How to stop the villagers from eating vegetables

[BareNakedSlayer]

I have a mission where I have to building a foraging camp and gather 20 vegetables. But, the second a vegetable goes in storage someone eats it. I have lots of other food, but the villagers eat the vegetables first every single time.

Is there a way to reserve this so it doesn't get eaten?

[ska.one]

It's in the upgrade tree, fairly low, but you have to buy it at the world map (and then it's unlocked on that profile forever). It's called restrict consumption or manage consumption, something like that. Once you have that power you can open the consumption menu and uncheck which raw foods (and complex foods, coats, etc.) you don't want people to eat till you're ready for it.

Edit: it's called Consumption Control and it's a level 3 upgrade.

[BareNakedSlayer]

Originally posted by ska.one:

It's in the upgrade tree, fairly low, but you have to buy it at the world map (and then it's unlocked on that profile forever). It's called restrict consumption or manage consumption, something like that. Once you have that power you can open the consumption menu and uncheck which raw foods (and complex foods, coats, etc.) you don't want people to eat till you're ready for it.

Edit: it's called Consumption Control and it's a level 3 upgrade.

Ah, interesting choice to put that in the upgrade tree. Thanks for the info. I'm not at level 3 yet, but you better believe I'll be picking that up. I was going crazy, I only had a few patches on the map with vegetables, and every time my foragers picked them some other villager would eat them.

Thanks again!

[kory]

They put quite a bit of stuff that is potentially "micromanagement" into the upgrade tree to make the game less overwhelming. Overall, I think it was a good idea.

[el Darkness]

It is also possible that it was not eaten but taken from warehouse to production building. If you need to save something for Orders or Glade Events you may also need to turn off production processes that will otherwise use said item.