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title: "Problems with Crop"
description: "Problems with Crop"
url: https://support.travian.com/en/articles/75-problems-with-crop
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updated: 2026-10-28
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# Problems with Crop

Problems with Crop

Crop is one of the most important resources in Travian: Legends. Many early difficulties come from managing crop production, because **buildings, fields, and troops all consume crop every hour**.

You can see crop consumption clearly in building requirements. For example, a **level 1 woodcutter** consumes **2 crop per hour**. All crop consumption from population and troops is cumulative.

Your current **resource storage** and **free crop** are shown at the top of the screen.

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68308d126b4d67fbe821228f/20260427082846_1460.png)

To improve your crop production, you can upgrade:

-   **Croplands**
    
-   **Grain Mill**
    
-   **Bakery**
    

Keep in mind that level 1 cropland requires **20 crop** to construct.

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## **Negative Crop Production**

If your population and troops consume more crop than you produce, your crop balance becomes **negative**.  
When this happens:

-   Your granary will begin to empty.
    
-   If the stored crop reaches **0**, troops will slowly **starve and die**.
    
-   Starvation stops once the crop production reaches **0** again.
    

You can view detailed crop usage by clicking the **crop balance icon** in the top bar.

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68308d126b4d67fbe821228f/20260427082846_6970.png)

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## **Free Crop**

**Free crop** is your crop production minus your total population.

Free crop **includes**:

-   Oasis bonuses
    
-   Grain Mill and Bakery bonuses
    

Free crop **does not include**:

-   Hero production bonus
    
-   Plus account crop bonus
    

Normally, buildings or upgrades that would reduce free crop below **1** cannot be started.  
However, there are important exceptions.

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## **Limitations and Exceptions**

You **can always**:

-   Upgrade a cropland
    
-   Build or upgrade a Grain Mill or Bakery if the upgrade increases free crop
    
-   Build a **Main Building level 1**
    

You can also build or upgrade the following to **level 10**, regardless of free crop, if your **base crop production** in the village is **276 per hour or more**:

-   Main Building
    
-   Warehouse
    
-   Granary
    

**World Wonders** are always exempt and may be upgraded regardless of crop.

You **cannot** destroy a Grain Mill or Bakery if doing so would reduce free crop below **1**.

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## **Hero Crop Production**

Your hero always produces **6 crop per hour**, no matter how skill points are allocated.  
Important rules:

-   Hero crop production is added to the village the hero belongs to.
    
-   This production **does not increase free crop**.
    
-   A dead hero continues to produce 6 crop per hour.
    
-   When revived, hero resource production and hero crop consumption begin at the same time.