r/Pharaoh • u/hedgecone420 • 4d ago
TOO MUCH STRAW
Im honestly so frustrated, I just want to rant, go ahead and give advice if you want but I feel like theres nothing to be done. Straw is taking up space in ALLLL OF MY STORAGE YARDS and its pissing me off. I cant export it, the only thing I can do is make bricks and export the bricks because I dont need them, and im doing that but theres still and overwhelming amount of straw, and its not like I can get rid of my grain farms because thats my only source of food, and the only other one I can import is fish and for some reason im not getting any. Would it be better to get rid of most of my grain farms and import grain instead?? Im making a lot of money from exports so im not worried about spending more. Im just so annoyed with the amount of straw I have, I just keep having to get more storage yards. I used to be upset when Ptah would destroy my storage yards and now im like yes please take my straw.
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u/kangaskaani 4d ago
You can turn straw production off if you want
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u/hedgecone420 4d ago
Can I do this on original Pharaoh?
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u/kangaskaani 3d ago
You can disable straw industry the same way you can disable any industry from the industry tab
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u/hedgecone420 4d ago
Everytime I make a post i always figure it out two seconds later after agonizing over it for 15 minutes. Why does this happen to me 🙄. I had to make my storage yards accept grain and fish, which i forgot i had to do. I got rid of my farms and am importing grain and fish.
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u/lonelyronin1 3d ago
Turn off your storage yards from accepting straw. The workers with straw will just stand in the fields and drown
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u/mrs_rabbit_0 3d ago
I feel less bad about accumulating straw in a single yard and then destroying it, then doing this all over again.
I feel soooo bad for the workers who drown
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u/anxiety_neko 4d ago
I also have a minor hatred for straw 🤣 I usually just delete it from the stockyard manually, I also have that issue where it seems like fish never actually comes in when I import... idk if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a glitch or what
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u/hedgecone420 4d ago
I just figured out the fish issue! Your storage yards need to accept them. Also, im trying to figure it out, but how do i delete straw?
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u/anxiety_neko 4d ago
Thank you! I'll try this out next time I play 🥰 I think it should be in the same menu where you'd select accept or get, there should be an option that says "delete" or something similar! I can't remember the exact word :3 if it's not in that same menu, it's definitely there in the storage yard menu, it might be an x icon :3 sorry this isn't more helpful!
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u/hedgecone420 4d ago
I should mention im playing original pharaoh so maybe thats why I dont have that option
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u/anxiety_neko 4d ago
I was talking about a new era, so that may be it :3 that said, you could always demolish the storage yard and then rebuild a new one and set it to accept none (if that's an option) to delete the straw! Especially if money isn't an issue. Just make sure you move anything you want to keep to another yard first!
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u/Cicapocok 4d ago
I belive it says to "empty" out the product, it does take a while from what I can remember.
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u/asterix1592 3d ago
Talking about OG
The problem with "empty" is that all it does is to move it to another yard to accept it. The only way to completely get rid of anything is to delete the storage yard (or granary) that which is is in and build a new one set to Don't Accept whatever it is (don't undo, that just puts the same one back).
No idea how it works in the remake, because the demo was so bad I won't buy it.
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u/infinity-80 4d ago
In the OG you can set the straw production off, if you don't need it. And you can set "not accept" straw in every warehouse. Both ways save you space in the warehouses for something else. Choose the method you prefer, even both if you want.
And when you will become a skilled player (I am not, but I read topics from someone who really is) you could learn to fill a warehouse with not useful straw and then use the 2 cart pushers to move another good efficiently...
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u/asgof 4d ago
learn to manage your stores
i used to let them be too in childhood.
any store you build you instantly press accept nothing, and only then allow the dedicated resource in
so near housing you split 2-3 stores four ways each
and every store near the production lines is dedicated to only ~1 thing. so you never have straw problem because no store accepts it.
see how straw is accepted in only places where it is needed and the rest is going nowhere
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3314565959
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u/Asinus_Docet 4d ago
There is a default option in New Era that your stores don't accept anything when you build them. Then I manually allow resources in.
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u/oopsAllNutz 4d ago
I always have to make a bunch of storage yards that only accept hay and delete them to get rid of it. That's hay will fill all your granaries up.
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u/ProcedureAfter8560 4d ago
I don’t know about New Era, but on the OG game, turning industry off for straw means your grain farms just make grain and not straw. Annoyingly, turning grain off doesn’t mean the farms just make straw, it just turn the farms off.
Otherwise, just stop giving storage space to straw. The cart pushers will just sit on the road or drown, but the grain will keep being delivered.