For some reason, I can't get my farmer to plant crops

[ZedClampet]

I'm not sure which chest she uses, but I think I've tried the storage building, the farming shack and the barn, but it always says she's missing something and she stands there sweeping. I'm putting bags, seed, and hoes in for her. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. It's Spring, and I'm putting seeds for the right season in, although one time she did start planting and she was planting seeds off-season.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Does she have fertiliser? She needs that first. FYI you can put farming supplies in either rge farm shed or the resource shed but generally best to use the resource shed for everything thats not food.

[Maehlice]

They'll need the same tools you do -- either in the Farm Shed storage or in your Resource Storage:

* Grub Up - Hoe
* Fertilise - Bag + Fertiliser
* Plough - Hoe
* Plant - Bag + Seed or Grain
* Harvest - Sickle or Scythe (grains only)

[Dragon]

As above, sounds like you're missing fertilizer. It's cheap to buy, and pretty easy to make by either rotting food in a compost bin (per season) or getting pigs to make manure with. A donkey shed also makes a pretty decent amount you can manually gather, depending on how big your village and crop plots are.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by Dragon:

As above, sounds like you're missing fertilizer. It's cheap to buy, and pretty easy to make by either rotting food in a compost bin (per season) or getting pigs to make manure with. A donkey shed also makes a pretty decent amount you can manually gather, depending on how big your village and crop plots are.

You don't have to rot it in a compost bin.

[ZedClampet]

Nah, she doesn't have fertilizer because the fields are already prepared for sowing. I'm just doing something stupid, I guess. Or maybe I need to try to move her to a different building and back to the farm shack. Thanks for trying to help.

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by ZedClampet:

Nah, she doesn't have fertilizer because the fields are already prepared for sowing. I'm just doing something stupid, I guess. Or maybe I need to try to move her to a different building and back to the farm shack. Thanks for trying to help.

If you've already fertilised the fields, make sure in the "Management" tab that you've assigned a crop that's currently in-season to be planted and for which you have seeds in storage. Just putting the seeds in the storage isn't what triggers them to plant those seeds.

EDIT: Within the "Knowledge" tab, there is a video demonstration under "Crops Management."

[Philtre]

Originally posted by ZedClampet:

Nah, she doesn't have fertilizer because the fields are already prepared for sowing.

Grab a sack and some seeds, and check if the game will let you plant the chosen crop in the field. If it lets you plant something, check in the Field management screen that the crop was correctly registered and shows as "growing". If it won't let you do the planting yourself, it probably still needs to be fertilized and plowed again, so you will have to give her fertilizer and a hoe.

[Hexenkind]

May be it isn´t the season for the thing you want to plant?

[ZedClampet]

I redid all the fields in the management section, and she started planting. She planted one field and then stopped and started sweeping again. I verified yet again that she had all the stuff she needed, then saved and logged out to take a break. Then just a minute ago I logged back in and all the fields were planted. Weird.

[Maehlice]

Maybe she has performance anxiety and only works when you're not looking. They say a watched pot never boils.

[G.O.A.T]

Not gonna lie the farming is the only skill/task I do myself. The villagers always seem to mess it up or need so much hand holding I just do it myself. Easy when all other tasks are automated.

[galadon3]

Originally posted by G.O.A.T:

Not gonna lie the farming is the only skill/task I do myself. The villagers always seem to mess it up or need so much hand holding I just do it myself. Easy when all other tasks are automated.

No idea what you are talking about.
They could need a better priorisation, like fertilizing fields not to planted in the actual season only AFTER everything that needs to be seeded in the season is done.
And you can't set them to change crops between seasons.
But if you accept those two limitations and put fields down for everything you want to plant and hire enough farmers for the work they don't mess up anything.