Pawns not eating simple meals

[Razor]

I've had an issue that I believe started a day before the new update, where my pawns won't eat simple meals.

I've started 2 new colonies, and they both start fine with people able to eat simple meals, but then at some, seemingly random point in both games, the pawns stop eating the simple meals.

They will only eat them if i force them to, but they seem invisible to them otherwise, even though they are in the items tab on the left of the screen.

Any idea what could cause this?

[Jaggid Edje]

Do the meals contain the meat of an animal which the pawn's ideology venerates? Pretty sure they won't auto-consume meals in that case.

Also, the update yesterday changed food selection process enough to break a few mods. I had to remove RimmsQoL, for example, because it was causing issues with both my animals and colonists eating.

[Razor]

No, I have about 50 meals, most, if not all, were made without meat. I only start getting this a couple hours into playing. There doesn't seem to be an issue when I first begin.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Maple English:

No, I have about 50 meals, most, if not all, were made without meat. I only start getting this a couple hours into playing. There doesn't seem to be an issue when I first begin.

The recent game update broke the mod [KV]RimFridge, causing meals to get stuck in a "reserved" state. Basically a bug you wouldn't see right away until all the meals on your map got stuck in that state.

RimFridge had an update to fix the issue, so if you are using Rimfridge, make sure you are peroperly getting the updated mod.
If you are using some other mod for storage of meals, it could have been hit by the same thing that effected RimFridge.

Edit to add: You should be able to see if you are affected by it. When pawns are not eating and you right click the meal does it say "Reserved by: xxx" on the command selection where you tell them to consume it.

[Razor]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Maple English:

No, I have about 50 meals, most, if not all, were made without meat. I only start getting this a couple hours into playing. There doesn't seem to be an issue when I first begin.

The recent game update broke the mod [KV]RimFridge, causing meals to get stuck in a "reserved" state. Basically a bug you wouldn't see right away until all the meals on your map got stuck in that state.

RimFridge had an update to fix the issue, so if you are using Rimfridge, make sure you are peroperly getting the updated mod.
If you are using some other mod for storage of meals, it could have been hit by the same thing that effected RimFridge.

Edit to add: You should be able to see if you are affected by it. When pawns are not eating and you right click the meal does it say "Reserved by: xxx" on the command selection where you tell them to consume it.

I loaded up my save after I read this, and people started eating simple meals again, so I thought it was fixed. But again, they are opting for kibble over the simple meals.

I do see that they all have a debuff for eating a venerated animal though.

Confusingly, I haven't seen that animal in this playthrough though. The venerated animal is a husky, and my simple meals have definitely not been made with husky meat, so it seems that the update has ♥♥♥♥♥♥ some things up nicely.

Also, I check as you said, and there right clicking the meal doesn't say it is reserved by anyone. The only options are consume, pick up or merge.

Hopefully they will get it sorted out in the next day or two. For now, no rimworld for me I guess...

[Jaggid Edje]

Oh, dam, sounds like the game thinks your meals have husky meat based on that debuff. :-/
Poor huskies.

[jacobellinger]

Originally posted by Maple English:

I've had an issue that I believe started a day before the new update, where my pawns won't eat simple meals.

I've started 2 new colonies, and they both start fine with people able to eat simple meals, but then at some, seemingly random point in both games, the pawns stop eating the simple meals.

They will only eat them if i force them to, but they seem invisible to them otherwise, even though they are in the items tab on the left of the screen.

Any idea what could cause this?

aha so this might be a bug with the update. i'm having the similar issues.