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[Malmensa]

Hi

I have a fortress started up and thriving nicely, a couple of years old now, and 80 odd dwarfs. The area is wooded, with a lot of fruit trees, and a smattering of willow around lakes. Running 0.44.12 

Problem I have had since embark is that my dwarfs just won't pick fruit. I verified that several trees have fruit on them, I have 6 stepladders. When I designate an area as plant gathering, dwarves will collect from shrubs, so I get potatoes, spinach etc, but no fruit. This is not my first fortress, and I have not had this problem until now.

I am about to give up on fruit trees and just chop them all down for beds and charcoal!

Any ideas why this could be happening?

[Bumber]

You need to use a zone for fruit, not designations.

[PatrikLundell]

Adding to Bumber's answer: A fruit gathering zone allows you to specify whether to gather fallen fruit only, from the trees as well, and whether to gather shrubs too, although the latter setting doesn't work fully: when set to gather fallen fruit but not shrubs, they collect shrubs anyway, and I suspect it's shrubs on which the fruit has landed.

[Sinurtumwist]

whether to gather fallen fruit only

For all the frutarian dwarves out there.

[Blue_Dwarf]

whether to gather fallen fruit only

For all the frutarian dwarves out there.

They identify as elves.

[feelotraveller]

whether to gather fallen fruit only

For all the frutarian dwarves out there.

They identify as elves.

You realize it's the carnivorous habits of the elves that freak other races out, right? 

[anewaname]

Fruit makes booze that drinks like a meal.