Starving Guards

[wpmaura]

Why dont my turret guards like to eat?

[GLOAM]

have you placed some foodcubes in their inventory? could be a technical bug

[wpmaura]

Everyone who i assign jobs to will grab food to eat from the food barell except guards on turrett duty

[GLOAM]

don’t really know then, could simply be a generic bug.

[The Quiet Guy]

It seems like a bug. Sometimes some of my turret guards will run and grab food on thier own, Sometimes I have to click off the Jobs button to get them to go get food. Haven't tried figuring out what might be causing it.

[Finlord]

I noticed that if you put your people to turrets manually they won't eat even if they have turret guard as a job. Just put the job and let them go there without helping them and they should eat if it's not a bugged. At least works for me when doing so.

[Somewhere]

Turret Guards afaik do not eat since there is no actual break in the job unlike other jobs. What i do is one of two things, either A) assign only skeletons to turret guard position (no need to eat) or B) assign all turret guards to the same squad and disable job for them to eat periodically. Preferable is A since you dont need to micromanage their food consumption or inventory. Another option is to have one turret guard with the stackable backpack and stash it full of food for the squad (dont quite know if this works however)

edit: This is indeed a bug they should eat but don't*

[Strassenkater]

I noticed in my game that turret guards do not eat if the nearest food source (a food barrel or a chest with food in it) is behind a locked gate or door. This happens even if a food barrel is accessible and only a little further away. If I open all gates they get food when they are hungry.

[HidesHisFace]

I know this is necro, but I think I might have a possible reason for this bug.

From what I noticed from my playthrough - it affected only the turrets placed on Defensive Wall IV.
The bug seems to NOT be present as long as the main gate is open.

So... what I think is happening is a weird pathing issue - Defensive Walls IV have turret slots on these weird portrusions that extend slighly beyond the wall itself.
Then AI is manning the turrets in this case, it thinks that character is actually outside of the gate - if it is closed, it won't see the path back to base - somehow, even if you manually guide the characters to the food barrels, they won't take food automatically at all - because the game still thinks they are stuck beyond the base's premises.