Tips for Managing Barn and Silo
Hello Farmers
I was recently thinking on more efficient ways to manage my silo and barn! As when they are full my farm tends to go into gridlock and I can't seem to do anything.
I also seem to have so much of one thing and not others! I also at times struggle to keep up with animal feed as their produced quickly and require a large amount of storage if not being used immediately!
It just seems to me that my farm is growing and unfortunately the size of barn and silo is not growing as quickly.. and so I was wondering if anyone has any tips or systems they use to try and keep things balanced and farm functional.
Any tips are appreciated and will be added to the first post in this thread. Also as are any form of expansion materials, so if you are selling any please message me!
#1 barn managemt tip - BE DISCIPLINED ABOUT WHAT YOU BUY
When my barn or silo explodes unexpectedly, the cause is always the same - lots of production (especially animal products) without using the item in machines or dumping in the shop.
Another common cause is an awesome sale in someone's roadside shop. THEN (happens EVERY TIME) - the next page of the paper advertises 10 bolts. In fact, this happened to us last night with a plank --
Fortunately,we were able to dump 10 eggs in the shop and still get the plank :)
If you are disciplined about what you buy, and about moving your silo and animal products into machines and out of the storage, this won't happen to you! :)
I didn't follow this completely
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Originally Posted by
Tiggerr129
One thing I do is that I rarely have more than one or two pieces of ore in the barn. I use my shovels and TNT only when my barn is full and when my smelters need ore. If you do this when the barn is full, you can use a shovel to release 3-4 ores that stay in the mine. Then when you use the next shovel only one goes into the barn but three more stay in the mine. Do this a couple more times and you have made space by using the shovels, tnt etc, only allowed one ore for each tool to go to the barn and then load up the smelter. Sometimes I harvest and egg in-between each shovel, That way all the ore stays in the mine only to be released when the smelters are ready for them. An extra perk is that any diamonds released stay in the mine also and aren't available to be lost by accident.
How many shovels can you use after you have used your TNT? And after your dynamite? Or will shovels substitute for either of these? And how many ores will stack in front of the mine? Thanks.
Thanks for the great tips
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Originally Posted by
meonhoc
There is no restriction on how many shovel can be use on mine. However, there is a fix number of ores you can get from those equipments: dynamite yields 2 ores, TNT 3 ores and shovel 4 ores. You also get better chance with diamond when using shovel. If you stock pile & organize well, you will never have to store more than 3 of each kind of ores in your barn. Here's how I do it:
- make sure my barn is full and I have items (animal product or from machine) ready to collect
- use 1 shovel/dynamite/TNT on mine
- collect something to make barn full again
- back to step 1
I have 5 smelters with 3 slots each. I only pick up ores when there are more than 3 free slots in all smelters.
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Managing the barn is a constant challenge. Thanks for you help.