Farmers running from field to field instead of sticking to the assigned one

Farthest Frontier General Discussion
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Hi there,
i play Farthest Frontier now for a while and wonder about how farmers are working on the fields.
Instead that the assigned number of farmers stick to there field, nearly all of them running between different fields, travelling quite some distance.

For example:
I have 3 fields in my new settlement, two in the south (one with 6 farmers, one with 5 farmers assigned) and another one in the east with 8 farmers assigned.
Now instead that the assigned numbers working on there field, the pack as 19 farmers working one field in the south, then the another one and most curious then all 19 run across the whole village to the east field and work there.

What i wonder is: Is this really intended, cause it doesn’t appear very logical to me. Why am I able to assign farmers for one field when they pack together than and work as bunch of 19 on one field after another?
Is there any way in the game to tell them to stick to there assigned fields and I’m just not realizing that option?

Regards, Aegis

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Yes farmers are working on all fields so currently it is more efficient to group all the farms close to each other. Similar with beehives, dont put them too far away

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You are right, it does not make sense to assign a n number of workers for a field if they decide to go to another field with an already n number assigned of workers.
If you have 10 and 10 assigned, if they move from one field to another does that mean at one point a farm has 20 active workers? If not, where do the remainig 10 workers go?
Normally what would make sense is that once the workers are done with their job they become labarers and let each farm be taken care of by their respective farmers.

I don’t see why farms behave differenly in this manner. Why not have smeltery workers swap back and forth between smelteries or any other factory for that matter.

The design choices in this game I don’t get some times.