I have level three farms. Sometimes, I see a field with 1 wheat left. When that wheat is harvested, do I get 3 for the time period from that farm, or just one?
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I have level three farms. Sometimes, I see a field with 1 wheat left. When that wheat is harvested, do I get 3 for the time period from that farm, or just one?
It won't try to harvest it, and will just move on to another wheat field if available, or go into "not enough wheat" mode if no other wheat fields are available. This is just my personal observation from watching the peons work, but it's pretty hard to keep track of those darn critters.
You should be demolishing a field with 1 wheat in it.
I know the peon will go the field and work it, never actually wondered enough to see if the storehouse upgrades by 1 or by 3 tho, but I also have noticed that you can destroy a field and rebuild it and if the timing works out, the peon will take 3 from the newly built field and continue about his merry way. So I assume you get the 3 (using the level 3 farm from the OP)
Demolish it before it gets Exhausted. That way you can collect some mats (materials) off it.
Im kind of interested in the answer to this question
So I was bored enough to watch a farmer harvest the last wheat from a field. The short answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by RawrNoob
Before the last cycle the my wheat was 505.
After the cycle that caused depletion of the wheat field my wheat was 508.
I witnessed a level 3 farmer do the deed.
The long answer
Ok, so here is the setup
I stopped all other farms for at least one cycle. So no other farms were working. (I did it 15 minutes before the Event to make sure)
I stopped all other wheat consuming buildings (Brewery, Stables and Mills)
I watched the settler go from the store house to the farm, to the field, stop back at the farm, and return to the store house.
Before the last cycle the my wheat was 505
After the cycle that caused depletion of the wheat field my wheat was 508
I am going to conclude that the game considers it a full harvest, despite the fact that he only took 1 wheat from the field, resulting in a gain of 3.
2 free wheat. Yippe!
You guys are confused about nothing, simply build more wheat fields than farms, building 1 field per farm is not practical. i have 3 fields per farm, never ran into the 1 wheat situation, and for those gaining 2 free from a field with 1 left!!! hahhahahahha, you stop your chain for 15 minutes and call that a free gain ? as for getting the answer I salute you but don't call it gain :)
I did not mean it was a net by stopping everything, I stopped everything to test what happens (you eliminate all other variables to test the variable you want). The net gain was you get 2 wheat from the last field (which only had 1 remaining but harvested 3). So if i had not stopped everything else I still would have gained the 2 wheat, thus it is a gain when it depletes. That said, i still echo what was said above in that you should destroy a field to get the resources back, instead of letting it deplete.
I liked the test. Its not the two wheat that are important, its finding out what happens. Endlessly curious... Good control of variables. But the problem I have with destroying a resource when it has just one or two things left, I am never watching close enough!
When you destroy something you get 20% of the build costs back. So yes max return would be destroying it with 1 or 2 left. But anything less than 20% is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Verdaeni
Actually you get 25% back - apparently this changed some time ago, without much (any?) fanfare. But hover over the bomb & you'll see. It's rounded down to the nearest whole number. For a farm, the build costs are 40 fwp, 20 stone & 20 tools. Demolishing a farm, (any level), returns 10 fwp, 5 stone & 5 tools. Ratios are consistent across all building types/levels.
And while I've been interested in what happens in this exact scenario many times, I've never taken the time to figure it out, so kudos to you, Evelude. Hope you find a better cure for your boredom in the future. :)
I also refuse to micro-manage resources at the level where I'm waiting for a farm to get to level 1 to demolish it just to reclaim 5 rocks. I'm pretty sure I could come up with 5000 ways to spend my time more productively. Heck, it's probably about time for SportsCenter to start again - watching it for the 9th time would be time better spent.
25% back? Alright, must have missed that changed at some point. I have never really bothered to watch it very closely. I agree with you Hobknocker, watching the 9th round of Sportscenter is probably more productive than waiting for the 1 unit left demolish.
in my defense, it did take what, 2 days for me to be on and paying attention to it closely enough to notice, and I am sure like most of you I replace 20+ fields daily. And yes, sportscenter was on, just in commercial...