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rylen

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Can't stop farming
« on: October 12, 2006, 05:52:00 pm »
Last year my dwarves kept planting seeds until winter came around and destroyed the plots.  This year, I didn't want to waste any effort on uncessary work so, mid-autum, I converted the fields to fallow (z), deselecting any crop.  This didn't stop them, though.  They kept generating and filling plant seed commands.  I tried going into the unit screen and removing workers from the farming jobs.  They kept signing back up.

I didn't turn off Growing in all the dwarves.  It would probaly work but is too inefficient and I might not manage to get all of them to turn them back on.

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tengil

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Re: Can't stop farming
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2006, 08:31:00 pm »
Until this gets fixed, you can get around this by marking the fields for removal/cancel removal after setting them to fallow.
This seems to clear the old job orders.
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Aquillion

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Re: Can't stop farming
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2006, 08:36:00 pm »
Shouldn't dwarves stop planting automatically when it gets so late into autumn that the plants won't have time to sprout?
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Re: Can't stop farming
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 11:42:00 pm »
That's "in", but

1) they might not, due to the issue from this bug report

2) they need to make a skill roll versus farming if you haven't had the seeds fail to sprout once

As for the bug itself, it's strange that they didn't cancel.  I just looked at it, and it seems like it'll usually clear the jobs, but for some reason it's paranoid about destroying the harvest, so it won't cancel plant jobs if there's already seeds planted prior to fallow being set.  I'll have to tweak that a bit.

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Re: Can't stop farming
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2006, 02:10:00 am »
Heh.  You'd think that having one expert farmer would be enough to tell the other dwarves when to stop planting...  but maybe they don't ask.  Dwarves are independent like that.

Perhaps having a House Ber noble could eliminate the need for the skill role, though?  They're sort of overseeing farmers, after all, and they'd know enough to tell your dwarves to stop planting.

Of course the point is mostly moot, since by the time they get a noble from House Ber the player has probably already lost a few plants to winter and is therefore exempt in any case...  and it's not like it's such a big deal after your first winter, even, aside from a little extra labor.  But it's a thought.

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rylen

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Re: Can't stop farming
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2006, 01:39:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by tengil:
<STRONG>Until this gets fixed, you can get around this by marking the fields for removal/cancel removal after setting them to fallow.
This seems to clear the old job orders.</STRONG>

Thanks.  Tried that.  Partial sucess.

a)  I marked for removed and then demarked.  The dwarves stopped trying to plant in those fields.

b)  but, I don't think any of the plants got harvested.  (I'm not totaly certain.  I tangled with a Bronze Colossus and was swamped with gear to collect from dead dwarves.)  I noticed some plants rotting in the fields and being collected as rubish.  I checked the (j)obs list and didn't see any "harvest plant"s.  And the fields didn't list as containing any plants.

c)  So, I scrapped the fields and the finished plants were left behind.

Rylen

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