Botanist refuses to water exhibits

[Rosemagwin]

My botany expert refuses to water the exhibits. Unless I manually drag him onto the exhibits one by one, he will not water the plants. I have him in the specific zone with the plants, but all other staff seems to behave just fine when assigned to a zone.

[Kessra]

If you played the science map there is a device that can water nearby plants. Really helpful in this regards which also helps to reduce cost on botany experts here

[Rosemagwin]

I figured out what was causing the issue, my zone was considered to be UNDER the building I made. Had to remove it and then paint my zone inside the building.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Rosemagwin:

My botany expert refuses to water the exhibits. Unless I manually drag him onto the exhibits one by one, he will not water the plants. I have him in the specific zone with the plants, but all other staff seems to behave just fine when assigned to a zone.

Zone assignments can be a bit buggy, on occasion they will start working the exact opposite of how they should just for a specific group of staff. I had one museum where it inverted like that, just for staff assigned to marketing, but kept working normally for everyone else. Another museum I had the same thing happen to staff assigned to the camera room.

Also worth mentioning that they won't auto-water until a plant gets below a specific threshhold, while you can still force a manual task higher than that. So if you're just expecting to see them water plants even when they aren't very low in the first place, that could be why.