Never any food

[ZeroCool]

These freaking guys swing by the food chest every 5 seconds and eat multiple pieces of food but even though i have one guy dedicated to traps and one guy dedicated to gathering and cooking there is never enough food. I don't have farming yet but i only have 5 people so I have to spend my time shooting deer and rabbits and by the time i get back with more all the meat is eaten again. It's a vicious cycle and it sucks so what am i doing wrong or what can i do differently?

[LeFrenchie]

yea, same thing here.
they feed themselves with mushrooms and berries.. i only hunt when im about to get attacked

[tomjo66]

Yes they need to adress this, since they could live on a pot of porrige. You have to put a !) restriction on how much and what they can eat. 2) They need to adress how much they eat per day.

[Grizzly Bob]

I am lvl 3 at bows and still hunting deer is not worth the 20 arrows to get 1. I gave up and just make sure to gather 200 mushrooms every summer They need to fix it like really bad

[Warmancr1]

just go for boar and in your gathering hut tell them to get you 300 berries and 200 mushrooms that worked for me

[rachford]

It would be nice to stack food like they do in Ark, so that I don't have to keep micromanaging it every 5 minutes, especially when traveling long distances to gather supplies. The NPCs will walk away from the group to go back to base if hungry. Needs some improvement in this area to allow focus on more important things like raids and supply gathering, etc.

[Legadian]

They just need to food buff to last longer.

There's no reason why a single NPC needs to eat 3 pieces of cooked/smoked meat, 2 cooked mushrooms and 2 bunches of berries every day.

[Drek Durshell]

Getting a few farms going helps a lot.

[Sloth]

Gather berries and mushrooms in foraging hut, make sure to deliver to stockpile and they will eat them, make sure to have many traps out and someone dedicated to hunting, but noone will take meat from hunter hut to stockpile so make sure u do. I find hunting wolves for meat is easiest. Stock up on food when u create army and give companions 3 different types of food and a few extra, should be good.
My main thing is i wish the companions cld fast travel with me...

[Sloth]

in your stockpile food will stack and only top one will depreciate first, i wait til it nearly spoiled and then eat, this then refills the timer on it and all food in stack is fresh

[tacoshy]

the thing is that traps are hugely inefficient. You're faster hunting with a bow or club. Berries and mushroom don't feed well unless cooked to jam or stew.

The msot important part to feed is to get 3-4 farms running with different foods and to cook those. They feed for a longer duration and giving buffs for less hunger. also they produce more food and faster aswell.

[Muladas]

The tier 2 forager hut can dry berries and mushrooms (one gives a hunger buff, the other a productivity one I think?). Try pressing N to open the management screen -> pick a chest or a stockpile -> on the far right, assign it to a new outpost. Your villagers will no longer interact with this storage device so you can try to save your better meals there if your people are eating the good stuff too fast.

[Thunder]

It is definitely a bit ridiculous. A priority system for food types would be a big help, as I can't stand seeing all that fancy buff food being eaten as just a snack by my peasants.

[vyraka]

You guys are complaining about food?! I have 6 villagers and 150+ smoked mushrooms. I can't get rid of them fast enough.

And yeah, berries are only good early game when you have nothing. Otherwise, berry jam is awesome.

As far as traps, I heard somewhere that traps don't work unless there are trees nearby. So the ones next to my lumber yard weren't ever getting rabbits. I placed some away from the lumber yard, and poof, regular rabbits. I have one dedicated guy who walks around collecting meat and replenishing the traps all the time. Priorities are your friend. I only have three traps, so not a lot of meat, but I'm satisfied with it at the moment.

[Kyzane]

What helped for me was a Dedicated Cook + a couple campfires with cauldrons. turn off any campfires and smokers and do that manually when you want it.

The cauldrons are a blessing once you get them up and running. That and going from hunter / gatherer to Farmer makes all the difference. i actually feel the did a great job of how many people you can sustain on hunter / gatherer and how labor intensive it is vs what you can sustain off farming.

[Profound Zak]

Even with priorities set the cooking is not working as intended. Set it up to first make the meat stew and after that the berry jam....nope, gonna have me some jam every single time with the meat rotting in boxes, awesome