Hops

[ledington]

So far I have 24 hop plants, These don't suffice to enable my tavern to produce beer throughout the year. Shouldn't the productivity of hop plants be increased. or the requirements for hops in the production of beers be decreased? And why don't my villagers ever partake of beer? It sits in my food store until I get around to selling it. i don't need the money....I'd rather my villagers had some fun!

[Kwalyz]

There is a tab in the management menus which allows you disable or enable the consumption of food, drink and wood products by item. Your villagers consume the enabled items in list order … Eg bucket of water will be consumed before any orher item. If you want the beer to be consumed then you need to disable their consumption of items above it in the list, or run a deficit of the items above it so they will use some of the beer as well as other items produced.

Regarding running out of hops. Reduce the amount of beer produced per day so the number of hops harvested in autumn lasts for four seasons. Remembering to factor in how much your herbalists use for potion making.

[ledington]

Originally posted by Kwalyz:

There is a tab in the management menus which allows you disable or enable the consumption of food, drink and wood products by item. Your villagers consume the enabled items in list order … Eg bucket of water will be consumed before any orher item. If you want the beer to be consumed then you need to disable their consumption of items above it in the list, or run a deficit of the items above it so they will use some of the beer as well as other items produced.

Regarding running out of hops. Reduce the amount of beer produced per day so the number of hops harvested in autumn lasts for four seasons. Remembering to factor in how much your herbalists use for potion making.

Thank you, that is very helpful :)