How to set up your farmland

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This Guide will show you how to create realistic field layouts and a simple economy management for every kind of location!

To begin with, the following link is leading you to a list of all possible farmlands!

Alls kind of farms

We assume a settlement of unspecific size to generalize the application of this guide.

Direct proximity
The area next to your settlement should be filled with all kinds of businesses producing quickly decaying goods like milk products, meat products, fruits, vegetables, etc. to gurantee thet the wares are still well preserved when arriving at the market due to short transportation routes. Also likely to be found in the direct vicinity of the settlement are woodcuttercamps, quarrys, ore mines and other workplaces which produce goods which are difficult to transport to keep the transportation routes short.

Note that the short transportation routes can be also replaced with developed transport systems (like paved roads, river habours, etc)

Indirect proximity
Further around your setlement the cropfarms are situated. To avoid the frequent turning of the plow the fields maintain a recktangle-like shape at least four times as long as they were wide. That specific form only counts for fields which have to be plowed. Fields were rarely fenced due cost reasons, but had bushes and trees to protect them from winds.

Outback
Meadows and pastures where located far away from the settlements, caused by the fact that the animals reach their destination by themselves, so they do not have to be transported. Meadows were often combined with the production of firewood. Often the shepherds shared a common pasture, because every shepherd marked his animals to distinguish them from the others. The most common used animal was the sheep, cause of the wool-, meat-, leather and milk products.

!!!Please note that spawning animals is not allowed without permission on the server!!!

Specific placement
Avoid placing flourmills or malthouses next to the fields or next to the settlement, because of the vermins which will be attracted from the decaying crops.

Smaller animals like chickens, pigs or other similar animals where often hold in the settlement itself or right at the farms. The farms itself rarely where placed in the fields, but inside the settlement so that the land which was given to the farmer to order it was distributed around the settlement.

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