Field

The  is one of the Buildings in the game Forest Village.

The Field allows you to grow several crops which produce food and resources:

Standard Crops

 * Flax: Used to make Light Clothes in the weaver's workshop, in addition to wool =>  Warm Clothes.
 * Grass: It is a renewable resource of hay, which is used as a building material in several buildings.
 * Oats: Are used to feed chickens in the coops.
 * Potato: It is a vegetable food, which is used to Bake Pies or feed on your villagers as it is.
 * Wheat: Yields Grain which can be made into Bread and is needed to make flour at the mill which is used for Baking pies.

Size
To maximize the efficiency of your of your fields, it is recommended to design your farms considering the amount of farmers used in the field.


 * The number needed is shown in GOLD when you are laying out the field
 * 7 potatoes per a field, 3 of any others per a field. Therefore, 13x15 field will produce (13-2)x(15-2)*7 = 11x13x7 = 1001 Potatoes or 429 of any others.
 * Note: substract 2 from field length because fences occupy cells of periphery.
 * For 1 farmer, the maximum field size is 11×17. It will produce 945 Potatoes or 405 of any other crops assuming one harvest per season.
 * For 2 farmer, the maximum field size is 15×18. It will produce 1456 Potatoes or 624 of any other crops assuming one harvest per season.


 * Other research has found that the following field sizes are optimal in terms of maximizing the amount of land that can be worked by each farmer.
 * The feudal "Are" is 1/100th of a Hectare. (An Acre is .4 Hectares)

NOTE: for startup, build fields of size 13x14, adjacent to a house, barn and well; you will be able to harvest your whole field in time with a yield of approx. 900
 * For a complete chart of orchard & field sizes see Phono plays! Field Sizes chart

Hints

 * A Scarecrow will improve the field's yield (growing rate).
 * A nearby well will also improve yields as farmers can irrigate their crops more effectively.