Food being eaten immediately - can't prep for days?

[Dementid]

Am I missing something? I made a bunch of food to last for some dungeoneering time, and they all came to eat, left, and then came back to eat again multiple times until all the food was gone.

[TamanduaGirl]

They will eat whenever they get a little hungry. They don't wait till near starving. To be fair most people are the same. Just make sure they are full before leaving and they will survive a few days.

[N-camon]

Or run a certain food based ritual to let them not worry for hunger for a few days.

[howard gaming]

Yeah not sure why they cant wait until they are 50% hungry or something. I try to stockpile a lot of grass meals so I can delve deep into a dungeon and as soon as I enter I get 12 messages immediately saying my cult is eating all the meals despite their hunger being full before I left.

[KunJo]

I had a follower asking me to trick another one by giving him a poop meal so I made one but he came directly and ate it himself but he still gave me the reward for the quest.

It can be problematic though if you need to give a meal to a specific follower since the most starving ones will come and eat first. Maybe cooking by night, waking him up and ask him to eat would work, I havn't tried but it's not really handy.

As said above, if you don't want to worry when you leave for a few days, just choose the ritual that lock hunger for 2 days. If you already chose the feasting ritual, just use it on evening, cook some food and leave when they go sleep. it should give you some extra time before they begin to starve.

[N-camon]

So far it seems like the overall hunger meter is out of all followers, and meal fill specific ones. It works better for me to just make one meal per follower when I cook.

[WingNow]

Originally posted by N-camon:

Or run a certain food based ritual to let them not worry for hunger for a few days.

but if i have enough food to spare, why perform a ritual for food?
food ritual also spend resources that i can use on other ritual

[N-camon]

Originally posted by WingNow:

Originally posted by N-camon:

Or run a certain food based ritual to let them not worry for hunger for a few days.

but if i have enough food to spare, why perform a ritual for food?
food ritual also spend resources that i can use on other ritual

Of the two resources, the bones are easier to get to run rituals. There is also the upgrade to cut ritual costs by 50%. Yet there is not a single upgrade for cooking. There could have been something to improve meals, reduce ingredient costs, or even give better hunger fulfillment.

Edit: Also running a cult with 22 followers takes up a LOT of food.

[SockMonkey]

best thing to do for prepping a long dungeon run is to make sure veryone is full, then cook up a ton of basic meals (grassy gruel if you got the trait). as long as you have a janitor he will clean any poop / vomit / rotten food. and if you have 30+ light meals then your followers will have plenty to snack on while your gone.

[Obi-Sean]

Originally posted by N-camon:

Or run a certain food based ritual to let them not worry for hunger for a few days.

I really regret not taking this. Opted for the faith + food for a day instead. Not sure why I did that. It's the only choice I made that I wish I could take back.

[WingNow]

Originally posted by N-camon:

Originally posted by WingNow:

but if i have enough food to spare, why perform a ritual for food?
food ritual also spend resources that i can use on other ritual

Of the two resources, the bones are easier to get to run rituals. There is also the upgrade to cut ritual costs by 50%. Yet there is not a single upgrade for cooking. There could have been something to improve meals, reduce ingredient costs, or even give better hunger fulfillment.

Edit: Also running a cult with 22 followers takes up a LOT of food.

yes, i have unlocked 50% cost reduction
but I am still in at the mid game, so not reaching that amount of followers. therefore, followers can feed themselves when hungry is totally reasonable

plus the followers can even eat glass without dropping faith if unlock the Doctrine

and after unlock facilities, followers can plant stuffs, fertilize with poop and harvest all by themselves (and there is facility to boost plant growth too)
so there can be plenty of food after all preparation is done

[N-camon]

Originally posted by Obi-Sean:

Originally posted by N-camon:

Or run a certain food based ritual to let them not worry for hunger for a few days.

I really regret not taking this. Opted for the faith + food for a day instead. Not sure why I did that. It's the only choice I made that I wish I could take back.

There are other ways to gather food if you need. Farming with what ever upgrades you have, go full Rimworld and make it so your followers are happy with meals made of other followers, fishing with or without bounty of the sea ritual, or even crusade runs hitting all the food spots and re-defeating the bishop for a 20% bonus in what you gathered.

If you do the brainwash ritual first, they won't take the faith hit when you tell them to start fasting. You then have 3 full days of being able to leave them alone.