How are fishermen running out of bait?

[SillySil]

You can make three baits with one fish. Meaning if you catch a fish 33% of the time you will never run out of fish bait. Yet my fishermen constantly run out of bait. Are they so bad at fishing or do they just dump all the fish somewhere while having 0 bait in the inventory and then go back to their fishing pier to complain they don't have any bait?

[Magic Lantern]

knife?

[Quinoa]

I got same problem with my fishing woman I added to the village. Before the farmer fish and he made his own bait, even picked blue berry out in forest or took from our stock.. who knows.
But this fishing woman doesn't make her own bait, have to make a bit bunch everyday, kind of silly a fisher automatic make their own bait.. and Yes she got knifes, I made her 4 of them.

[SillySil]

Originally posted by Magic Lantern:

knife?

1 knife at my workshop 1 at the warehouse.

[Magic Lantern]

Originally posted by SillySil:

Originally posted by Magic Lantern:

knife?

1 knife at my workshop 1 at the warehouse.

Then, it looks like a bug. In my case, I didn't prepare for the berry baits in the first year. I was worried, but my fisherman was constantly fishing. I wondered, so I checked him. He was making the baits from raw fish meats that I put in the warehouse. In the second year, I made a bunch of berry baits, and I put them in the fisherman's house, so it didn't happen again. Why don't you wait for the next spring.

[Gab]

Originally posted by Magic Lantern:

Originally posted by SillySil:

1 knife at my workshop 1 at the warehouse.

Then, it looks like a bug. In my case, I didn't prepare for the berry baits in the first year. I was worried, but my fisherman was constantly fishing. I wondered, so I checked him. He was making the baits from raw fish meats that I put in the warehouse. In the second year, I made a bunch of berry baits, and I put them in the fisherman's house, so it didn't happen again. Why don't you wait for the next spring.

It's the same here. I mad a lot of bait but I noticed never been touch because the fisherman made his own

[SillySil]

Originally posted by Magic Lantern:

Originally posted by SillySil:

1 knife at my workshop 1 at the warehouse.

Then, it looks like a bug. In my case, I didn't prepare for the berry baits in the first year. I was worried, but my fisherman was constantly fishing. I wondered, so I checked him. He was making the baits from raw fish meats that I put in the warehouse. In the second year, I made a bunch of berry baits, and I put them in the fisherman's house, so it didn't happen again. Why don't you wait for the next spring.

I figured it out. Fishermen make the bait only when they run out of it. Fishermen put fish in the fishermans hut. A warehouse worker takes their fish to the warehouse. Now I only have the cooks and warehouse workers have permissions to raw food warehouse. So if a fisherman ran out of bait and didn't have any fish on him or in the fishermans hut, he would not have any raw fish to make new bait from. Because they never make spare bait.
Problem resolved when I gave them permissions to the raw food warehouse. Problem is now they stuff their faces full of berries and raw meat instead of eating the stews...

[Quinoa]

I fill up the barrel at fisherman's hut with berry bait, works fine. In spring I planted 10 seeds, so I got loads of berries.

[mayree]

I fill their bait bucket full of berry bait. That is over 200 bait. They go through it but usually don’t run out until spring returns along with berry bushes.

[valm37]

Originally posted by Quinoa:

I got same problem with my fishing woman I added to the village. Before the farmer fish and he made his own bait, even picked blue berry out in forest or took from our stock.. who knows.
But this fishing woman doesn't make her own bait, have to make a bit bunch everyday, kind of silly a fisher automatic make their own bait.. and Yes she got knifes, I made her 4 of them.

Make the woman the cook. Let the men deal with the hard stuff like hunting, gutting and catching the animals.

[SerBucky]

Absolutely the villagers assigned to fishing should be making their own bait. In my own game I have noticed they will not manually make the fish bait anymore despite having a stone and iron knife. I do give them blueberries and they seem to make the bait using those as needed (as well as snack on them lol)

I would personally like a bait task for the workshop, not sure why this was left out in particular - maybe to avoid power leveling crafting villagers through spamming it (in which case just have it give 0 exp)