How long will items stay on the ground not being picked up? How many items can you have pile up at the base of the production equipment? Thank you in advance for an answer!
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How long will items stay on the ground not being picked up? How many items can you have pile up at the base of the production equipment? Thank you in advance for an answer!
I think it will stay there until you move it. It is a way to store products when your barn is full. There may be a limit to how many can pile up, but I think it's pretty big.
I think they'll stay there indefinitely. I've used the ground as storage when my barn gets full, but it gets tricky. As soon as you have any free spots, it's very easy to accidentally pick something up. I read somewhere else that you can have up to 10 items next to each machine, but I think I might have had more at one time. Can anyone confirm the number?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luap1st
It will SHOW up to 9 items bouncing around, but you can store many more. I've never hit a limit, and I do this all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by SueDL
Hrmm... this makes me want to experiment to find out if there is one... To the bakery!
You can store up to 99 items in front of each machine.
WOW!!!! Really??? Have you done it before? That would take a lot of patience and planning. I'm curious...Quote:
Originally Posted by thrasher
Buried deep in this forum there was a post explaining in detail how to store 99 items at each production machine. I'm not sure why you would want to do that, but it is here somewhere.
I usually pile up ores outside my mine till I know I have them in the 90s. Once your barn is full, use a shovel/tnt/dynamite and pick up another item (not ore obviously) to get the barn full again. Repeat. This allows me to use up extra mining tools and free up some barn space.Quote:
Originally Posted by SueDL
We can no longer stack 99 items outside a machine after the recent update. I haven't tested this so I am not sure. But this was discussed in the feedback thread and a couple of people reported it as a bug in the "bugs and issues" section after the update as they weren't able to queue items in spite of the production slots being empty. They were asked to pick up the items and after a certain nos of items picked up, the machines started to accept materials. So, there has been a change in the number of items that can be stacked outside the machine but I am not sure about the number.
I have ground stored at least 99 items for feed mills before the machine shut down and said PRODUCTION QUEUE FULL. It happens at least once or twice a day for me since I keep one mill dedicated to chicken feed. I've also maxed out the juicer, BBQ grill & bread oven, but I think the max number of item was around 50, though I can't swear to the exact number on those.
The limit was decreased with the fishing update. It is now 51.Quote:
Originally Posted by thrasher
Thanks for confirming!Quote:
Originally Posted by MarySC
I tested this last night with bread loaves in the bakery, I also got to 51 before the machine shut down.
Wait so I'm actually wasting tools by trying to stack up 90+ ores? :eek: I've not noticed because I've never ran out as I keep blowing up the mine after I use 20-30 ores. This sucks if I have been wasting all those precious shovels. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by MarySC
It would make more sense to store them as bars, wouldn't it? 99 bars equals 297 ore of each type potentially stored.Quote:
Originally Posted by frozenn
When I say I 'store' ore, it's not in my barn. I mean I store them outside my mine which does not take up barn space.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Yes, I understood what you meant. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by frozenn
You can store the completed bars on the ground outside your smelters the same way you do with your mine.
So if you can only store 51 "objects", it makes more sense to store 51 bars instead of 51 pieces of ore because each bar consumes 3 ore.
Yes, of course. But it is harder to coordinate my barn full counter with the smelters. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
I keep getting the "Production queue full" message when I try to make more popcorn, but I don't think I have 51 popcorns piled up. Has the limit decreased with the new update?
Great thread...I thought I was going crazy! I knew it was lowered! Happy Hay Daying all!
I think the limit is still 51 after the most recent update. I have not counted exactly but that is what it feels like.
I am one of those people who stores lots of items "on the ground" rather than in the barn. It *really* increases the effective size of your barn. Think about it--51 slots times 6 or so machines for which this is practical gives you another 300 slots, which is a substantial chunk of barn (unless you have built up to one of those 3000 slot super-barns, in which case it is only another 10%).
The machines to which I apply this practice are feed mills, jam maker, juice maker, popcorn maker, mine, and smelters. The trick is to continuously make a variety of things so that when a new demand comes up (such as a boat order), you don't have to dig through the entire mountain to find exactly what you want. Many people segregate their ores to particular smelters so that their metal bars come out pre-sorted.
~powdermonkey
Being a fairly new player can you explain how you go about storing items on the ground? When I have something finished cooking it just automatically goes into my barn when I click on it.
Your barn has to be completely full Susan and then things stack in front of machines
Ah thank you. I'm gonna try that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cazzabee
Just remember as soon as you start using items from your barn to make other items then that will clear space and items will go into your barn. I think most people use easy, quick to produce items like bread or chicken food to keep their barns full
Exactly. I have times during the day where I find I am harvesting a lot of animal products, so I will produce all the food I will need and pick it up, then start harvesting milks, eggs, wool, bacon until my barn is full. Then I will just go back and forth between the machine I'm working on, and an animal item, and back and forth each time. It only adds a few second to the process, and when you are done, you can dump the 60 or so bags of food onto the animals and have a good chunk of free space available again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cazzabee
I will test with bread today to verify the amount you can store on the ground.
This reminds me that I have been wondering what is the best way to queue feed. At the moment I have one feed machine devoted to chicken and the other for the other animals and try and judge who will need what next. So I might queue up 4 cow, 2 pig 2sheep etc and then find I have misjudged and I need pig food buried at the bottom. Do people mix it up on both feeders at once instead so that nothing is too far buried?Quote:
Originally Posted by powdermonkey
I have one that makes cow feed all the time, and I let it pile up during the day. The other machine alternates between pig feed and chicken feed during the day, and then goat feed at night while I sleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franacropan
I will occasionally rotate sheep feed in there, but don't usually bother to make sheep food because I find it easier to just buy the wool which is always in abundance on the shops.
Ah, good way if doing it. Never thought of doing goat and sheep overnight. Thanks.
Did you count? My number is 53 but I probably be able to load the queue before the pile get to the 51th.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Not yet, still in process. I had a full barn and was making bread last night, then I got THE VERY LAST BOLT I needed to upgrade to 1,000. I was so excited I didn't even think and immediately upgraded! Giving me over 130 free space... :p so now I have to fill those back up this morning before I can continue with the bread. Sorry!Quote:
Originally Posted by meonhoc
Okay, confirmed it with the bread. I was able to store 53 pieces outside the machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Nice, thanks for sharing.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Does anyone know how many items can we store next to the lure and net maker? It seems less than 53.
I already had lures next to the machine before the update (not many though and I have fished after the update allowing to store more lures in the box) and today I got the message that production queue was full, but I do not believe I have 53 already.
I'll test this out for you, but it will take a couple of days. I have to blow out my existing equipment and then making 50+ works will take a while...Quote:
Originally Posted by drdolittle
Lol. Thanks. I started it but could not stop producing lures because I got a boat...Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
To be honest it is this OCD thing, I would see the machine idle and could not not produce. So THANKS!!!
BTW, I would not be able to handle your sig's challenge.;)
I've never been able or understood how to do this (stack outside the machine). I guess because whenever I get the message "barn is full" when picking things up, I make room in the barn by using or selling things. I'm still not sure I understand how it works:
• what do you do if you need to pick up food to feed animals and you can't because the barn is full?
•What happens to prizes that drop or gifts from townies if barn is full?
Tools from harvesting do not happen while your barn is full. Always make sure you have one space empty when you go harvesting.
Animal feed plays an important part in the "barn dance". You don't start with your barn full, you fill it on purpose, preferably with enough animal feed to feed all animals, particularly your cows. After taking that much feed out of your feed mill, your barn should be full or nearly full. You now start milking (or taking eggs or bacon), until your barn IS full. Now you fill all pipelines that take ingredients from the silo only, like sugar mill, juicer, jam maker, feed mill etc. Red pop corn and bread can also be loaded now. In a second step, you start with the other pipelines, those that take ingredients from the barn, for example the dairy. For those machines you have to refill the barn after every slot you fill, by milking, for example. When all pipelines are loaded, you go and feed your lying cows and chicken with the feed that is already in your barn. After they are fed, you have a lot of free space in you barn again.
Filling a machine with unmixed red popcorn or bread is easy. But if you want to do several things in your machine and you want to stack a lot, either plan a mixed sequence or note down what you programmed. Otherwise you might have forgotten what's in the pile in front of the juicer, as you can only see the first 9 items coming out of the machine. I work with sequences, much easier, but it takes some experience to know what you might be needing in 2 days.
happy farming
Greebie
a) Queue 1 product which needs 3 ingredients from the barn ORQuote:
Originally Posted by MizKitty
b) Feed 1-3 animals
After either of these actions you will have 3 free spaces in your barn and can pick 1 feed.
Stacking works better when you plan ahead.
- Have some feed and ingredients in your barn. Optionally: Harvest the crops needed for the products you'll queue before filling your barn, or you won't get the possible materials you get from this action
- Pick enough animal products to fill the rest of your barn.
- Queue all the products that don't use barn ingredients (jam, juices, sugars, soy sauce)
- Now queue ONE product. This will free some spaces in your barn. Fill the spaces with feed or more ingredients and queue another product. Repeat this step until you've queued all the desired products
- Feed the animals. Now you'll have as many free spaces as the number of animals feed in this step (plus the spaces of the last product you queued).
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Originally Posted by MizKitty
- You don't need free space in your barn to pick up townie prizes. Also items from chests, wheel of fortune, bait fishing, event prizes, discount globes and gift cards don't need any free space.
- Prizes from pets need free space.
- Actions related to the normal operation of your farm (harvesting, picking products from the machines and the animals, picking ores from mine, cutting trees and bushes) will periodically drop materials, but only if you have the free space required.
- Fun fact: you can stack prizes from townies too! You can serve any townie by selecting his name from the town hall. In this way you don't have to click the served townies before doing so.