Villagers far away from village

[Ros]

I am sorry if this has been discussed before, I have searched all around to find out about this to no avail. I have noticed only since recently expanding my village with new fields and more houses that quite a few of my workers are now walking -realllllyyyyyy- far away during the work day. In fact, they aren't ever at their workstations even though under management it says they are indeed working. Any reason why this is happening. I have verified that they have resources, the buildings aren't damaged in any way, other villagers have no issues traversing my roads which are really simple (even though many of them just cut through the woods anyway)...With 4-5 of my villagers missing from their post it makes some of my town look really dead because no one is there working. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you!

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[Ros]

Happening every day, different villagers not always the same one....Am I the only one this happens to? lol

*Edit - as of right now on this day, I have 9 of my villagers (who all have assigned jobs) currently not even in my village, but walking roads quite a ways away from the village. So now there are even -more- of them.

[Jake Braker]

Only farmers must be at a barn or field to do their jobs.

[Ros]

Originally posted by Jake Braker:

Only farmers must be at a barn or field to do their jobs.

While I understand that they can still produce, my town looks extremely, empty. Like I have my herbalist and my smith next to each other, and neither of them are there, or there is just no one at my workshop or the like. Having 9 villagers just not in the town while working when I only have about 30 who are even able to work, really just breaks the immersion of my busy town. It just looks dead and its extremely annoying.

Also, this does happen with my farmers as well. My wife is set as a farmer and for 2 days of the season she was way off on the road near Denica instead of working in the fields. Our house is literally next to the barn and field where she is assigned.

[Morri]

Seems like either a pathing issue or otherwise whatever it is you built right before it started happening blocked them from their usual path to the work station?
Maybe you should try posting a save game here of when they are walking on that far away road, so the bug hunters can take a look.

[Ros]

Originally posted by Morri:

Seems like either a pathing issue or otherwise whatever it is you built right before it started happening blocked them from their usual path to the work station?
Maybe you should try posting a save game here of when they are walking on that far away road, so the bug hunters can take a look.

I will see if I can figure out what building it was, as I had expanding my town with quite a few buildings around the same time. Another forum post elsewhere mentioned using some walls around my town as well to try and keep them from wandering. I will give these things a shot and come back here if the issue remains. Thanks for the advice!

[invivo4u]

What puzzles me is sometimes workers will take a direct path from work site to home (through the forest, e.g.) and other times they follow the default roads. I've built some roads but there's not way to link them to the pathing.