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Leonidas

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Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« on: March 03, 2015, 05:32:41 am »
There's an apple tree, with 35 delicious apples in it. I put an activity zone on the tree, and set it to Gather/Pick Fruit. The zone shows the 35 apples, unpicked.

I have stepladders. Two are sitting in a furniture stockpile, unused. All four of my idlers are set to gather plants. And they aren't picking the apples.

What am I missing?
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aiseant

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Re: Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2015, 05:42:16 am »
Did you check the Gather Info of the zone ? I learnt you can disable the picking of fruit on tree in there
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Re: Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2015, 06:07:14 am »
Quote from: aiseant on March 03, 2015, 05:42:16 am
Did you check the Gather Info of the zone ? I learnt you can disable the picking of fruit on tree in there
It's set to pick fruit from trees, pick berries, and gather fallen fruit.
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Shonai_Dweller

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Re: Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2015, 06:34:07 am »
When you least expect it you'll be scrolling past and spot a Dwarf in a tree.
It sometimes takes a while, but they get there eventually. My guess is that 'gather fruit from zone' is treated as lower priority than most other things.

Try enabling plant gathering on everyone and see if anything happens. Perhaps the Dwarves you have set now are scared of heights.
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Niddhoger

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Re: Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2015, 02:31:54 pm »
Don't put the zone ON the tree.  You need to put the zone -under- the tree.  The way the script works, dwarves bring a ladder and use that to access 2 levels above them.  If you put the zone on the first layer of branches, dorfs won't be able to reach that layer to set their ladder up. 
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Leonidas

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Re: Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2015, 01:19:56 am »
I fixed it! My zone was too big, as big as the braches up above. I narrowed the zone to a 3x3 on the trunk, and it worked fine.
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Re: Dwarves Won't Pick Fruit
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2015, 07:03:35 am »
I can't blame em for not jumping to it, takes forever to clean fruit off a pickaxe.
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