settler use food ?

[p30pl3h4t3m3]

anyone can confrim ?

152 units of dog meat + some other food stuff is gone in a new settlement without assigned farmer ... supply line is active btw.

[Direvex]

yes and they drink your clean water too. i noticed that while i tried to produce mass adhesive.

[p30pl3h4t3m3]

damn, i love dog meat... ty for answer

[Sentient_Toaster]

It would be strange if non-synth settlers were farming but didn't eat, no?

But for what it's worth, supply lines don't completely teleport items for you -- you can't deposit items in one workshop and expect to pick them up from a workshop in a different settlement. You can craft with the resources (if they're resources or junk items; armor and weapons will not automatically be scrapped for resources whether local or remote), but you can't pick up the item.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3tji11/explanation_of_supply_line_mechanics/

So if you store a massive pile of raw meat in one workshop, you should be able to craft cooked meat at a cooking pit in another settlement and the results will be dropped in your inventory. You couldn't, however, pick up the raw meat from that other place.

[ImHelping]

Supplies are super wonky even at the best of times.

I have planted 18 mutafruit, 12 corn, 12 tatoes, and 200 water.

I always come back to 101 water, and a mix of tatos and corn. So I guess my 17 settlers at sanctuary (I've had 10 Charisma for ages and no more come. IT gave me 17 at 6 charisma), so apparently my settlers are REAL thirsty, and only like to eat tatoes.

EDIT: For reference, I don't have supply lines or the supplier perk.

[Direvex]

food and water is definitely shared between settlements. i had too kill off a 20 man settlement because they were draining my adhesive supplies while producing nothing

[p30pl3h4t3m3]

guys, i don't need the mechanics of settlement / supply line mechanics, my question was if i move stuff to a new fresh settlement, and they have no farmer, do they use consumable food instead shared food from supply lines until they produce their own, ... the 4te settler become the first farmer in my buildup, so they have to live a while without on food production, and i take all stuff from the last to the new one (yeah everything, around 35000+ weightwhatever atm), so all settlements i have left only have their own production and items for future settlers like armor/clothes/guns ...

i wouldn't have recognize it, if i haven't miss the 150+ cooked dog meat...

for the records, i have several settlements on 20, some on 19, 18 and so on...

[Grimnir]

I know this is an old thread, but I think I can confirm that the settlers will not only consume any canned or cooked food, they will also consume raw meats & eggs. I built some deathclaw & mirelurk cages & all the resources to reset them ( yao guai meat & mirelurk eggs) keep disappearing from my workshop inventory.

[Tesityr]

If I may, I think the only way to keep your Settlers from eating 'Food you want to keep' is to put it in a Container you build in Workshop Mode - that is, not keep it in the Main Workshop Workbench - Settlers will automatically use Food and Water from the main Workshop.

I personally often make a Chest or Safe next to the Workshop and keep some Aid/Food items and spare Power Armour parts in there. Note that Settlers can 'steal' from the Container, if it contains something they really want (eg. a weapon is in there and the Settlement becomes under attack, etc).

IIRC, Settlers will utilize Food/Water from the local Workshop, then use/askfor Food/Water from the connected Workshops/Settlements (if there isn't enough in the local Workshop to feed everyone). They really like clean Water and Tatos (which 'tend to go first'). HTH

GL