Iron teeth extinct voluntarily by eating out berries. Why no mod to prohibit that?

[Van Hexing]

Subj. Right now iron teeth are just unplayable on hard, because they eat out berries, which are necessary for breeding but impossible to replenish on hard in the beginning on many maps.

[Trixi]

I don't understand. Berry bushes are planted by forester, which you need anyway to get wood?!

[IIBuxy]

rush for the first farming crop right away, 2-3 farm buildings and just pause/unpause as needed to collect a bunch of food. iron teeth on hard is the only thing i play so fully doable

[Van Hexing]

On some maps they eat out the initial harvest/supply of berries and extinct, even before you have time to invent the forrester and grow new berries. Even if you manage to quickly grow one alternative food, this does not drive them off from the berries completely. And all the more if you once experience a temporary shortange of the alternative, they quickly eat out their posterity instead of just fasting for a day or two.

[Van Hexing]

And anyway, even if you can evade this problem with some artificial maneuvres on most of maps, is it really difficult for an expert modder to make a mod with a switch prohibiting berry consumption?

[jonnin]

Berries are literally the last thing the IT beavers (and FT too) will eat. If they eat the berries, they had nothing else available. You should have kolarabies edible by like day 7 or 8, and if you ran out of berries, most of your initial population will be alive in time to harvest the next round next month. So at worst you should only have an annoying few days where you have job vacancies due to lack of reproduction; and the FT are just as bad here because time you have water, food, power, sawmill, forester, etc you still probably haven't had wood to spare for houses (reproduction).

The hardest thing for IT is the 100 log power wheel is very tight on wood on some maps on hard.

[EleventhStar]

they only eat berries if there is no other food at all.

get your farm going earlier if you run out in the early game.

another solution is to simply not harvest the berries if you don't want them to be used for food.

and ofc, once you have stairs more berries usually become available.

[QueenPixxa]

OP did you maybe customise the number of beavers you start with?
I started once with 20 beavers, trying to plump up my initial workforce, and I JUST ABOUT made it, but yes they were eating all the berries.