Cooks not cooking

[Azrael]

Title. I have 2 cooking stations, 2 cauldrons, a chopping block and a well along with barrels of food and shelves, but my cooks are not cooking food for my nobles. Please tell me I'm missing something stupidly simple?

[Dommain]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Nowei:

Odd a campfire would have anything to do with it but glad you got it working

Campfire force firewood and then the chain escalates from there

[Duko]

I still have a problem with cooks, they only cook plain food even though I have a bunch of ingredients

[GhostLyrics]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Duko:

I still have a problem with cooks, they only cook plain food even though I have a bunch of ingredients

aww, I was hoping this would be resolved with update 1.0.3 - haven't had the chance to test it myself yet.

[Bastard™]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Duko:

I still have a problem with cooks, they only cook plain food even though I have a bunch of ingredients

also still having this problem, to a degree - SOMETIMES they make good meals but even then, sometimes if those are available, the ruling family takes the normal / simple ones instead ...

which leads into another problem in that even though my cooks ARE cooking, they aren't cooking nearly enough and almost every day someone in my demense goes to the inn to purchase food. I have 3 cooks to feed 5 labourers, 2 stablehands, 2 guards and a general, plus my ruling family of 5. 3 should be enough to make enough meals (there sure as hell is enough ingredients, they just don't cook fast enough or in great enough supply... devs need to increase the amount of meals cooks make at one time)

[GhostLyrics]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DVOYD:

I have 3 cooks to feed 5 labourers, 2 stablehands, 2 guards and a general, plus my ruling family of 5. 3 should be enough to make enough meals (there sure as hell is enough ingredients, they just don't cook fast enough or in great enough supply... devs need to increase the amount of meals cooks make at one time)

I think that's because of a restriction I fail to understand: cooks will cook until at most 35 meals are in stock (I've read that somewhere on the forums). Why? No idea.

[zetathix]

Assign min-max number freely to kitchen to stocking food even have enough is not a good idea? Current auto cook system is dumb. I have a lot of problem with this too, ex. my subject need 10 normal meals and 4 silvers, I have 4 silvers for sure, but the food... I can't even keep up with royal + servants + troops, food shelf always empty with 4 cooks assigned, only 1 cook do the work, all day working gain nothing seriously. I delay to give things for 4 days but 10 normal meals are too far for royal to gain, and don't forget meal don't exist in market for player to use money to fix the problem...

Or at least let me give other thing with same value to my subject and keep my face, why can't I give them ingredients instead of cooked meal? Why pips don't prepare their food stock to have it enough to pass the winter while they still have enough money and food are cheaper when abundant?, they keep coins and buy expensive ingredients in middle of the winter...

[Nowei]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kakysha Saranictil:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DVOYD:

I have 3 cooks to feed 5 labourers, 2 stablehands, 2 guards and a general, plus my ruling family of 5. 3 should be enough to make enough meals (there sure as hell is enough ingredients, they just don't cook fast enough or in great enough supply... devs need to increase the amount of meals cooks make at one time)

I think that's because of a restriction I fail to understand: cooks will cook until at most 35 meals are in stock (I've read that somewhere on the forums). Why? No idea.

its 5 per person

[Drosta]

There still seems to be a problem with cooking and I'm not in the tutorial. I've tried everything to get them to produce enough meals to actually keep ahead of the consumption. But firstly, there doesn't seem to be any trackable metric for meals. Only the ingredients and the meal consumption average per day. Why? Secondly. I have tried multiple ways to try to fix this in my own. Let's start with the obvious. I have plenty of ingredients. In fact I have hundreds of every type so if I really wanted to I could be making excellent meals. But I've only been trying to make good ones up to this point.

The other obvious one, yes. I have all of the required cooking stations and they are all inside the kitchen and yes I have assigned cooks from my servant staff in the appropriate tab. In fact. In my attempts to solve this i hired 4 of them and created 3 cauldrons and 3 cooking tables.

The other obvious one is I went to the cooking tab of the management menu and I turned off the automated AI cooking as well as the option to have them create meals of a lesser quality if the ingredients aren't available. And I set the target for good meals to be 500. All other options are set to zero.

And before you say it. Yes, I have less than 500. I fluctuate between 5-10 and 0. Sometimes they make some excellent meals regardless of my directions. But more often than not they make normal quality, but still not enough to keep up with the demand.

So in spite of having 4 cooks, hundreds of kg of ingredients, and all of the required stations, zone, and settings. I have spent my first two years watching my starting supply of normal meals dwindle down to, now, nearly none and I don't know what to do.

There seem to be many little quirks and bugs in this game most of which I'm more or less willing to accomodate because I like the game anyway. But if my village starves to death despite having plenty of food around and I simply lose for no apparent reason. I'd have to say that's not a quirk. That's game breaking.

Is something being done to address this? Should I come back later and try again after a few patches?

Or is it that I'm really just not doing something correctly? I have about 10 members of the demesne so literally 40% of them are cooks. I don't know what else to do.