How to feed outposts...

[Jumo747]

Anyone have a good setup for keeping the workers fed on outposts? is there a way to set em up to find food for themselves instead of me running around culling the 3 wolves that spawn to cus the rest of the wild animals dont want to respawn lol

[McRobit]

Setup a stockpile, have food delivered daily, or setup a foragers at the outpost and set TOP OFF limits to keep food always there, assign someone to it perma.

[HardWorkingLoner]

each outpost needs stockpile, housing, the resource you are building the outpost for (for exampel copper) and food production

for food get forager/trapper/huntsman/farmer and one of the campfires (depending what fits to the method of obtaining food), if you dont provide food the workers will be going off searching for beries etc, which may or may not be that bad depending on your need for the resource of that outpost

IDK if outposts get targetted by raids or simmilar stuff

[Legadian]

You need housing, storage and resource building. You don't need to have the post produce its own food.

You can have it auto delivered every midnight from your settlement (along with any gathering tool(s) needed at the post that might have been used up during the day). Then set up deliveries from the outpost to the settlement for any resources produced by the outpost.

[Decado]

Originally posted by Legadian:

You need housing, storage and resource building. You don't need to have the post produce its own food.

You can have it auto delivered every midnight from your settlement (along with any gathering tool(s) needed at the post that might have been used up during the day). Then set up deliveries from the outpost to the settlement for any resources produced by the outpost.

How much food do you send out of interest?

[Jumo747]

Originally posted by Legadian:

You need housing, storage and resource building. You don't need to have the post produce its own food.

You can have it auto delivered every midnight from your settlement (along with any gathering tool(s) needed at the post that might have been used up during the day). Then set up deliveries from the outpost to the settlement for any resources produced by the outpost.

This sounds good but how do i set it to deliver food to there specifically?

[Legadian]

For one guy at my outpost, I send about 10 food a night. A bit of overkill, but better that than he starves.

[Legadian]

Originally posted by Jumo747:

This sounds good but how do i set it to deliver food to there specifically?

Hit "N" click on "Deliveries" tab. The name at the top is the settlement/outpost you're delivering to. Search for what you want to send it (by typing in the name of the item), then select where it is coming FROM, the frequency and the amount. Do the same for other items.

Oh, I'm pretty sure you need signposts to make it work.

[DarkBlueAgent]

How far should a resource node be from your main village for you to consider building an outpost ?

What happens with raids?

[Swato85]

Food issues are connected to unmanaged outposts where everybody does everything and in the end nobody does the main things. Get into the management and choose dedicated workers for the most important things, especialy food supply, because if that gets neglected = nobody will work, and so the huge inefficiency hole will get even bigger.

Forager, Hunter, cook = have at minimum these positions covered allways to ensure everybody else is working.

Cook usualy can keep up with cooking for masses, if anything, you will propably need to set more people to prioritise gathering and hunting food.
Winter is special because you can have bad luck and not find much food, simply save up money for winter and run around villages to buy food, its not that expensive to cover any gaps that may appear.

[Swato85]

If you set the priorities right, you will never have issues.

[Gazz]

Your people don't actually NEED to sleep. At night I form them all up and we go harvesting berries/mushrooms/sage.
With a huge pile of all 3 you can keep cooking berry jam and mushroom stew for days.
With good food like that workers don't take as many lunch breaks, either.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by Gazz:

Your people don't actually NEED to sleep. At night I form them all up and we go harvesting berries/mushrooms/sage.
With a huge pile of all 3 you can keep cooking berry jam and mushroom stew for days.
With good food like that workers don't take as many lunch breaks, either.

Yep, this is true too, at least I have also not noticed any nosleep debuff from abusing the workforce at night 😎👹