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Refined food shortage?
Keep getting a 'refined food shortage', but I have an abundance of bread right in the middle of my small village. What gives?
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I think it's a bit of a bug. I have over 800 each of refined food in stock, market stalls selling them everywhere always full to the gills, over 400 people with only 44 commoners, but I keep getting the notification. Definitely a bug.

I know some require two refined foods but I am full with meat, bread, cheese
Last edited by Walker Boh; Feb 4 @ 11:02am
I haven't had an issue with it since doubling up each market stall. So 2xfish, 2xcheese 2xbread etc in each market area. Now if they are short on stuff, it's because there's not enough in the granary/warehouse.
yeah I thinks its a bug, I get it all the time also, but my villagers happiness is always at 100%, but I noticed if someone is walking to a stall to get food, it blocks the stall for everyone else, so if someone wants to go to the same stall they have to wait till the other person gets their food before they can even start heading to the stall.
Two things I noticed.

- If the stall is empty or was empty when the villager attempted you get this.

- Make sure each stall has the 30 storage. I caught my bread stall with a gap or something that did not think the tent was attached and only had a storage limit of 10. If you have multiple stalls make sure the total storage is divisible by 30 for each stall.
+1

I am at 121 citizens, two bread stalls that have been filled for more than a year, 97 bread currently in stock, and villagers walk right past the stall and complain I am not feeding them. And then they leave.

This is bankrupting me and killing my game.
Originally posted by FalconerHG:
+1

I am at 121 citizens, two bread stalls that have been filled for more than a year, 97 bread currently in stock, and villagers walk right past the stall and complain I am not feeding them. And then they leave.

This is bankrupting me and killing my game.
You might need a second market area
Originally posted by Doc_Hotpants:
Originally posted by FalconerHG:
+1

I am at 121 citizens, two bread stalls that have been filled for more than a year, 97 bread currently in stock, and villagers walk right past the stall and complain I am not feeding them. And then they leave.

This is bankrupting me and killing my game.
You might need a second market area
Well, the first thing is serfs refined food is not a requirement, so they are leaving because they are higher rank. Higher ranks require one basic food and two refined food.

On top of that there needs to be a shortage for a VERY long time to drop happiness far enough to leave. That is in unless there is another type of shortage for the needs.

People need to be looking at the status screen that shows a list of happiness and then look at who has low happiness and solve those problems.
This is definitely a bug. The notification keeps popping up for me and all commoners have 2/2 for refined food and 80% happy with just entertainment missing.

Normally you click the notification to take you to the problem, but it doesn't do anything.
Originally posted by Amelia:
Keep getting a 'refined food shortage', but I have an abundance of bread right in the middle of my small village. What gives?

im getting it too, it's a bug that seems to have come with the latest patch from what i can tell
Originally posted by Sir Snuffles:
Originally posted by Amelia:
Keep getting a 'refined food shortage', but I have an abundance of bread right in the middle of my small village. What gives?

im getting it too, it's a bug that seems to have come with the latest patch from what i can tell

Could it be, that the one who is selling the food is off duty when the one who needs it try to buy it from the market?
Just a theory, I have not had that problem myself, yet, when playing.
Originally posted by Sir Snuffles:
Originally posted by Amelia:
Keep getting a 'refined food shortage', but I have an abundance of bread right in the middle of my small village. What gives?

im getting it too, it's a bug that seems to have come with the latest patch from what i can tell
I do not think it is a bug. Keep in mind if ONE villager has a shortage then it gives the warning.

That villager could be your bailiff stuck on on a prospecting mandate, the needs go down while out there and if you send the bailiff right back out this can cause the issue. It could also be some villager that got stuck as well.

If you only have ONE of that stall type then think about how the mechanics work. It does not restock unless it runs out. Which means if ANY villager was attempting to use it while the market tender is getting more you get that alert. (The correct way would have been to code the game to have transporters deliver to the market.)

The big thing is when you see the message to immediately pause the game and then look at the villager who has the shortage or pull up happiness and look at the lowest happiness numbers.
The issue is that, as far as I can tell, they need two types of refined food. If you select one of the villagers, you'll see that it says Refined Food 1/2. As with many things in this game, this is terribly communicated.
Originally posted by TheChemist:
The issue is that, as far as I can tell, they need two types of refined food. If you select one of the villagers, you'll see that it says Refined Food 1/2. As with many things in this game, this is terribly communicated.
Yeah, if it said which the villager missed it would be nice. Simply because that would tell you that if you had a meat, cheese, or bread issue. However code wise, what would happen if you did not even produce cheese, it would always say cheese shortage.

As I said earlier if you pause really quick, and you go to your stalls and your stalls at at like 27-30 stock then that was probably a timing issue with restocking.

In other words it is one of them annoying warnings like when you used watchtowers to gain fortification and the guard is away too long.
must be a bug. I follow one of my "commoners" with the "Refined Food shortage!" event active. She fetches the refined food yet the debuff still exists.
Originally posted by Kitty Kang:
must be a bug. I follow one of my "commoners" with the "Refined Food shortage!" event active. She fetches the refined food yet the debuff still exists.
Key words "one of my commoners" and it only takes ONE to give the warning.

I think people do not understand the mechanics behind the shortages. If a commoner has a shortage then they suffer a happiness penalty if it continues. Which means if you have a commoner suffering itthe look at the database for people, sort the database by lowest happiness, and then look at commoners with low happiness.

If you see none then you have a timing issue with your market tenders being away to restock the from the granary. Which means one of tow things, your granary is too far form your market or you do not have enough stalls, a stall is only good for about 50 villagers reliably. While you may only have a dozen commoners you are forgetting that serfs will eat refined foods as well.
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Date Posted: Feb 4 @ 10:52am
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