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Old May 11 2019, 11:49 AM
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Default How do i find out what a Facility needs before I buy it?

Click on the Store icon, then click on the **Facilities** section to view all the facilities in Farm Town.


There are two filters top right of the window...

The Funnel icon when clicked on gives you the following options:
  • All
  • Current Level Only
  • Owned
  • Not Owned
  • Not In This Farm
  • Regular Facilities
  • Service Facilities
  • Animal Facilities

The A-Z icon when clicked on gives you these options:
  • Level Required
  • Alphabetically
  • Cost

When you have made your selections, either scroll through the facilities using the scroll bar to the right of the Store...

OR if you know the name of the facility you are interested in click in the search box at the top, and enter the name and it will pop into view.

In each facility box, top right, is a question mark. This is an example of a few of the facilities. The question mark is indicated with the red arrow.



Production (regular) Facilities:
Using the Red Windmill as an example, if you click the question mark it will show you pictures of the products it makes.


Top right of that window is the picture of the facility those products are made in. Just above that is the start tool for that facility (you're not going to need that until you get quite a few facilities and you want to start all products faster. Start and Load tools are explained in Chapter 21: Tools)

If you mouseover the pictures of the products, facility and the tool you will see the name of the product and how much you have stored, the name of the facility and the name of the tool for that facility. If you own the facility or tool you will also see that information. NOTE:Tools must be placed in your Item storage for the game to be able to see you own them. Facillites can be either on your farm or in storage. Examples:







If you would like more detail than that shows you can use the Ingredient Planner - also referred to as the IP

To know what is needed to make ALL the products in the red windmill, click on the blue link at the top of the window that says "See ingredient planner for the Red Windmill" and it will show you what is needed.
The Ingredient Planner can also be accessed from the Facility Manager to view all or specific facilities that you have on your farm, a selection of farms, or all of them depending on the funnel filters you chose in the Facility Manager. It looks like this:
The filters at the top of the Ingredient Planner allow you to set the Ingredient Planner according to what you want to see.

"15 days", "By Required" is what is needed to fill the facility to 100%.

The Include Disabled Products can be used when you own the start or load tools for the facility. When you own those you then have the ability to prevent a product from being made or stocked and can then decide whether or not to include what is needed for the doisabled products when you are checking the IP (Ingredient Planner)



These are examples of what you could see:


In the example below, the figures in black are what is required, the figures in red are what you don't have and need (First picture on the left is Wheat so in the example 7920 is what is needed and the user doesn't have any wheat so it shows 7920 in brackets in red:



In this example below, the user has enough ingredients. First picture on the left is Rye, figure just below the crop is what is required 720. The figure below that (smaller size font) is what the user will have left which is 34382.


When you have enough ingredients like this example shows, a quick way to know the total amount you have without having to add the 2 figures together is to mouseover the ingredient and it will tell you.

To go back to the previous screen, click the arrow top left of the window.


If you want to know what an individual item needs to make it, click on the picture of that item.
Click on the picture of the flour and it will show you what is needed to make flour.


At the top of that window you will see another link you can click on "See what to make with Flour" that will tell you what you can make with flour and again hovering over the pictures and clicking on them will give you more information about those products. The following picture shows you some of the products that can be made with Flour.




Animal Sheds:
Using the Dairy Shed as an example. When you click the ? on an animal shed it will show you what products you can get when it's harvested.
Mouse over the pictures and it will tell you what it is and how many you have stored.
Clicking on the product picture will tell you what animal you need to put in the shed to get it.


The link at the top of the window will tell you what you can make with it. For full details on animals and the buildings needed to harvest them, go to Chapter 12 - Animals.




Service Facilities:
Using the Supermarket as an example: When you click the ? on a service facility it will show you what products you can stock in it.


Top right of that window is the picture of the facility they are stocked in. Just above that is the load tool for that facility (you're not going to need that until you get quite a few facilities and you want to load all products faster. Start and Load tools are explained in Chapter 21: Tools)

To know what is needed to Stock ALL the products in the supermarket, click on the blue link at the top of the window that says "See stock planner for the Supermarket" and it will show you what is needed. This is an example of what you could see.


Again, hovering over each picture will tell you what it is. The filters at the top allow you to set the Ingredient Planner according to what you want to see.

"15 days", "By Required" is what is needed to fill the facility to 100%.

The large figure in black is how many are required. The small figure in black is what you will have left after stocking the facility. If you see a figure in brackets in red, that is the amount you don't have in storage that you need to get.

To go back to the previous screen click the arrow at the top of left of the window.


If you are short on a few products and you want to know what a particular item needs to make it, click on the picture of the item.
Clicking on the picture of the frozen vegetables will tell you what is needed to make it and top right of the window it will show you which facility you can make it in.


Again, mouse over the pictures to get more information.
Clicking on the picture of the facility will then show you what else that facility makes.



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Last edited by Tiger; Oct 10 2023 at 07:47 AM.