I have a child set to study botany, I have a freezer nearby full of plenty of raw plant matter, from fruits to vegitables to hay, but somehow none of it counts? I just get the ding and an error message saying there's no materials to use. Is there some sort of maximum distance limit or does only some types of raw plants count? Is this a bug?

If anyone could clarify these questions I'd very much appreciate it.

Also, is it possible to improve the feedback this mod gives on why, exactly, a task is being disallowed? It can even be as simple as giving us info in game on what exactly are considered acceptable materials for each field of study. Every single other task in the game that consumes items gives a list of that the possible items are it can use, except this ONE mod. It just gives vague, useless info like "uses plant matter" for the botany studies, with no info on what types it uses and what types it does not use. Also, if there's some maximum radius as to how far a student will go to collect the resources for a particular class or movement restrictions (such as restricted to a particular zone and no resources are in their allowed zone but are available outside of it.

Adding this type info and better feedback for when something's not working would give us the ability to effectively troubleshoot why a student's refusing to take a class. We'll at least be able to use the available info to understand why we're getting the error we're getting and why something we expect to be happening isn't happening. That way it's possible to fix the problem so the student gets on with their study again.