Villagers eating raw food over cooked meals

[↓↓ Val]

My villagers are eating raw veggies, and meat over cooked meals. How do I stop this?

[Lucifer]

Build the paper maker and craft a newspaper. Roll it up and whack them with it yell “Bad dog!”

[↓↓ Val]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Build the paper maker and craft a newspaper. Roll it up and whack them with it yell “Bad dog!”

If only that were possible.

[Lucifer]

To my knowledge the only way is to manually store vegetables in a location they don’t have permission to access.

[Jibaro]

Make a cooking station, set task and assign an villager to cook and you solve that problem, but the dilema is your scouter are eating the food

[Addamz]

Either they're really hungry and only 1 villager at a time can access wells/cook bench, or your cook isn't producing enough meals, variations, or just can't cook.

Either way, stagger the leisure time so they're not all running to get a meal at the same time, craft food yourself with varying ingredients to get more recipes to be able to set as tasks, add cooked food storage to the warehouse so worker there will stock it before people come to get food giving a second place some of them can access a food source.

[↓↓ Val]

Originally posted by 【Jiba®oBo®icuA】:

Make a cooking station, set task and assign an villager to cook and you solve that problem, but the dilema is your scouter are eating the food

I have a day and night time cook, and they're tasked with cooking 8 of each type of soup. (Meat, Mussels, Garlic, Onion, Carrots, Cabbage.)

[↓↓ Val]

Originally posted by Adahmz:

Either they're really hungry and only 1 villager at a time can access wells/cook bench, or your cook isn't producing enough meals, variations, or just can't cook.

Either way, stagger the leisure time so they're not all running to get a meal at the same time, craft food yourself with varying ingredients to get more recipes to be able to set as tasks, add cooked food storage to the warehouse so worker there will stock it before people come to get food giving a second place some of them can access a food source.

I have a cooked and raw food storage. I inspected one of my workers and they had 5 stacks of raw meat on them, they weren't a hunter or warehouse worker either.

[Lucifer]

They grab enough food to last them all day first thing when they get up. They grab more raw food because it gives less sustenance. If they grab raw meat it’s because the cooked food isn’t available (likely because someone else is using it). This means you need more cooked food storage so more people can access it at the same time.

Or they need to let us set access permissions by storage station instead of as the warehouse as a whole. The short term solution is having raw food in its own warehouse only the cooks can access.

[↓↓ Val]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Or they need to let us set access permissions by storage station instead of as the warehouse as a whole. The short term solution is having raw food in its own warehouse only the cooks can access.

This would be more ideal if they can't fix AI behavior. I noticed people collecting food from the cooked food storage take an entire stack instead of just 1-2 meals. Soups stack up to 5 in the cooked food storage.

[YoungRG]

Originally posted by ↓↓ Val:

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Or they need to let us set access permissions by storage station instead of as the warehouse as a whole. The short term solution is having raw food in its own warehouse only the cooks can access.

This would be more ideal if they can't fix AI behavior. I noticed people collecting food from the cooked food storage take an entire stack instead of just 1-2 meals. Soups stack up to 5 in the cooked food storage.

they take a lot of food, enough to last them the whole day. Some NPCs have a “bonus” like “I run fast, but I need a lot of water/food.” Therefore, such NPCs take more food.

set a cook to cook only one dish but a larger quantity. Place a warehouse purely for food nearby. I have two kitchens and three cooks next to such a warehouse. I have 45 residents. The cooks work at different times. It’s like food is being prepared non-stop. for now There’s enough for everyone and a little bit left over. They don’t touch raw food because the cooks have time to cook

[Addamz]

Originally posted by ↓↓ Val:

Originally posted by Adahmz:

Either they're really hungry and only 1 villager at a time can access wells/cook bench, or your cook isn't producing enough meals, variations, or just can't cook.

Either way, stagger the leisure time so they're not all running to get a meal at the same time, craft food yourself with varying ingredients to get more recipes to be able to set as tasks, add cooked food storage to the warehouse so worker there will stock it before people come to get food giving a second place some of them can access a food source.

I have a cooked and raw food storage. I inspected one of my workers and they had 5 stacks of raw meat on them, they weren't a hunter or warehouse worker either.

I know, I've literally had a villager take raw food off the BBQ while I was butchering the next on for cooking, I thought the meat has disappeared till I checked the villager standing there complaining of no bloody sticks. Like I said, they take any food the village has if they cannot access food from main sources, Cooked food storage > Raw Food Storage > the campfire BBQ, Luckily they cannot take it out of the Cooking Stations crock pot till it's cooked but I have seen several villagers try.