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[Hiranus]

Early in the game I created zone for picking up fruits from trees because these are easy food & drink source, but now I have a problem - I cant stop my dwarfs from picking up fruits. Forbidding fruit picking in zone settings doesn't do anything, same as pausing or removing zone. Forbidding stepladder also doesn't help as they just pick whatever they can reach from ground. I want them to ignore fruit trees for now and instead focus on picking up plants on the ground. How do I do that?

[anewaname]

Removing the zone didn't stop them? Find the job on the 't'asks list and Remove Worker button, then use 'g'ather to designate ground plants.

[el Indio]

I'm having the same problem.  I had a couple of gather zones under trees early on but removed them when I no longer needed them.  But the dwarfs keep heading out to these zones to gather plants.  It isn't such a big problem when there is fruit under the trees, they gather it then haul it inside like normal, but when the area is clear they stay out there with nothing to gather, and the only way i can stop them is to set 'plant gatherers' in the labor menu to 'nobody does this'.  When I re-enable 'plant gathering' they rush outside, pick up everything and haul inside, then just stand around with the 'gather plants' job.  They will seemingly do this to the exclusion of everything else that needs to be done.

Removing the zone didn't stop them? Find the job on the 't'asks list and Remove Worker button, then use 'g'ather to designate ground plants.

There is no remove worker button for this task.  The only way I can stop them doing it is to forbid plant gathering, but I'm almost out of booze.

[anewaname]

If booze is your end goal, Brew from Fruit if any of that fruit is brewable, or make a burrow, add the gatherers to it, and paint the burrow over where you putting 'g'ather designations so they focus their work there.

My method of controlling access to a Gathering zone is to deactivate it when I want them not use it and I'm not sure if there is a bug related to deleting an active Gather zone.

[el Indio]

If booze is your end goal, Brew from Fruit if any of that fruit is brewable, or make a burrow, add the gatherers to it, and paint the burrow over where you putting 'g'ather designations so they focus their work there.

My method of controlling access to a Gathering zone is to deactivate it when I want them not use it and I'm not sure if there is a bug related to deleting an active Gather zone.

I think there must be a bug.  I have deleted multiple gather zones, but when I re-enable the 'gather plant' labor the dwarfs will go straight to one of the old, deleted zones.  If there is anything to gather they will do so, but when the zone is empty they will just stand around (with current task 'gather plant'), I'm assuming waiting for fruit to grow. 

I have created a new zone and disabled it, and everything seems to working normally now. 

[EmperorCoolidge]

Best I can tell the jobs are generated *when harvestable plants appear in the zone* then those jobs will stay until filled, even if the zone has long since been deleted. I managed to minimize the problem by having a cadre of dedicated herbalists and changing plant gathering to "only selected do this."

[se5a]

I think the main problem is the job takes waaay longer than it should.