Rebuilding with new materials

[Arahael]

If you repair your home and mill, is there a difference between Wet and Dry boards, or between different types of wood?
They all look the same colour (pine).

[Tazmo]

I'm not positive with the 1.0 version but during early access they said you could not paint over wet wood. You had to use dry planks. But they never let us paint in early access so who knows.

[MockerE]

they never got around to actually requiring dry wood for anything other than the furniture factory.

[Tazmo]

Yeah your aunt, in the very beginning, tells you you need dried planks to build and James says you need to use dried planks and the game tips also say to use dried planks but everyone uses wet planks. I haven't tried to paint over wet planks yet so I cant say yes or no there. You would think the Dev's would take more pride in the product they created. For the most part, it plays OK but it is disappointing to see what we ended up with. Still hoping they improve it though.

[Arahael]

So, it seems it makes sense to use the cheapest wet planks (pine) for rebuilding your house and mill as well as James's quests and the more expensive planks for drying and selling.

[Tazmo]

Originally posted by Arahael:

So, it seems it makes sense to use the cheapest wet planks (pine) for rebuilding your house and mill as well as James's quests and the more expensive planks for drying and selling.

I just repaired the house and mill as it then looks rustic. During early access I used wet planks and it just looked bad, no secondary trim colors, just one flat color everywhere.

[MockerE]

once you buy the furniture factory, you can repaint the replaced wood. I wish there was customization of the trim, though.

[tazman1]

has anyone noticed an increase in efficency when rebuilding. I rebuilt the entire barn and was getting on average 50 eggs a day from maxed out hens, however my cows were still producing around 23 milk on average. Before rebuildingthe barn I was getting around 23 milk from maxed out cows and 45-48 eggs. But after about a week it seems that my hens went back to 48 eggs so not sure if just lucky on RNG or if there was an actual benifit aside from painting the barn to make it look nice eventually

[Merck]

Improving the livestock buildings was a way to increase output in Farmer's Dynasty, & I think it is even mentioned in at least one of the "splash screen" messages as the game starts up.

[tazman1]

it is mentioned in the splash screen on load and it is even mentioned by your aunt. I am curious as to wether or not its been implemented since I seem to not see any benifit as of yet. Though I am still waiting on my green house to rebuild that.

[Merck]

Did you repair the building first? That is where the biggest improvement arrives (FD was that way). Some of use suggested that repairing the building should give a big bump to production, but the actual rebuilding with new materials should do the final improvements to production.

There is really no way to test the production prior to repairing the structures, so its really hard to say how much production was prior to any fixing.

But its similar to how fixing opens the sawmill to cutting planks, & the other sawmill complex. Still it would be nice to see an improvement once players fully rebuild their buildings. Even a small increase to production would justify the added rebuilding. Else, other than cosmetics, there is no real reason to do anything other than repairing.

[wuuif]

lol i have over 150 hours and i never used dried planks for working just to sell and for sure i can paint all buildings

[Zuleica]

Originally posted by tazman1:

it is mentioned in the splash screen on load and it is even mentioned by your aunt. I am curious as to wether or not its been implemented since I seem to not see any benifit as of yet. Though I am still waiting on my green house to rebuild that.

I don't think it's been implemented. I forgot to update to new wood part of the chicken area and it still produced 2-3 eggs, not more. Just more omitted content, VERY annoying.

[Merck]

Once again I believe the biggest (& maybe only improvement) is when the building is first repaired. So unless someone can get some livestock before they do any work on the buildings, & then see what their production is. Then we can compare that to what the production changes after repairing.

If this game follows the same practice as FD, then there is no further increase to production after upgrading the building with new materials.

This subject has been discussed in the past, & even I have suggested that there should be a bit more increase in production after the building is fully upgraded. A noticeable improvement after repairing building, but then the final increase after the upgrading is done.

[Shawn]

fully upgrading the barn does not increase production despite what the game says, the game also says we have lvl 3 cooking and mechanic skills but none of those work either Lol honestly this game needs to go back to Beta/EA and finish adding in the content and fixing all the bugs, Its seriously in no condition to be labelled as a "fully released" game

[Merck]

The game states that repairing the buildings improves the production rates. Same as repairing the sawmill opens the option to create planks, or repairing the driers improves their performance, etc..

Upgrading is purely cosmetic.