Starving with accessible food

[Warm Fuzzies™]

Why in the ♥♥♥♥ do my duplicants insist on starving themselves when there are mush bars available?

Do they just stop eating mush bars at some point?

[SKull]

Have you clicked it in the consumables tab so they are forbidden t eat it?

[Warm Fuzzies™]

Originally posted by SKull:

Have you clicked it in the consumables tab so they are forbidden t eat it?

Nope.

Its really frustrating...its just one duplicant...one of the starter 3. ive tried multiple times going back to an earlier auto save and rushing a bunch of food.

but even if i send him to the fridge...he just does this "thats nasty im not eating that" arm waving thing then runs off...

id let him just die and be done with it...but he was one of my starters and he started with +8 in a stat that is now +10 or +12...

but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ just refuses to eat....

[FDru]

That's really weird and not normal. Maybe the mush bar is too small or something?

[Grimjack Hex]

I'm having a problem with my dupes Starving too. Fortunately the message only pops up shortly. I click on it. And they're going for the food. I'm also seeing them sleeping when it's not their time to sleep, I click on them and I see a message reading exhausted. And yes. The long commute times message is a fixture on my little asteroid. That could be part of the problem.

I am beginning to think that perhaps I need to adjust the schedule for one more bar of downtime and one more bar of sleep. Suggestions? Thoughts?

[Warm Fuzzies™]

Originally posted by FDru:

That's really weird and not normal. Maybe the mush bar is too small or something?

I can have the dupe stand next to the microbmusher while food is being made, and he will even refuse to pick up a full bar.

However, If I assign him to sweep up the mush bars...he will fricken sweep them up and drop them in the fridge.

all while starving to death...

[MaebeKnot]

If not given enough break time they may have trouble eating regularly. This can result in a message someone is starving, only for you to find that person immediately goes and eats.

[darksector003]

Make sure that your food is accessable example: the fridge and containers. Dupes don't have time to look for food in your farms if they have long commutes.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by Hargrim:

I'm having a problem with my dupes Starving too. Fortunately the message only pops up shortly. I click on it. And they're going for the food. I'm also seeing them sleeping when it's not their time to sleep, I click on them and I see a message reading exhausted. And yes. The long commute times message is a fixture on my little asteroid. That could be part of the problem.

I am beginning to think that perhaps I need to adjust the schedule for one more bar of downtime and one more bar of sleep. Suggestions? Thoughts?

I added one extra 'down time' slot to give my dupes enough time to get back to the food, relax a little before going to sleep. When the sprawl started and I din't have transfer tubes my dupes would sometimes not get food or enough sleep.

[bMonocerotis]

I put starving dupes to full 'down time' schedule for a while. Usually they eat and then I can put them back to work. Also if you have long commutes try adding more 'down time' slots so that they have enough time to eat.

[Portent of Salamity]

scheduled work time doesnt allow eating unless starving. If they dont have time to eat during downtime, you could give them more downtime. That said, they do eat and ♥♥♥♥ a bit into sleepy time but I have noticed a similar issue in spite of that, but I'd go for trying scheduling first and foremost.

[Bobucles]

Early game break hours are fine, but later on they might lose half of that time running a marathon across the map.
An extra hour of break time should fix most things.