Foresters stop planting trees, and stay idle

[Elgar]

Hi,

If I disable Cutting trees in the Forester's lodge, my foresters eventually stop planting trees. After that they do nothing, they just stay idle in the lodge, leaving it only to eat or carry food in their house. It happens even in summer.

That's a shame because the area in Forester's lodge radius is in fact the most desert one, while elsewhere there are a lot of trees...!

If I enable Cutting trees, they start cutting trees and planting trees again. But sometimes they cut a tree not very old...

What am I doing wrong ? I play vanilla, no mods at all. Thanks in advance for your help.

[eien no shikaku 永遠の刺客]

Elgar, forester lodge has 2 buttons, one for cutting, one for planting. Are you saying your foresters don't plant any tress when "plant" button is enabled? I'm asking cause in my non-modded testing game they plant trees without any troubles...

[Elgar]

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Maybe there is an hard limit of how many trees can be planted in the forester's lodge radius ?

I can send you my savegame if you want.

[eien no shikaku 永遠の刺客]

OK, please send me your save file, but I won't be able to load it today, tomorrow at best after my work ok? Working now on stockpile mod and I want to publish it today before I go sleep in the next hour :)

[eien no shikaku 永遠の刺客]

And, yes, this is odd, all my foresters are planting trees like crazy

[Elgar]

Thank you, much appreciated ! I just sent you the file at your gmail address.

[Elgar]

Hi eien no shikaku, did you by chance have the time to take a look at my save file ?

After much observation, my foresters do plant trees, but it's very, very rare. Most of the time these lazybones stay idle in their lodge, leaving it only to eat or to carry food / fuel in their house.

I begin to think that the Forester's lodge is useless. If I enable both Cutting and Planting, these simpletons cut more than planting (worse, they cut young trees instead of eldest ones first), leading to an area with much less trees than outside the area, which is ironic ! And if I enable Planting only, like I said they stay idle most of the time...

In fact, I noticed that if I leave the Forester's lodge without any worker, the area becomes a dense and beautiful forest.

What am I doing wrong ?

P.S. I know that the game is finished and that devs will not add content or features, only bug fixes in the upcoming update, but precisely I really think that foresters' behavior falls into the "bugs" category. In both wiki and official guide it is stated that foresters cut eldest trees first, which is common sense. Clearly something is wrong.

P.P.S Not a complaint, just observations and questions. Still loving this game ! Anyway it seems more efficient to buy logs in the market.

[eien no shikaku 永遠の刺客]

Hello, I do tested your save and foresters planted trees in normal way like they should in core game and like they're programmed to in game's code. At this point I do not see issue here. They're working in normal pace.

[Elgar]

Thank you, much appreciated, and sorry for your time !

Well, I guess that the "normal pace" is very, very slow then. I will live with that. :p

[JohnNav]

Seems hard cutting, out strips tree growth :) In the late spring I 'shut down Cutting' on most of the Foresters and just plant; then resume cutting in fall for fire wood production.

Noticeably: Logs are cheap to trade for ;)