Settlers refuse to make meals

[Kaelroth]

I really enjoy this game and fight hard to ignore many of the issues that still have yet to be fixed, but there is something detrimentally wrong with the settler AI system at this point.

I used to have a stockpile of 2500 packaged meals. They were making so many meals that my kitchen and surrounding floor space was littered with them, but now I fluctuate between 500 and 600 even as I have added several more settlers to prioritize cooking and dozens of new shelves in which to store them. I have manually been trying to get settlers to increase their stockpile of meals for over 2 in-game years and they refuse to do so.

I have manually instructed settlers to make meals, but oftentimes they go idle on the way to working the stoves and then switch to some other task like constructing. I have even drafted them a few times to walk them over to the stoves so that once undrafted, they won't be able to go idle and switch to a different task and it's still about 50/50 whether they will complete the process of making a meal before wandering off to perform some other task. Culinary is set to a priority of 1 and all other relevant tasks are set to priority 2 or lower. Their culinary skill levels are above 20 and one settler has a skill of 50.

Saving and reloading the game doesn't fix this. Yes, there is plenty of available food, fuel and linen nearby the stoves to create packaged meals. Yes, the tasks on the stoves have been set to create meals using the appropriate materials and until I have 2500 meals. Yes, I have deleted the tasks and re-added them to try and reset the functionality. Yes, there is plenty of storage space for additional packaged meals. Yes, there are plenty of hours set to work and leisure where settlers will prepare meals during those times. Yes, the stockpiles are located in cold-storage rooms where it is cold enough that the meals will never decompose. The settlers just refuse to do it.

The AI has been getting steadily worse as the game has developed, but now it's getting detrimentally bad that settlers will begin to starve for the simple fact that they won't make meals. I have noticed multiple issues with manually instructing settlers to perform tasks with other production benches. Those I mostly ignored because they were merely annoying and not detrimental to settler survival, but the refusal to cook meals can't be ignored. I used F10 to report a bug regarding settlers refusing to perform manually assigned tasks some time ago, but the issue is still persisting. I submitted another bug report for the refusal to cook today.

Please fix the terrible settler AI.

[SeVerin]

Heya, did you F10 this issue? Do you remember the name of the report?

[Kaelroth]

I did. It was probably something close to "settlers refuse to make meals" or "settlers refuse to prioritize manually set tasks."