Not sure if it’s a bug or not or how to go about this, but it seems my farmers can sometimes be a bit… Odd…
When I start a new game, I immediately create 2 farmers and put them to work. They do well right up to the point where they have to harvest.
The farmers will start harvesting 2 different pumpkins. However, when farmer 1 has finished harvesting a single pumpkin, farmer 2 will stop harvesting his pumpkin in order to replant the empty patch left by farmer 1.
It seems like the farming goes a lot slower when the second farmer keeps stopping his work to replant a patch. He never seems to finish harvesting a single thing because he’s constantly refilling patches. My workaround to this issue is to assign a 3rd farmer to pick up the slack.
Tl;dr: Farmer never finishes harvesting something because he keeps planting seedlings instead.
It gets weirder than that. I’ll watch a farmer harvest a single plant in one patch, run to another patch and harvest a single plant, run back to the first patch and harvest one plant, run back to the other patch and harvest, run to a third patch and hoe a new square, etc. I have three farmers and they all do this. It’s insane to have the scheduler send them all over the place one square at a time.They spend 30% of their time running to the next “assignment”.
I think also maybe being able to draft workers in for the actual harvest, but then only farmers can plant and maintain.
We see this in real world scenarios, apple picking and olive vineyards / hops / rice / wheat / grass, all of these used general labour for the harvest, but the farmers actually tend the land.
Yeah I’m sorry that there’s no clear suggestion, I thought the suggestion was implied…
My suggestion is that they look into the mechanics of farming. When they have the time of course.
I really like the idea that @Battlewrath comes up with. Harvesting ‘ready’ plants could be an option left open to workers. That would allow them to get the food they need when the crops are ready, reducing spoilage, etc.
@ pwb I guess I’m luckier than you! Mine will ignore new patches for a while, but they seem to be able to concentrate in one area. Another way of cutting the issue is to make small patches rather than large ones.
Hi @Joel
Thank you for reporting this.
I have made a fix in Alpha 14.
A bit of background for those interested: This used to work (because I fixed it in alpha 11 or 12 somewhere), but then it broke after we converted half of farming to use the BFS pathfinder, but the planting part was not BFS and all the priorities for each action became out of sync. Oh the joys of game development.
lol nah it’s fine joel, I’ve used the parsee jealous joke before, too, when our new moderator made his debut (you know, that @jomaxro fella). I’m just happy the farms will be getting fixed.
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