Production halted - but cannot assign a worker

Currently at Early Spring - Year 5, and I’m being held back by my saw pit having halted production.

I’ve got 3 slots enabled, but unfilled:

with manual profession assignment, I cannot assign anyone to work the saw mill, ev en with 21 laborers available:

Unsure what I’m missing here? I just started playing, so the answer might be right in front of my face, but I can’t seem to figure this one out.

Perhaps the sawyers have achieved their maximum quota you assigned them. Click on the “Produced Item” box to see if you need to increase that amount to greater than the number you presently have in the Resources Menu (R key).

It shoudn’t have been, but as soon as I turned off my quota, workers were assigned to it…

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Out of that 100 max I set, I only had 53 in storage.

“Auto” on Minimum Quota sets it on 50% of the Maximum Quota amount you set. So the sawyers were waiting on the storage amount (53) to drift below 50 to start working again. With the Quotas turned off, they’ll work till they run out of wood. Maybe set the Minimum Quota up to closer to the Maximum Quota.

Oh thanks, I think that was it. This happened with another building and changing the minimum value to something other than auto fixed it!

Appreciate it!