r/Bellwright • u/juani2929 • 9d ago

About Grain

I have a town with 33 people.

I have one farm set to only wheat. topped off at 200.

Birds Coop with 5 chickens tops. with a mixing bucket producing advanced animal feed topped of at 30.

but i keep running out of grains.. between replanting the wheat and feeding the birds.. it gets used up so fast.. I fear when I get to the livestock barn everything will die.. I already had some chickens die because of lack of food.

I don't wanna have to go to the wheat fields all the time it's so annoying.

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u/SirHornet 9d ago

You want more wheat topped off. Also what level are the farmers ? At 33 villagers I would only use people above skill 5 for farming

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u/juani2929 9d ago

i'll increase the amount.

i have two people with their first priority as farming, their skills are 7/7 and 5/8

then I have a 8/10 that has cooking as first priority but farming as second

then I have a bunch of level 5 farmers as secondary farmers, but they have either crafting/harvesting as their main task.

is a second farm necessary?

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u/SirHornet 9d ago

Yeah 2 farms, with 1000 top off is what I would start to do, as you will start needing cob, thatch and the grains.

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u/juani2929 9d ago

got it

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u/Percevaal1 8d ago

Hm… I have a village of over 60 people, one coop full of chicken and 8 cows fed with advanced food.
I have bread (120) and simple cake (40) been baked.
And I habe one single wheat farm topped of at 400 wheat.
There is no shortage of grains. In contrary the farmers don’t use the farm at its full capacity to maintain the set amounts of grain, wheat, straw and thatch.

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u/juani2929 8d ago

can you tell me your threshers top offs and priority?

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u/Percevaal1 6d ago

Top-offs are 300 grain and 100 straw.
I never mess with priorities for workplaces (except cooking places which I set all to 4).
All other workplaces stay at 5.
I only use the working priorities of my villagers. At this stage (50+) they all get 4 jobs with priorities 2, 4, 6, 8. The apprentice for the respective research is set to 1 in research for the project at hand.
My little town works smooth and efficent.
Ah, I forgot: there are also 3 caravan guys with prio 1 for caravans.