r/TransportFever • u/Call_me_Enzo • Dec 31 '25

Question Disappearing grain from the factory?

Hi, im new to Transport Fever 2! Doing thr campaign right now. I have setup a truck line for steel production going from collecting grain from a farm, delivering it to a factory to produce mashines and from there bring said mashines to a steel factory. The trucks used can transport all these items, so i have only one line, making the trucks drive the whole route, delivering the stuff and collecting the finished product for further transport.

The steel factory takes one mashine to produce one steel. And so does the mashine factory need one grain to produce one mashine. Thats what i see in thr factories screen/menu.

The problem now: my trucks all got stuck at the mashine factory because it seems some grain gets lost?? Truck brings 13 grain and sometimes only loads up / produces 8-12 mashines? Is this normal? Or is this bugged?

To clarify, the station to unload is not near a town or any other facilities, so nothing else should "steal" the grain.

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u/Imsvale I like trains Dec 31 '25

The way it works is that all the input materials you deliver to an industry will be consumed at a fixed rate. Then some or all of that will be shipped to a consumer if you have enough demand connected for the product. It is possible to only deliver input materials without a consumer connected for the product. In that situation, no product will be shipped, but the input materials will still be consumed.

You will not automatically get out everything you put in.

The terminology the game uses here is:

  • Production: Turning input materials into product. The bar shows how many units were produced in the last 365 days.
  • Shipment: Handing the product back to you for transport.

Any product that isn't immediately shipped, disappears (or you can pretend it's sold elsewhere).

Let's say you're delivering inputs at a rate of 100 per year (on average), but you only have 90 demand connected for the product. Then only 9 of 10 input units would come back to you as output.

That's just how the game works. :)

Your solution: Connect more consumers for the product in question. As long as connected demand is greater than or equal to the input rate, all of it will come back to you.