Starvation?

[Honor]

My team has scavenged plenty of food but they and the citizens are all starving. Why? And how do you actually get everyone to eat?

[Michelangelo]

Farms, Barns and kitchens

[resonance]

People eat automatically at noon every day provided there is enough available food at that time.

[2cool4words]

Thoughts on food. Build two farms in July. Store the grain. Build 16ish people worth of barns in November. Collect fertilizer through the winter. Plant four more farms during the winter. Once April rolls around add farmers working with fertilizer. Save grain and meat until the second winter. Start cooking the food the next winter. Scale.

Not certain on the need for canneries. Not getting any food spoilage.

[PewPr]

Meat-based production seems bugged on my end. Try switching over to grain. Worked for me

[PrzemekPMT]

Originally posted by Shiloh:

My team has scavenged plenty of food but they and the citizens are all starving. Why? And how do you actually get everyone to eat?

I had the same problem in my game , i had plenty of food but the People were starving. You should also check what kind of food do you have.

[Nordil(Hun)]

I have 228 adults and 55 children. I have 123 canned food and 123 food rations. This is supposed to last for 4 days of food supply. Yet folks starve each and every day.
(I loot about 50-60 canned food a day, the rest is produced in three cookhouses.)

Originally posted by PewPr:

Meat-based production seems bugged on my end. Try switching over to grain. Worked for me

Seems to be the case. That meat production is what causes starvation.
Which is a shame since you get both food and fertilizer, so it barn for mid and late game is very important building.

[petera1289]

Sounds like several related problems and misunderstandings being mixed

Eating ... only rations (from cookhouse) or cans get eaten by people ... having grain bags or meat doesnt count (not a bug but should be) as food for eating

cookhouse with meat ... this bug seemed to mostly affect <5 worker cookhouses ... you wouldn't believe how much trouble we had in April getting people in these discussions to believe this was not stupid players until the devs said yep its a bug

if you are getting "rations" out of your cookhouse (totals change in warehouse etc) ... a cannery should convert them to not-bugged cans of food

rations or cans ... at noon your people will eat rations if they can then eat cans

[NiceGuy]

You need to have the appropriate number of food in storage at the second all people eat, which is at noon each day. If there is missing a single ration you get the warning.
I was not able to test this yet but it also seems you get the starvation note if you have different types of food. And if let's say your canned food does not last for everyone you get the starvation message although those other people go and eat the normal rations and in fact did not starve.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

You need to have the appropriate number of food in storage at the second all people eat, which is at noon each day. If there is missing a single ration you get the warning.
I was not able to test this yet but it also seems you get the starvation note if you have different types of food. And if let's say your canned food does not last for everyone you get the starvation message although those other people go and eat the normal rations and in fact did not starve.

I just loaded the game back up.
So the thing is, they will select one type of food as you say, they will prefer rations over canned food. And it seems if there is not enough rations they will starve. Instead of taking say a canned food ->this is likely a bug, a behavioural issue.

[petera1289]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

And it seems if there is not enough rations they will starve. Instead of taking say a canned food ->this is likely a bug, a behavioural issue.

absolutely a bug ... they are supposed to eat all the rations then make up the missing food from cans
I almost never have more rations than needed (because I increase cannery capacity) but have never had anyone starve (because of the canneries)

[Rider]

Originally posted by Shiloh:

My team has scavenged plenty of food but they and the citizens are all starving. Why? And how do you actually get everyone to eat?

Hard to help without more info. How many people you have? How many rations/cans? How does your food production look like?

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Rider:

Originally posted by Shiloh:

My team has scavenged plenty of food but they and the citizens are all starving. Why? And how do you actually get everyone to eat?

Hard to help without more info. How many people you have? How many rations/cans? How does your food production look like?

I deleted that particular save:S
But i got a new one, where in a bit i am about to kick off the food production.
(went deliberatly on safe, slow and steady development route)
Once i can replicate the issue, i'll post about it. And provide more description.

But as a preliminary description.
I had around 220-230 folks with about 70 children.
Every morning i started with about 45-50 cans of food and around 30ish or soo food rations. This should have fed my folks but it did not. A few of them still starved:(

[Rider]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by Rider:

Hard to help without more info. How many people you have? How many rations/cans? How does your food production look like?

I deleted that particular save:S
But i got a new one, where in a bit i am about to kick off the food production.
(went deliberatly on safe, slow and steady development route)
Once i can replicate the issue, i'll post about it. And provide more description.

But as a preliminary description.
I had around 220-230 folks with about 70 children.
Every morning i started with about 45-50 cans of food and around 30ish or soo food rations. This should have fed my folks but it did not. A few of them still starved:(

I've forwarded the issue to one of our testers, we're on it!

[R4V4N4]

My dudes are starving to death. even though having canns and rations. Maybe they ran out of their fav food i dunno. seems like i have enough

[Wet Valley Mayor]

Originally posted by Michelangelo:

Farms, Barns and kitchens

Greenhouses as well. They do not have the cold temperature debuff.

With those three active, recommended production chain are the following:
• Farms/Greenhouses use fertilizer from Barns for more Grain.
• Leave Barn as is.
• Cookhouse uses Raw Meat from Barn.