Any tips for using the codestone?

[Felinius]

Using the Codestone is making me feel like I missed a big part of the tutorial. Tax laws and getting my rats to actually eat the food being produced for them feels esoteric, and I feel like I screwed something up as I watch my rats starve to death.

[JovianStorm]

I'll try to help you. There is tax laws and there is the opposite. So, what worked for me was that I have put 50% tax on every rat that has more than 300 coins (not income, simple wealth) then another code that says "Give every rat that has less than 150 coins of wealth cash, exactly 151 coin". I have also put the tax office near the main resource chest so every rat has to pass it. Also use shrine of rat. That way I kept my starting 10.000 coins and didn't have to mint any new coins.

So what happens is this: rats work but it doesn't really matter how well paid they are. If they get too poor, they get 151 gold from either taxrat or the queen. That way they can always pay for food. If they get too rich, half of their money is taken by the taxrat (or the queen). Occassionally, I just stop by the food chest and make it rain by pressing T.

[Erdbeerhimmel]

Something I learned about food is the following: if you start producing higher level food (everything that is more than just collected), like the grill or bread, that is reserved for higher classes, so you can have loads of food and the poor will not eat it. I had that happen to me too, that my rats starved even though I had a lot of food available.

you can use the code stone to make laws to allow also the poor to eat those foods as well.