Why won't my cultists farm?

[MrEntity]

I either try to tell them to farm (and it says no farming tasks available, or whatever), or I tell them to farm and they've left off their duties by the time I return home.
Does the farming task just only involve watering? They clearly don't harvest or plant for me, so I'm very confused.

[pp]

Originally posted by MrEntity:

I either try to tell them to farm (and it says no farming tasks available, or whatever), or I tell them to farm and they've left off their duties by the time I return home.
Does the farming task just only involve watering? They clearly don't harvest or plant for me, so I'm very confused.

You probably need to upgrade your farm to tier 2, which has them do more of the work!

[andrew.hill]

The farms have a number of components.

You need seed storage bins; manure storage bins; and the farms themselves as well as the farm plots.

Each plot goes through several stages:
- firstly you plant something.
- then water it
- then give it manure.
- lastly harvest it.

The upgraded farm automates more of the process - earlier on I’m afraid you have to do it.

Getting manure is quite tricky. Clearly your followers will drop some (or use a toilet preferably!) but often not enough to keep your crops fertilised.

There is a grass to compost converter (sorry can’t remember it’s name).

Lastly there is the natural burial process which converts bodies to manure. I recommend you have both in order to have plenty of ways to generate manure.

You will also find some in dungeons if you are lucky!

I suspect your followers are being unhelpful because you are missing or have not yet unlocked some of those components - and early on I’m afraid you do some of that yourself.

[MrEntity]

Yeah, I've got a seed bin and worked out the farm had an area of effect (which isn't immediately clear), so I moved everything into that area of effect and they still only water stuff. I guess I just need an upgraded farm. Which is confusing. The game should really specify what the building actually does.
Thanks for the info, though. I look forward to the glorious future when my farmers actually farm, and the leader of their religion isn't literally picking their ♥♥♥♥ up off the ground.

[nivada94]

Originally posted by MrEntity:

Yeah, I've got a seed bin and worked out the farm had an area of effect (which isn't immediately clear), so I moved everything into that area of effect and they still only water stuff. I guess I just need an upgraded farm. Which is confusing. The game should really specify what the building actually does.
Thanks for the info, though. I look forward to the glorious future when my farmers actually farm, and the leader of their religion isn't literally picking their ♥♥♥♥ up off the ground.

But the game literally does specify what the building does tough.

[MrEntity]

Originally posted by nivada94:

But the game literally does specify what the building does tough.

Yeah, I realized that the next time I booted up the game. Specifically says "will water".
But now my people have randomly started actually planting.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by MrEntity:

Originally posted by nivada94:

But the game literally does specify what the building does tough.

Yeah, I realized that the next time I booted up the game. Specifically says "will water".
But now my people have randomly started actually planting.

Was the seed bin empty before? Otherwise it could have been bugged. There was a bug where followers would just stop recognizing a building(farm, seed bin, ect) existed and refuse to work at it. I thought they fixed it but it's possible it was that bug, restarting usually does fix it.

[MrEntity]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

Originally posted by MrEntity:

Yeah, I realized that the next time I booted up the game. Specifically says "will water".
But now my people have randomly started actually planting.

Was the seed bin empty before? Otherwise it could have been bugged. There was a bug where followers would just stop recognizing a building(farm, seed bin, ect) existed and refuse to work at it. I thought they fixed it but it's possible it was that bug, restarting usually does fix it.

Nah, it was full. But even now it seems like even though my farmers are actually farming, they're the ones most likely to just randomly stop working and go elsewhere. It's honestly the only thing in the game I've had trouble with, and I'm playing on hard.