Planters stopped working

[Skylar]

Noticed my planters stopped working a while ago and haven't been able to fix it. Dismantling them and remaking them, restarting game, changing out seeds, manually watering them and planting seeds; nothing has worked to make them grow plants again.

[Dolly ✨🌈🔧]

This might be entirely unhelpful, but have you given them enough time to work? Planters cycle through each possible action they can take at a very slow rate, even if that action isn't possible at that time. For example, they will go through the "try to add fertilizer" stage even if doing so does nothing. So it can take on the order of almost a whole minute before they loop around to what you want them to do. In effect, they'll do the "click" animation and sound 2-3 times before they get around to doing something useful.

[Skylar]

It's more the seeds are planted, but not growing in the plots if they are planted by the planters. This could also be a crop plot issue and not necessarily a planter issue only.

[Dolly ✨🌈🔧]

Some crops only grow during daytime, others only at night. They have a sun/moon icon on the seed item accordingly. If you already knew this, then maybe the game somehow failed at updating the day/night state? Additionally, plants only grow when watered. It's not like usual games where watering speeds up growth, as far as I can tell. I have only seen crops grow while they are watered at all times. If you are keeping them hydrated, and they aren't growing, that leaves the day/night state as the only possible culprit.

Maybe try sleeping through multiple nights in one go to try and "knock it loose"? lol

[Skylar]

Problem is, is that this has been for several hours so it's been several day/night cycles. Only thing I can think of is that when I made the weather controller thing, it broke it; if it's a weather associated thing.

[Dolly ✨🌈🔧]

I have not tried planting crops with an active weather controller on the same world. I have played with farming, and I played with the weather controller, but those were separate playthroughs. While I wouldn't expect weather to affect things, it's definitely possible that setting the weather mode to "static" somehow halts other cycles too. I'd suggest you make a copy of the world in its broken state in case you want to share it with the developer to reproduce any possible bugs. As for how to fix it, I haven't run into this, but my best guess is: Place a weather controller in case you removed it, explicitly set it to "static" and then back to "dynamic", and then remove the controller again. That should leave the world in its normal state, hopefully.

[Miky ツ]

i have the same problem bone seed can grow but souls seeds working and then stop when i add more then 100 seeds in auto planter

[Bubthebob]

If you're having this issue, it might be you have a heater near your crops. It does wonders for plants that require sunlight, but night plants (moon icon) don't grow if you have a heater near them.

I was having issues with this until I realized it. Kinda a neat interaction, not going to lie.