Kitchens not producing any food

[kjohnso72]

I have a village with a population of 35, when I went from a level 1 to a level 2 kitchen I stopped getting any stored cooked food in my food storage. I have 2 level 2 kitchens fully staffed. I have all the ingredients they need. Are my villagers eating it all? I would think that 4 cooks would be producing excess but maybe not.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Did you remember to tell them what to cook after you upgraded?

[Goldi:AI]

Make sure the production is set up. In that window you can also see how much they produce per day or if there are any issues.

If some of your children grew up you may need more food now than before.

[kjohnso72]

Production is set up. It does say they're producing amounts per day. I guess I just need to unlock a tavern to produce more, or build more kitchens.

[UglyBird]

Your 35 villagers must be eating all the production, as long as they do not complain about lack of food you are fine.

[felmari]

there is a stat on the main management window for demand and produced your productions is probably below that. it add all sources though. i am not sure how they prioritize so it could be they eat those first and then get into other things.

[Goldi:AI]

There is also the option to disable certain food items for consumption. That might also be useful for testing and adjusting.

[Kwalyz]

Originally posted by kjohnso72:

I have a village with a population of 35, when I went from a level 1 to a level 2 kitchen I stopped getting any stored cooked food in my food storage. I have 2 level 2 kitchens fully staffed. I have all the ingredients they need. Are my villagers eating it all? I would think that 4 cooks would be producing excess but maybe not.

The amount of food your cooks can prepare will depend upon their production skill level. (And their mood & production modifiers you have from your personal skill tree.) For example, a level 3 cook can produce sufficient food per day for about 6 adults when at about 0% mood, without any production bonuses.
Also some items are classed as food and water items … so it’s possible if you run short of water that they consume a food item to satisfy their water requirement. On the last tab of the management menu is the lists of food, water and firewood sources your villagers will use … and there you can block or allow consumption of items. Eg allow villages to eat pottage in the food list but block them from drinking it in the water menu.

Personally when my cook is not able to make enough food for my growing village I got my hunters to make dried meat and a fishing hut to get fish meat to add to the items they can eat. Dried meat is 5 food value each … so 6 of these per day will feed an adult (when you haven’t gotten the personal perks to reduce villager food/water needs.) the hunters can gather a lot so putting some of their time to making dried meat doesn’t leave me short on leather or fur. A level 3 fisher can collect enough fish meat per day to feed 5 adults. (I decided I didn’t want them eating fish meat so got the fisher to make an equal amount of dried fish for my villagers to eat- this produces slightly less food for my villagers but I go through fishing rods at half the rate.) And I get them to eat any vegetables that my cook is not using.

[AfLIcTeD]

I wish we had a bit more control over what they eat.

First I would like them to consume the lowest condition food first no matter what it is.

Second I would like them to eat a variety of foods. As it is they just eat all the pastries and cheese and let all the other stuff rot away. Unless you go around and put stuff in their chests. I guess implementing the first thing would solve the second.

Could even have a little mood bonus or penalty for having a variety (or lack) of food.