Problem with gathering chestnuts and maple

[MyWatchBegins89]

I have a gathering post in front of a small patch of chestnut trees and the beaver there isn't doing anything. I have priority set to chestnuts, and the trees aren't marked to be cut. I have a tapper in front of a bunch of maple with syrup prioritized, same issue. They're just sitting there wasting taxpayer dollars or something idk. Any tips?

[EleventhStar]

click on a tree and make sure the chestnuts/maple are ready to be harvested, it takes some time after the tree itself has grown.

[aidans]

As EleventhStar said, check the tree. It takes longer than you think. The tree needs to become mature (i.e. the time it takes to become ready to cut) on the first timer, then runs the 2nd timer to be ready to harvest. Then repeating on the harvest timer.

[jonnin]

they need to be in range of the gather flag, and over time as you build stuff, the access of a flag changes dramatically, so make sure its still in range. A single building can make an entire swath of trees/berries/etc unreachable to the flag guy.

The manual switch flipping in this game can get old, but when you do new stuff, you have to do it unless your population can absorb a bunch of do-nothing beavers. Like early on, you need planks and gears, but at times you have to turn off the gears so you don't turn every plank into a gear and mess up your construction project. Later in the game, you have enough production of both and storage of both that its no longer necessary to do that. Or early on, you manually turn a water dump on to keep your trees in a long drought, but after a while you fixed the problem and everything is watered by your engineering. Same with this... turn off the tapper and gather flag, let the trees be for a couple of months, then turn it on and if you have enough trees etc it will become a cyclic sustainable product.

[adritheonly]

I usually find that I forgot to build a specific warehouse for an item and that is why they don't harvest at all.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by adritheonly:

I usually find that I forgot to build a specific warehouse for an item and that is why they don't harvest at all.

the gathering flag and tapper have some internal storage so they should still harvest in those situations.

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by adritheonly:

I usually find that I forgot to build a specific warehouse for an item and that is why they don't harvest at all.

the gathering flag and tapper have some internal storage so they should still harvest in those situations.

That is true.