Starvation.

[Hoxtalicous]

The game really needs more warning for starvation, I got used to the low food thing being there because I'm playing tribal and we never have much of a stockpile so i had no idea we'd been out of food for days and the entire colony was about to be wiped out. There should be a red alert in the bottom right saying "No food in stockpile" or something like that.

[StinkyMonkey]

Mod called Food Alert may be what you need.

[Hoxtalicous]

Originally posted by StinkyMonkey:

Mod called Food Alert may be what you need.

That's not what I'm looking for, I meant a warning you have no food.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Hoxtalicous:

Originally posted by StinkyMonkey:

Mod called Food Alert may be what you need.

That's not what I'm looking for, I meant a warning you have no food.

There is a drop down list of all of your resources on the top left of the game window o.O
Monitoring your food stockpile is as easy as looking to your left...

[imwithdummy]

Originally posted by Hoxtalicous:

The game really needs more warning for starvation, I got used to the low food thing being there because I'm playing tribal and we never have much of a stockpile so i had no idea we'd been out of food for days and the entire colony was about to be wiped out. There should be a red alert in the bottom right saying "No food in stockpile" or something like that.

Your colonists hate you so hard right now....and you kind of have it coming...you forgot to keep an eye on their food? You had ONE JOB, Hoxtaholocaust!
Those poor bastards...
Yeah it might be the mod Stinky mentioned, but there's one that keeps a "days of food left" tally on the bottom right there, next to the alerty messages.

[StinkyMonkey]

Originally posted by imwithdummy:

Originally posted by Hoxtalicous:

The game really needs more warning for starvation, I got used to the low food thing being there because I'm playing tribal and we never have much of a stockpile so i had no idea we'd been out of food for days and the entire colony was about to be wiped out. There should be a red alert in the bottom right saying "No food in stockpile" or something like that.

Your colonists hate you so hard right now....and you kind of have it coming...you forgot to keep an eye on their food? You had ONE JOB, Hoxtaholocaust!
Those poor bastards...
Yeah it might be the mod Stinky mentioned, but there's one that keeps a "days of food left" tally on the bottom right there, next to the alerty messages.

I think you want Extra Alerts Mod then mate. (Edit) Oops that doesn't have food in it, but its a mod like that one you need.

[Hoxtalicous]

Originally posted by imwithdummy:

Originally posted by Hoxtalicous:

The game really needs more warning for starvation, I got used to the low food thing being there because I'm playing tribal and we never have much of a stockpile so i had no idea we'd been out of food for days and the entire colony was about to be wiped out. There should be a red alert in the bottom right saying "No food in stockpile" or something like that.

Your colonists hate you so hard right now....and you kind of have it coming...you forgot to keep an eye on their food? You had ONE JOB, Hoxtaholocaust!
Those poor bastards...
Yeah it might be the mod Stinky mentioned, but there's one that keeps a "days of food left" tally on the bottom right there, next to the alerty messages.

Omfg "Hoxtaholocaust" XD. Jokes aside i have that mod but it automatically removes that message once you get low food.

[GeneralVeers]

The way I've been playing this game, the kitchen and the fridge adjacent to it are smack in the middle of my screen ninety percent of the time, so it's damn near impossible for me NOT to see when the colony is running short on food. Stacks of meat? Check. Dead animals waiting to be turned into stacks of meat? Check. Corn? Check. Rice? Check. Milk and berries? Check.

Chocolate? DOUBLE CHECK. Plus an underline. And a smiley face. And a gold star.

Even without a fridge, stacks of harvested rice and corn last for something like 40 days (potatoes last a lot longer, if I recall correctly), so you can still keep a decent stock of those in the storeroom and provide simple meals reliably. Keep two rotating fields of rice going, and you will always have some crops ready to harvest in an emergency.

[Astasia]

You shouldn't "get used to" the low food warning. That means you have 3 days or less of food and means you are very much in trouble, that is the big main warning. The second warning comes when starvation starts, you still have like 2 days after a colonist starts starving before they die, so this is about 6 days (3 days of food, 1 day on fumes, 2 days starving to death) of warning the game gives you about food, and it's no coincidence that it's easily enough time to grow some rice on fertile soil.

Tribal doesn't change food generation, start growing a field of rice on day one and you can have tons of food stockpiled within a week. Rice and corn last a long time, it doesn't matter if you have a freezer or not, you can keep plenty of food on hand at all times.

[nicknack595]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Monitoring your food stockpile is as easy as looking to your left...

Originally posted by Astasia:

You shouldn't "get used to" the low food warning. That means you have 3 days or less of food and means you are very much in trouble, that is the big main warning. The second warning comes when starvation starts,

Are you even playing the game if you don't notice your colonists are starving???

[meieratlarger]

Pick your least favorite colonist and ....have a banquet in his memory. It lowers the number of hungry mouths and increases the number of calories available. Problem solved. You're welcome.

[M.K.]

Originally posted by Hoxtalicous:

The game really needs more warning for starvation, I got used to the low food thing being there.

So, you want a low food alert, because you were ignoring the LOW FOOD ALERT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Sugar Show]

if you die by that never play "Don't starve"

[nana_the_ninja]

Maybe this will help?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1842663403&searchtext=

Your pawns will starve more slowly (it will now take 7-ish days to die once malnutrition kicks in). You'd have more time to realize they need some food before it's game over.

[xybolt]

Originally posted by Hoxtalicous:

The game really needs more warning for starvation, I got used to the low food thing being there because I'm playing tribal and we never have much of a stockpile so i had no idea we'd been out of food for days and the entire colony was about to be wiped out. There should be a red alert in the bottom right saying "No food in stockpile" or something like that.

I am with others. The current game already provide you enough tools to notice food availability problems yourself by

1. checking the resource list (left side of the screen) frequently
2. a nice red "low food" alert at the right side of the screen
3. when working on your base, you could have "crossed" your stockpile room with your camera and noticing that it is empty. I even manage to notice that a storage room is empty when I was planning to add a new wing to my base.

EDIT: I recalled a mod you can use; https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1114619043

[sbmarauderman03]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQB4nAjZIdE&t=24s