Am I doing something wrong?

[Aleanna85]

I have been playing this game for a while now on and off have almost 350 hours logged. Between me and my husbands games we play together we have several over the 150 day marker. I love the game play but there are somethings I am just not sure on if I am setting the villagers up right or if it is something else. For example:

1) Wood Cutter:
Have my wood cutters set up and most things on the same medium priority they are breaking the logs and long sticks to get stick, bark and firewood. I have turned the firewood off and they are still breaking them up. Then they are bringing one or two items back from downing a tree and instead of bringing the rest of the tree back they go and cut down another tree. This last game I had it set to were log and long sticks were the only thing with a priority and still ended up having to go and clean up after them because they were not bringing everything back, And what they were bringing back was not log nor long sticks.
Then they would come and ask for a new marker without cleaning up from trees they have already downed.

2) The hunter was doing the same thing would kill and animal and just leave it there.

3) Kennel working was filling the food bowl with cooked meat when there was plenty of raw meat and even at that he was only putting in one or two pieces. resulting in one of our wolfs dying of starvation (he was guarding the Kennel while we cleaned up from the woodcutters)

4) when villagers go to bed or on break they are just throwing the items in their inventory on the ground, and not picking them back up when they wake back up.

I do really enjoy this game and love the concept of it. But having to keep picking up what the villagers are suppose to be set to do is frustrating and makes it hard to continue to expand.

[Quinoa]

Yet another cleaning lady, love the comment one said it's like have 50 toddlers one has to clean up after and it's true. I nearly don't dare to go out in the forest where wood cutter has been, it horrendous all kind of wood lay on the ground. I use to go there and clean up but now it's just too much. Sad story

[Smokes]

Originally posted by Quinoa:

Yet another cleaning lady, love the comment one said it's like have 50 toddlers one has to clean up after and it's true. I nearly don't dare to go out in the forest where wood cutter has been, it horrendous all kind of wood lay on the ground. I use to go there and clean up but now it's just too much. Sad story

same my warehouse never has logs or long sticks

[Smokes]

ive even put the gray flag for building mats and the builders wont use the ones on ground

[Quinoa]

I just put out 15min ago a builder flag in village where I will put up fence and have cut down trees myself, builder just walk around in village, stop by to wave at me.. but pick up building stuff on ground no no we don't do that, make someone else do the dirty work.. The Cleaning Lady/boss LOL

[Magic Lantern]

1) Woodcutter
If you set Log or Long Stick as High and others as Med, The woodcutter will continuously cut wood to get Log and Long Stick first until the storage of two items is full. Also, the worker will leave other resources like sticks, barks, and Firewood on the ground. (However, the worker will grab those on the ground if the log or long stick's storage is full.) You can hire another worker to get those sticks, barks, and Firewood only. Remove the check mark of the worker from the resources in the Tasks menu. (This is not Priority setting.)

2) The hunter doesn't bring them all because the storage is full or priority settings like same issue of the woodcutter.

3) This is a bug. Before Dec updates, the Kennel worker put full of the meats. However, they put only one meat after the meat slots are empty. (Sometimes even doing nothing.) There is no choice. You have to put meats yourself.

4) I hate it too. Set markers and warehouse workers. It helps a bit.

[Aleanna85]

Originally posted by Magic Lantern:

1) Woodcutter
If you set Log or Long Stick as High and others as Med, The woodcutter will continuously cut wood to get Log and Long Stick first until the storage of two items is full. Also, the worker will leave other resources like sticks, barks, and Firewood on the ground. (However, the worker will grab those on the ground if the log or long stick's storage is full.) You can hire another worker to get those sticks, barks, and Firewood only. Remove the check mark of the worker from the resources in the Tasks menu. (This is not Priority setting.)

2) The hunter doesn't bring them all because the storage is full or priority settings like same issue of the woodcutter.

3) This is a bug. Before Dec updates, the Kennel worker put full of the meats. However, they put only one meat after the meat slots are empty. (Sometimes even doing nothing.) There is no choice. You have to put meats yourself.

4) I hate it too. Set markers and warehouse workers. It helps a bit.

I have done the setting priority with different workers doing different things and still the same thing happens. And the storage was never full I had a warehouse set up that kept the hit clean but there was nothing for them to move over because they were leaving it there. I haven not tried to set a third worker yet. I will try these and see if they work. Thank you for the tips.

[Mick James]

1. You are doing it right i think. The woodcutters will not bring everything back if you have something prioritised. So if you prioritise logs, they will only take the logs until THEIR storage is full. This means cutting as many trees for logs only. Once the log storage is full they move on to the next priority. If everything med they just work on filling storage. Don't worry about the mess, eventually everything will get cleaned up because you need will eventually need all parts of the tree for various things, That's when they will go back and clean up the rest. Don't worry about them too much, just keep an eye on your storage. If it's filling up with what you want it to, your golden. Let them do their thing.

2. This could be for many reasons. For example, Hunters need knives to skin. If the hunter doesn't have a knife, he or she will look through storage in the village for one. If there isn't one, they can't skin the animal. If there is one, they will go back to the village and get it, then return later and skin the animal. As long as the animal is in the Hunting marker radius, they will go back at a later time and get it all. If storage is full, they may wait until there is room then go back, etc.

4. Im not sure why they do this. Ignore it and let your warehouse worker pick it up. They always do eventually as long as there is storage for it. In a perfect world your hunter would store everything at the hunter hut before going to bed, but it doesn't really matte as the warehouse manager is going to take it all anyways and store it in warehouse, and that's what you want!!! Hope that helps!