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[Zanthos]

Thank you for clarification Chris, it finally makes sense.

So basically, I should just wait the whole day to get the resources.

[Frits]

Project timings for resource gathering projects are estimates only.
Skill, tiredness and tools all are taken into account when calculating project progress. The estimated times are based on an untired character of just marginally under average skill. Also in Cantr only one project can be worked on in any one Cantr hour

As you work on a project tiredness is accumulated after every hour of work, this slows down your progress. So in the case of the average character a single project aimed at a days estimated gathering may finally take 8.1 hours so will be finished after 9 hours.

With a project for 1/8th of the daily amount repeated 7 times then your character finishes the first project in the first hour , but the 2nd project takes a little
longer because of tiredness and is not completed in the first hour so has to wait to the 2nd hour of processing. The same for the 3rd and so on - all taking a little longer - In total 15 hours would be necessary

This of course only applies for the untired character with a skill level just below average - differnt figures will apply for differnt skill levels - Daily tiredness reductiona nd teh fact that your skill level marginally improves after each hour all complicate this further

Single long projects are inherently more productive - but the smaller repeating ones can be more flexible and allow access to the results of the gathering earlier

In the case of your character you probably need to reduce the project yield slightly to ensure they finish within one hourly repeat to be efficient.

The deviation has no effect on productivity

About that last bit, when i entered a project that would surely finish within one hour i did not get a message "project carrotfarming has been finished and 50 carrots were added to your inventory". I immediately jumped to the conclusion it hadn't payed off and nothing was added. i already owned and had eaten carrots so not like i could say for sure.

I very much support the idea to assign hours and days to projects instead of figures altho the old way is quite realistic, my real life-projects often take much longer to finish than projected.