Unable to feed prisoners. Bug?

[Tycser]

Hello! I'm having a weird and possible bug where my pawns are unable to feed my prisoners. There are several Simple Meals around the base. I can (force)feed my own downed pawns just fine, just not prisoners. I double checked the restrictions, all 3 prisoners are set to 'Lavish' as per default.

Does anyone know what's going on? I'm not using any mods and it suddenly happened a few in-game hours ago(on prisoner is on extreme malnutrition). Perhaps I'm missing something. I can add screenshows if needed!

[ᖇIᑎ]

Are the prisoners outside your colonists' allowed area? Do you have someone set to warden/etc?

[Tycser]

I double checked: Both the food and the prisoners are in the home zone, pawns are set to unrestricted. I have 3 pawns set to wardening, they all give the message on right clicking on a pawn: "Cannot feed [pawnname]: No food" (Selected pawn is in bed but NOT incapacitated, else there wouldn't be a right click menu!)

Image of the right click menu, work schedule and prisoner health tab:
https://imgur.com/a/g7trVYE

[ᖇIᑎ]

Try making a new food restriction assignment set to only simple meals. The prisoners were eating the meals on their own before, right? And their ideology doesn't venerate an animal used to make the meals?

Enable dev mode and open the debug log to see if there are any errors being logged.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Tycser:

https://imgur.com/a/g7trVYE

Observations:
1. Far too many priority 1's per pawn.
Priority 1, ideally, should be for Firefight, Patient, Bed Rest and nothing else other than that one task that absolutely must come first above all others.
2. You only have 2 Doctors, Lamb and Hardin. Both are injured and Vlad is incapacitated.
3. Can Lamb walk?
4. Kyra and Sparks are prisoners. What type of meals are they allowed?
5. You only have 3 Wardens, Lamb and Gregorz and Vlad... Vlad is incapacitated.
4. You have survival meals set to forbidden.
5. The only visibly able and active warden is Gregorz, however, his priority for Wardening is 4 and has priority 1 set for seven other activities and priority 2 set for three others o.O
He will never get around to wardening at that rate.

Possible solutions:
Sort out your priorities.
Wardens feed and care for prisoners well being and doctors will only feed patients. Doctors can feed patient prisoners if they are in a prisoner bed set to medical... so...
Set Gregorz priorities to 1 only for Firefight, Patient and Bed Rest (as per observation 1 above) and temporarily for Warden (reset when the other two regular wardens are fit and able again). If there is anything you really want Gregorz to do normally above all else, then set that to 2 and only resort to priority 1 for emergencies.
Set all the rest of Gregorz' priorities to 3.
Change Kyra's bed to a medical prisoner bed and then doctors may feed her too if she is a patient.
Do that and allow the survival meals and then with Gregorz selected, try rt clicking the prisoner Kyra to see if you can get a feed order.

[dande48]

As a work around, you can set a stockpile zone inside the cell, which will be marked as "prisoners only". Even better, give them a nutripaste dispenser.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Tycser:

Perhaps I'm missing something. I can add screenshows if needed!

The screenshot we need to see is Kyra's Bio and Prisoner stats to discover what her diet is allowed.

[Tycser]

Hey guys, thanks for the help!

@Staraili called it, the Muffalo is their venerated animal and guess what they've been slaughtering for the last few days... Well, tough luck, guess I'll need 3 more graves! As you can see the colony is a mess due to the latest attack. Currently in a 'get up, break in some way, fall down again due to blood loss' cycle, so hoping I'll get out of that soon(Randy hasn't been kind in the last few raids).

Also, the pawns keep getting sick despite the level 10 and level 14 skilled cooks(yes, I know the area is dirty now, it wasn't nearly as dirty before!)

In regards to Vlad, he was a mission and came in with 'Paralytic Abasia'(can't do anything but lay there until it ends), which only has 2 days left, so excited for that!

Thread can be closed as far as I'm concerned!

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Tycser:

Hey guys, thanks for the help!

@Staraili called it, the Muffalo is their venerated animal and guess what they've been slaughtering for the last few days... Well, tough luck, guess I'll need 3 more graves!

Meh... You could save them all if you just sorted out your priorities and have Gregorz feed your prisoners with survival meals... looks like you have plenty of rice and potatos that can be harvested too... shrugs.
Good luck.

[Tycser]

I mean, you do see the colony in the currently situation, right? Priorities don't matter if they can't even walk 5 steps before breaking or falling down. There's simply no time to harvest. I enabled the survival meals, still unable to feed the prisoners, not sure what that's about though.

At the moment I need to focus on on making sure my own pawns are ready for the next event, whatever gets thrown at them.

Thanks for the tips though!

[OpenAI]

Hey, if you still unable to solve its and if you used the mod Rim73 then I recommended to disable hediff and job optimization as that were causing the problem.

[coyo7e]

Originally posted by dande313:

As a work around, you can set a stockpile zone inside the cell, which will be marked as "prisoners only". Even better, give them a nutripaste dispenser.

Yeah this can work great. I like to set something like pemmican to only prisoner zones, so I just make a couple stacks and then forget about it.

[CInnamonChaos]

Hey! Just had the same problem and i figured it out. My prisoner had a ideology where she venerated racoons and all our meals had racoon meat in them. My pawns wouldn't deliver the meals to her because she couldn't eat them. Hope that helps.