Wood cutters

[Drakken]

Food is not a problem for me but cold..
My citizens keep dying frozzen to death.
And why? because the wood cutters are working sooooo slowly, the low output for a single log of wood is ridiculous. Even with 3 wood cutters for a village of 50 everyone died during a winter.
all their houses had a "cold" tag and before you ask i had someone making cloaks with skins)

[[sci]Schrödinger]

From my exp: I have about 2 Woodcutters for a town of 60+. Are you sure you have enough logs? That was the problem for me at some point. Did you raise the limit on firewood? 600 is barely enough to get through the winter in my case. So 200 (default) doesnt cut it.

[FuzzyLogic]

What is your production limit for firewood set to? Do they have a good supply of logs and do your stock piles have enough space to store the firewood?
3 woodcutters and a supply between 2500 and 3000 firewood had my >100 citizens snuggly warm during each winter so far. I only build a fourth one now that I am hovering around 200 citizens to keep up with the demand.

[Drakken]

My firewood limit is 1000 and they may not have wood in the stock since i am building ALOT.

So the answer could be do not build like a mad, keep your stocks always feeled?

[MikeH]

I have 34,000 food, 99 people (One just died of old age) 19/28 foresters. I had a rash of old age deaths. 1,000 wood and 500 firewood.

36 homes all stone (Keeps warmer) Stone homes seem to use way less firewood. Each winter I was going through close to 400 firewood quickly until I got everything upgraded to stone. Might just be me though, but stone homes seemed to help the consumption.

keep in mind, each home can hold 8 people. If you build lots of homes then 1 person can take just as many resources as 8 will. People die off fast and about the same rate they are born. So best to just have a boarding house and let people stay there until they decide to move into a home.

Right now even I have way to many homes for 100 people.

[Drakken]

Thanks for the tips Mike!
Stone houses for everyone then!

[Romeo Deluxe]

I'm attempting the 1:50 ratio for woodcutters. Had a population of 400+ but 2 disasters near back to back took me down to 100. :( Took me decades to get the balance between professions so that I'm finally making surplus of food. Fuel seems to be my one item that I was having trouble getting right again.

Also, I experimented with putting a couple Wood Cutters out by the Foresters. The Wood Cutters next to the Market way outperformed the remote Wood Cutters.

[Landlocked]

Travel times make a difference too. If the woodcutter is right next to a market so he can pick up and deliver wood, and his house is right next to the shed that'll make 'em a busy beaver. Without a market a stockpile helps so he can just toss the firewood there.

[Romeo Deluxe]

I put a stockpile and barn out with all my gatherers/hunters/foresters always. However, that didn't seem to help the wood cutters. Most strange.

[Jørgen Oktober]

My woodcutters just gave up a year ago, I have no idea what happened. Everything is in order.

[Rusel]

IKR the forester hut are underpowered and should do more similarly quarrys can be a bit slow, but it takes the p*** when you run out of wood, no firewood, no tools then slow farming, no food then death

[Jørgen Oktober]

They've started again :P

[psicon]

They might have stopped chopping due to their happiness level. I had one woodcutter that totally stopped chopping and I checked her happiness and she had like half a star only. I'm guessing one of her family members just died or something. I had no church or graveyard at that point.

[SaintedNine]

Second the travel time post... I learned if you get too spread out and you end up with people travelling a long way, especially if you are short on clothes, they freeze to death just going from place to place. I think the snow flake icon goes above their house even if they are not home, but are freezing, indicating someone is cold who lives at that house.

[SaintedNine]

use that tool that shows the path the person is taking and click on the house, and you can see where that person is traveling to.

[ssnitrousoxide]

I found firewood OP...they are so efficient when people finish their PhD in log process engineering and fitted with carbon-fibre-reinforced titanium-composite tools, and when their jobs are 10 feet away from their bedrooms. 5 woodcutters are supplying my 500 people settlement and producing a huge surplus that's giving me headaches where to store them.
Hope you get enough information from this.