starving dwarfs?

[Dedmoin]

I am 3h in my current game and suddenly my dwarfs are starving. There is raw and cooked food but they don't seem to 'find' it. At least they stopped eating and complain of being hungry. I guess soon they will be starved to death.
When I clicked one of the dwarfs and told him to eat to picked up some food and carried it around. I don't know if he ate it.
Since then no other dwarves even pick ups food but when told to take food, they replay they cannot find some. But there is salad, grilled steak, carrots, apples, berries...

What changed that prevents my dwarves from 'finding' and eating food?

Since food and materials are stored in the same building and my dwarves don't have a problem with taking out materials, I have no clue what the problem is.

[Father Ribs]

Have you tried putting a table in a tile with nothing else in it? I vaguely remember that sometimes items that are too close prevent their use...like food tables.

[Dedmoin]

I have two tables with chairs next to it.

Maybe those are bugged and that's the reason although the dwarves say there is no food but actually there is no place to eat it?

[mike]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

I have two tables with chairs next to it.

Maybe those are bugged and that's the reason although the dwarves say there is no food but actually there is no place to eat it?

But did you put the food on the table...? You need to put food into the hotbar, select it and then click the table.

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

I have two tables with chairs next to it.

Maybe those are bugged and that's the reason although the dwarves say there is no food but actually there is no place to eat it?

They only need the tables, not the chairs; try removing the chairs and see if that makes a difference. Sometimes in this game items are able to be placed next to each other, but end up preventing proper operation.

[Dedmoin]

ah, ok, lol, some hints would have been nice that dwarves only eat at table.

So they don't eat raw food at all?
And didn't starve when not eating for several days?

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

ah, ok, lol, some hints would have been nice that dwarves only eat at table.

So they don't eat raw food at all?
And didn't starve when not eating for several days?

Supposedly there's a new item in the last patch that automates the feeding a bit, but for right now, assume if it's not put on a table, they don't eat it.

Pinecones are okay at the start, but dwarves like a bit of food variety. They've expanded the food offerings including a number of foods that also heal dwarves a %. I'll usually run with 4 tables minimum, and put them on the central corridor of my bases where they get lots of foot traffic so they don't need to go out of their way to get a snack.

[Dedmoin]

yes, the issue was there was no food on the table lol
It confused me the dwarves don't eat very frequently. So it takes more than one hour for the dwarves to eat?!

Thanks all for your help!

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

yes, the issue was there was no food on the table lol
It confused me the dwarves don't eat very frequently. So it takes more than one hour for the dwarves to eat?!

Thanks all for your help!

Yeah, they don't eat that often, but it'll sneak up on you. I like to have at least 100 of 4+ different cooked/brewed dishes that I can drop on the tables when I see they're empty. You can also tell them to eat, which I'll check all my dwarves as a time is counting for the next invasion so that everyone is "topped off" before battle.

[Harris]

Also they wont eat one food, if theres only one choice of food. make sure you have atleast 2 options of food. Doesnt matter what choices, it can be ♥♥♥♥ food and even worse food as long as theyre different they wont complain and eat.

[Darke]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

ah, ok, lol, some hints would have been nice that dwarves only eat at table.

So they don't eat raw food at all?
And didn't starve when not eating for several days?

I believe they will eat berries or pinecones picked up off the ground if they're hungry and you don't have tables. I don't think they can starve, but I've never left it that along I get annoyed at their continual complaining before long I stick down a table a dump food on it to get them to shut up. :)