Farthest Frontier: Hardest difficulty tips and tricks FOOD (part 1/3) 

Happy to hear that! And right you are - almost never have a chance to be among the first :D

Heh, thank you! Timerborn is another great game I'm silently checking upon when to get back and play the hell out of it :D

That map seems to be a perfect to build up your strategies and confidence ;) Step by step until you'll find yourself in the middle of extreme difficulty handling it like a piece of cake! :D

Happy to help!

No problem! Happy to help fellow gamer!

Many thanks!!

This is why I would advise deer spot! Also the trick with fence, and you can get as much and even higher meat rate, lower risk depleating (especially the 7 deer spots) and no running away/ attacking your civilians ;)

A lot of points :D Will try to number them: 1) one hunter can eliminate deer spot - not only the hunter cabin must be near, but also household, then there will be little to no time for anything else and deers will die faster than they respawn 2) I would say that was part of the idea - you have 0 fertility and you deal with that without clover crops, but yea, this can but said like you did as well! And then on top of that - fertility drops by huge amount every year, so there is no point to even think and try to fight it! 3) Half yield fields will not generate more outcome than full yield fields because they have to use clover fertility regenerating crops in between - count in the fact on fertile land you can use high fertility dependent corps with way higher overall yields ;) 4) There is no impact - fertility goes down drastically and stays at zero - first 1-2 years you will have a bit above 0% fertility but that's it 5) This should be tested on high fertility land - I think it's unbalanced game mechanics that currently allows you to manage 4/7 worker fields with no impact at all We need many more patches and updates to even understand which is bugs and which parts are unfinished mechanics but intended to work! :D I'll keep and eye, thank you for the comment and ideas!

On medium difficulty one hunter with a bit of distance (not as much as in Mariss video) can farm up to 5 deer in a single year per spot. I guess with less distance it might be able to hunt more and eventually extinct those deer in the end, especially considering harder difficulties.

Also, cannot confirm if intentional or bug, but I got a situation with 1 deer where respawn is already off. I think it's intentional - as in Barn if you purchase just 1 cow, there will be no herd grow. Kind of logical, but that put's 7 deer spot in danger as only 5 can be hunted!

So far nothing seem to work and keep the fertility up, but you get some cool ideas - thank you for that! I'm jumping back in to test few more aspects (so far without no luck) :D

Yup and you will not see many :D They only PROCESS garbage, not create them, so you need as much as your people produce. I'm currently on 400+ inhabitants and just a bit above 2 collectors (built my 3rd but it's not 100% used).

This was an earlier bug they tried to fix - we all had those crazy psycho hunters that just hunted whole pack just for sport :D I'm wondering if this bug is still stuck with you or game version from the past?

@@MLMariss its 8.1 luckily over time spawn point slowly moved out of the fields.

Happy to help!

I haven't checked the latest versions (lies - got the latest, found there little to no new improvements and left), but the main issue is with runaway cows! Once one of them runs away, the farmer has to go get it and for whatever reason - they come back home super slow :D Then next cow runs away..and it ends up your farmer getting 0 milk :/ Once/if they fix those running away cows - then it must be teste again, but as of now - you want MAX barn workers. Milk/cheese is the easiest/best way to sustain your town.

@@MLMariss oh interesting. Never noticed that. Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, but no :D I have a feeling you are playing on easy maps with fertile land, right? This will not hold on the Arid Highland as the Compost fertility boost (at 0%) is 1% ;) Also clovers at low fertility (which is the whole map) will provide little to no fertility gains. I've set up a field to test and prove it - with clover only (should be boosting field at max) + every year compost boost. Over 10+ years I have managed to rise it to 14%. Your thought process is more than correct, but you haven't taken in account hardest difficulty map ;) Once we agree on the fertility 'issue', next up is the rotation. Your suggested combination is fastest way to catch the disease. Turnips are the only ones that don't share disease with other winter crops, adding more than 2 beans/peas in the 3 year rotation will give you disease. I have tested this over 300+ years of gameplay ;) And when it comes to the split cultures per fields, as you said: 2 for greens, 1 for grain, 1 for flax. What you are saying - when on of particular fields will be heat by heatwave or disease - you are doomed. No grain for that year (for cows), or no flax and weavers stand idle. The crop rotation literally pushes player to have a..rotation, so not going with it (as I did - every field produces every type of crops) asking for trouble. So taking all that account if you build your own rotation and field mixture with best possible outcome on the hardest difficulty - you will end up with the same what I have here :)

I definitely should and I have seen some cases but not as epidemic or majority of the population hit! Once noticed I have bought some fruits or jam if I notice some from vendors. I'll include and explain it in 2nd video - mid to late game seems to focus on trading!

But is way better in terms of variety, depth, materials, people needs and much more :) Also I need to still point out that it is just early access so the final product might and will be totally different as there is much more to work on here :D

@@MLMariss cheers matey

I know right?! ;x And the game does not help us at all with clear separation of fertility for cow fields and fertility for crops. That map and filter split is just absent :D

not confusing at all, he saved my ass and now I know how to manage the fields much easier. my city of 150 was saved by following this farming and cows. now its going on 220 ppl

Heh, thank you and happy to help! As per recent updates (just discovered and also is commented here) there are actually 3 different fertility layers for: crops, barn and arborist! In this map it is so unfertile that I couldn't find/see this one little spot where arborist can grow it's trees :D

The farm is quite confusing at first time, I wish this game provide a tutorial or a better explanantion for each thing we need to do step by step, thanks for the good video!