Orchard worker

[Jester]

does anyone know if you need to staff the orchard for the first couple of years when doesn't produce any fruits? Seems you can just leave it unstaffed after initially planting the trees, until it start producing fruits.

[Dudey]

I do not know for sure but I haven't noticed any ill effect by moving the worker to a different job for the 3 or so years it takes to start producing food... I am still new though. I am not an expert on the subject.

[wcbarney]

Supposedly, your orchard workers will volunteer to become temporary laborers any time there is nothing for them to do in the orchard; so you don't really have to reassign them unless you want to make them temporary blacksmiths or tailors or some such, instead of laborers.

[tlparry]

In my current game I started an orchrad as soon as a farmer had finished harvesting crops. Once the orchard was planted and I saw all the saplings I stoped work on orchard. I did this 3 years in row. By then the first one was ready to produce so I assigned a farmer to that plot. After the orchard is havested I cut down the trees, replant and then assign the farmer to the next orchard. This has been working well for me as long as you have the space for so many orchards (10x10). It was enough to start producing plum ale for trading and the extra logs come in handy.

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by tlparry:

In my current game I started an orchrad as soon as a farmer had finished harvesting crops. Once the orchard was planted and I saw all the saplings I stoped work on orchard. I did this 3 years in row. By then the first one was ready to produce so I assigned a farmer to that plot. After the orchard is havested I cut down the trees, replant and then assign the farmer to the next orchard. This has been working well for me as long as you have the space for so many orchards (10x10). It was enough to start producing plum ale for trading and the extra logs come in handy.

O-Kayyyyy ...... but why do you cut down the trees??? For the little bit of logs??? Now it takes 3 more years for the trees to grow into a productive orchard again. Leave the orchard trees alone; the orchard worker will replant as necessary, and will harvest every fall.

[itsm2]

When I leave my orchards alone, and instead send my workers to the quarry or some other "luxury item" production facility I seem to actually avoid having the orchard tenders chopping down random trees. Anyone got a clue why some of my trees are chopped down when the workers are stationed there?

[Freedom]

Yup, it is in range of a forrester.

[Jester]

yeah, forresters will chopp down tree slightly outside of the working circle. so don't place orchard anywhere near the forrestor working area.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

Orchard farmers don't randomly chop down orchard trees, they die naturally of old age and are replaced. They wont be replanted if there is no farmer to do it.