How do you stop your guys from running to get food out of food storage?

[Shangri-la wrecker]

Sometimes you don't want them to do this when it is dangerous or too far away. How do you get them to stop without having food on them?

[Pyrrhus]

You can put enough food in their inventory or backpack so they don't run to food container but if they're on job, they may dump surplus of food back to container. You could build another food container at this certain place where you intend for them to stay there.

[Devilsreborn]

you can also get the extended camping mod so you can just build a camp food storage close to them so you dont have to build a whole base for a food box, and no, they should have a certain range to get food from if theyre in that range they will run to a box

[Shangri-la wrecker]

thank you

[Zorelnam]

disable jobs

[Shangri-la wrecker]

Originally posted by Zorelnam:

disable jobs

I tried that but it still didn't seem to work. Maybe it was enabled and I hadn't noticed?

[Netflix&Child]

by locking the door to food storage o.o

[flu007]

Disabling jobs doesn't stop them from getting food when they're hungry.

Making sure they have enough food seems to be the most straightforward solution for this.

The circumstances under which this is a problem are kinda rare, so usually it's no big deal. But I've had it happen as well, when my base was taken over by raiders and I was moving in to re-take it.

[Houston]

I only have one thing to say about eating,

"STOP EATING THE BREAD!!!"

I tell ya placing bread baskets and food storage containers is an art. It all depends on where the character is in relationship to where the bread or food containers are. Which ever is closest to where they are when hunger hits is where they go.

I now have food containers all over the place but Ruka, God love her, she just won't stop eating the bread. Dry, tasteless, nasty bread. That girl will run paste 3 food containers to get the bread. I even placed one right beside her where she works (weapon bench) but oh no, not Ruka, food cube? Nope, Meat Wrap? Nope, How about a bowl of nice tasty rice and veggies? Nope, I want bread...*sigh* ok fine.


But to the OP, unless you turn off jobs your people will dump any food that has not had a bite taken out of it back into storage. Also as long as you are within a certain distance from your food containers, your people will run back to them when they are hungry regardless if jobs is on or off.

Another point, If you are loading up your characters with iron or copper to make a run to town and sell, if you do not turn off jobs and place in their packs something to eat before you start loading them all up, somebody with a full pack is going to get hungry before you head to town. When they do they will automatically dump their ore into storage and then get a bite to eat.

If you are not paying attention you could run to town just to find a bunch of empty backpacks on everyone.

[flu007]

Originally posted by Suicide Sam:

I only have one thing to say about eating,

"STOP EATING THE BREAD!!!"

YES!

Ration packs too. I get those for traveling, but the guys back at base like them too, even when they have to dig them out of some chest.

Would be nice if you could mark some containers as "storage for a rainy day, not for consumption" or reserve them for a specific bench or something.

I noticed it's position-related as well, but have been too lazy to try to fix the puzzle. Maybe putting the bread baskets on a roof with a food store on either side of the house could work...

[Shangri-la wrecker]

If one person holds onto food will he share with the share food AI option?

[Vyrex]

Originally posted by tyler:

If one person holds onto food will he share with the share food AI option?

yeah that person will give other food if he has some to spare.

[Shangri-la wrecker]

ty

[Ravenbolt]

Originally posted by flu007:

Originally posted by Suicide Sam:

I only have one thing to say about eating,

"STOP EATING THE BREAD!!!"

YES!

Ration packs too. I get those for traveling, but the guys back at base like them too, even when they have to dig them out of some chest.

Would be nice if you could mark some containers as "storage for a rainy day, not for consumption" or reserve them for a specific bench or something.

I noticed it's position-related as well, but have been too lazy to try to fix the puzzle. Maybe putting the bread baskets on a roof with a food store on either side of the house could work...

I don't know why either of you are so bothered by this stuff, once you get your food chain going good you can't get rid of the food fast enough. I have so much bread and food cubes that im literally just stealthing it into the inventories of sleeping/unconcious npc's o.O I had to build more bread baskets and food barrels because my production chain halted due to lack of space -.-

[THANKS OBAMA]

Originally posted by Ravenbolt:

I have so much bread and food cubes that im literally just stealthing it into the inventories of sleeping/unconcious npc's o.O

So that's why the starving vagrants are so eager to start a fight they know they'll lose. The ass kicking fairy might visit them in their knocked out state and give them food glorious food.