Unable to build/remove farm plants.

[Rektalizer]

I stuck with 3 small farm plants 4x4 and can't build any more of them. Also I can't remove farm plants outside of the fortress. Both constructions says "Construction inactive" and no dwarf goes for them. I have a lot of free farm related dwarfes. Is it a bug or I am missing something?

[Rektalizer]

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[Rektalizer]

Another bump

[The Former]

Either there's some reason they can't get to the plots (do you perhaps have them confined to a burrow, or doors/hatches locked?), or something else is taking up their time (for me, that usually means a gathering job, in which case I have to pause my gathering zones for a while).

[shrimp]

I've got the exact same issue, all of my burrows are inactive, yet they wont build the damn plots. They'll even mine right next to the plot just to spite me. Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/kgs6lV5
@Rektalizer, if you share some pictures maybe we can help you

[kxaamos]

so i googled this thread while looking to fix my 'unremovable' farm problem in my 200 pop fort, turns out 3 legendary planters werent enough, they were just too busy...i assigned some addidional planters, and voila, farms gone just like that.

i spent an hour looking for that "fix" so maybe its going go be helpful for anyone

[Rektalizer]

Originally posted by kxaamos:

so i googled this thread while looking to fix my 'unremovable' farm problem in my 200 pop fort, turns out 3 legendary planters werent enough, they were just too busy...i assigned some addidional planters, and voila, farms gone just like that.

i spent an hour looking for that "fix" so maybe its going go be helpful for anyone

Yeah as far as I understood one planter can watch for only few tiles at max, because he constantly fertilize/collect/plant new plants on the said tile. To operate a big farm I had to assign more than 20 dwarves for farming

[AlP]

You can forbid other farm plots so your planters can focus on the ones you want.