Starving

[N1N4]

My rats starving. I have LOADS of food and they still starving. They stand infront of a chest with food inside and still dont eat. What can I do to solve this? Ive never played above 30 rats and have this problem so much. Then they are aggressive cuz thex have hunger and then they destroy everything. Some solutions?

[nasiru]

-Make a law code for the lower class to eat higher class item.
-make more storage and move the food yourself there or use porter
-make a law code to lower food item pricing or subsidies them

But sometimes I do get this frozen rats in front of chest for no reason, even triggering lost rat msg

[x-kdn]

There may be bug. Try to destroy food supply chest and build new.

[avil]

I read somebody mentioned rats wouldn't buy stuff player put in the chest themselves. Maybe that's what happens. Also when in doubt try quitting and restarting the game. It often resets some runtime issues that happen from time to time.

[Gaeddong]

The rats won't eat the same food, you need to produce different type of foods for the rat.
Checking it by press G > Statistics > press R (move to Ratizen tab) > List of Ratizens > click a random rat > press R (move to Happiness tab) > click on Food. Here if it show that 90-100% Grain/Meat, so the rat don't want it Grain/Meat anymore. You need to produce Milk/Fish/Mushroom/Bread etc...

[Bunzel Underscore Channel]

it's most likely you're trying to feed them food they aren't allowed to eat, or they do not have money needed to purchase and eat it.

rabbit farms are really important food source for the milk, especially if you are still having water trouble and can't grow grain properly yet.

[redhongkong]

sometimes food will accumulate on unpopular storage thats way too far away.

sometimes u upgraded into producing higher class food, that lower class cant enjoy.

sometimes u didnt give enough welfare to poor peasants that they cant afford food.

[Singularity Compond]

If they dont have Coin $ for food they cant eat. so if you Rats are all Broke they starve to death. have a Codex for Anti Bankrupcy that gives rats with >100Coin$ or something like that that then gives them Coin for at least food and tasks.

[Axebeard]

I have the same issue. All my rats have money, I checked the food tab on some random rats and every food type shows at 0%. The only foods I've ever produced are Rabbit Meat, Honey, and Wheat. All my rats are low class. I had mass starve-offs of 20 rats.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Axebeard:

I have the same issue. All my rats have money, I checked the food tab on some random rats and every food type shows at 0%. The only foods I've ever produced are Rabbit Meat, Honey, and Wheat. All my rats are low class. I had mass starve-offs of 20 rats.

Honey is a higher class food. Meat and grain should be available to everyone though unless you've changed the laws.

[Axebeard]

Yeah I think that was my problem actually. All honey. Not sure where it shows that honey is higher class in game, but the UI is pretty atrocious. You'd think the rats would STEAL the food they're not allowed to eat (thus committing a crime) rather than starving to death like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ though.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Axebeard:

Yeah I think that was my problem actually. All honey. Not sure where it shows that honey is higher class in game, but the UI is pretty atrocious. You'd think the rats would STEAL the food they're not allowed to eat (thus committing a crime) rather than starving to death like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ though.

It shows that on the item itself (no matter where you look at its info, whether it is in storage or in the building producing it) and when you look at the food tab of Ratizens it also shows as advanced food.
While Ratziens do sometimes commit crimes and steal food, for the most time they follow all settings and it is up to the player to make sure to use those to make the city run smoothly. It would be pretty annoying if settings are routinely ignored instead of giving warnings when something is not working well. For Ratopia specifically, those also lean into the class system and are a big reason to raise the class of Ratizens, to enable them getting more buffs.