Soil Work Yield Bonus

The Soil Work Yield Bonus mod enhances the value of proper soil preparation. By disking and cultivating fields before sowing, players can achieve a small yield bonus at harvest. Key features include:

• Disking provides a +4% yield bonus.
• Cultivating offers a +6% yield bonus.
• Bonuses do not stack; only the highest bonus is applied, with a maximum of +6%.

To activate the bonus, a significant portion of the field must be worked. Required coverage ranges from 80% on small fields to 95% on fields of 20 ha or more. The current bonus and work progress are displayed in the standard field info panel. The mod works seamlessly with base game modifiers such as fertilizer, lime, weeds, and Precision Farming. Mulching and rolling retain their base game effects. After harvest, the soil work state resets for the next crop cycle. Field progress is stored in a separate savegame file, ensuring the base game fields.xml remains unmodified. Multiplayer is fully supported, with the server maintaining the authoritative field state and synchronizing it to all clients.