Leave the grass alone Cut it anyway Build more silos It's up to you really. One silo holds 240 so you can work out how long that will last you by taking diving 240 by the number of animals you have. That will give you how many days the hay will last. Grass grows so quickly anyway that's not a huge problem to trim it down by a lot so that by the time you need more, it will have grown back.
It's only function is to feed animals. If you get over the winter with a single silo then let the rest of it rot away. You could in theory harvest it, then go to the coop and take out the hay to throw it in the shipping box tho.
Quick open up a side shop and stock up so you'll have the market for hay in the region ! Or...let it stay and look purdy for the farm.
I currenlty have only a coop ..with no animals..someone told me to don;t cut the grass.so i didnt)..now i have alot of it..and i want to get rid of it..to build stuff
Like Deleth said just go into you coop pull out the hay and sell it in your box. Personally I cut all my grass just cause its in the way and have a reserve fund for replacement grass should the need call for it.
Yes, as many as you can fit onto your farm I'd assume. At which point having them becomes rather pointless as there'd be no place for grass left.
Thanks Deleth. Is there a recommended amount? I'm trying to cut all the grass on the farm and get it into silos before Winter comes.
Assuming you have one fully upgrades coop and one fully upgraded barn, that's a total of 24 animals to feed daily. A silo holds 240 hay so will cover 10 days food supply. With a month covering 28 days, you ideally want at least three silos to cover the whole of winter. I'd go with four, just to leave yourself a buffer of feed if the initial spawn of grass in spring is insufficient and you need to leave it a bit to grow before allowing grazing.
Do the math based on your animals. Get your computer's calculator out and multiply your number of silos by 240, then divide that result by the number of animals you have. That'll give you how many days it will last. Anything more than that is essentially unnecessary once spring comes around because your animals will eat the grass on your farm. I currently have 2, and what I harvested in autumn lasted me most of the way through spring. With a half full coop and barn. That said, I had a bunch of additions partway through winter, and spring saw another population boom. But you really should just bite the bullet and do the math. What Metalax said.
A further point to note, there is no need for your silos to actually be accessible, other than seeing a total for the hay contained within them all.
Found that out the hard way and just can't be bothered to move them now. Thought they had to be connected to the structures because that made sense. But it's nice not needing to do that, so whatever.
I stuck my silos against the edge of the map just below the entrance, as there's not much else one can put there, just above the tiny little watering hole that you were meant to use for your watering can at the beginning of the game. Put 3 there and then one next to my coop which is right next to my house.
Would it make more sense to have a box inside the barn/coop to store excess hay so when you start to go over you can store them into the box? I didn't put it there because its tall sprite would block vision north of it.. Mine is actually next to Grandpa's shrine.
That is an idea never thought to try it that way then again I could just save myself a headache and build an exrta coop to make use as a hay barn with chests...Hmmm -restarts a new game to test theories-
Well you can just put a chest down there and dump hay into it if your silos are getting full. 36 stacks of 999 hay = 35,964 total hay stored in one chest.
I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.05, but Barns/Coops with Auto-Feeders do not extract hay properly. You'll pick up 1 hay and the game will allow you to keep clicking the hopper, and you'll pull out hay but it won't go in your inventory and you will actually drain extra hay from your silos, as per this thread: http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/silos-hay-and-auto-feeders.108151/
Well i think it is safe to say one chest is going to be enough hay for all but the most hardcore livestockoriented farm.
