do the people auto feed?

[Atruin Augustus]

so is their a way to make them grab food out of say a storage chest and eat it and keep working? or do i have to do it myself?

[Erei]

If you have a food storage in your base, they'll pick the food from it. Or if you have food in one's inventory.

[oi__io]

Just like chaining, need specific storage. If you put food in Food Store then they'll grab what they need when they need it if they're within range. They're not going to take it out of General Storage Chest or General Storage Boxes.

[Atruin Augustus]

so you have to be very specific. got it. thanks guys for the help i really do mean it.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by oi__io:

They're not going to take it out of General Storage Chest or General Storage Boxes.

I tried keeping the various foods in a chest for the recruitable prisoner mod. They kept eating all the bread out of it.

The only container they wont pull from is your research bench.

[oi__io]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

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I tried keeping the various foods in a chest for the recruitable prisoner mod. They kept eating all the bread out of it.

The only container they wont pull from is your research bench.

Wait, you mean to say the NPC grab your food from storage when they're still in cage? Is that a thing? I thought NPC couldn't loot chest.

[DVN]

I don't know if i'm sidetracking the conversation but where and what do animal eat? Is it the animal feeder? Do they also auto eat?

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by oi__io:

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

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I tried keeping the various foods in a chest for the recruitable prisoner mod. They kept eating all the bread out of it.

The only container they wont pull from is your research bench.

Wait, you mean to say the NPC grab your food from storage when they're still in cage? Is that a thing? I thought NPC couldn't loot chest.

No, my other workers did because the storage chest as closer than the bread basket.

[oi__io]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

No, my other workers did because the storage chest as closer than the bread basket.

Wait, now I'm confused. You mentioned recruitable prisoner mod so I assumed you're talking about prisoners. So, do you mean food in storage chest from that mod? I never used that mod so I don't know what's included.

Originally posted by DVN:

I don't know if i'm sidetracking the conversation but where and what do animal eat? Is it the animal feeder? Do they also auto eat?

If I'm not mistaken animal can eat any food but they prioritized raw and foul raw meat I think. They'll auto eat if there's food in the animal feeder nearby or if there's anything to eat in squad mate's backpack. Or when you drop food on the ground. Or if you drop them inside any building with food lying around on the floor/counter.

They're not going to eat from backpack belonging to your crew on different squad. Must be on the same squad.

[oi__io]

Originally posted by oi__io:

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

No, my other workers did because the storage chest as closer than the bread basket.

Wait, now I'm confused. You mentioned recruitable prisoner mod so I assumed you're talking about prisoners. So, do you mean food in storage chest from that mod? I never used that mod so I don't know what's included.

Nevermind. I think I understood what you mean. But they auto eat from storage chest? Hm, that's interesting. I haven't build a town or food storage for a while so maybe I'm out of loop.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by oi__io:

Originally posted by oi__io:

Wait, now I'm confused. You mentioned recruitable prisoner mod so I assumed you're talking about prisoners. So, do you mean food in storage chest from that mod? I never used that mod so I don't know what's included.

Nevermind. I think I understood what you mean. But they auto eat from storage chest? Hm, that's interesting. I haven't build a town or food storage for a while so maybe I'm out of loop.

The way the mod works is you capture mobs. Then once they regain conciousness you can talk to them and try to recruit them. When trying to recruit them they will ask for certain foods at random. So to make thigns easier I put a storage chest in the room with them to hold the food so my people would not eat it (or so I thought.) Well the problem was they were eating the bread out of the storage container because the storage container was closer than the bread basket.

The same thing happens with the animal feeder. If they cna eat the food placed in the animal feeder they will take that food if it is closer than the bread basket.

[oi__io]

Yeah, I understood after I post that comment. Didn't edit it out since I don't want to change it in case you're already replying to it. Sorry.

So they do eat from storage chest. I think I've seen it happen with the animal feeder in a video recently. Wonder if that's a bug. Could be intended. lol

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by oi__io:

So they do eat from storage chest. I think I've seen it happen with the animal feeder in a video recently. Wonder if that's a bug. Could be intended. lol

More of a side effect. Any unit who is hungry will first look to any container they have access to for food. That container can be a backpack, food store, chest, counter, whatever. The advantage of a food store container or bread basket is that they are a container a cook will dump food into.

[Corona-Kun]

mine arent even eating out off a food storage

[Shenji]

Originally posted by Corona-Kun:

mine arent even eating out off a food storage

Don't just right click to give a job, use Shift+right click to give them perma-job, then they will go eating when necessary.