Employees

Employee Management: Up to 10 permanent employee profiles, each with their own name, age, and assigned AI helper.

• Four contract types: Minijob for €600/month and 40 gameplay hours, part-time for €1,600/month and 80 hours, full-time for €3,200/month and 160 hours, and temporary workers for €120 per assignment.
• Temporary workers: Available for 8 gameplay hours after being requested, then automatically leave the farm. They cannot be trained and always work at full performance.
• Areas of responsibility: Each employee can be assigned to fieldwork, transport, animal care, or machinery maintenance. New employees start as "Unassigned".
• AI helper integration: Fieldwork jobs are only assigned to employees with the fieldwork role; GoTo, delivery, conveyor belt, and transport jobs require the transport role.
• Employee selection in singleplayer: When starting a suitable AI job, a selection of available employees is displayed.
• Automatic selection in multiplayer: In multiplayer, a suitable employee is selected automatically, with preference given to the employee who has used the lowest percentage of their available monthly hours.
• Real employee names: Instead of "AI Worker A/B/C…", managed jobs display the actual employee's name.
• Working hours: Regular employees use up their monthly hour allowance while performing AI jobs. Once exhausted, the job is stopped.
• Monthly salaries: Salaries are deducted at the change of each month. At the same time, regular employees' monthly working-hour allowances are reset.
• Dismissals: An employee can be dismissed. Their employment ends after three month changes, and the dismissal can be withdrawn before then.
• Aging: Employees age as the in-game months pass.
• Retirement: Employees retire at the age of 65. A warning is issued three months beforehand. The vacated slot can later be filled again with the employee's original starting age.
• Illnesses: Regular employees have a 3% chance per month of becoming ill.
• Four illnesses: Cold, gastrointestinal illness, flu, and back problems – each with different recovery times.
• Recovery in gameplay time: Illness duration is measured in gameplay hours. Sick employees cannot be assigned to work or training, and any ongoing jobs or maintenance tasks are stopped.
• Training: Fieldwork, transport, animal care, and machinery maintenance each have 3 training levels.
• Training costs: Level 1 costs €750, Level 2 costs €1,500, and Level 3 costs €2,250.
• Training duration: The three levels take 2, 5, and 8 gameplay hours respectively.
• Performance levels: Without training, a regular employee works at 25% efficiency, increasing to 50%, 75%, and 100% with each training level.
• Fieldwork and transport: Training level affects the actual AI driving speed or the vehicle's speed limit.
• Animal care and machinery maintenance: Higher training levels reduce the amount of time required for these tasks.
• Automatic animal checks: An animal caretaker automatically checks animal facilities at 08:00 and 17:00.
• Occupied facilities only: Empty barns and pastures are skipped.
• 20% threshold: Feed, water, and bedding are only replenished when the respective level falls below 20%.
• 95% target: The animal caretaker then attempts to refill the resource to 95%.
• Fair feed distribution: If there is not enough feed available, all animal facilities in need are considered together instead of the first facility found receiving everything.
• Feed from farm storage: The mod searches for usable feed in regular silos, silo extensions, bale storage, pallet storage, BigBags, ObjectStorages, and other supported storage types.
• Hof Bergmann support: The storage logic supports the special Hof Bergmann pallets and ObjectStorages.
• Pet food: Special fill types such as dog and cat food can also be supported.
• Water: The animal caretaker fills suitable water troughs directly and free of charge. No water is deducted from farm storage.
• Bedding: The mod recognizes both straw and WOODSHAVINGS/wood shavings, depending on what the specific animal facility supports.
• Wood shavings on Hof Bergmann: Stored wood-shaving pallets in ObjectStorage can also be detected and used as available stock.
• Inventory protection: If feed or bedding is not accepted by the animal facility, the mod attempts to return the reserved amount to storage instead of simply deleting it.
• Manure: Existing manure is moved to the nearest reachable manure heap belonging to the same farm.
• Farm separation: Automatic supply management only uses storage and animal facilities that the respective farm has access to.
• Machinery technician: Works automatically between 08:00 and 17:00.
• Repair threshold: Vehicles with approximately 20% damage or more are selected for maintenance.
• Vehicle selection: Preference is given to a damaged vehicle owned by the farm that is not currently being driven, is stationary, and has no active AI job.
• Maintenance duration: The duration depends on the machinery technician's training level and only progresses during working hours between 08:00 and 17:00.
• Vehicle lock during maintenance: The vehicle cannot be entered, tabbed into, used, or normally attached to equipment while maintenance is in progress.
• Repair information: The vehicle info display includes details such as the remaining repair time.
• Repair costs: Before maintenance begins and again upon completion, the mod checks whether the farm can afford the repair.
• Employee overview: The employee menu displays employees by contract type and area of responsibility, together with their status, age, remaining hours, and additional contract information.
• Status indicators: These include "Available", "Working", "Training", "Sick", "Hour Limit Reached", maintenance tasks, and "Assign Area of Responsibility".
• Multiplayer: The main employee-management logic runs server-side.
• Multiplayer synchronization: Employees, contracts, working hours, age, roles, training, illnesses, active AI jobs, and maintenance tasks are synchronized with clients.
• Farm security in multiplayer: A client may perform management actions only for employees belonging to their own farm.
• Synchronized actions: Hiring, changing an employee's area of responsibility, starting training, dismissal, and cancellation of dismissal are sent to the server.
• Multiple farms: Animal care and machinery maintenance are managed separately for each farm in multiplayer.
• Savegame support: Employees, progression, illnesses, training, maintenance tasks, and animal-check times are stored in a dedicated employees.xml file.