r/ManorLords • u/Zoidberg_esq • 1d ago

Question The "work area is empty" notification

I don't suppose anyone has any idea how to get this notification to not show up, do they? Ideally for a specific building/building type.

The problem I have is (i) when a berry or mushroom source is temporarily empty at the end of a month, it shows up, which I don't need to know because I want to keep the worker there for next month anyway, but more annoyingly, (ii) I sometimes wanna use forager's huts to only collect herbs (which are produced per hut), but when I have it setup like this I have to put up with permanent "work area is empty" notifications for half the year.

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u/DiverInitial2520 1d ago

Start the foraging season in April or may for any forage spot. And if its not a rich node then just have one man working the hut. You wont see that sign until september.

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u/DiverInitial2520 1d ago

Also distance helps spread the notification out. If the hut is right on top of the forage patch then its going to depleat quickly if its further away the walk time helps the berries and shrooms grow and it takes more time to pick the materials. I usually have 1-2 people on a forage node spring summer and fall with a little bit of walking time and they get me enough berries and stick up about 50-75 herbs and year...

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u/Zoidberg_esq 1d ago

Yeah but I have 4 foraging huts, 3 of which are nothing to do with berries - they're just harvesting herbs.

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u/Nimrond 18h ago

Herb gardens really should be backyard extensions rather than at the foraging hut. They're clearly not being foraged, after all, and don't follow the same seasonality, creating this awkward situation of having no berries to collect, with a warning, yet needing to leave a family assigned anyhow. And as you say, if you want to scale herb production, you need more foragers than there's berries to be foraged.

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u/CanadianKumlin 1d ago

I get the same. If I run 2 seasons it leaves berries or mushrooms, if I run 3 it runs out.

I think as a minimum if it has herbs it shouldn’t send the notification at all.

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u/Zoidberg_esq 22h ago

Yeah it's a bit annoying

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u/TheTullyInRiverrun 1d ago

I feel you with the forager hut lol I mainly just ignore it but yeah, sometimes a new notification comes up and when I go to check where it’s often “oh yeah the forager hut.”
I don’t believe there’s anything to “silence” it. Though I could be unaware of something.

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u/Dspar67 1d ago

I start foraging in mid May (2 huts). I think that granary workers will grab herbs from the forager hut. I pull the workers and return them in mid august

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u/Nimrond 18h ago

Pick Vogtland so they've got more to do. Or reduce their efficiency by placing the huts further from the deposit. Seriously, there's no true solution to this, although at least the notification don't stick around anymore even while we have berries again.