Why aren't my builders building?

[Tman]

Just got this game & have tried 3 games, quitting each time because of how other mundane tasks like land clearning appear to be iterrupting my builders. The only way I've figured out how to get anything built is to not do anything besides building, but then I run out of material.

How do I get builders to build w/out interupption?

[ebrumby]

Try prioritizing 1 or 2 buildings at a time. Just make sure you have enough builders available. Also, choose smaller areas to clear at a time and fewer roads. Typically Laborers do the clearing and Builders are needed to build roads.

[Tman]

Thanks!

When you say to prioritize 1 or 2 buildings, do you mean only have 1-2 queued up at one time or is there a way to actually prioritize it when I lay the foundation down?

[ebrumby]

Go to the Tools tab and select Prioritize (Up Arrow without the line above it). Highlight the outline of the planned building a couple of times. Note that the last one prioritized is the 1st one built.

[Dragster6681]

As said use the priority key, also builders will only start building when all the resources have been taken to the build site by labourers. Balance your workforce so you always have labourers spare to transport resources, you can always reassign your builders back to labourers to help the process then change them back when the building part can be started.

[dutch casual gamer]

i am an experienced player and have completed all achievements. Now I can't build anything. My builders aren't doing anything. Tried de-install and install again... nothing yet.

[Giddian]

having the same problem, never had this happen in the many hrs. i have played.

[dutch casual gamer]

only new games are affected. save games are working
also my banished kit (no automatic update) doesn't work with new game ???

[dutch casual gamer]

i forgot.. banished -kit is attached to the base game

[dutch casual gamer]

my fault: i forgot to build a stock. Now they are working (started hard)

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Originally posted by dutch casual gamer:

my fault: i forgot to build a stock. Now they are working (started hard)

Originally posted by dutch casual gamer:

i am an experienced player and have completed all achievements. Now I can't build anything. My builders aren't doing anything. Tried de-install and install again... nothing yet.

Don't take it wrong, but that made me laugh. Classic

[Vrayna]

I might have done that myself last month... Ooops! :D

[omnivirus77]

I know sometimes if you've highlighted a huge field of resources to collect, your laborers will spend a huge amount of time working on that instead of clearing the spots you want to build on. Without the spots cleared, you builders can't start building.

Also, the builders are such a transient population as your colony expands to a large size, that sometimes they might try to live so far away from where you're trying to build that it takes them forever to get where they're going, or never at all if they turn around after a bit to go back to their house for food.