. Use only labourers for that (and carts and wagons if you have). This way the workers will spend their workdays producing things instead of hauling.

Set the labourer salary a bit higher than average since it's an animal building. Run out of food or water, they die.

I play with a large pool of unemployed though (15-25% unemployment), to carry out all the labourer tasks, so this method might not work for all.

[HOUSE_D]

Originally posted by Claybot:

Originally posted by HOUSE_D:

I have two oxen in there. They are no longer showing in the cowshed and yes they are a year old. The bar never starts filling. I don't know how I could get the oxen out of the saltworks to put them back in and try again. The path turned blue when I dragged and dropped them on the saltworks.

Slaughter the oxen (check off the box next to them) replace.

But you shouldn't have to, sounds like something else is going on.

I can't check the box to slaughter them cause they don't show up in my cowshed and I don't see them at the saltworks.
Its like they vanished

[HOUSE_D]

ok new development. It was showing no draft animals when i logged in and a little bit later all of the sudden it showed ox 1 year. It only shows one but production is happening as there is salt in the saltworks.

[wordchutney]

Originally posted by HOUSE_D:

ok new development. It was showing no draft animals when i logged in and a little bit later all of the sudden it showed ox 1 year.

It sounds like your ox aged to 1 year and thus qualified to work. Check the age of your other ox. Happy salt making (it makes for a lucrative trade good).

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by HOUSE_D:

ok new development. It was showing no draft animals when i logged in and a little bit later all of the sudden it showed ox 1 year. It only shows one but production is happening as there is salt in the saltworks.

Strange, but if it works it works... I have a feeling something is not as it should, though. It shouldn't produce with only 1 draft animal.

It can also take a while from you 'drag and drop' the animals to the saltworks. A free worker in the cowshed will take it to the saltworks, but I don't think it has high priority. I've waited a few weeks or even months (in-game time!) sometimes for the oxen to finally arrive.

[HOUSE_D]

Well a little while after that the other ox showed up in there. Now I can see them in the building. Thanks for the help though guys.

[Sterling ARCHER]

I had a similar issue but with horses - saltworks wasn't producing anything so I tried to drag both horses back to the stable, and then one of them got stuck behind, and brine started to flow

[7vencedor]

Originally posted by HOUSE_D:

ok new development. It was showing no draft animals when i logged in and a little bit later all of the sudden it showed ox 1 year. It only shows one but production is happening as there is salt in the saltworks.

Just an FYI as I guess you see both animals already in - 1 animal is enough, but works slowly. Waiting time of new animal reaching to Saltworks depends on # of workers in cowshed (the more - the faster they will move animal). If you click on employees one by one you'll see that someone is busy with bringing animal to saltworks - you can track him along the road on a map. Also once they will reach 10 y.o. don't forget to kill it for food & replace with younger one (otherwise you'll lose extra benefits from cow)