Farmers/villagers aren't doing anything

[Mushuukyou]

I can't get farmer to pick my crops or anything.. and how do I give the villagers jobs? Also, I have an achievement to get a pet, but there's no way for me to find out how to do that.

[Fair]

The settlers only perform jobs when you are playing on the latest experimental. Which means you have to opt in inside your Steam library:
Necesse → Properties → Betas → Select 0.21.x in dropdown.

If you have already done that, the farmers should harvest crops near his home etc.
Hope that helped :)

[Mushuukyou]

Originally posted by Fair:

The settlers only perform jobs when you are playing on the latest experimental. Which means you have to opt in inside your Steam library:
Necesse → Properties → Betas → Select 0.21.x in dropdown.

If you have already done that, the farmers should harvest crops near his home etc.
Hope that helped :)

Oh, ok. Will I lose my progress? What are the cons to opting in? Will these updates cause me to have to start a new game eventually?

[Fair]

No, you won't lose your progress. But if you aren't too far into the game, I would totally recommend starting a new one since a lot of world generation has changed and a bunch of other stuff :)
There pretty much aren't any cons, except if you don't like changes and updates :p
The experimental version is pretty far ahead of the base game at this point.

[Mushuukyou]

Originally posted by Fair:

No, you won't lose your progress. But if you aren't too far into the game, I would totally recommend starting a new one since a lot of world generation has changed and a bunch of other stuff :)
There pretty much aren't any cons, except if you don't like changes and updates :p
The experimental version is pretty far ahead of the base game at this point.

Sir, will you fix it so that we can change the keys for the hotbar please?

[Fair]

Totally. This is actually a feature that is in the next experimental version, scheduled to be released soon :)

[Mushuukyou]

Originally posted by Fair:

Totally. This is actually a feature that is in the next experimental version, scheduled to be released soon :)

Also, in the experimental, you can no longer hold down Control when creating an item in order to make 5 of them, like I was able to do before. I didn't like using Shift because it created as much as possible.

[Fair]

Yea, it has been replaced by the ability to hold down left-click to craft more. Try that :)

Before there was a problem where sometimes people would try to take 5 from a stack, and it would end up putting them in the trash slot. So I have made the CTRL hotkey exclusive to trashing items now

[Mushuukyou]

So I live in beta now? Will I ever have to worry about savegame breaking later? I can just live in beta? Finally one day beta will become full release? And my savegame will still be ok?

[Fair]

Everything will migrate with every new version. Eventually the beta will become the fully released game.
There will only be a few places where some stuff can't migrate properly, but those will be minor things.

[BayagBag]

Originally posted by Fair:

Everything will migrate with every new version. Eventually the beta will become the fully released game.
There will only be a few places where some stuff can't migrate properly, but those will be minor things.

Just to ask, there is a plot of land not getting farmed. Is this a bug?

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by BayagBag:

Originally posted by Fair:

Everything will migrate with every new version. Eventually the beta will become the fully released game.
There will only be a few places where some stuff can't migrate properly, but those will be minor things.

Just to ask, there is a plot of land not getting farmed. Is this a bug?

Settlers can only reach 100 squares-radius from their bed. Be sure you have your farm inside that radius. Besides that, be sure you have priority checked so agriculture is above others. Also be sure they are allowed to that area.

So you have three things to pay attention to, to sum it up.

a. Your farm is inside the 100 square-radius?
b. The settler have agriculture as highest priority?
c. Is your settler allowed to that area? Is he/she also allowed to a storage chest (so inventory wont become full and stop working).
d. Remember settlers will only replant what was already planted, they can never plant something from nothing.

With all these four things in mind, you are good to go.