farmers do not plow the field

[Guts]

I built the farmhouse, assigned 3 families and have a single big field. it has been two years but they do not plow the field. it has been sitting at 0% for the past 2 years. what am I missing?

[Mintiper]

did you choose a crop?

[Guts]

Originally posted by Mintiper:

did you choose a crop?

of course I did. like I said, plowing percentage has been sitting at 0% for the past 2 years in the game.

[Dayemon]

Farming is game breakingly bugged at the moment. In September you want to harvest only. Then you have to stop the workers by setting the field to fallow. Wait til October then set the fields to what crop you want. They will plow and sow the field and as long as your done by December everything should be good. Then repeat only harvest in September and plow and sow in October.

The real bug for me is I usually have 4 fields and randomly in March, usually 2 up to 3 of the 4 fields will completely reset to unplowed status, I then have to plow and sow all over again which I shouldn't even do in March because you get almost NOTHING come September.

If it's first year and I get this bug I restart. I'm on a year 7 save now brute forcing my way through the hunger or lack of tavern due to no barley because my fields reset every spring.

[CocoRider]

Maybe you assign an ox to work on that field? i have been in that situation in my previous run too , they plowed and then just stand in the middle of field did not planing the seed at all
I fix it by unassign an ox and its work but i don't know about you tho

also just a little tip , if you're not in the late game , don't do big field but do many 0.2 to 0.5 morgen field

[Guts]

Originally posted by CocoRider:

Maybe you assign an ox to work on that field? i have been in that situation in my previous run too , they plowed and then just stand in the middle of field did not planing the seed at all
I fix it by unassign an ox and its work but i don't know about you tho

how can I unassign an ox. I have 3 btw, two of them are transporting stuff but the third one is nowhere to be seen (I bought the third one via trade)

[Mintiper]

You have strange bugs. The only thing that i have, and i dont know if it is a bug or not, that i get extremly low wheat in one harvest (even if it says 200)

[Guts]

nevermind, I am in the third year and I just see them starting. farmers plowing by hand, without an ox. it is 4% now

[nightangel56]

they tend to go for vegetable plots at houses as well look where your people are going from the farmhouse.

[CocoRider]

Originally posted by Guts:

Originally posted by CocoRider:

Maybe you assign an ox to work on that field? i have been in that situation in my previous run too , they plowed and then just stand in the middle of field did not planing the seed at all
I fix it by unassign an ox and its work but i don't know about you tho

how can I unassign an ox. I have 3 btw, two of them are transporting stuff but the third one is nowhere to be seen (I bought the third one via trade)

then you may not assign an ox in the first place , in order to use an ox to help plowing the field , you need to research it first and then upgrade farmhouse , after you finished upgrade farmhouse there should be animal tap in the farmhouse drop-down box to assign an ox to help farmer out

[Guts]

Originally posted by nightangel56:

they tend to go for vegetable plots at houses as well look where your people are going from the farmhouse.

they idly waited for 3 years until recently.

[Guts]

Originally posted by CocoRider:

Originally posted by Guts:

how can I unassign an ox. I have 3 btw, two of them are transporting stuff but the third one is nowhere to be seen (I bought the third one via trade)

then you may not assign an ox in the first place , in order to use an ox to help plowing the field , you need to research it first and then upgrade farmhouse , after you finished upgrade farmhouse there should be animal tap in the farmhouse drop-down box to assign an ox to help farmer out

started a new game and building a farmhouse right now. I'll follow your advice

[9erRed]

Greetings,

I've found that mid size fields work better, allows the farmers to complete the fields and move onto the next. If the fields too large it will not be finished in time to sow it.
My farms have 3 to 4 mid size fields, rotating the crops so at any one time theirs always something to do. (that's around 6 to 8 times the size of the farm house plot)
Also set the "trashing" to a higher level than standard.
- There's lots of storage in the farms so they can hold both the unprocessed field crop and the trashed product.
- Hopefully the granary or warehouse workers will pick this up.