I'm trying to improve the efficiency level in the production units, for example the Distillery. Now if I have more than one Sugar Cane field within the range of the Distillery, will this improve the efficiency level?

Distillery needs 2 plantations for maximum efficiency.

Right, so its good to be 100% but not so at 110%

You will get 110% efficiency if you study the "master degree"

Ok, I have a Weaver's Hut running at 143% it has the loom and masters.

So there are still 2 % left to increase the productivity

Is there? so 145% is the maximum? How do we reach that level?

sorry,

you get an extra of 10 % for the masters degree (for all productions) and + 35% for the guild house (but only for one production)

In case if the cloth production you can research the bloom, that should bring you 30 % extra....but I am not sure, if I remmeber the % correctly...

You can get up to 190% if you cheat to get the guilds and the masters degree

Yeah but what are the best methods to get high percentages? Would 3 plantations per production unit help?

No,

the best pattern is two sheep farms and one weaving mill. You do not need roads to connect the sheep farms to the weaving mill (but you can take away 3 squares of the farm land and still get 100 % productivity)

If your sheep famrs do not work with 100% productivity use the watering can to increase its prodctivity. The weaving mill should be build near the sheep farms so it can get the wool fast and a warehouse should be nearby, connect with a road to the weaving mill to bring the cloth to the warehouse.

Research of the bloom will increase the productivity and research of the guild house will further increase it, if you select wool production as the production chain that should be supported.

capsu.org has THE best, THE T-H-E best 1602 guide. Most of the game mechanics carries over. EG:

2 sheep farms for 1 weavers hut
3 sheep farms for 1 weavers MILL

4 grain farms for 2 windmills for 1 bakery

2 stones people for 1 marble/brick mine

2 tools maker for 1 ore smelter

yeah, but there is no weavers mill in 1701 and I did not know the term weavers hut, as I do not know all of the english translations.

So the weavers mill I was talking of is in fact the weavers hut *sorry*

Ok, so 3 is inefficient then?

What if they overlap with another Hut?

The hut is the small brown one from 1602. Mill is the larger, red one.

Hut in 1701 is just that with no upgrades.
Mills are when you get the upgrade from school.

If you have 1 hut with 3 sheep farms, your farms won't run at 100%. Probaly 66%, but your hut will be at 100%

It is a waste unless you have roads connecting to the farms so they can unload their excess whool in the marketplace.

Please don't go throwing in references to 1602 in a 1701 thread. The cloth production in 1602 is irrelevant to the cloth production in 1701.

whatabout overlaps?

Say I have 6 farms, 3 mills/huts, but they each have 3 farms within their service area?

Dobber, it is relevent because the numbers are the same.

Overlaps are fine. Just as long as each weaver has 3 sheep farms, and that the farms aren't being shared by weavers

Well thats what I mean, they are getting shared by weavers.

@wkw: It's not the same. It's 2:1 in 1701, nothing else. The important thing is that each weaver has at least 2 sheep farms in range and there is a total of 2:1.

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Originally posted by Moryarity:
So there are still 2 % left to increase the productivity

It's not. 143 is maximum, don't ask how that is calculated, but it really is.

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Originally posted by whyme123wewe:
Dobber, it is relevent because the numbers are the same.

Overlaps are fine. Just as long as each weaver has 3 sheep farms, and that the farms aren't being shared by weavers

Maybe that is why you really don't like 1701. You never figured out that you can't play it the same way you played 1602.
You are giving fslse information and misleading people. In the future in 1701 threads, please refrain from references to 1602. They are not the same game!

Ok, so basically if we want to get 143% we need to have the Loom researched, the masters degree studied and 2 farms to draw wool from?

If I have 3 farms within the service area of a weaver it will not increase or decrease that particular weavers productivity?

Masters degree takes a while to use to its full potential, but yes you are right

Its just I have noticed variant percentages.

Its just not possible to have enough resources produced by keeping 2 farms and 1 weaver separate from other farms and weavers.

So as a proof of concept. If I have one island that only has 2 farms and a weaver, they have the Loom researched and the degree learnt. I should be getting maximum production, of 143%?

It should work that way.

And concerning this:

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If I have 3 farms within the service area of a weaver it will not increase or decrease that particular weavers productivity?

Having 2 or 3 sheep farms will not alter the productivity of the weaver, but of the sheep farms. If you have too many sheep farmes and not enough weavers (and the wool is not transported to a warehouse by road), the sheep farm will reduce its productivity.

Right, so if I have 3 farms and one weaver, then not all the farms will reach 100%? Is 100% the highest they can get?

For Sheep farms 100% is the highest value they can get.

Ok, where is this info? Or is it just trial and error?