Summary: Orchards are a new project introduced in version 1.4.0. They can only be built if you started your game after patching to 1.4.0. However, if you patch a new 1.4.0 game save to the 1.4.1 beta branch version, any Orchards projects that were already completed will vanish from towns and...
So, this is something I've been thinking about for some time and has a personal interest in. There seems to be a varying degree of frustrations in the forum about communication from the developers. Would it have helped to not have released the game in Early Access(EA) with the version of 1.0...