Milk production steadily decreasing after loading the game

[erik66]

Hello all and merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Unfortunately, my family and I are sick but hey - at least I have some time to play this beatiful game again ^^
I currently have a town with around 1.4k pop and 12 full barns but there is something strange going on with my milk production:
Every time I load the game, each barn produces ~1k milk. Over the course of ~3-5 years, milk production steadily decreases to about 200 milk / barn…
When I save and load the game, this pattern repeats: Barns produce a lot of milk once I load the save and as the years pass my barns produce less and less milk. Below you’ll find 2 screenshots (2 sessions) showing this issue (Note: “Milch” is german for “milk”)

Please note that I did not touch/modify the barns in any major way! They were always fully staffed with full food storages. Also, it’s always the same behaviour: I load in, milk production skyrockets then slowely drops off as I keep playing…
In the second session I moved one barn around a few times to see if that fixes the issue for that one but no changes. In fact, here is a list of things I have tried with it:

• Moving the barn (rotating + putting it inside the cows enclosures)
• Unstaffing + restaffing
• Making a hole into the enclosure fences

At this point, I’m convinced it is a bug. However, I found no other reports of this sort of behaviour.

Below you’ll find a link to the save file in question:
https://file.io/1qksEGXeoKht
Steps to reproduce: Simply load the save, leave it running for a few years then check the milk production in the resources tab. You should see a production history that looks similar to the two I posted.

[Zantai]

The milk production mechanic has been overhauled in the upcoming v0.9.2 update.

[erik66]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply!
However, I’m not sure I fully understand your response:
Does that mean this is a known issue and the fix will come in 0.9.2?
Or will the mechanic change completely so it’s not worth bothering with something that will be gone anyway next patch?

[machin]

… " in the upcoming v0.9.2 update " .

[serven]

please tell us Dev team did not decrease the yield of cheese like of meat from deer.

I’m being afraid of any new update, any new boots will follow by a nerf. Flex and deer meat for example.
after a 30% meat boost from relic, we quickly see the drop from hunting. yet Barn’s harvesting hasn’t improved. every barn’s animal butchered exact same time. Flex could get hit by both heat and cold.

Flex and Rye got hit harder from the weather.

[Criticalace]

For your sanity, I’m having the exact same problem. Similar population, not quite as many barns though. 5 of them. Same effect though!

[erik66]

Thanks for sharing, it’s good to know that this doesn’t seem to be an issue with the save ^^
I guess I’ll just start a new town once 0.9.2 hits