Villager Freezing

[vyraka]

Villager Freezing is the name of the bug - which thankfully winter has made me aware of how frequently it occurs. Villagers stop moving - usually "doing nothing" to the point that they will freeze or starve to death despite heat sources and food available. This isn't late game - this is happening before Year 1402.

Usually I can catch in time, and reload to get them moving, but in my recent "frozen villager", he kept dying of hypothermia despite going back several loads. So either he was frozen that long (several Real Life minutes) - or - the game decided that he must die of hypothermia.

I finally gave up trying to save him. Poor guy, died of frost and now his wife will get sent to the convent. On the bright side, he leaves behind two young adults who still have babies so perhaps the family is not a complete bust.

[vujuha]

That's a "doing nothing" bug. They can die from starvation too not just freezing. It occurs when you play too long or in bigger maps usually but with the last update, I have seen it more regularly. You need to reload the game before the villagers die.

[Honestly Games]

Hello! Thank you for the report. We are looking into it and seeing what we can do. If you could please send us a save file to [e-mail], it would be of great help for us to identify what is happening. Have a great day!

[vyraka]

So I have narrowed in down in two games that it is the brewers that are constantly get stuck.

I can send you a save file, but as soon as you load, they should become unstuck.

[ullu]

It happend to forager in a my current game. In the game before to two miners.

[Dommain]

Give a villager some fire wood, he will be warm for one winter. If you set the witch on fire, they will be warm forever.

[<O_O> tesla1]

I just had a villager die of hypothermia. I couldn't figure out why the id10t wouldn't move, then as I was going through the inaccessible structures, I found he had backed himself into a corner and then built a trash pile that was blocking his way. Every time I've (usually way too late) encountered a villager dieing of hunger or hypothermia or other cause is usually something to this effect - they wedge themselves into a corner and get stuck

[Henrique Lique]

just had a villager dying of starvation with food on inventory. Reload works, but babysitting this is annoying.