How does the food box work?

[TrialAvel]

About the Food Box, I can't put food inside, and there is a section for food on the jobs for npcs, but not sure yet how it works... anyone has an idea, do i have to have food around in chests? Or some building?

[J]

you can put food inside if you right click the box then right click a food item in your inventory. The number above the box will rise

[TrialAvel]

Originally posted by Jej:

you can put food inside if you right click the box then right click a food item in your inventory. The number above the box will rise

Did check it, and indeed it happens, Thanks!

[lnomsim]

Nothing happens when I right click the box.

[Nyx]

Where I can find or craft foodbox please help

[Sohkka]

Originally posted by Nyx:

Where I can find or craft foodbox please help

wood workbench

[mhardy00]

Has anyone figured out the second part of OP's question about how to get the npc to do the food job. I have had someone assigned to that job with a harvest box with crops inside and a campfire with cooked meat in it but they never seem to fill it. It actually went all the way down to 0 food is it only certain items they can do or only certain places they can get it from.

[Sakapuss]

Originally posted by mhardy00:

Has anyone figured out the second part of OP's question about how to get the npc to do the food job. I have had someone assigned to that job with a harvest box with crops inside and a campfire with cooked meat in it but they never seem to fill it. It actually went all the way down to 0 food is it only certain items they can do or only certain places they can get it from.

The food job doesn't seem to need anything else aside from the food box itself, your villager will restock the foodbox magically, but the job itself is quite slow... When i was using it a few weeks back, it seemed to restore about 1-3 points to the food box per instance of the jobs, so usually, those points were used almost immediately, you may need ot put more NPC on the job per box to have a self sufficient food box.

[mhardy00]

Originally posted by Sakapuss:

The food job doesn't seem to need anything else aside from the food box itself, your villager will restock the foodbox magically, but the job itself is quite slow... When i was using it a few weeks back, it seemed to restore about 1-3 points to the food box per instance of the jobs, so usually, those points were used almost immediately, you may need ot put more NPC on the job per box to have a self sufficient food box.

Okay that makes sense now I thought they had to pull food from another source. Okay so I probable had to many people for one person to do and need to add a couple then. thank you

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

right click the box

then put food right click again
it should go up

you can put stuff like carrots and junk will add buffs / debuffs

you can also assign friendlies to gather food near the box and they'll keep it refilled meaning once you fill it up to say 500-600 it should fill up slowly and never decrease provided you have enough people on it and not a few that others will eat from it and then just take more than can get refilled.

alternatively it caps at a hard 1k and doesn't lower much after it shouldn't go down after having enough npcs on it