This is about the best explanation I can come up with the behavior, but I can't be sure its right. Have you put the seeds for those designated fields into a nearby chest? If there's no seeds, then the Farmers won't have any reason to work the field. Especially since it seems to be one of the easiest way of gaining gratitude points. I just feel like there should be something I am missing, I shouldn't have to use a workaround to make the farmers farm. I haven't seen the trowel allow for placing stuff horizontally, although I guess I could just use the gloves to move them around once placed. If I could just get them to till the land in the first place, I would add irrigation and stuff to the fields but I don't want to go through the effort of planning that out until I know they will work the land.īased on this additional info, would you have any other suggestions? People keep saying to use the new hammer and the trowel. I have tried moving around scarecrows, specifying that certain crops should go in that field etc. They just aren't acknowledging any of the others. It's not a massive field, either, I think it's regular sized. It's like 6 blocks away from another field. They did not do any work on any of the fields until I built a barn attached to the field that was not against the house. I also placed 2 fields in the river a bit further away. Then I placed 3 fields around it, 2 are right up against the house. (it's near the pond/lake that the rivers in the Garden area feed into). I had read that they won't farm unless they are fed and have a bathroom, so I built a farmhouse with bathrooms, inn, restaurant and relaxing room before adding fields. I just made these ones, I had decided to wait until end-game to build up IoA because I wanted access to all materials first. I really appreciate the detailed response. Really all you need is a chest near the fields, and the chest doesn't have to be in a room. They will often perform this action on rainy days when they are unable to work the fields. The one thing a Barn will do is Farmers will sometimes scavenge on the ground and drop common items (like Wood and Stone) into the chest. The game makes you think a Barn is needed but its not. Originally posted by lilisaur:Barn rooms have zero impact on farming. When one of my crops drops to a single 999 in a chest I rotate my Scarecrows around, hammering them all up and then placing them back down with the first to the field of the most needed crop and so on down to the nearly-useless Chili Pepper field last.) I've had to do this several dozen times myself, else I'd have thousands and thousands of some crops and had long ago run out of others. (In fact, after you've got several fields going, if they're spread out across the area you may need to periodically hammer up all the Scarecrows and put them back down in a different order to cause your Farmers to focus on a different field of different crops. Hammering up the Scarecrows resets their behavior to target a different field. Farmer AI makes harvesting and watering existing crops higher priority than tilling new land or planting new crops. My best guess is they have enough to do in the field they are working. If farmers are not working a field you want them to, hammer up the Scarecrows in the field(s) they are working.
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