Turning grass into hay on 4x maps?

[StoneC0ld]

Is there any other way to turn grass into hay without using tedders?

I know there's not going to be any other updates/bugfixes to FS17, so I know that the bug will not be fixed in FS17 that results in tedders not working on 4x maps while running in any direction but true north. I just finished with my first round of mowing grass on UMRV, and like RSV before it, I can't do every last bit of tedding (teddering?) going from south to north....
So, now I'm stuck with the hay collection I need.... Is there a mod or anything available that can turn grass into hay without a tedder, or do I need to "cheat" with a placeable silo and savegame editing?

[juf.de]

I do not know of any mod, which does that, but as a workaround you could pick up the remaining grass with a loading waggon /foragewaggon or whatever it is called, move it to another location and do the dtedding there.

[redglasses]

Wait was it ever decided if it was a map issue or a game issue with 4x maps

[redglasses]

^^Alright thanks, cause I know rattle snake valley has the tedding problem

[Hairy Bob]

Loess Hill Country is a 4x map which I played for a bit, I made over 1000 hay bales and never had any issues with tedders.
I'd say the issue is caused by the map.

[Jalars86]

It's a map issue. It happens when the map maker doesn't resize all the files. I'm at work so I don't have a map file to look at but I think they're called grle files or something.

I'm currently playing on Tazewell County and tedding hay works perfect on it.

[StoneC0ld]

If I were to figure out how to resize these grle files, would that destroy or otherwise screw up my current savegame?

[W1der]

Collect the grass with a baler ... but before it is full ... collect some hay ... ta daa ... hay bale comes out!
But this only works for bales ...

[Jalars86]

If I were to figure out how to resize these grle files, would that destroy or otherwise screw up my current savegame?

The 2 files are fruit_density.gdm and terrainDetailHeight_density.gdm and are located in the map01 folder usually. It's not super hard to do, but kinda confusing. Yes I assume it would mess up a save game and it actually messes up the map. When I resized them on a 4x map it put grass everywhere so you'd have to spend hours redoing every bit of the maps foliage. But, I cleaned up a few fields and tested it and grass worked perfect.

I followed instructions I found somewhere, but I can't seem to find them now. Basically you use the GRLE Converter from Giants GDN site to make png files, resize them to 8192x8192 I believe for a 4x map, and replace them in map01 folder (remove .gdm and leave .png there), then open the map in Giants Editor and save the map and close.

[StoneC0ld]

Thanks

For now, I just baled up the grass as quickly as I could (I'm using Seasons) to minimize the deterioration, saved and quit, and used Find&Replace in Notepad++ to change all the grass bales to hay bales. But, once I finish the fall harvest (or over the winter, whichever is more practical), I may look into fixing the GRLE files... Or may change maps to one that already has properly-sized files...

[empato]

You can also use placeables like this one.

https://forbidden-mods.de/filebase/file ... atzierbar/

Fill grass in and also some straw or wood chips as combustible material and get out hay.