How to make residents work?

[RaPriest]

Created farm plot and even planted some seeds.
In the middle of it placed farm sing.
Built small house.
Recruited a farmer.
But when I look at this farmer in residents board it says "Workplace: None".

Also, on wiki I see this:

Farm Sign

Designates a room or a 5x5 area as a farm.

Residents with farming or earth-moving jobs or hobbies will move into the area to work. However, they will not be able to actually manage the fields in the area, they will only be able to receive bonuses to Home skills as an effect of their work.
If you have set up a Delegated farming policy, only fields within the area/room designated by this sign will be subject to automatic cultivation & harvesting.

However, they will not be able to actually manage the fields in the area, they will only be able to receive bonuses to Home skills as an effect of their work.

Does it mean that residents wont actually do any work?

[moonfeast]

yup, i notice they just stand around.. would really hope that they actually help out around the home

[RaPriest]

bump

[Darx]

have the same problem. hired a fisher -> doesnt fish. hired a hunter -> doesnt hunt

[Sirius]

make a signboard workshop then made their sign, place it as their designated area then they'll work

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Darx:

have the same problem. hired a fisher -> doesnt fish. hired a hunter -> doesnt hunt

The fisher will fish if you put fishing sign, It's not instant
have you checked the shared container? your fisher probably put the fish in it there

[Sirius]

I haven't touch the game in a while, I think for farmer you need to put fertilizer box, watering can and they need seeds too
For resident who do cleaning they need garbage disposal to throw their trash or it'll just lying around the ground

[Virkful]

i thought they don't actually "work", but generate relative resources out of the void.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Virkful:

i thought they don't actually "work", but generate relative resources out of the void.

ha, no they need stuff too

[Hod and vampire co]

ah its mostly due to sign posts

gotta build a bunch of those to make plots and for the dumb town villagers do stuff

you get that from the 2 quest givers at the start

then you gotta get I think its the town board has a policy to automate seeds in that area

mostly it'll just continue to grow stuff until you come back

[Hod and vampire co]

fertility can also get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by weeds and other garbage on the map so you gotta yeet that into the trash bins or just the shipping crate

so you can grow stuff usually you need about 20 fertility to grow most crops and over 1 to grow trees

[Anerso]

well my fishers fish... but they dont give anything.
Also I have a guy with instrument hobby, how the hell to make him use of lute? i gave him, nothing, in shared box, nothing.