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[Tonren]

This is frustrating... I have plump helmets and pig tails withering in the fields next to an empty plant stockpile. I have marked my farmer as specialized labor but he just sits in the gathering place with No Job. I've also tried creating a custom work detail that's only Food Haulers and assigning a specialized dwarf to that labor detail, but they still won't harvest.

The harvest plant stockpile has everything excluded except for the subterranean crops: quarry bushes, pig tails, dimple cups, plump helmets, cave wheat, and sweet pods. But no matter what I grow, nobody will take the crops off the farm plot. They'll plant new seeds under the crops as they wither. The harvest stockpile is empty except for an empty barrel, and I have plenty of other empty barrels. I also tried reducing the harvest stockpile's allowed barrels to zero, thinking maybe it had something to do with conflicting container tasks, but it didn't make a difference. Also, I noticed that the max barrels had been reset to the size of the stockpile the next time I looked, so maybe that's bugged at the moment?

I've also tried forcing the plants to be used in tasks like brewing and processing, but I gathered a bunch of plants and haven't gone to the length of forbidding every plant except the crops yet.

I've also tried toggling the farming labor between "Only selected do this" and "Everyone does this".

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? This is kind of a showstopper for any fortress!

[Tonren]

Hilariously, I apparently had the exact same problem almost a decade ago with no luck! Hopefully someone will have some sage advice this time. I really like how this fort is going and would love to be able to keep it running!

[Shonai_Dweller]

I think there's possibly slightly too much reliance on children to do the work in the current version. Things pretty much all get done if you get that migrant wave of 12 kids that always used to make you curse. But when no kids turn up, the adults all seem to be too busy doing other stuff a lot of the time, unless you purposefully turn off everything.

[Stormfeather]

Plant gathering is marked for everyone to do it by default. Any chance you switched it to "no one does this"? Or that it's "only dwarfs who have this do this" and no one has it assigned? (You said specialist dwarf but.. is it something with plant gathering specifically?

Actually does harvesting crops fall under plant gathering at all? I know there's a setting in standing orders for which dwarfs harvest. Did it get turned off on accident? (I know I've clicked some... not great things in the past clicking around randomly on the keys.)

[Eschar]

Actually does harvesting crops fall under plant gathering at all?

Plant gathering is not part of Farming. It is only relevant to gathering plants that have been designated for gathering or are in a gathering zone, neither of which are on farm plots.

[LuuBluum]

There's a standing order for "everybody harvests" versus "only farmers harvest". Might be related to your issue.

[Salmeuk]

make sure your dwarves have no other tasks.... my 2 cents. have not encountered this issue

[Stormfeather]

Also make sure you haven't somehow broken the path between the farm and the stockpile.

[Blue_Dwarf]

They'll plant new seeds under the crops as they wither.

If they can plant, have the crops been harvested already? In that case it's a problem with hauling, not harvesting.