because you can use ox skill for force them to finish it almost instantly. so if you have 2 grain farm nearby and use the skill you can get 120 grain everyday.

Because by the late game you are swimming on resources.

I always have lime powder to spare and bones from butchers being collected since the very start of the game (I am also a Rat serial killer, lots of corpses to get bones from without burning, I just let them rot on their own).

Quick example: I can keep 6 smelters (ingot makers) and 4 farms running at the same time. Still have lime powder to spare with the use of 3 - 4 grinders. I was trying a full 10 mint build (not worth it, but is a discussion for another day).

Another good reason it's blocking the consumption of grain and turning it into flour for your bakers to make bread. You will get a LOT of flour, so you don't need your grain farms to work faster. I even only use a single grain farm for my 3 - 4 bakers. My kingdoms are mostly feed by meat, better food resource in my opinion.

Originally posted by end_game_13:

The second recipe is 3000 work units, 4 water, 4 bone dust for 30 grain

The Third recipe is 6000 work units, 8 water, 8 dust, and two lime powder for 60 grain

Why would you use the third recipe and waste two lime powders?

I guess if you had lots of lime around and nothing smart to use them on? Its good to have options, but I agree since bones are an easy replenishable resource it seams to be that the 2nd recipe will usually be the one to go for.

The Ox trick Zelon mentioned sounds interesting though :). Did not get to use it yet. Sounds cool :).

I still haven't survived much more than a year and am trying to avoid what I guess you could call spoilers, but I did want to confirm this. The farms are supposed to produce 30 wheat? Because I've followed the farm workers multiple times and they pick up 8 drops of water, bring it to the farm, work for a bit, then deliver 3 wheat to the food supply then pick up 8 new drops of water. So to me it seems like 8 drops of water gets 3 wheat or am I missing something? Is wheat getting dropped somewhere and other rats gradually deliver it? Right now farms don't seem to produce enough food to even feed their farmers. You get five meat just for butchering a rabbit, much better return.

Originally posted by dedreamer428:

I still haven't survived much more than a year and am trying to avoid what I guess you could call spoilers, but I did want to confirm this. The farms are supposed to produce 30 wheat? Because I've followed the farm workers multiple times and they pick up 8 drops of water, bring it to the farm, work for a bit, then deliver 3 wheat to the food supply then pick up 8 new drops of water. So to me it seems like 8 drops of water gets 3 wheat or am I missing something? Is wheat getting dropped somewhere and other rats gradually deliver it? Right now farms don't seem to produce enough food to even feed their farmers. You get five meat just for butchering a rabbit, much better return.

If your farmers are low on strength skill and have no other boni to carry capacity, they might very much only be able to carry 3 wheat at the same time. They should do multiple trips until the building is empty of wheat though.

Rabbit meat is indeed really strong, but you can put farms anywhere.