Followers cutting trees and mining rocks when not told to.

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I want to keep trees and large rocks in my camp. So i order my followers to do tasks other than mine or chop trees, yet they do so anyway occasionally. Is this a bug or something? Would be nice to have a feature to protect the natural materials in the camp.

[B1G TO4STY]

ahhh, yeah sometimes when they finished whatever you ordered them to do, they go and do other tasks to keep busy. i understand though; we should be able to at least replant trees and rebuild those stone structures.

[Tyroki]

I'd suggest an easy, early-game fix for this would just be to allow spending resources to recreate those large rocks and trees as decorations.

[Courtflash]

It's not a bug (that I know of), your followers will gather resources even if you don't tell them to when they have nothing else to do. I don't understand why you don't want them to though? There will be a way to get more in your cult if that's what you're worried about.

Edit: Forgot to add, trees do grow back eventually, but even when they don't, you can still get lumber at your cult in the future.

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Originally posted by Courtflash:

It's not a bug (that I know of), your followers will gather resources even if you don't tell them to when they have nothing else to do. I don't understand why you don't want them to though? There will be a way to get more in your cult if that's what you're worried about.

Edit: Forgot to add, trees do grow back eventually, but even when they don't, you can still get lumber at your cult in the future.

afaik trees that re-grow don't grow into the giant trees you start with. And rocks obviously don't grow back.

> I don't understand why you don't want them to though?

I said, "Would be nice to have a feature to protect the natural materials in the camp."

can you not infer my intent from that?

[OG]

Would be nice to have that option for those who want a natural-looking base. I think it's working as intended, if Follower has nothing else to do they'll harvest those resources. Not sure why there's not an option to rebuild them as decorations.

[Courtflash]

Originally posted by <:):

Originally posted by Courtflash:

It's not a bug (that I know of), your followers will gather resources even if you don't tell them to when they have nothing else to do. I don't understand why you don't want them to though? There will be a way to get more in your cult if that's what you're worried about.

Edit: Forgot to add, trees do grow back eventually, but even when they don't, you can still get lumber at your cult in the future.

afaik trees that re-grow don't grow into the giant trees you start with. And rocks obviously don't grow back.

> I don't understand why you don't want them to though?

I said, "Would be nice to have a feature to protect the natural materials in the camp."

can you not infer my intent from that?

Sort of? Materials are materials. Like I said there are ways to gather lumber at your cult that you can unlock. I don't think it's that different, but I guess I understand why you'd want lumber from trees specifically. I don't remember how big the trees you start with are, but the trees that grow back aren't exactly small. It would be nice to plant your own trees, but trees do respawn, so that part of the game does seem to be working as intended. Ultimately it doesn't impact the game (or the lumber for that matter), so I didn't get what the big deal is.

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Originally posted by Courtflash:

Originally posted by <:):

afaik trees that re-grow don't grow into the giant trees you start with. And rocks obviously don't grow back.

> I don't understand why you don't want them to though?

I said, "Would be nice to have a feature to protect the natural materials in the camp."

can you not infer my intent from that?

Sort of? Materials are materials. Like I said there are ways to gather lumber at your cult that you can unlock. I don't think it's that different, but I guess I understand why you'd want lumber from trees specifically. I don't remember how big the trees you start with are, but the trees that grow back aren't exactly small. It would be nice to plant your own trees, but trees do respawn, so that part of the game does seem to be working as intended. Ultimately it doesn't impact the game (or the lumber for that matter), so I didn't get what the big deal is.

Why are you assuming i'm struggling to gather resources. If i needed resources i wouldn't be avoiding gathering them.
I asked if it's possible to STOP followers harvesting resources, not how to get resources.

> but I guess I understand why you'd want lumber from trees specifically.
That isn't what i want at all.
I don't need lumber from trees, since i can just use the buildings that generate lumber and stone. I want the trees to remain.

[Ninian]

honestly, a good happy medium would be the option to have decorations that are basically the natural looking structures but with a protective ribbon or similar on them. (Shinto as a faith has a lot of that sort of thing)

[Courtflash]

Originally posted by <:):

Originally posted by Courtflash:

Sort of? Materials are materials. Like I said there are ways to gather lumber at your cult that you can unlock. I don't think it's that different, but I guess I understand why you'd want lumber from trees specifically. I don't remember how big the trees you start with are, but the trees that grow back aren't exactly small. It would be nice to plant your own trees, but trees do respawn, so that part of the game does seem to be working as intended. Ultimately it doesn't impact the game (or the lumber for that matter), so I didn't get what the big deal is.

Why are you assuming i'm struggling to gather resources. If i needed resources i wouldn't be avoiding gathering them.
I asked if it's possible to STOP followers harvesting resources, not how to get resources.

> but I guess I understand why you'd want lumber from trees specifically.
That isn't what i want at all.
I don't need lumber from trees, since i can just use the buildings that generate lumber and stone. I want the trees to remain.

I didn't think you were struggling, I thought maybe you wanted to gather lumber from only the trees when you said protect the natural materials, but I see what you're saying now. There isn't a way to stop them, other than keep them busy with other tasks and redirect them.

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well, i started a new cult, kept low followers to make sure they were all worshipping, made sure to get back in time to prevent the devotion capacity maxing out, left unbuilt buildings to occupy their time in case i didn't make it back in time., built 3 lumberyards and mines as safety nets. everything wen't fine until day 50, when i came back to my big trees with axe marks in them :(
I still had unbuilt buildings and an untended farm, but somebody decided cutting the tree was priority, even though my untended lumberyard is right beside it...

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Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

Originally posted by B1G TO4STY:

ahhh, yeah sometimes when they finished whatever you ordered them to do, they go and do other tasks to keep busy. i understand though; we should be able to at least replant trees and rebuild those stone structures.

Or you could just build Lumberyards and Mines to keep them busy with wood and stone needs.

Originally posted by <:):

well, i started a new cult, kept low followers to make sure they were all worshipping, made sure to get back in time to prevent the devotion capacity maxing out, left unbuilt buildings to occupy their time in case i didn't make it back in time., built 3 lumberyards and mines as safety nets. everything wen't fine until day 50, when i came back to my big trees with axe marks in them :(
I still had unbuilt buildings and an untended farm, but somebody decided cutting the tree was priority, even though my untended lumberyard is right beside it...

I think the cultists will ALWAYS prioritize their requested job above all else so even if you have some buildings being constructed unless you have some dedicated builder cultists they won't be prioritized if a cultist has a job of chopping wood or mining stone.

The first sentence in the comment you just quoted: " kept low followers to make sure they were all worshipping"

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Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

Originally posted by <:):

The first sentence in the comment you just quoted: " kept low followers to make sure they were all worshipping"

The UI isn't always responsive for Mouse controls, they likely meant to have them worshiping but because the UI isn't always 100% responsive with the Mouse they might have selected something else on accident.

I'm using a controller. I watched to make absolutely sure they were all worshipping. The issue is that once the shrine is full of devotion they move on to some other task. It's just a shame they decide seemingly arbitrarily rather than any hierarchy of priority.

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Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

Originally posted by <:):

I'm using a controller. I watched to make absolutely sure they were all worshipping. The issue is that once the shrine is full of devotion they move on to some other task. It's just a shame they decide seemingly arbitrarily rather than any hierarchy of priority.

Well if you have the other shrines unlocked it might help a bit since those are meant for the members that aren't assigned to worship at the shrine itself, I've already placed five of them around my area, two of which are close to the main shrine itself so they will still be worshiping while "off-duty"

i placed 2, i suppose i should've placed more. but they fill up incredibly quickly. I hope the devs just add large trees and rocks as decorations.

[YYSteeve]

Just assign them to worship. That is what I do when I want them to leave my cult alone.