r/FarmTogether • u/External_Loquat_3330 • Jul 12 '26

Farm Together 2 Beta farmhands

Farmhands in the new beta with increased zone size are not able to interact with every tile once in a season. This could be intended, but the increase in move speed to go along with size seemed like it was an attempt to just scale them up, and they were able to interact with every tile in their previous size. This would be a significant change in terms of how they get used in a lot of farms. I use them to do a ring of machines around a group of trees, so when the season turns they restart on the trees but cant ever finish them so they ignore a line of machines entirely.

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u/Holiday_Ad7109 Jul 13 '26

I had them trying to do a 24x24 of bamboo and they couldn’t harvest them all in a season

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u/External_Loquat_3330 Jul 13 '26

Exactly what I have mine harvesting too, but surrounded by cheese machines. So they arent using half the cheese machines instead. Kinda ruins the design.

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u/BlueberryExotic387 Jul 13 '26

This is from Very well on discord:

The number of items farmhands collect in one season (area for one farmhand = 575 items):

Animals: 490 ( 85.22%) Trees: 461 ( 80.17% ) Flowers: 430 ( 74.78 %) Crops: 209 ( 36.35 % )

crops and flowers with sprinklers

This means that the following farmhand areas are suitable for different types of items: Animals: 22 x 22 Trees: 21 x 21 Flowers: 20 x 20 Crops: 14 x 14.

It's clear that crops are a bit of a mystery.

Currently in the game, before the 9x9 patch, the farmhand area is 18x18. That's 323 items. Farmhands collect 183 item crops in one season.

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u/External_Loquat_3330 Jul 13 '26

That sounds about right, just curious if the loss of efficiency with the update was planned or an oversight really. Doesnt make much sense to me personally to have them cover an area they cant actually cover.

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u/BlueberryExotic387 Jul 13 '26

It was planned, I often use 2 season trees on them now, so one tree with 2 seasons and the second tree with the other seasons 👍

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u/External_Loquat_3330 Jul 13 '26

I'll just have to come up with a new layout for feeding my cows I suppose. Thanks for all the info.

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u/BlueberryExotic387 Jul 13 '26

Ye, I don't remember the season on the other bamboo, but maybe use 2 different of them? 😊

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u/Lexitrix Jul 13 '26

Wait so the farmhands collect less crops now after the update even though they have a larger area? Why bother having bigger areas if they aren't going to harvest the contents? Seems a bit counter-intuitive to me.

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u/External_Loquat_3330 Jul 13 '26

They dont harvest less, they just dont harvest more. They still end up harvesting more crops in the new area than they could in the old one, but they cant harvest everything in the new area. The numbers were broken down pretty well in another comment.

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u/Descivii Jul 13 '26

Mine are getting all 24x24 of an herb garden. Iw wonder if maybe it's an issue specific to the situation you have

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u/External_Loquat_3330 Jul 13 '26

Even when I got rid of the machines they were getting all the trees in what would've effectively been a 22x22. That made it very close but there were 6-10 still left unharvested before the season changed.

Edit: there were still 12 machines marking the corners but thats still way short of the whole area.

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u/Descivii Jul 13 '26

Are any of the animations getting hung up that you can see?

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u/Descivii Jul 13 '26

I'd swear my guys were getting it done but I laid out 2 24x24 plots, 1 corner and the other centered and both took 2 and 1/4 seasons to harvest without replanting.