In Schedule 1, automating your farm can significantly enhance your productivity and profitability. As your customer base expands, managing everything single-handedly can lead to overwhelming stress. This challenge escalates when workflows intensify due to increased demand.
To achieve seamless operation across your farm, it’s critical to have adequate cash flow and resources. Once your automation system is established, your earnings will steadily grow, allowing you to invest in character enhancements such as new clothing. Nevertheless, ensure you possess sufficient funds before diving into automation to avoid early financial pitfalls.
Essential Components for Farm Automation
From Supplies to Financial Resources to Assistance
As the game progresses, meeting customer expectations becomes increasingly complex. Automation is the best answer to alleviate this stress and boost your profits. However, it’s essential to accumulate both financial resources and necessary supplies. Once you start generating a steady income, you’ll find yourself ready to automate various aspects of your farm.
- Soil Pourer – Price: $300. This essential tool can be acquired early in the new town.
- Pot Sprinkler – Price: $200. Similar to the Soil Pourer, this device is available once unlocked at the hardware store.
- Hire Workers
- Provide Housing – Ensure your workers have accommodations such as a Sweatshop or Bungalow.
Guide to Hiring, Setting Up & Assigning Employees
Ensuring Smooth Operations on Your Automated Farm
Your initial task is to visit the warehouse after 9 PM once you’ve attained the Hoodlum IV level and earned over $10,000. To escape police attention, navigate the outskirts of the area. Upon arrival, engage with Manny upstairs, who can assist you in hiring workers. Inquire about the costs associated with different types of workers: Cleaners and Packagers (Handlers) are more affordable, while Botanists are moderately priced, and Chemists command the highest wages.
To streamline the hiring process, there will be a whiteboard outlining worker prices to the left of Manny. After selecting your workers, you must secure beds for them, and Manny will address the signing fee and daily wages. Ensure you also have a personal sleeping arrangement to conclude each gameplay day. Once utilized, a clipboard will appear on your screen, allowing interaction with each worker as you assign tasks. You will also observe a briefcase at the foot of each worker’s bed.
At each day’s end, it’s crucial to deposit the workers’ daily wages into their briefcases. If funds are low and specific workers aren’t essential, you can opt not to pay them until their services are necessary again. Adequately stocking your finances can prevent stress over regular payments.
Regarding your facility layout, consider designating different rooms for various tasks. This could involve segregating plant growth areas, packaging stations, and storage to create an efficient assembly line workflow.
Hiring and Assigning Cleaners
To recruit a Cleaner, consult Manny, who will inform you that the daily wage for a Cleaner is $100. Initially, one Cleaner is adequate, allowing you to focus on production without distractions. It’s advisable to hire Cleaners only after establishing a consistent income.
Using the clipboard, once a bed is assigned to the Cleaner, you can designate up to three trashcans for their responsibility. This assignment is made through the designated interface, which assigns each Cleaner to specific trashcans, granting them responsibility for keeping their assigned areas tidy.
- Collecting trash
- Bagging full trash bins
- Disposing of full trash bags
Hiring and Assigning Handlers
For hiring a Packager, similarly consult Manny and acknowledge the employment fee, which is $200 per day. After assigning their accommodation, you can designate their work stations. Ensure all required tools, such as bags and jars, are present at these stations for the handler’s use.
You can further empower your Handler by assigning up to five routes. For instance, instruct them to transport products from a storage container to the packaging area, optimizing material workflows.
- Packaging products
- Transferring items between various operational stations
Hiring and Assigning Botanists
Utilize Manny’s services to hire a Botanist at a daily cost of $200. Given their extensive responsibilities, Botanists are indispensable during the initial stages of automation, providing essential support while you focus on revenue generation.
Using your clipboard, assign a bed for the Botanist, as was done with previous hires. Subsequently, allocate a supply shelf for them to access necessary materials. When instructing them about the plants, utilize the clipboard to select which pots they will tend to; you can manage several pots at once using the shift function to increase efficiency.
Each Botanist will handle various plant care activities, which include:
- Seeding
- Watering
- Applying nutrients
- Harvesting
- Utilizing drying equipment
Hiring and Assigning Chemists
Engage with Manny to recruit a Chemist, who commands a daily wage of $300. Ensure to appoint both their sleeping quarters and the workstations they will occupy, with the opportunity to assign up to three different stations based on their tasks.
- Using various chemistry equipment
- Operating lab ovens and mixers
- Conducting chemical processes
As you designate their stations, follow a systematic approach: interact with the Chemist, then walk over to the stations required for their tasks in order to assign them effectively. Choose specific recipes for the Chemists to utilize at each station to ensure smooth operations within your automated farm in Schedule 1.