ThePapayaUpdate: I’ve just realized, the first part of building something — bringing the resources to the site — is the job of a laborer, not a builder. So with my laborers tasked with gathering wild food and firewood, they were too busy to work on the thingstead. And with that first step being delayed, my builder was twiddling her thumbs.
It makes sense now, but I gotta say that is not very intuitive. The Professions tab says a builder is required when it’s really not yet. I don’t know if this is something in the base game or something you can adjust in the mod… Even if it’s not something that can be fixed, could you maybe add it in the wiki here, so it’s clearer how it works and we can use our workforce more efficiently? Because this was super frustrating to figure out. >_<
Thank you!
ThePapayaI have had a thingstead stuck at the same progress level for months now. It’s the only building site in progress, except for some road, but I had prioritized the thingstead, so I figured the builder would focus on that instead of the road.
Nope.
I clicked the thing to select the person assigned to builder. I forget their name, let’s say it was John. John was “picking up resources.” He chopped down a tree in the path of the road, had mutton in his inventory instead of logs, and then went to get something to eat. When he returned to working, it was on the road instead of the thingstead. He built three patches of road and then went to back to idling. And then, suddenly, he was a fisherman. Do people just switch professions like that and I never noticed??
Anyway, so I clicked “select and cycle” for builder again, to see who the new builder was. Let’s call her Lisa. I’ve watched Lisa for several minutes now and I want to wring her useless pixel neck! Even though I have repeated the “prioritize” tool on the thingstead, she continued to focus on the damn road. And even that work is only about a quarter of the time she spends. The vast majority is spent getting food, idling, or “picking up resources” (whatever that actually means, not sure why it’s necessary to build a road). No wonder the thingstead has had zero progress for several months!
I had wondered if it was just my imagination that things weren’t getting done, but now I see it’s definitely a real problem. Why aren’t they doing the ONE task assigned to them??
