Hydroponics Table Limit?

[Phienyx]

I have and enclosed building lit well by sun lamps.  This building houses 18 hydroponics tables, however, my 3 growers will only use 10 of them.  Why is that?

[Celthric Aysen]

I have and enclosed building lit well by sun lamps.  This building houses 18 hydroponics tables, however, my 3 growers will only use 10 of them.  Why is that?

You might want to try and get more growers assigned

[OpposingForces]

do you have power run to them? i noticed they seem to require power now, didn't notice in alpha 2 if they did or not, but them seem to now.

[Phienyx]

Yes, there is power run to them

[OpposingForces]

well i had a similar issue in alpha 2. couldn't fix it. so i'm not sure why they're not working for you. maybe post it in the bugs section?

[TanC]

I have a feeling that your colonists are distracted by other high-priority tasks. I've had the same happen to me, and reducing their distractions allows the colonists to resume work on tending to the hydroponics.

[Zerkuran]

I had a similar issue with my potted plants vs. hydroponics vs. regular farming. If not done yet, try to put more people into farming with priority 1 or 2 and watch if the farming goes better.

[Phienyx]

I had a similar issue with my potted plants vs. hydroponics vs. regular farming. If not done yet, try to put more people into farming with priority 1 or 2 and watch if the farming goes better.

I tried that.  They are tending to the 10 tables regularly, but absolutely no activity on the others.

[DeMatt]

Are all the tables within the "Brightly Lit" zone of the sun lamps?

It might be worth attaching a screenshot or a save.

[Landriff]

Do they need to be within the home zone? Are they?

[Tynan]

Home zone has no effect. They need:

-Power
-Growers without higher-priority work
-A path where they can stand adjacent to the grow square

Also select the table and see what it's configured to grow.

Lighting has no effect. No light means the plants won't grow, but farmers will still sow them.

[daft73]

Do they need to be within the home zone? Are they?

No, this just gives your colonists a limit to what extents they will go to cleaning/fires and such. ie...Don't go all the way across the map to put out a cactus on fire, you see these fires over here in town..take care of those.