Botanist won't load the drying rack?

[Deadguy]

I have a botanist just for drying racks and even though "supplies" is set to a storage rack with weed he won't load the racks. Is this intentional? Do I need movers to move it from storage to racks?

Setting the weed pot destination to a drying rack works but then production stops until the rack dries so I was trying to make 8x pots service 16x drying racks.

[S7]

Yes this is something I just brought up as well. Currently they will only do it on their own if you assigned the pots to the drying rack for output. Its rather annoying and I think they should streamline it with the dry rack worker using supplies to stock the racks

[Mastah]

make the pots to have a destination to racks and works , ofc it stops they wait for the weed to dry , meanwhile they plant water etc other plants

[S7]

Here is my suggestion post. Hopefully the devs streamline the automation of the game, its my only issue with the game so far
https://steamcommunity.com/app/3164500/discussions/0/599648400266286060/

[Baboon Typhoon]

I've got a botanist working with 4 plants and 4 drying racks and he just destroys the weed when it's harvested. Hard to play after that unfortunately

[xKONAN]

anyone find a fix to this problem?

[Donald Trump Peek]

Originally posted by Baboon Typhoon:

I've got a botanist working with 4 plants and 4 drying racks and he just destroys the weed when it's harvested. Hard to play after that unfortunately

thats 1:1 how its do my botanist...

[no0b_101]

I've experienced the same issue. I have 8 pots, 8 drying racks, and it splits into 2 large shelves. The Botanist will harvest the supply, take it to the drying rack as an epic quality (purple), I request it to be legendary quality (Orange). I have two large shelves, where the 8 drying racks are split up to store the supply after it has reached the desired quality. The Botanist, after harvesting, will go store the supply on the drying rack, but not actually dry it. I have to manually go dry it myself. The Botanist then won't take it off the drying rack and take it to the shelves once its orange, I have to do it. everything looks to be mapped correctly that I can see. I don't understand why they store it on the drying rack but not dry it. it can only be, what I assume, a bug.

[Noctiluna]

Originally posted by no0b_101:

I've experienced the same issue. I have 8 pots, 8 drying racks, and it splits into 2 large shelves. The Botanist will harvest the supply, take it to the drying rack as an epic quality (purple), I request it to be legendary quality (Orange). I have two large shelves, where the 8 drying racks are split up to store the supply after it has reached the desired quality. The Botanist, after harvesting, will go store the supply on the drying rack, but not actually dry it. I have to manually go dry it myself. The Botanist then won't take it off the drying rack and take it to the shelves once its orange, I have to do it. everything looks to be mapped correctly that I can see. I don't understand why they store it on the drying rack but not dry it. it can only be, what I assume, a bug.

My exact problem right now as well

[z3hbraw]

Originally posted by Claudette's Toe:

Originally posted by no0b_101:

I've experienced the same issue. I have 8 pots, 8 drying racks, and it splits into 2 large shelves. The Botanist will harvest the supply, take it to the drying rack as an epic quality (purple), I request it to be legendary quality (Orange). I have two large shelves, where the 8 drying racks are split up to store the supply after it has reached the desired quality. The Botanist, after harvesting, will go store the supply on the drying rack, but not actually dry it. I have to manually go dry it myself. The Botanist then won't take it off the drying rack and take it to the shelves once its orange, I have to do it. everything looks to be mapped correctly that I can see. I don't understand why they store it on the drying rack but not dry it. it can only be, what I assume, a bug.

My exact problem right now as well

from what I can tell you need 2 botanists one on the drying racks and one on the plants

[z3hbraw]

Originally posted by no0b_101:

I've experienced the same issue. I have 8 pots, 8 drying racks, and it splits into 2 large shelves. The Botanist will harvest the supply, take it to the drying rack as an epic quality (purple), I request it to be legendary quality (Orange). I have two large shelves, where the 8 drying racks are split up to store the supply after it has reached the desired quality. The Botanist, after harvesting, will go store the supply on the drying rack, but not actually dry it. I have to manually go dry it myself. The Botanist then won't take it off the drying rack and take it to the shelves once its orange, I have to do it. everything looks to be mapped correctly that I can see. I don't understand why they store it on the drying rack but not dry it. it can only be, what I assume, a bug.

you need 2 botanists, one for drying rack and one for plants

[Tantric]

Reading through comments, what I figured out since a lot of people are getting tripped up in the same places.

1. a botanist needs to be assigned to a drying rack in order to dry it. This is a separate job from growing - so if you have 8 racks and 8 plots you would need 2 botanists.
2. The "Supplies" on a botanist is only for growing supplies - seeds, fertilizer, soil. In order to automate supplying the drying racks, you need to set the output of the plot to the drying rack.
3. Don't forget you also need to set the output of the drying rack to a shelf or packager/mixer.

Last thing, note the quality needs of the people you are selling to, as customers do NOT pay more for higher quality product. Many people in the first couple of zones are fine with low or very low quality product and drying racks are useless. You're actually better off using the additives to increase yield and lower the quality and selling that. Seriously, they don't care.

You won't find people demanding premium product until you get into Uptown and Suburbia, later in the game. The way the quality works is those customers have a chance of rejecting anything under premium product (usually around 15% fail rate).

Given all that I didn't really start playing with drying racks until I got into those regions and was getting into coca production - doing it for weed is almost useless unless you've got a high end mix or bricking it for suburbia/uptown clients.

[OneMadGamer]

Found a nice work around. you can have a packer move bud from a shelf to a drying rack, then have your botanist dry them. Seems to work perfect for me now, at least.

[King Bartuc]

So i found a ‘fix’ to this.
The botanist placing the leaves on the rack cannot dry or move the dried leaves. They have to be ‘assigned’ to a different dry rack to dry them and move them.

Say you have 3 botanists, 6 pots each, going to 6 different drying racks.

Susan works pots 1-6 and puts them on racks A and B
Then she works racks C and D.

Bill works pots 7-12 and puts them on racks C and D.
Then he works racks E and F.

Grace works pots 13-18 and puts them on racks E and F.
Then she works racks A and B.

That’s how you make them work on racks and pots.

Another way to put it,
The botanist cannot be assigned/work the same racks he/she supplies.

[xDrMcNuggets]

Originally posted by Deadguy:

I have a botanist just for drying racks and even though "supplies" is set to a storage rack with weed he won't load the racks. Is this intentional? Do I need movers to move it from storage to racks?

Setting the weed pot destination to a drying rack works but then production stops until the rack dries so I was trying to make 8x pots service 16x drying racks.

————-solution————-
U need a second botanist dedicated to the drying rack. Each rack is assigned similar to a pot. You can also use the same botanist on the drying rack that you assign pots to if you haven’t assigned 8/8 slots to your pots.

4/8-pots
4/8-drying racks

[Fatty]

If you set the racks to the highest quality the botanist will start pulling from the storage shelf and place them into the drying racks.