Why are they hand ploughing when the crop hasn't been harvested?

[Didz]

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I've just noticed that the crop not being harvested my farmers have started hand ploughing in October (the middle of the Autumn) and despite the fact that there is a ox on permanent assignment to do the ploughing for them that is sitting idle at the farm.

Why?

[cTz]

They only harvest in September. If it's October, it's too late.

[Didz]

Originally posted by cTz:

They only harvest in September. If it's October, it's too late.

The tool tip saves that Autumn is Harvesting, Ploughing and sowing. i just assumed that they did it in sequence by field rather than by month. e.g. Harvest field, plough the field and sow the field.

Why doesn't it say September Harvesting, October Ploughing, November Sowing?

That way at least I could re-assign all my farming families in October to something more useful whilst the oxen do the ploughing. Rather than have them doing it by hand and leaving the oxen idle.

Farming just seems a bit broken to me. It's not logical like other similar games.

[THEDOSSBOSS]

Originally posted by Didz:

Originally posted by cTz:

They only harvest in September. If it's October, it's too late.

The tool tip saves that Autumn is Harvesting, Ploughing and sowing. i just assumed that they did it in sequence by field rather than by month. e.g. Harvest field, plough the field and sow the field.

Why doesn't it say September Harvesting, October Ploughing, November Sowing?

That way could re-assign all my farming families in October to something more useful whilst the oxen do the ploughing. Rather than have them doing it by hand and leainvg the oxen idle.

Farming just seems a bit broken to me. It's not logical like other similar games.

Unfortunately for now, the order of things in the game in general hasn't been set up well. Marketplaces suffer from this as well, which directly negatively affects the development of regions. The change will likely be made at some stage, but not for now

[Lich Lord]

Was the Ox working before? If not make sure you have a family assigned as a handler in the stable. That might work.

There should be a button on the field that says force early harvest. If you planted too late in the season for it to fully grow you should be able to force the harvest before they plow it.

[Didz]

Originally posted by Lich Lord:

Was the Ox working before? If not make sure you have a family assigned as a handler in the stable. That might work.

I watched Overcharged Eggs Farming video tutorial and the farming looked brilliant and he never mentioned the need to assign the Ox a permanent handler and his worked fine.

However, I have really weird stuff happening on my famrs like the hand ploughing before the crops are harvested. But also there is this weird thing that happens sometimes where the field seems to plough itself. There is nobody visible but the farm just ploughs itself at a really high speed. as though a ghost Ox is doing it. I put it down to some sort of GFX gliche but its much faster than even a normal ox plough.

[Kedryn]

I've seen the fast plowing bug. I think it happens when you have an ox assigned to the farm, but the ox is still walking to the farm.

[Didz]

Originally posted by Kedryn:

I've seen the fast ploughing bug. I think it happens when you have an ox assigned to the farm, but the ox is still walking to the farm.

I don't know but its really weird to watch.