Agriculture/Fertilizers & Field Values

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
Hay	-	-	-	▲(Crop)
Wood Choppings	▽	-	-	-
Lime	-	▲	-	-
Humus	-	▲	-	▲
Coal	-	-	▲	-
Clay	-	-	▽	▲
Dross	-	▽	▲	-
Crown Manure	-	▲	▲	▲
Turkey Droppings	-	-	▲	▲

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)

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