Villagers are barely harvesting vegetables.

[son of a gun]

I have many houses with large plots of vegetables, and some with small/medium plots of vegetables, but virtually none of them get fully harvested. The harvesting the villagers do is infrequent and sporadic, both in march after winter and during harvest season in september. I have more than 21 houses with vegetable plots, but the majority of them never get all their vegetables fully harvested.

I thought the problem was because I did not have granary workers to collect the vegetables. I built one granary near the vegetable plots, and set in the advanced options for the workers to only collect vegetables and apples. Didn't do a thing. During harvest times, I check on the workers and all it says they are doing is waiting.


What puzzles me is how some players have said they can pump out 300 vegetables on just two plots. I have more than 21 plots of veggies (many of them large) and its only turning out about 40-50 veggies per harvest time (march and september).

Is this a bug, or am i just doing something wrong???

[josephson.michael]

If busy with other jobs, they won't have the time to harvest.

[cachmandrake]

I've noticed this too, vegetable output can vary.

I assume it's because the get assigned jobs that are too far away.

[MadHaTr]

Also not the dev stated to many houses with work plots can have negative effects on work in other areas.

[EN16M471C]

Might be their workplace being to busy? It's important to micromanage which jobs families with veggies have. They shouldn't work in granaries or storhouses. Have them working in woodcutting, sawmill etc.

Also plot shape matters. You want almost square shape. Avoid elongated plots because they'll waste to much time going back and forth.

[8Squirrels]

I've been using a mix of houses with no work plots at about a 50/50 ratio and my cities are running much more efficiently since trying it out...so far... lol

[Hugebawls]

Separate your veggie burgs make them one at a time with big squared plots. I've found that to be best. You can go back about 3 points to a road and square it. Reduce the size all the way to 1. I know it seems like a waste but save before you do it and see the outcome later.

[son of a gun]

the answers ive often seen on the internet is that the plots have to be built a certain way, or villagers shouldn't be assigned to other tasks when vegetables are ripe for harvest.

Does that mean when its harvest time for vegetables I should unassign all the villagers that have veggies so they can go back to harvest them? Within the game mechanics, that seems inconsistent. Granary workers should be able to harvest the vegetables while the other villagers are doing their other tasks. I read a post by a guy who said that is exactly what happened - his granary workers harvested the vegetables from the house plots. I don't see why that is not happening with me.

I hope a future patch corrects the vegetable harvesting mechanic.

[Hugemoron]

One large veggie farm with a double house goes a LONG way.

[Kryten]

Try giving the families of those houses low effort jobs or unassign them.
In my game I made them church and stall workers, so they have enough time to plant and harvest...I also have the two.family houses there, for extra workers. I have more veggies than I can eat or sell and only two houses with larger plots. same goes for orchards I think

[Scott]

I have a small town (~130 people), 10 of those houses have reasonably large plots yet only ever seem to have about 30-40 veg in stock. I see them plant to full plot and harvest the full plot.
The houses with the veg plots are not assigned to any other job so should be able to focus on the plots
the 2 granaries are not too far away and I have about 9 families assigned so I know it's not an issue of logistics
I asked a question earlier if the fertility affected the plot yields as my town is in a poor fertility map, I was advised that fertility does not impact veg plot yields. If so, why are my yields so low when I read other people get hundreds of veg from a few veg plots?
I'm beginning to think the plot yields are linked to fertility otherwise why are my yields so low when I'm doing everything that I'm supposed to do to generate a lot more veg

[laveley]

All your vegs are probably just sitting in the house pantries. Open the general tab when you select the plots and you will probably see them.

And no, nobody will pick it up to put into the grannaries\markets because its bugged.

Its a gamebreaking bug that happens that neither vegetables nor apples get picked up unless the pantries are full, and even than they will only be picked up like one or two.

[son of a gun]

my house pantries were empty, but the veggie plots were full. My granary workers were just waiting doing nothing. I guess its a bug, I really hope this gets fixed.

[son of a gun]

For you guys who were able to harvest tons of veggies with just two big plots, how long did it take you to harvest an abundance of veggies? Only one year? I read somehwere that it takes 2-3 years to get up to that level