Granary/Grain silo issue

[Röhrls Kater]

By accident I found out today that my Farm setup isn't working proper anymore. The setup looks like this:

Farm >> forklifts >> grain silo >> grain silo

I chained the two grain silos together via factory connection which worked until today (all silos are filled to a certain percentage). Now, it seems to be impossible to attach the second silo to the forklifts as before.

I'm clueless about what's going on here.

[michael.cole]

did you run out of gas in the for lift garage? Also using forklifts on crops??? you gotta be a certain level of crazy to do that! The forklifts are AWFUL for high volume goods like crops. You are actually better off using a truck and moving it across the street than using forklifts.

Just to save your sanity do this:

1. Fill your farms with ONLY harvesters and sowers.
2. Don't attach your silos with the farms
3. Do attach your silos with road cargo depots
4. Build Distribution offices with load orders from the fields and unload orders on the silos' road cargo depot.

This allows you to use fewer farms, faster harvesting, and be able to more easily use more silos.

[Röhrls Kater]

I was not aware of the forklifts awful performances. You kinda never stop learning this game, hehe. So now, I'm gonna take a closer look at your suggestions and try to implement 'em. Thank you very much! And thanks for saving my sanity, haha. :)

[ZILonaut]

@Michael.cole
There is no problem to attach the silo to the farm. You may have a farm with rail connection and the silo has not. But to load the silo is by road loading station and the job has to be done by a distribution office.

[Ernst Cornell]

Originally posted by michael.cole:

did you run out of gas in the for lift garage? Also using forklifts on crops??? you gotta be a certain level of crazy to do that! The forklifts are AWFUL for high volume goods like crops. You are actually better off using a truck and moving it across the street than using forklifts.

Just to save your sanity do this:

1. Fill your farms with ONLY harvesters and sowers.
2. Don't attach your silos with the farms
3. Do attach your silos with road cargo depots
4. Build Distribution offices with load orders from the fields and unload orders on the silos' road cargo depot.

This allows you to use fewer farms, faster harvesting, and be able to more easily use more silos.

this is ideal for large plot farms. which is again the ideal farm setting. it is less ideal for farms with only small plots (more useful in rugged or sloped terrain) since DO have a service limit. in those cases connecting the farm to silos with forklifts is an adequate if not optimal solution. but better yet would be having a huge silo building for annual harvests, like a x4 or x6 size silo, sadly that's only in mods by now

[Onbird]

Also, one thing that isn't obvious (and caused me too to make an error once upon a time) is that a storage building directly connected to another storage building by factory connection doesn't work. Another building needs to either push or pull goods, a plain storage building can do neither. Conveyors are different though, as the conveyor towers do the pushing and pulling.

So "Farm >> Silo >> Forklift >> Silo" would actually work, though it is an inefficient solution for the reasons already stated.

If you want to chain silos for larger capacity, a cableway between them actually works. Cableways can be used as conveyor equivalents for things other than aggregate. Another thing I learned from this forum, don't remember from whom.

[Ernst Cornell]

Originally posted by Konrad von Richtmark:

Also, one thing that isn't obvious (and caused me too to make an error once upon a time) is that a storage building directly connected to another storage building by factory connection doesn't work. Another building needs to either push or pull goods, a plain storage building can do neither. Conveyors are different though, as the conveyor towers do the pushing and pulling.

So "Farm >> Silo >> Forklift >> Silo" would actually work, though it is an inefficient solution for the reasons already stated.

If you want to chain silos for larger capacity, a cableway between them actually works. Cableways can be used as conveyor equivalents for things other than aggregate. Another thing I learned from this forum, don't remember from whom.

using cableways for transporting grain for storage sounds great if a bit too big for the effort. i'd love to see a photo of such setup.