villagers eating

[alwhite]

Do villagers in your village make there own food to eat( taking raw food from the food store and cooking at home ) or do they just eat ready made meals made by tavern keep or by you ?

[Dracon]

No, they consume the raw (get it?) nutrition value.

[nate.sewell]

My understanding is they eat food from the food storage chest. When I put food there the number in management goes up.

Raw edibles collected by villagers also go into this storage.

Maybe they eat the raw food if there's none cooked in there? I haven't tested that theory

[EDIT.. I read elsewhere they just eat top to bottom.. that's unfortunate if correct :( especially since spoiled food is a thing now]

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

They eat the nutrition value they need from the food storage, roasted meat is good enough for the whole game in the curent state....a worker in the tavern can roast the meat at a slow level. 2 hunters are enough for 6-7 villagers and yourself or just use all the traps every day

[NickTwist]

Question - So if the tavern worker does the roasting - do I have to bring him the raw meat from the food storage AND do I have to bring it back to food storage after its roasted?

[alwhite]

ok got that - so why did the DEV's put a cook pot in every house that you build if they don't use it !
which is why i thought they took the food from the food store and cooked at home for the whole household to feed on
maybe later in the development of the game they would buy made meals from the tavern (along with ale) and the cash comes to you ...who knows lol

[cleaner]

Villagers seem to consume food in alphabetical order currently, so I would only put the end product in the food storage. Hoping for a patch in the future that allows you to set what they can and can't consume.

[mhardy00]

Originally posted by cleaner:

Villagers seem to consume food in alphabetical order currently, so I would only put the end product in the food storage. Hoping for a patch in the future that allows you to set what they can and can't consume.

They do really need to let us select what they eat. There is a couple of problems with only putting your finished food in the chest. One is that it is the slowest container to rot so putting your food into other chest will cause it to rot faster. Also if you have a tavern worker they need the raw materials stored in the food storage to be able to work. Don't forget your farm workers also put all that they gather in there as well.

[g0815krieger]

Originally posted by Dracon:

No, they consume the raw (get it?) nutrition value.

They dont eat poisonous food, so raw meat is not eaten, only if roasted or cooked.
Everything else they eat, top down in inventory.
Berry first, then eggs and whatever is next in the list.
Eggs and roasted meat is the most eaten food in my village, I have 2 cooks who make enough of it.
The pottage and soups (also made by cooks) can be sold, as my settlers don´t eat enough of the other things to get even close to pottage or soup :)

I have made some breads and other baking products for testing, some of it ranges fairly high in the list and will be consumed (flatbread), others way down in the list never will be eaten.
There is only 1 mushroom that is in the top10 of food storage list, which will be consumed all others way down in the list, will rot if you don´t take it out for sale.

Food consumption needs more randomness, or some other mechanic behind, that settlers eat different food, instead always the one on top in storage list.
As it is now, it is really bad.

[Bahamas]

I agree is very bad designed rigt now. maybe they should eat food By the nutrient value with some little bit of variety for morale plus

[Izuela]

One way to fix it would be having villagers eat from the tavern, first, if one is built. As long as you put food in that storage. Tavern storage would also need the food expiration upgrade then, of course. This would also work well with employing a cook in there.

[mhardy00]

Originally posted by Izuela:

One way to fix it would be having villagers eat from the tavern, first, if one is built. As long as you put food in that storage. Tavern storage would also need the food expiration upgrade then, of course. This would also work well with employing a cook in there.

That actually is a pretty good idea. That way you can keep your raw materials in the food storage building without your villagers eating through them. The inn keeper can then put the finished goods into the tavern chest and the villagers pull from that.

Still may need some weighting system for eating the oldest foods first or something. Other wise still may end up with allot of spoiled food as they keep eating stuff just put in.

[PBandjellyfish]

I like the idea of needing a tavern to protect your harvests by having villagers eat from there first and food storage second.

Until you get a tavern increased spoilage or losing your crops would be an incentive to build a tavern.
I see no reason to even build one as yet, everyone can live on potage or roasted meat to the end of time.

[Star]

eating top to bottom is so frustrating they ate all my carrots before i could make stew with it, such a waste

[Izuela]

Originally posted by mhardy00:

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Still may need some weighting system for eating the oldest foods first or something. Other wise still may end up with allot of spoiled food as they keep eating stuff just put in.

Yeah, lower % should probably mean higher on the list. Instead of alphabetical.

[-=Prepper_Jack=-]

Originally posted by Izuela:

Yeah, lower % should probably mean higher on the list. Instead of alphabetical.

Well, if that were the case, it would be helpful to have a compost pile so your plebs aren't eating rancid meat that would otherwise be converted into fertilizer.