Allow NPCs to be assigned tasks to automate the processes (farming, cooking, fishing etc)

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• 27 Nov, '25
  Ben Merged

  Hello,
  I would love it if there were automation options for production or if the NPCs could take over while you're out and about in the world.
  The NPCs could be limited in time so that they only work and produce goods at certain times – or perhaps they could only produce the basic materials and the player would have to craft larger objects or weapons etc. themselves.
  
  Thanks
  
  PS: The game is already very nice and great to play – love it.

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• 29 Nov, '25
  Ulrich Merged

  For all the crafting, farming, animal taming and resource gathering that is now required to keep a base running, it would be awesome if we had NPCs that you could set to do some of those tasks. for example an NPC that you can send off to gather a specific resource and it takes some amount of in game time for them to come back, or have an NPC that fills up the food for animals. this could be an immersive way to "turn off" some of the tasks players dont like by assigning NPCs to them, and at the same time make bases more alive.

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• 04 Dec, '25
  Vapok System

  "Add NPCs that complete tasks for you" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-11-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 04 Dec, '25
  Vapok System

  "Add Automatisations" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-11-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 05 Jan
  Demian

  Absolutely, this would be amazing. Currently building a village has no benefit other than building something nice looking. Necesse does this perfectly and has many options to control how automation is done.
  
  Feed, collect, upgrade and butcher animals (for example if more than 5), collect and replant farms, etc. You could limit how much farmland the farmer and his assistant can handle per day to not overdo it.
  
  Most importantly: let me assign someone to fish in the pond I made. I don't like fishing games (in general) but I also don't like my cats go hungry. Fishing feels very forced on the player. Alternatively, make cat food without fish.

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• 27 Apr
  Nights Path

  With the Forging the Path update, this would be easier than before. Assign a villager to a Quick Stack station with the summoning staff. This makes the villager wander to different machines to pull the output back into your storage chests.
  Other than farming, I think everything else should be a manual process, as you don't want villagers using up materials you were saving for another craft/upgrade.
  Farming and Animal upkeep should 100% be assignable though.

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• 11 May
  peter lucas

  Maybe focus each one on one task, like Farmer - Task : Cultivate Tomato. It will plant and harvest tomato until nor more space on the ground or no seeds

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• 18 May
  Oli the Ol' Pirate

  I've had a similar discussion to this on the disc. I find it immersion breaking that our "craftspeople" are essentially just walking shops.
  They should be crafting...
  And ffs i wish they'd learn to stay still!!!
  I talk with NPC - okay i need to go grab this rss and this yadayada - turn around and they've vanished, luckily there's now two of the same NPC so refinding the shop is only half as time consuming lol

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