Farm not farming

[Winter Wolf]

I am in stage 4 (just started out in the first non-tutorial? not really sure because the game isn't clear when the tutorial ends or so it seems.) and I have a harvesting camp next to fertile soil and placed farms and nothing. The farmers idle and get nothing done. The game complains the harvesting camp is not near enough to the farms but it is literally right next to them.

[Crank Stanis]

It's seasonal thing. Drizzle = Planting, Summer = Harvesting, Storm = afk.
If you build it during the Summer, yeah they do nothing till the next Drizzle

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Winter Wolf:

I am in stage 4 (just started out in the first non-tutorial? not really sure because the game isn't clear when the tutorial ends or so it seems.) and I have a harvesting camp next to fertile soil and placed farms and nothing. The farmers idle and get nothing done. The game complains the harvesting camp is not near enough to the farms but it is literally right next to them.

So maybe you're just using the wrong words, but what you said here makes no sense. So if you actually wrote what you meant, you're doing this all wrong.

You said you put a harvesting camp next to fertile soil. Harvesting camps have nothing to do with farming. Special buildings (small farm, plantation, herb garden, and forester) use farmland.

Camps are used to collect natural resource nodes, not to exploit fertile soil.

[Winter Wolf]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Originally posted by Winter Wolf:

I am in stage 4 (just started out in the first non-tutorial? not really sure because the game isn't clear when the tutorial ends or so it seems.) and I have a harvesting camp next to fertile soil and placed farms and nothing. The farmers idle and get nothing done. The game complains the harvesting camp is not near enough to the farms but it is literally right next to them.

So maybe you're just using the wrong words, but what you said here makes no sense. So if you actually wrote what you meant, you're doing this all wrong.

You said you put a harvesting camp next to fertile soil. Harvesting camps have nothing to do with farming. Special buildings (small farm, plantation, herb garden, and forester) use farmland.

Camps are used to collect natural resource nodes, not to exploit fertile soil.

Yes I made a mistake thinking that Harvesting camps (harvest as in farming) would work as farms. I do not have the farm house technology apparently and that confused me.

[DG]

You have to build the fertile soil into farm fields.

[Winter Wolf]

Originally posted by DG:

You have to build the fertile soil into farm fields.

Yes that is true if irrelevant to the problem presented in my post. That had been done. But I lacked the tech to build farms. And was confused by the Harvesting camp. Thank you for commenting though.

[Erunaraina]

You need Farms (not Harvesting Camps) in order to harvest fertile ground. As mentioned previously, you also must build Fields on that fertile ground. During the Tutorial, you should always be accepting new Orders and new Perks from the crown - they tend to be pivotal. I hope this helps. I too have run into confusing situations so far.