This area that I was questioning has below 100% and I was using another area that was over 100% to balance out the seeds. I might have just forgotten that I was usually shorter and instead thought I was only down 1-2… maybe I always was down 3-5.
As for the stopping growing - not sure on that one but I do know people can max out mesh limits with farms especially if there are multiple levels. That should stop planting at least… maybe somehow it affects growing too.
This makes me wonder if there’s now a farming bug, similar to the weather bug…
I would highly doubt that. No code has been applied for a while and something would have come up. Especially when so many used farming when th game was more popular.
I would more lean to just bad server performance or something like that where the random generation or ticks on the server isn’t performing as well as before. A lot of my area in question is 90% seed… in the other areas that are 100% I’ve been ok except for one time where I was 1 seed short.
Well, you’re the expert 
Hah… I wish and then I could fix everything… but alas not. 25+ years in IT architecture/design and deployment so I have a bit of wisdom… but who knows. It just feels like that based on some of what I have seen. Probably missed the boat. 
Very much doubt there would be such a fluctuating farming bug, I harvest a few fields every week and its always me that makes the mistake, missing the farming epic, letting light in etc.
Either the pixies are back, or there is a bug, my farm was down today by 10 seeds…
Oh no… Do you do harvest 1 plant at a time or a group? Also what is the percent seed return and what crop? What Planet?
I did my: 1 drop at a time on Beckon for juicy starberry and Biitula for Combustion/Kindling. All returned normal within spec seeds except kindling was 3 short. This was today - Sunday.
Saturday I only did Juicy and it seemed fine.
It was kindling shred, so harvested 3x3, 100% seed, only one of the two farms was down though, not changed any skills and had harvested it allot of times with no problem. This time it was the longest I have left it, maybe over a month.
Interesting… Well I’ve started doing my kindle area again but I did have 1 plant that was all seed that I did not harvest. So that might have caused me to be down only 1 or 2. I’ll try again next week or when these are ready to go and monitor the return.
What planet were you on?
Sochaltin I, so EU.
Double check all your lava / side blocks are still intact. A while back I had some turn into stones, not sure how water got in but it was the reason I was a few short.
will check tomorrow.
Checked for lava and all good, replanted and saw 100% seed on each, but was 11 seeds down, this was after I left it for a while again.
wow… seems like something weird is up then. Are you seeing any lag or anything?
no lag, I’m plugged into a fast network at the moment.
Are your rows constantly the same amounts?
When I was having issues I would harvest a row of 300 each section and check to see my return was the correct seed every time. You need to isolate the row or rows where it happens and then investigate that row vigorously and slowly. Slowly ensure all blocks are correct, all lava is in place and all seeds are displaying as Seed Yield 100%.
Nice idea, unfortunately not on the farm that was down but it is in blocks so I will check.
Can’t prove it but swear some things if they sit long will get lower returns. Tried some rice I hadn’t touched in a couple weeks and was down 4 for no reason that I could see… oh well.