Stop Venison Consumption

[HAZ]

Trying to complete the sisters request for 400 venison... set the max to 500 and clicked the padlock in the inventory screen... my villagers consume ALL the venison now, despite having thousands and thousands of stored foodstuff of other varieties.

How to stop consumption?

It has been a full year now, and meat is definitely on the menu... seems to be the only thing.

How to stop consumption?

[achdoormo]

First of all there is no need to set a maximum! And check that you don't have trade deals at your docks for selling Venison. Aside from those issues...

If you lock a *needed* resource they will consume it anyway. Food is not simply food. There are proteins, grain & vegetable, fruit & nut, and "other" (bread, oil, honey etc). You say there are thousands of stored foodstuff but if none of those are protein then they will *need* venison.

Make sure you have meat or eggs from ranches in stock and unlocked, or fish or crab. If they get enough protein from those sources and venison is locked they will ignore the venison. Fish is very cheap to buy and abundant if self-produced from the fishing hut. That should be enough to solve the problem on its own. Citizens only need one protein source to satisfy the demand as long as there is enough of it.

[jpittlack]

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[HAZ]

I have no trade. I have 8K fish and 5k gathered berries and 3k apples and only 50 adults and 40 children (so the economy is very small).

I have no fields and no chickens... just TONS of fish and fruits and a few hunting lodges.

I set the max just to ensure the stockpiles have room to add content.

But watching venison add 100 and then consume 96 over and over is just annoying. If I say no consumption it should NOT consume... even if every villager starves, the command is not to consume... not sort of not consume.

[achdoormo]

Yes that is strange then. As long as fish are not locked also you should be having no problem. Only thing unusual compared to my games is setting the maximum, maybe just try without that until the quest is achieved.

[TazmanianD]

Yeah, I'm experiencing the same think. I've got venison locked and lots of other foods but something is still consuming it.

Originally posted by achdoormo:

If you lock a *needed* resource they will consume it anyway. Food is not simply food. There are proteins, grain & vegetable, fruit & nut, and "other" (bread, oil, honey etc). You say there are thousands of stored foodstuff but if none of those are protein then they will *need* venison.

Do you know where you got this information from? Where is it said that the game distinguishes protein from any other kind of food? I know that peasants want a variety of food to be happy but I haven't seen anything that would suggest they'll still eat specific kinds of foods even if they're locked and there's other food available.

[achdoormo]

It is from observation of the circumstances where locked resources get consumed.

Easy example, fuel. If there is coal and firewood the citizens consume coal first. If you lock coal they will only use firewood unless firewood runs out. Then they will take coal even though it is locked because they don't want to die.

It seems that the citizens prioritise certain food groups. This is anecdotal evidence from completing every map. When I have a lot of everything the fruit and meat piles up but vegetables and grains are heavily consumed. If citizens cannot get what they prefer which seems about 20% protein/20% fruit/60% vegetable they will settle for what they can get but health may decline if your food group variety is seriously lacking.

Also I believe their preference changes with rank, so good luck locking your cookies and prosciutto for export when the gentry have moved in. Just look at the food stored in their mansions.

So lets say you have lack of orchards and low fruit, mainly relying on the gatherers berries and nuts. If you lock a fruit like strawberries you will find that it gets eaten anyway when in stock even if you have lots of meat and vegetables available.

It is food group variety that meets their demand. That is why I said food is not simply food. Having 6 different meats and nothing else won't work long term.