Talk:Hobbit Farmhand/@comment-174.125.254.82-20150321013737/@comment-158.169.150.8-20160418070957

They are really very lazy - and not very smart either. It can take quite a while before they actually deliver any crops. Most of the time they are killed by marauding orcs before they even plant anything.

To make their life easier, I recommend that you:

- fence them into a restricted area, so they don't go wandering off (they like to meet their friends much more than actually farming)

- prepare the ground with a hoe, so they don't have to do that themselves. You may even plant the first round of crops for them, so they only have to replace them when necessary.

- keep them in a safe distance from your base, so invasions don't affect them, but not too far, so their chunks are not unloaded.

In b28 they have become much more useful, as they can place harvested goods directly into a chest. Now, with some hoppers and an oven you could even automate the entire food production process...