Farmhouse

The Farmhouse is a Farming building used to tend to your various Field plots, to grow Crops, and to thresh wheat into grain.

Use

Upon placement, the Farmhouse will require 3 timber to be constructed. The timber requirement must be moved by oxen and cannot be moved by people, and the oxen needs a jobless family to guide them.

Once fully built, up to 8 family units can be assigned to work in it. Farmers will plow fields by hand, sow the fields, and harvest the fields. You can limit their work zone in the advanced tab if you have multiple fields in the same region spaced apart.

All crops will be taken to a nearby farmhouse for storage, if you have your granaries and storehouses enabled to take crops they will slowly be moved there. It may be beneficial to not allow them to take the crops from the farmhouse. If you leave it enabled, the granary workers will pick up your wheat, then after sowing your fields your farmhouse workers will walk to the granary to pick up the wheat to thresh at the farmhouse into grain. A windmill worker will use grain to make flour, so leaving all wheat and grains in the farmhouse with a windmill nearby will allow for a more smooth line of production. A dedicated farming granary near these is also a good choice.

Upgrades

Oxen Plowing

The upgrade allows for 2 Oxen to be assigned to the Farmhouse. Any assigned farmhouse oxen will be used by unemployed villagers to plow fields that are set to be plowed, but these fields will not be sown until you assign villagers. You can use this to expand your farm in spring and summer for the next planting without having villagers wasting time sowing fields that won't have enough time to grow before the harvest, so these new fields are plowed and waiting.

The assigned oxen will also be used by unassigned families to gather the harvested crops at a more efficient rate, limiting possible weather damage to crops waiting in the fields for the farmers to otherwise gather after harvest is fully completed.