colonists are eating raw meat instead of cooking it

[Host Migration]

HELP XD

[Lorax]

Do you have a bill set up for them to cook it? If yes then you need to make time for one of them to cook them, if not then click on the stove, open the bills tab in the top corner, and set the bill to the desired amount.

[Toasty_Tacos]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=887716138

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[Lorax]

Originally posted by Toasty_Tacos:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=887716138

BOOM

His problem seems more to be they don't cook the meat to begin with not they are chosing to eat it over meals

[Host Migration]

Originally posted by Lorax:

Do you have a bill set up for them to cook it? If yes then you need to make time for one of them to cook them, if not then click on the stove, open the bills tab in the top corner, and set the bill to the desired amount.

they started cooking the meat the next day, but they just took it out of the freezer and started munching down on it

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Oddyssei:

Originally posted by Lorax:

Do you have a bill set up for them to cook it? If yes then you need to make time for one of them to cook them, if not then click on the stove, open the bills tab in the top corner, and set the bill to the desired amount.

they started cooking the meat the next day, but they just took it out of the freezer and started munching down on it

Once their hunger meter is low enough, they don't wait around.

The only way to get around that at that point is to micro the situation. Most easily done by drafting everyone (or at least those who are hungry) except your cook, then having your cook prioritize cooking meals. As your cook puts each meal down, just un-draft one person and they'll go take a meal and eat that instead of raw food.

[Xilo The Odd]

yeah it can be problematic when your colonists first wake up, and there are no meals, so they just lazily eat raw meat THEN start cooking meals.

would be nice if that got reworked...

[Kutsuu Mugen]

The Food Policy system is kinda meh and needs some reworking and options like Drugs and Clothing.

That Mod above WM Smarter Food Selection is what I found worse than Vanilla food system and will prevent any eating and resting during a Caravan Travel, also no word or anything of it getting updated/fixed.

[Astasia]

Tynan said at one point that he doesn't want to add any predictive decision making to the colonist AI because it can get really complex and a bunch of seemingly small changes can slow the game down a lot.

Like in this case first a colonist would scan for meals, then scan for raw food, then scan for cooking bills, then scan for colonists able to work on those cooking bills, then decide/guess if those colonists will be working on those cooking bills in X amount of time. Then there's the problem of X amount of time being something not everyone would agree on or wouldn't always be "correct" for the situation. It's better for them to eat raw food instead of dropping into malnutrition, but at what point of the hungry debuff do they need to decide to eat raw food at because for some pawns that short term debuff could cause them to break while the long term minor debuff for eat raw food wouldn't. Would X be different for different types of raw food? Say berries and raw human meat? There would also need to be exceptions made for ascetics and cannibals.

That's a lot of extra work and CPU processing to accomplish something you can already do in game by simply making enough meals ahead of time. Have your cooking bill set to keep two days (minimum) worth of meals ready to go and you are set. If for whatever reason you are struggling to maintain that, grow strawberries.

[Misaki]

Originally posted by Astasia:

That's a lot of extra work and CPU processing to accomplish something you can already do in game by simply making enough meals ahead of time. Have your cooking bill set to keep two days (minimum) worth of meals ready to go and you are set. If for whatever reason you are struggling to maintain that, grow strawberries.

I want some additional perks like favorite ingredient (i.e. human meat for example) or healthsome (is that the word?) berries in winter, though.

[melia_romulans]

Just a side note - you can speed up your cooking process building the stove inside the freezer and set the cooking bill to "Drop on Floor" instead of "Take to best Stockpile".