Why Can't - Checklist

### **Why aren’t my Settlers working? Settler won’t do X?  Checklist**

- JOB PRIORITY - Is this set high enough? Seems simple right? You want someone to research, you set it to one, you have a free bench but they are off doing something else? Job priorities go left to right, therefore healing, convalescence, hunting will all happen first. If you really want to make sure the job will happen, make sure it is set to 1 and nothing else is set to 1.

- MATERIALS AVAILABLE - On a bench you can mouse over the production and see what materials are required, if one comes up red, you don't have enough of it and it won't be made. When having lots of construction items, the colour of them will go orange to show there is not enough resources.

- SKILL LEVEL NOT MET - Most production on benches and growing plants requires a skill level. When you select the production and mouse over it will tell you. For example some smithing requires 10 or 20 in some cases. Planting barley requires a botany of 15. Always check this if your settlers don't seem to be doing something.

- CAN YOUR SETTLER GET THERE? - Sometimes your settler can't reach the place you want them to do something. Beams can't be reached, floor boards etc, the colour of these will go orange the same as if you don't have the resources available, You might need to put a temporary set of stairs there to help them out.

- SETTLER KEEPS GOING IDLE - Make sure they are not stuck somewhere. If not then check the job priorities. You may find you have reduced so many of them that they don't actually have anything to do.

- SETTLER WON'T CONSTRUCT SOMETHING - Again make sure first the settler can reach the area, this will be made easier as the thing to be constructed should be blue if you have the resources. Second check that there are no resources in the block that need to be moved, sticks, shrubs etc. If there is you may need to manually select a settler to haul or deal with the resources first.

- SETTLER WON'T CRAFT SOMETHING - Do you already have too many of a given item? If you have a production cap and already have that many or more of the item the settler will not produce any more of the item.

- SETTLERS WON'T HAUL - Jobs go left to right for priority, hauling is the last one. If you have hauling at the same level as any other job, then the other job will be done first, keep this in mind. Make sure you have a stockpile that can hold the items you want hauled and that the stockpile is not full.

- SETTLERS KEEP GETTING EXHAUSTED - Try making sure they have 9 hours for sleep, giving them time to reach a bed. Try and make sure leisure activities, tables, food and drink is near where they sleep. There are some perks that change sleep cycles so keep in this in mind and check your settler. There is also a bug where they won't sleep. Draft them and undraft them, this will put them back into normal cycle. (You will likely need to do this every night, zoom out and see who is still working at night and draft/undraft)

- If you have completed this checklist and still having problems, try saving your game, closing it down and coming back to it.

- Still having issues, double check you have not missed something. If it is still happening, press F10 and submit a bug.

- I have found 98% of the time it is a mistake I have made, not a bug. Or a simple restart resolves it.

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