Crop harvest quantity always at max yield, and no more crafting efficiency?

[Telkir]

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or just a reverted feature, but harvested crops will always give the maximum yield defined in their def, regardless of the growing skill of the pawn that harvests them.

For example - start a new colony, drop a growing zone down and grow some potatoes. In the core defs, a potato has a yield range of 2 to 4. Once they're fully grown, get an unskilled colonist to harvest them, and you still get 4 potatoes per plant. Didn't this used to be a random yield between the range?

A similar thing applies for the produced quantity of items made through a recipe, for example stonecutting. Whatever the skill of the colonist who takes the job, one stone chunk is always processed to 20 stone bricks.

I see the efficiency stats that factored into output quantity were removed in the A9 definitions, so I guess this is an intended change at least on the crafting side. Bit of a pity, really - I think it was a good feature that encouraged you to specialise your colonists carefully, more so than just having skill affect the speed of doing the job.

[Ciznit]

Don't know about crops, but stonecutting is no longer a 'crafting' task.

[Tynan]

Crops will give less yield if they're not fully grown; that's how it always worked.

And yes efficiency has been streamlined down. Skill affects other things, for certain tasks.

Not a bug, so closing.