Reserve of food is low! Bug?

[SirRantsAlot]

It pop up when my storage is nearly overcrowded. When its really little i never get a warning. Is this a known bug?

[mbutton15]

I think you also get a warning when all your storage space is filled up, so maybe it's that instead.

[SirRantsAlot]

So they mean the opposite? Then i need to build some more barns :)))

[mbutton15]

There are 2 separate messages. They mean exactly what they say. But it's easy to not read them correctly if you are used to the 'low food' message all the time. When the 'low space' one appears you misread it - I've done it !!

I'm not going to say you can never had too much food as I don't think that's true. Having enough food for around 3 years is, in my view, plenty of reserve. I limit my food to around 3 years worth and don't think I've ever come close to using half of it, never mind actually running out.

[SirRantsAlot]

I will look into it when it comes.

[mbutton15]

There is an info panel that shows previous messages.

[olympe]

Uhm, there are several thresholds which trigger the "food/logs/iron/stone low" message. One of them is 10,000 units, if I remember correctly.

[28rommel]

Originally posted by mbutton15:

There is an info panel that shows previous messages.

[pdoan8]

If I remember correctly, you get low reserve message when your stock is below a certain percentage of your limit. You can test this by setting food limit to max in early game.

[maiden4meldin]

If you are playing in Vanilla, there is a Known bug with the Mushrooms. They take up 3 times more space than all other items in the Storage barn. It is a weight thing apparantly. And mods have fixed the problem.

For me, I build a trader and stuff it with as many mushrooms as I possibly can. I just set the limit to 9999 and let the traders continually seek out mushrooms for trading. Then I trade them for other foods When I can.

When you are getting "Low Food" it means a Citizen, just one, has gone to the Market or storage barn, and could not get their "Annual" 100 food. You will continue to get these warnings, until the citizens can fill their quota. This is a very serious warning, and should prompt you to take immediate action. You must put more workers into food production immediately. Set up a Trader immediately, and if you do not have one already, then try to get a Market set up right away as well.

A citizen that cannot refill or fill their house will constantly race to storage for even 1 food. Dropping what they were doing at the time. So, consider the citizen is a Farmer, and is constantly stopping the planting, or the harvesting. You will gain less food production from this citizen until they can fill their quotas. More warnings, mean more citizens calling "Dibs" Means less production being made out.

[maiden4meldin]

A Low Storage Warning, Means you are running close to the capacity of your storage facilities. Whether that is the Barns, Markets, Stockpiles. You should immediately make plans to up your storage. Especially near all the food producers.

My rule of thumb, is One Storage Barn, for every food producer. So four Gatherer's, need four barns, nearby, not within their radius, but at the edges. I usually use Three to start.

For my fishing docks, they always get a minimum of three barns.

I give a barn to the Tailor/Blacksmith

I put a barn down for every two farms.

Once I have to build more than one barn. I build the Marketplace first. As it will alleviate the lack of storage right away for me. And become a central location for all houses in its radius to collect foods. Once the Market is set up, I set up a trader, and begin selling mushrooms.
Then I begin adding in barns in key locations, as needed.

[Claybot]

Originally posted by koyangi:

It pop up when my storage is nearly overcrowded. When its really little i never get a warning. Is this a known bug?

What do you have in storage? I would suspect you have alot of items but very little food.
Do you have a screen shot of your town showing quantity of food, tools, clothes etc.

[28rommel]

Originally posted by maiden4meldin:

If you are playing in Vanilla, there is a Known bug with the Mushrooms. They take up 3 times more space than all other items in the Storage barn. It is a weight thing apparantly.

Yep. I think Mushrooms are weighted at 4 times (not 3) as much as all other food items, when in Storage Barns and I believe also in your Trading Posts.
That is why I have my games set-up so that ALL Mushrooms are constantly transferred to my Trading Posts. Then when it comes time to paying for new items I am trading to receive, I always make sure to first deplete the full amount of Mushrooms that are in that Trading Post.

[maiden4meldin]

Originally posted by 28rommel:

Originally posted by maiden4meldin:

If you are playing in Vanilla, there is a Known bug with the Mushrooms. They take up 3 times more space than all other items in the Storage barn. It is a weight thing apparantly.

Yep. I think Mushrooms are weighted at 4 times (not 3) as much as all other food items, when in Storage Bars and I believe also in your Trading Posts.
That is why I have my games set-up so that ALL Mushrooms are constantly transferred to my Trading Posts. Then when it comes time to paying for new items I am trading to receive, I always make sure to first deplete the full amount of Mushrooms that are in that Trading Post.

I have a screenshot of how much room 9999 mushrooms take up in space in the trading posts, vs the onions, berries, and roots. I think the onions berries and roots altogether at 9999 each take up 57% and the mushrooms by themselves took up 67% its a big big deal for sure.

[SirRantsAlot]

Originally posted by mbutton15:

There is an info panel that shows previous messages.

Right. I will look there.

@The Rest
WOW! You made a lot of my question ;) #ThumbsUpForAll :)

[SirRantsAlot]

I looked into history and found it really says:
"Reserve of food is low" (in red letters)
And it was definetely not!