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Mass Starvation - Farm Station Broken also


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Farm Station does not function, at all. It only constantly says "Awaiting Specialist." I have a dedicated farmer.

Despite having nearly 20 mealwood farm plots, all with perfect environment/fertilization, my colony of less than 10 dupes suffers from a consistent food shortage and mass starvation. This was in 3 separate games, and is a huge issue.

Dupes will also ignore going to the bathroom, and constantly piss themselves at their workplace. DESPITE being several AVAILABLE lavatories across the colony. I have tried many times to fix this, but many of them refuse to use the bathroom until its too late.

This is all since the occupational update.


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Duplicants will refuse to use the restroom. I have taken every step possible to make them use them when they need to. Farms / farm stations are broken, and cause mass starvation.



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Farm station doesn't do anything for mealwood. If you look at the info for the farm station in the stations menu, you'll see that mealwood isn't listed there. Your starvation problems have nothing to do with that, I'm afraid.

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Can you post a pic of your bathroom setup, including the windows that show the hover tooltip for the toilets as well as the toilet menu itself (the window when you click on the toilet)?

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A save file would be the most useful. I have played a few worlds since the occupational update and have not had these problems. Priority is always important to outhouses in early game, as is priority for the microbe musher.

I believe for the farm station, the station requires operator errand permission to create the micronutrient fertilizer, and then a supply permission to deliver it to the crops. This is captured in several reports in the forum, unsure what the developers are going to do.

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Ah, good to know.
Farm station message "Awaiting specialist" is confusing. 
Something like "Idle (No supported crops)" would be so better. 
I'd immediately thought of looking in the details tab. 
(I found this thread looking for an answer regarding that specific issue)

 

Regarding the lavatories matter, did you check the plumbing ? 
Make sure there's no problems there. 
If your used water backed up for any reason or that your fresh water does not go through anymore, your dupes would react that way.

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On 2/19/2018 at 1:49 PM, yoakenashi said:

I believe for the farm station, the station requires operator errand permission to create the micronutrient fertilizer

Just as a heads up, the most recent hotfix changed this. Farmers no longer need the operator task to work the farm station :)

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Should one really check somewhat hidden help to find out that building does not work for _one_ kind of food (or should I say farming item) ?

Sorry that is bs.

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