patch 9+ BIG food problem!

[Gnollmar]

Ok, animals are eating all my food, my townies keep feeding them 24/7 and they wont eat anything themselves :/ i want to set priority of that to NEVER, any way?

[Verschlossen]

No, there really isn't a way - you can however set your townies to always butcher 5 (if you have one of each farm) and that will keep the spawn down so that they are slaughtering the livestock. Do you have a kitchen to cook the meat?

If you have too many animals built up in your walled in farm just slaughter ten at a time to get down to a manageable number. Or, alternatively, the game tries to self correct if you're using meat / animal based foods by still allowing townies to cook and eat those products and your surplus animals that aren't getting fed will die off creating bones.

[Tom Kent]

Each animal should only need feeding once every 12 hours. If you have a lot of animals, then try slaughtering more of them. If you always have a surplus of animals sitting around, then you may need to reduce the number of farms.

[Tesserat]

Agreed - the best way to pretty much keep maintenance down and food up is to maintain a 1:1 production (1 townie, one unit of baked/cooked food). Animals mean more mouths to feed, so having only one each reduces that amount. Otherwise you might as well treat them as a townie as well.

However, the in-game time to real time ratio of this game sucks...