Gardeners Do Not Clean

[UltimateTobi]

Hello!

Gardeners, currently, do not clean areas marked as Yard.

Edit: Not just Yards, but any Room area (for example Garbage, Delivery, etc) that is outside.

Edit 2: As of The Pen-Update, this bug is still present. Gardeners do not clean outdoor areas (especially zoned areas).
I attached my recent autosave (since, when you check Cloud Save, no file is saved locally apparently).

Edit 3: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-gardiner-prioritization-not-working.1531221/ Apparently still not fixed. Haven't played myself. Is it possibly related to older save games?

Edit 4 : Try and see the Job Queue. Usually tasks are created for Zoned areas (such as Yard, Delivery, etc) until the Job Queue for Gardeners is full (you can see them as white(ned) tiles on the game map); after which no new gardening tasks are created, even for unzoned areas, which leads to Gardeners being in a kind of deadlock. No cleaning zoned areas, not getting new tasks for unzoned areas.
This means tasks for Room areas outside are ignored and eventually clog up the task limit.

 

[Croatian]

Hello!

Gardeners, currently, do not clean areas marked as Yard.

Same here, probably bug. Need to fix it. Also visitors dont come if is visitor booth only placed in visitor room. Also thrown contraband get inside of your prison doesn't matter how long is fence builded.

 

[daisyj201]

I am now having the gardener problem too

 

[MrOhJa]

yep same here.
I noticed that gardeners aren't even cleaning my deliveries or garbage rooms even though they are outside of my prison and dont have a Foundation

 

[JohnnyH2000]

Can confirm, only my guards are cleaning the yard

 

[G3NTs]

same exact problem, though my guards do not perform any cleaning.

Only my gardeners clean the outside area's not marked as a room. example, my storage:

the cleaning assignment is clearly visible by the white outlines. yet gardeners only clean it when de-zoning it. exact same goes for the yard.

 

[G3NTs]

same exact problem, though my guards do not perform any cleaning.

Only my gardeners clean the outside area's not marked as a room. example, my storage:
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the cleaning assignment is clearly visible by the white outlines. yet gardeners only clean it when de-zoning it. exact same goes for the yard.

also I tried all the regime options to see if that influenced it like it did with the cleaning of the cells. but no luck

 

[Moahofer30]

Hello!

Gardeners, currently, do not clean areas marked as Yard.

Yes, that is so annoying. Please fix it, they don't do anything, if prioritized to a single zone.

 

[G3NTs]

yep it is so annoying, pls fix

 

[UltimateTobi]

Has this been fixed yet?

Edit: No.

 

[UltimateTobi]

I edited my OP and attached a save file.

 

[BurgerFanMan]

Yeah, I'm getting the exact problem. Gardeners clean for a few hours after I first research Gardening, but they decide to try to clean the entire map. Then, when they reach the edge of the map, they just stop working and go hang out in storage forever. When I prioritise cleaning a square, a GUARD comes with a broom and does it.

 

[BurgerFanMan]

I think I figured out the problem. What happens is that gardeners will only clean specified squares (similar to janitors). The problem is that new sqaure only appear in adjacent cells of the grid when a square is cleaned. At the first time you hire a gardener, it automatically creates some squares near your walls, but once the gardener runs out of squares by cleaning its wya to the edge of the map, nothing happens. Dirty spots are SUPPOSED to create new square, but they don't. (This was fixed in an update and I accidently had manual update off whoopsie)

 

[UltimateTobi]

I think I figured out the problem. What happens is that gardeners will only clean specified squares (similar to janitors). The problem is that new sqaure only appear in adjacent cells of the grid when a square is cleaned. At the first time you hire a gardener, it automatically creates some squares near your walls, but once the gardener runs out of squares by cleaning its wya to the edge of the map, nothing happens. Dirty spots are SUPPOSED to create new square, but they don't. (This was fixed in an update and I accidently had manual update off whoopsie)

Cleaning tasks (the squares you see when you toggle Objects for example) still get created, but they won't be cleaned. There's also a limit to how many squares are tasked to be gardened. Zoned areas won't be cleaned.

Also, could you please tell what update supposedly fixed this? This issue persists with The Pen.

 

[UltimateTobi]

@Fifnaril I attached an autosave to my OP.

Please check this out, the issue persists since March.

 

[BurgerFanMan]

Cleaning tasks (the squares you see when you toggle Objects for example) still get created, but they won't be cleaned. There's also a limit to how many squares are tasked to be gardened. Zoned areas won't be cleaned.

Also, could you please tell what update supposedly fixed this? This issue persists with The Pen.

Yep, the problem is still here even though I updated my game. The squares spawn on the rooms but they won't clean it no matter what. Really weird bug.

 

[TheSystem__]

Made the game so ugly, don't wanna continue playing till it's fixed.

 

[UltimateTobi]

As of The Pen 1.01 this issue is still not fixed.
I am really frustrated with this. I haven't purchased Second Chances and will not purchase any DLCs going into the future until this is resolved.

It is a base game mechanic that stopped working somewhen around Going Green. I implore you to fix this.

 

[TRSSA]

As of The Pen 1.01 this issue is still not fixed.
I am really frustrated with this. I haven't purchased Second Chances and will not purchase any DLCs going into the future until this is resolved.

It is a base game mechanic that stopped working somewhen around Going Green. I implore you to fix this.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume this broke because of going green and won't be fixed so you are forced to buy the dlc. This is the highest rated bug report for PA and they haven't even acknowledged the bugs existence. I was considering buy the dlc anyway but it sucks that this is still not fixed (there is no way the dev don't know about it by now)

 

[BurgerFanMan]

I'm gonna go ahead and assume this broke because of going green and won't be fixed so you are forced to buy the dlc. This is the highest rated bug report for PA and they haven't even acknowledged the bugs existence. I was considering buy the dlc anyway but it sucks that this is still not fixed (there is no way the dev don't know about it by now)

Doesn't fix even if you have the DLCs. I can't believe this bug hasn't been noticed by the devs yet. Really sucks.