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Fertilizers & Field Values
You should fertilize right after you plant as you can no longer fertilize after crops are harvestable.
Each value has a specific effect on the field:
- Upkeep: This reduces the amount of Humus needed to prepare a field as well as reduces the amount of seeds needed to replant the field. The values after calculating for upkeep are base quantity * (Upkeep/100) This value has a bottom cap of 50%. Adding Wood Choppings to the field improves the upkeep by lowering the Upkeep value. Example: a field at 50% Upkeep will require 3 Humus to prepare and 25 Seeds of Grain to plant where as 100% upkeep requires 5 humus and 50 seeds.
- Plenty: This value increases the yield of a field when harvested. Currently, planting a field provides a random amount plenty from 0% to a percentage equal to the planter's Stocks & Cultivars/100. The S&C bonus doesn't effect the fertilizer stacking penalty.
- Speed: This value reduces the growth time of the field. Currently, the field advances one stage every 24 hours and may be harvested after four days after planting. Example: a field at 200% speed should gain a stage of growth every 12 hours (needs testing for verification).
- Influence: This value increases the amount of gain of the four output meters. Boosting this will speed the field to higher tiers of crops faster.
Fertilizer Type | Upkeep | Plenty | Speed | Influence |
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Hay | - | - | - | ▲(Crop) |
Wood Choppings | ▽ | - | - | - |
Lime | - | ▲ | - | - |
Humus | - | ▲ | - | ▲ |
Coal | - | - | ▲ | - |
Clay | - | - | ▽ | ▲ |
Dross | - | ▽ | ▲ | - |
Crown Manure | - | ▲ | ▲ | ▲ |
After a field is harvested, all fertilizers are reset and each field loses 5% upkeep. For example, if I keep my field at 50% upkeep each time I plant them, when I replant, they will then lose upkeep value and then be at 55% upkeep.
Finally, the more fertilizers used on a field, the less effective next fertilizer becomes. Each fertilizer counts as one, so a Wood Chopping, a Coal, a Humus, and a Clay counts as four fertilizers, which would be the same reduction as using four Humus. (Note: the exact calculation isn't known.)
Note on cotton: It takes 10 clean cotton to produce a single cotton sheet, this can be achieve by a single field with approximately 200% plenty value.(click image below for larger version)