How to dress all residents for winter

[Kolya]

1. By winter, I have about 20 residents and almost no linen for clothes. How do you manage to grow so much flax?

2. I also have very big problems with food in winter, what should I do about it?

[s0laris]

1, I used the full capacity of a farm to cultivate flax. 3x 4x4 field is more than enough for both clothing and ropes. And with the weaver add-on to the workshop, you can also convert bark into fiber.

2, My food loop for the winter was 2x hunters lodge with 4 hunters assigned, and a single cooking house with 2 cooks. I did have 2x meat hunk stand in the storage, and one contaner for raw food, one for cooked food. I had so much food that my reserves barely dwindled. This was with 22 villagers.

[Kolya]

thanks alot

[grab these bandages]

Yea, flax farm is really a first thing you should do. I learn this in a hard way xd.

[tiredman1]

what i did was accidentally let everyone die. Then when i could i got materials for a fire and went hunting

[fenlander]

Wait you got to clothe them as well?
Oh man this game is becoming more grind.

[Kryten]

Originally posted by fenlander:

Wait you got to clothe them as well?
Oh man this game is becoming more grind.

Its not so grindy, you just set up workshop orders for the clothes and the intermediate materials and the rest will basically run for itself...provided you get enough flax in.
I am about half a day away from my first winter and all of my villagers (14 total) have shoes, gloves and pants. some even more.

[tiredman1]

Originally posted by Landover:

Good news everyone!

The eye of Odin actually came from Phillip J Fry, who is his own grandfather, making every villager coming out incredibly low functioning autistic.
It is your mission to make sure none of these future heroes die early lest the universe will be defeated!

fork. I already had 4 die during winter. I made a mistake

[Arte]

You can farm flax from bushes. Or fiber from bark.

[Copium_RX]

Originally posted by Kryten:

Originally posted by fenlander:

Wait you got to clothe them as well?
Oh man this game is becoming more grind.

Its not so grindy, you just set up workshop orders for the clothes and the intermediate materials and the rest will basically run for itself...provided you get enough flax in.
I am about half a day away from my first winter and all of my villagers (14 total) have shoes, gloves and pants. some even more.

Whats the right way to do this? It feels like sometimes when I give a workshop order they just keep making the one thing beyond what is needed.

[Kryten]

Originally posted by Copium_RX:

Originally posted by Kryten:

Its not so grindy, you just set up workshop orders for the clothes and the intermediate materials and the rest will basically run for itself...provided you get enough flax in.
I am about half a day away from my first winter and all of my villagers (14 total) have shoes, gloves and pants. some even more.

Whats the right way to do this? It feels like sometimes when I give a workshop order they just keep making the one thing beyond what is needed.

Depends, if you have storage in warehouse the order system currently does not work correctly, because workshop workers do not consider warehouse storage when checking their orders.
I have set an order for every clothing part that I need for my villagers, amount is set to 1. Below those I have orders for linen and linen threat.
When a piece is finished, the worker will put it on one of the armor stands on the weavers side and not build any more until someone grabs it from there.
This will only work if no stands for clothing are in your warehouses...if you build those, some warehouse worker will collect the stuff from the weaver and the weaver will continue to build those....

[Kryten]

The first year is especially hard, as you will need to make clothes for all villagers....once they are equipped, you only need this for every new villager, so the Flax consumption will go down once all have clothes...

[Jibaro]

My strategy is when start the game take a few like 30 food and let the rotten in ur pocket, keep playing and when the time come you have compost and just make a farm of flex for fiber.... ohh and remember 1 person for a 4x4 area

[Lumberjack]

Gatherers for Flax seeds for farm, Farm for Linen materials and rope, Loom for clothing, Clothing rack in warehouse or let them come grab it off the clothing rack or make them your self and distribute.

[Aurelius]

Originally posted by Kryten:

Originally posted by fenlander:

Wait you got to clothe them as well?
Oh man this game is becoming more grind.

Its not so grindy, you just set up workshop orders for the clothes and the intermediate materials and the rest will basically run for itself...provided you get enough flax in.
I am about half a day away from my first winter and all of my villagers (14 total) have shoes, gloves and pants. some even more.

I don't believe you actually have to input orders for the intermediate materials unless you want them on-hand for your own crafting. Crafters will build the intermediate parts if they have final-part orders, although later tier clothing takes stuff from leather, smith, and weaver, which can't all exist as one crafter. For that case you'll probably have to tell the smith to build metal plates, for instance, so that the weaver\crafter can add them to make armor, presuming you want to automate production at that level of gear. I have not personally tested the latter, although I have tested the earlier bit about not requiring a linen order for them to yield linen clothing.

[CensPlay]

What do you do with clothes when upgrading workers? I have like 3 full sets now, and dont know where to throw or what?