Chemist isnt working?

[bennett]

I paid him and assigned the working stations but he says he has nothing to do,,, why?

[TimeKat]

im having a similar issue

[TimeKat]

i figured it out, use the clipboard on the chemistry lab and assign a drug to make

[Jamsalad]

Your question is pretty vague. You may have not assigned anything on the clip board.

Or, your game may be severely broken like mine is now and employees end up taking too many supplies and just not working / filling mixers or other equipment, leaving them locked out.

[TimeKat]

you have to use the wrok clipboard and access the chemist bench and assign a drug to make
once the drug is assigned as long as theres supplies they will make more drugs

[Oldskool]

Originally posted by TimeKat:

i figured it out, use the clipboard on the chemistry lab and assign a drug to make

Missed this step as well, that did the trick! Thanks for sharing.

[__MiD]

before you hire
u have to unlock all three: chemistry, mixing, oven
choose a forumla in chemistry station then assign the storage destination for all three

[KeithT722]

Mine also broke. They were working fine up until about 2 hours ago and then they just stand there and don't do anything. They stopped making their drugs. I tried deleting their assignments and that didn't work. Even tried firing them but now they're just standing there unable to be interacted with because they've been fired.

[Redbird]

mine just work when i fill up the station with supplies - did i do something wrong?

[Slypig]

my chemists also stopped working, I tried firing and re-hiring and cooking on their stations everything they were working all day yesterday now they stopped really big buzz kill

[Solv]

Originally posted by Slypig:

my chemists also stopped working, I tried firing and re-hiring and cooking on their stations everything they were working all day yesterday now they stopped really big buzz kill

Had the same issue and reloading game helped me.

[Phumbels]

yeah, I have to reload a save when my workers stop but this seems to work for now.

[Fi]

Yeah same, my chemist was just looking at the oven, the only think I could do is fire him. Everything was assigned. I tried knocking him unconscious to see if that would reset him 😅
Thankfully I have read this before I did anything worse to poor Nick.
Saving the game, quitting to main menu and loading the game again seem to have sorted the bugger out better than my fists did.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon though. I have an emporium to run, no time to practise chemistry....and the immersion breaks if we need to keep checking and restarting the game

[Laph]

I had a similar issue. I assigned a chemist to 3 chemistry tables stocked with supplies, and all those tables had an output of a shelf. I was planning to do the baking myself of the liquid they made.

Now my first chemist just stood around, wouldn't talk to me, and isn't responding to being punched. Eventually I fired them and they still just stood there, which I knocked them unconscious and threw them outside for. Later I hired a second chemist to replace the first, and now I have both my fired and new chemist standing in the same spot, bugged out.

[PigNeutron]

Originally posted by KeithT722:

Mine also broke. They were working fine up until about 2 hours ago and then they just stand there and don't do anything. They stopped making their drugs. I tried deleting their assignments and that didn't work. Even tried firing them but now they're just standing there unable to be interacted with because they've been fired.

have you solved?

[Whispering_Death]

I have 1 chemist on 3 cauldrons and was working flawlessly up until last night 3-31-25. Now 4-1-25 my chemist is only working 1 outta 3 cauldrons. Fired, unassigned, shot them. Nothing changes. Hopefully a quick fix is soon. Even tried firing the other crew to see if that was it but still was having issues.