Where did they get a sickle???

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Weird, if not madly important thing....

My farm workers, for the past two seasons, have been harvesting using sickles. There have never been sickles in the village as far as I know. I've checked all the storage (resource, barns, blacksmith) and no sickles. I even went back two seasons to winter save and checked storage, none then either. There are however plenty of Scythes!

So anyone got any ideas where they are getting them from?

[Fel]

Nowhere, that's just the animation showing sickles, just like how hunters will shoot a bow without needing one (they use knives as a tool) or the lumberjack, excavator or miner not having a different tool in hand if they are using stone, copper, bronze or iron tools.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

And showing them kneeling to use it?

I mean. in the past they have always been shown using scythes.

BTW, And I've never actually seen my hunter, sorry, huntress, actually leave the hunting shed let alone use a bow. She seems to be welded to one spot permanently

[Goldi:AI]

You only see the hunter's animation if animals are nearby that she can hunt.

That said, usually the farmer's animation does depend on what tools they have. The sickle they are using wouldn't be in any chest at that point. You would only be able to see it in the details of the barn as tool currently in use.

[Sairi (Jen)]

Have you checked the page where it's shown what durability is left? Maybe at some point there was a sickle and they taken that first.

Edit: we asked dev for advise and he asked for a savefile so they can check

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Ok Folks I've found it.

I went back a couple of years of saves and finally found a sickle in storage - it was earlier this year IRL before I took a couple of months away from the game. Don't remember why I made a sickle, probably a mistake. Anyway that's where they got it from (they must have run out of scythes at some point). Since they don't put it back in storage when they aren't using it I'll just have to wait for it to wear out.

Take's four strokes of a sickle to cut a block but only two of a scythe but all the kneeling and standing will be good exercise for them (unless they end up with rheumatism in old age ).

Appreciate your help (but I guess I wasted your time).

[Sairi (Jen)]

Thanks for letting us know ❤