Efficient cowshed

Animal buildings Main farm

The Efficient cowshed is the slowest but also the most productive of the three animal buildings, so it pays to keep it under control and never leave it empty.

Quick overview

Farm	Main farm
Category	Animal buildings
Size	8 × 5
From level	13
Max level	10
Price	300 Gold
Build time	1 h
Workers	6
Priority	Build from level 13

What it's for

This efficient cowshed is used to to produce milk and dung and has a higher production output than the regular cowshed.

Produces

Dung

Milk

Cream

The Efficient cowshed turns cow feed into milk and manure as a by-product, and you get cream from it in a special recipe made from hay, which drops manure again too. Compared to the regular cowshed I get more out of the same feed. It is the largest of the three basic animal buildings, it takes up 8x5 and on the Main farm it only unlocks from player level 13. I use the milk further in processing and the manure goes into the silo just like with the other animals, so the cowshed fits into the same cycle as the chicken coop and pigsty, just with a longer production time.

When to build it

I build the cowshed as the last of the three big animal buildings, because it unlocks later and needs cow feed made from wheat or alfalfa, which I first have to get going in the mill. It pays to have a stable wheat production first, otherwise the cowshed just sits there waiting for ingredients.

Is it worth upgrading

Upgrading makes sense mainly because one production run takes seven hours and a higher level gets much more out of it. At level 1, 10 units of cow feed give 230 milk and 97 manure, at the highest level the same seven hours give 520 milk and 150 manure. Because you only start production a few times a day, every level increase counts double.

Tip from a veteran player Because of the seven-hour production it pays to start the cowshed in the evening, so the harvest is ready first thing in the morning and you are not waiting for it needlessly during the day.

Most common mistake A common one is forgetting to restart the cowshed after harvesting, because with a seven-hour cycle it easily happens that you forget about it completely for a day or two and it sits there doing nothing.

Building levels

Level	Price	Build time	XP	Workers	From level
1	300 Gold	1 h	600	6	13
2	1 100 Gold	6 h 40 min	3 400	7	24
3	2 400 Gold	11 h 40 min	7 000	8	34
4	5 300 Gold	20 h	11 000	9	44
5	9 350 Gold	1 d 2 h 40 min	15 000	10	49
6	12 600 Gold	1 d 6 h	19 000	11	59
7	18 900 Gold	1 d 16 h	23 000	12	64
8	24 600 Gold	2 d 5 h 20 min	26 000	14	69
9	29 600 Gold	2 d 22 h	29 000	16	84
10	44 000 Gold	3 d 18 h 50 min	32 000	18	134

Production at level 1

Output	Ingredients	Time	Cost	XP
Dung × 97 Milk × 299	Seaweed feed × 40	instant	—	1 200
Dung × 97 Milk × 276	Super cow feed × 10	7 h	—	2 000
Dung × 97 Milk × 230	Premium cow feed × 10	7 h	—	1 500
Dung × 97 Milk × 230	Cow feed × 10	7 h	6 852 Dollars	—
Dung × 6 Milk × 6	Cow silage × 10	7 min 30 s	450 Dollars	—
Dung × 97 Milk × 403	Obsidian feed × 40	7 h	—	3 000
Dung × 97 Milk × 460	Obsidian feed XL × 40	7 h	—	4 000
Dung × 97 Milk × 575	Obsidian feed XXL × 40	7 h	—	5 000
Dung × 145 Milk × 448	Seaweed feed XXL × 40	instant	—	1 200
Dung × 136 Milk × 419	Seaweed feed XL × 40	instant	—	1 200
Dung × 126 Milk × 389	Seaweed feed L × 40	instant	—	1 200
Dung × 48 Cream × 115	Hay × 10	3 h	6 852 Dollars	—
Dung × 48 Cream × 149	Seaweed feed × 20	instant	6 852 Dollars	2 000
Dung × 53 Cream × 194	Seaweed feed L × 20	instant	6 852 Dollars	2 000
Dung × 55 Cream × 209	Seaweed feed XL × 20	instant	6 852 Dollars	2 000
Dung × 58 Cream × 224	Seaweed feed XXL × 20	instant	6 852 Dollars	2 000

Yield by level – Dung

Level	Amount	Time
1	97	instant
2	103	instant
3	108	instant
4	114	instant
5	120	instant
6	126	instant
7	134	instant
8	140	instant
9	145	instant
10	150	instant

Game data, version 8052 (14. 8. 2026).

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