How do you convince these people to eat?

[realmiggy2]

In addition to what I asked in the title, I also have several other related questions.

The fisherman's hut (or whatever it's called) can be stocked full of fish right next to a cooking pot that has stock of soup bowls, and I can't figure out how to get anyone to eat. Their hunger icon can be fully red, but when I place them at the pot, they just walk away and wander around. I assume you're suppose to pick them up and put them at the pot until it highlights and then let them go? I also have trouble sometimes getting them to drink from the well, but I have been successful to get them to drink every once in a while. Also, how can I more consistently set them down without them falling on their face? I'm guessing if you'd drop them from too high off the ground that they fall... but I can put them right on the ground and then still fall down. Every once in a while, I drop them on their feet but I don't know what I'm doing differently. Also, what does it mean when they raise their arms and do a little grunt. Sometimes when I'm trying to get someone to do a particular chore, they just do that and then wander around. My initial guess was they do that when there's no resources available (tell them to build, but there's no logs or planks cut) but they'll do that even when they have resources.

I'm having fun at this game, it's really a unique VR experience. I'm just a little confused on how some of this is supposed to work.

[HG_Stefan]

Hi there and sorry for the trouble with getting your townies to eat or drink.
First of all, your townies take actions to fulfill their needs on their own behalf in most cases. So, it's not easy to force them to eat or drink. Especially, if the icons are still completely blue, they might wait to eat or drink until they finished a more important work task.
Also, townies check if a resource is already occupied or claimed to be occupied. So they know, when some other townie is on their way to eat or drink the last resource of a food or beverage supply and do not head that way then. That could be the case if your cauldron is the only food supply of your town.

About dropping townies on the ground: You are correct. If dropped from too high, they fall down. But they also fall on the ground, if you touch them too hard with your hands, unless you activated ghost hands in the Control settings.

About raising arms and grunting: Townies do that, when they cannot fulfill a task most likely because they are too hungry or too thirsty but also if there are no resources around that would be needed for the task.

I hope these explanations answer all your questions. Let me know, if you have any further questions :)

[realmiggy2]

Thank you for the responses. Looks like they are selfless group of people! So I'll just let them take care of themselves unless there's an issue.