Sometimes my guys REFUSE to load/eat from the hopper!

[Pat Splat]

What gives?

[Pat Splat]

So, okay, I had like 2 lumps of potatos left in the hopper, nobody wanted to touch it. I forced a guy to eat them raw, now he decides to fill it back up. Is this a glitch?

[corisai]

Hoppers are for feeding nutrient paste dispenser and can't be used directly by your colonists.

[Pat Splat]

Originally posted by corisai:

Hoppers are for feeding nutrient paste dispenser and can't be used directly by your colonists.

Yes, but here's the thing: I set my stove to 'suspended' so my cook will not turn the raw products to meals, the only thing that's left is to fill/eat from the hopper or eat raw goods, but they refuse to eat!

To fix this, I force one of my colonists to eat the few units of raw food left in the hopper to reset it somehow. Once the hopper is clear, they go about filling it back up and eating paste again.

Very annoying to keep up with this, happens often.

[Ficelle]

To make nutrient paste, the dispenser need a certain amount of raw food in hoppers (dont remember how much, 10 or 15)

No item can stack with a different one.
A stack of potatoes with 69/70 Hp and a stack of 70/70 Hp are considered different, so they cant stack in the same hopper.

I guess your problem comes from something like that, you have hoppers filled with not enough raw food to make paste and nothing matching to stack on it.

Just add more hoppers to allow different stacks of raw food to be used.

As a side note, why even use the dispenser if you have a stove...nutrient paste gives mood debuff.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

Just add more hoppers to allow different stacks of raw food to be used.

As a side note, why even use the dispenser if you have a stove...nutrient paste gives mood debuff.

Nutrient paste ideal when dispenser build-up into prison. No need to waste precious meals for our... well guests :)

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by corisai:

Nutrient paste ideal when dispenser build-up into prison. No need to waste precious meals for our... well guests :)

Except that again, with the debuff, your *guest* is harder to recruit

[Pat Splat]

Nutrient dispensers are great when you have only 3 or 4 colonists and can't spare one to stand around cooking all day. In my experience, food is at a premium when you have limited hands, so rationing is a good solution.

[Timothy_boy2]

To succes fully use a neutrion paste dispenser set the hoppers to most proitie also i would advice farming / filling them whit berries as that will remove the raw meal debuff you still get the bad meal but less mood change also restritc any new come food in ur freezer <- which i recommend building

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Laverne & Shelly:

In my experience, food is at a premium when you have limited hands, so rationing is a good solution.

Shouldn't be. One colonist on growing can output a ton of crops. If you don't want to set up an optimized kitchen and have one colonist spend a few in-game minutes each day cooking, then berries are the way to go. The 5% food poisoning chance is better than the constant mood debuff from paste.

The only time I ever use nutrient paste for my colonists is very early on sea ice maps.

I don't know why your colonists aren't using the paste dispenser though. Are they actually starving? It's confusing because you keep mentioning hoppers so I'm not sure what your issue might be. Did you maybe disable nutrient paste on their diet plans without realizing?