Monastic Meals not get eaten

[Asmodan]

So i made a Monastery and had a bit of trouble with the one Guy at the Refectory was not able to bring the Food fast enough. I redesigned and made 3 Refectories, one for Monastic Meals, one for Berries and one for Fish. That worked fine, but no one is eating the Monastic Meals. I know that only my Monks and Nuns eat them but they never do this. The Refectory with their Meals is the closest to where they live and i would like to keep the Berries and Fish for the Visitors of the Hospitium. Is there any way that i can make them eat the Monastic Meals?

[jcmeerman]

What happens when you change the menu in the 3 refectories?
Just checking: all 3 refectories have a staff member?

It shounds like the monks come past the other refectories before they walk past the meals. How are the 3 refectories located when you look at the workplaces of the monks?

[Asmodan]

I think i discovered the problem. I did some testing and swapped the Food in the Refectories in a lot of different combinations. Distance seems not to matter, It looks like the Food is consumed in the order as it is listed in the Villager Needs Screen. Which is:

Berries -> Fish -> Bread -> Cheese -> Meat -> Monastic Meals

As long as i had Berries and Fish nothing else would be consumed. When i had Bread, Meat and Monastic Meals only Bread and Meat would be consumed. Then i switched the Monastic Meals for Cheese and only Bread and Cheese would be consumed. That means as long as you offer 3 Kinds of Foods in the same Monastery Monastic Meals would never be consumed because they come last. The only time when i had Monastic Meals consumed was when i had only 2 Foods available.

Since the Visitors all seem to need only 1 Food maybe it is best if you offer only 2 different Meals in the Monastery being one the Monastic Meals. I think this is what i do now.

[jcmeerman]

That actually makes sense. It would also explain why my meat is always stockpiling while my bread and cheese are always depleted.

[Vossan]

Interesting. Thank you for the research!