I can't seem to find any real info--like Factual Answers--on this game. Its just people guessing and saying what they "think" is the answer. Or just repeating what the games says when you hold your cursor over something, and it gives you some basic idea of what the building does. So any factual help would be appreciated.
--- DO Gatherers keep collecting in Winter?
And more generally,
--- WHAT changes about the things you can do in Winter?
If so:
1) do they still gather food in winter, and to what amount?
2) or do they "transport wood", as some random person said on some weird site I found?

3) What are the restrictions on what villagers of ALL Occupations can do during winter?
Seems like a really simple question, but i cant find any answers about anything.... other than A LOT of people asking about working an orchard in winter, but orchards suck, so who cares about that. What about every single other profession?

We all know you can't farm in winter. As the food don't grow good. AND there's this handy bar that says you have no more left to harvest. So we all kinda just figured that out after the first winter.
Everything else is just impossible to follow.
I watched my gatherers in winter and they were running around doing a bunch of stuff that isn't gathering... so whats the deal here?
Its not like you get the Yellow Question Mark or Stop Sign saying something is wrong and work cant be done or its being interrupted. Like when there is no one assigned to a Building, or you ran out of a resource and you can no longer produce good (like the tailor not having pelts).
Are they just like a regular Laborer, doing odd jobs, moving stuff, and clearing the resources like trees, stone and iron that were selected and marked with the yellow "X" on the ground?

Thanks for your help. :)