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On the western island, build a bridge to there.

Your cows probably were stuck in before-patch mindset, aiming for the unreachable cereals. You reset them to follow new rules.

Hah, I got that one too.

You make it out of 1 plank using the Wood Router.

(Wood Router also makes wheels for a scooter for you to move around quicker.)

They said which button - the comma. Or <.

Do note that you don't need to repeat fertilizing, so you only set robots to till the soil, plant and gather in cycle.

You need fertilizer. To get fertilizer you need cows to eat grass. To make cows eat grass you need to milk them. To milk them you need a bucket and a milk storage. Once your cows are going, gather dung into fertilizer storage.

Until then, you can plant acorns into holes directly, they will just grow slower.

Oh, huh. Looks like my attempts to block off the unwanted farmlands are too weak to stop the planters :D

You can use any kind of shovel.

I do not quite get what you're trying to say with your second question.

You can make robots carry Cereal to the Threshing Machine. That will create Straw and Cereal Seed. They can then plant the seed for more

Ahh I see. I noticed they started to come back at random as other blueprints progressed, so now I figure that's because they could reach their target.

Glad to hear it's on your list, good job with the game guys!

It was in 6.2, save continued from about v3, but I reprogrammed the planters in version 5 I think? Here's the script, he was just endlessly cycling through the three steps of find-move-plant

Hmmm, I just erased him and gave him the exact same steps and he now plants them properly. All other planters on the save still glitching.

So looks like the bug just held on from the older version?

Oh and now a new thing.

So I decided to auto-build a bridge.

And then make it extra bridgey.

Unfortunately, the bots did not take well to the experiment. 

The nice convex portion in the middle went smoothly. But after fourth and fifth row, their little minds started to break. They stop placing parts and just... walk away. Into top left corner of the map. Here's two 'pilgrims'. 

There also is a third one that got much closer.

After a recharge, two of them settled down in a corner while one came back to work. I was just about to say that somehow it seems to only affect plank and pole bots, but here my log placing bot went off too. Buut one of the previously stuck bots came back.

So yeah. Fun.

I've got some funky stuff going on with the cereal planters - got a nice big patch of fertilized and tilled soil... But when I tell them to go find nearest free spot, they plant *one* seed and hang up. The cereal grows beneath them, gets cut and only *then* they deign to go plant the next spot.

Are they thinking that the planted ground they're standing on is the closest tilled soil or something?

Shovel it to empty the square, put fertilizer on it so it won't appear again.

To get fertilizer, you need to have cow dung put into Fertilizer Storage.

If cows don't eat grass&make poops, and look fat, you need to milk them.

Craft a bucket at a basic workbench, milk cow, put milk into Milk Storage. The bucket is infinitely reusable.

Thanks!

So mostly the durability, looks like. 

Hm, metal shovel is faster? I'll have to try this out :D

So what's the total of difference?

Do they just last longer, or also work faster or drop more resource?

You remove mushrooms and bushes by using a shovel on them. You do not get anything from it.

To produce grain, you need to:

1)Cut down wild (green) patches of cereal with a scythe or a sickle. 

2)Make a thresher and put the gathered cereal in there. That will get you some straw and some seed.

3)Put fertilizer onto weeded soil to prevent more weeds from growing on it. You can also use shovel to remove weed to free more space.

4)Use a hoe to till it

5)Put seeds into tilled soil. It will grow into golden wheat, which you gather for same cereal. 

6)Thresher it into more seeds, replant them, and so on in cycle. You do not need to repeat fertilizng the soil, only tilling, planting and cutting.

Yes. You make them do thing in a cycle of Repeat with "until hand is empty", and then put instructions to grab a tool from storage after the cycle. Then put Forever around it all and presto.

Of course also get a robot making tools for endless cycle.