How to keep barley through winter?

[Loki]

they do not count as seeds, people just cooked them, do I have to check every production station to stop that? and manage a special diet without barley for them?

[Philtre]

They will use barley to make meals if you don't tell them otherwise. You can edit the allowed materials in the cooking fire/stove to not allow the use of barley for meals. It's not a big deal, unless you have a whole bunch of cooking fires/stoves for some weird reason (I've never needed more than one cooking station for a max-sized colony, personally). They will not eat raw barley, so if you disable barley for meal-making they will not use it for food at all.

[Holce]

Other solution is to have a second storage with highter priority to store some barley. The second storage have to be further to the cooking stations than your main storage. Cook will go first to the closer (priority is only for storing if I am not wrong) and will take from the second only if you run out of food of any other type.

That is not totally safe but let you use barley for cooking and keep some for seeding.

Ps:If I am wrong about the way priority works, you can just forbid a stack until spring. Or better put all your seeds in the room and lock the door before winter. So you settler will stop seeding during winter. You kill two birds with one stone.

[potsnflotsam]

Originally posted by Holce:

Other solution is to have a second storage with highter priority to store some barley. The second storage have to be further to the cooking stations than your main storage. Cook will go first to the closer (priority is only for storing if I am not wrong) and will take from the second only if you run out of food of any other type.

That is not totally safe but let you use barley for cooking and keep some for seeding.

Ps:If I am wrong about the way priority works, you can just forbid a stack until spring. Or better put all your seeds in the room and lock the door before winter. So you settler will stop seeding during winter. You kill two birds with one stone.

Nice. I'm moving up from normal to hard and I'm looking to tighten up my efficiencies as much as I can and this'll help. Locked in planting stock is a great idea.

[potsnflotsam]

Originally posted by Morbious:

Originally posted by Holce:

Other solution is to have a second storage with highter priority to store some barley. The second storage have to be further to the cooking stations than your main storage. Cook will go first to the closer (priority is only for storing if I am not wrong) and will take from the second only if you run out of food of any other type.

That is not totally safe but let you use barley for cooking and keep some for seeding.

Ps:If I am wrong about the way priority works, you can just forbid a stack until spring. Or better put all your seeds in the room and lock the door before winter. So you settler will stop seeding during winter. You kill two birds with one stone.

with a higher priority the first small room gets filled first then you lock the door and use the seconary larger room as your food /wine needs (check on room temp every so often)

forbidding a shelf / storage will stop settlers but not pets they will still eat from a forbidden stack

unlock in spring (i normally have 3 shelves barley and 2 berries for just in case planting in my seed room)

settlers eat barley raw.... you can go into management and create a new profile (name it) and edit allowed raw remove barley...raw meat (gives a -mood) and if wine making berries till your drowning in them then re enable to use stock

you can also edit stoves and remove barley (bread) berries (again if wine making) to save stock

Fantastic thank you :D For real heheh there it is buttoned up. nice dude ty again

[g0rml3ss]

You can use the new vented floor tiles as a roof and grow Barley throughout winter too.
It will grow slower and have diminished returns but it will be instantly replanted and you will get a bit of hay for your animals and a bit of barley to tick over for cooking.

[Hothnogg]

you can edit what sims eat too in manage tab, edit them to not eat some things, most mine are set to only eat meals and not eat any raw

[Gwynvyd]

I never had a problem with pets eating my barley. Only pets roaming are dogs and an occasional cat. They always prefer meals and raw meat. Is this what will happen if I train my cows? *mental note: keep cows from 'forbidden' barley*