Cherries and apricots not being moved to storage?

[Kitchwan]

Hey there, folks. So, got my town still being built, has a bit less than 200 people. I have one of each of the groves and I have a couple granaries and some market stalls. Was curious if anyone else was having this issue or if I'm maybe doing something wrong or what not. In one of my granaries, I've got the three orchard fruits to be stored, say like, 1500 each for example. Generally, town-produced stuff gets moved into storage if you set it up that way. My beef and mutton makes its way there on their own after the slaughterhouse; I don't have to instruct the game to get a cart and haul it over. Thing is, I also don't have to do that with the apples, and my market stalls are automatically supplied with the apples when I select the ware to sell. But it seems like with cherries and apricots that there could be 1800 sitting in the orchard, just harvested a second ago, and they don't seem to move anywhere on their own the way the apples do. I tend to have to manually move them to the granaries and then they slowly find their way to the market. I have the little 'Buy From Local Producers' thing checked off for those (and other bits of produce from house gardens) to try and help them find their way there. I've also tried unclicking that option before just in case that was what was causing the oddity, but it didn't seem to have any different effect. Am I missing something? Is anyone else having this little issue? I know it may seem small or silly, but if this is supposed to be something the game manages on its own without your direction, it's just a bit irksome. Thanks in advance.

[stobi]

Apricots and cherries have a low shelf life. You can sell only a few hundred before they expire.

[Claybot]

Only grow apples as they are the only fruit you can sell at the trading post.

[Banisha]

That's a good one, Claybot!

[majaeger]

Before the new update, the cherries and apricots were automatically stored. Everything worked like with the apples. Now that doesn't happen anymore. You can't even find your way to the stalls. Perhaps this is now a mistake that needs to be corrected.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by majaeger:

Before the new update, the cherries and apricots were automatically stored. Everything worked like with the apples. Now that doesn't happen anymore. You can't even find your way to the stalls. Perhaps this is now a mistake that needs to be corrected.

The fruit from garden houses are dried now So raspberries, apricots and cherries that the citizens grow is made into a new commodity in the game called dry fruit. Have your granaries buy this from the houses, and sell in market stalls.

[Banisha]

The fruits from orchards are not suited to dry. So I have to buy while my own fruit rots

[Harlequin]

Came in here to ask about apricots and cherries. I have 50,000 apples, and I'm selling them on the market, but the other two just vanish. Do apricots/cherries only last a month or something? Or is this a bug?

[Trim]

I've just looked at it in my own game. Cherries and apricots get moved to market stalls. I've also found cherries in one of my granaries. But it's early October and the Resource Stats screen (Town Hall) is damning:
Apples: Stored 0; Produced 1853; Bought 36; Exported 1000; Sold 572; Perished 0
Apricots: Stored 0; Produced 1590; Bought 0; Exported 0; Sold 0; Perished 1490
Cherries: Stored 326; Produced 1046; Bought 0; Exported 0; Sold 30; Perished 520

I think the discrepancies in numbers are what's currently at market stalls and trading posts.

I think I'll follow the advice in this thread and change all my orchards to apples, and wait for a fruit dryer to be introduced in a future update.

For information, the only other perished goods I have are onions and carrots in the trading port (the town that buys them only seems to call every second year - I think I'll destock them), and 10 garlic which my villagers overproduce to an astonishing degree.

[rkelly17]

I have had some luck selling cherries and/or apricots to the citizens, which they often turn into dried fruit and sell back to me. That meant having them for sale at 4 or 5 market stalls all over town so that everyone had maximum exposure, but even then about half spoiled. At the end of the day it just wasn't enough to justify keeping it up. Way more return on apples, which can be traded as well as sold to citizens.

[Fred Sanford]

I like to give my citizens maximum food variety so I grow apricots and cherries along with apples. I treat them differently at harvest however: Apples, I'm interested in harvesting them as fast as possible, so I send the max workers in for one month of harvest (seasonal hiring ftw). Apricots and Cherries, I only have one worker come in at harvest time and leave them there for about 4 months or so. They will pick the fruit more slowly, and it will get into market gradually so you don't flood the market with the entire harvest at once, just for it to rot.

Seems to work well, the apricots and cherries get purchased, but they don't last out of season. People will make dried fruit at home, which you can also buy and re-sell.