Wheat

Wheat is a raw Food good harvested from fully grown wheat crops in Timberborn. A single fully grown wheat crop yields three units of wheat. Wheat itself has no direct use as a consumable; it must be processed in a gristmill to produce wheat flour, with one wheat converting to one wheat flour.

Wheat is planted and grown by beaver farmers. Planting wheat does not require a separate seed item: once a farmhouse exists, has hired farmers, and a wheat field is planned inside the farmhouse’s work radius, farmers will sow and tend the crop during work hours. Wheat has a relatively long growth cycle compared to some other crops and is highly sensitive to water availability; it wilts and dies quickly when drought-stressed.

Food items in Timberborn contribute to beaver Well-being and the game’s Needs mechanics. Because different Food types stack in the Well-being system and beavers tend to select different foods each day to maximize Well-being, preserving a variety of Food sources helps maintain high Individual, Districts, and Global Well-being levels. Wheat — when processed into flour and used in Food — participates in that system through nutrition and dietary variety, but raw wheat must first be ground in a gristmill.

• One fully grown wheat crop produces 3 wheat.
• Raw wheat must be processed in a gristmill; 1 wheat → 1 wheat flour.
• Do not remove planned fields or rip up growing crops to switch to wheat; the growth cycle is long and replacing crops before wheat matures risks running out of Food during the transition.
• Ensure wheat fields are placed close to a river or on upstream tiles when possible; wheat is highly drought-sensitive and can die within half a day of lacking water.
• Plant wheat only when you have a functioning farmhouse with employed farmers and the field marked within its effective radius.

These points reflect wheat’s role as an intermediate agricultural product: it requires careful placement and scheduling to avoid crop loss, and it becomes useful only after milling.