mass late game/iron age die offs

[BenTheVaporeon]

i am also having issues with a surprising amount of people starving to death in the iron age, I have plenty of food supplies for them, and the workload is below 100%.

I did have over 170 people, so that number may be part of the cause.

One other big thing to note is I kept getting the “we have no fishing tools” message, but did not have any fishing tasks, and I checked and removed all fishing tasks from both work areas and the task page, so something might be wrong.

[nully29]

1. There are population limits, you may have hit them

2. Notification about having no fishing tools comes up regardless of having or not having any fishing tasks. Much like heads up about having no food comes up even if nobody's hungry. The point is to warn you in advance

[buds]

Depending on how much or to what circumstances but it’s about they didn’t reach the food on time that their health has deteriorated.
- placement of structures can make a difference, they must be accessible ASAP.
- task that are very far or something that they are retrieving from far places, and many other task that compromised their health such as bad timing on mining and megaliths transportating can make villagers starve.

It doesn’t matter if you have tons of food but if they are not accessible immediately they die. I have more than 300 population and deaths from starvation are seldom happening (ir not at all) as everything are almost open (few long walls and houses, granaries or storehouses are present in the outskirts that are not being destroyed by raiders. Every resources are efficiently distributed all throughout the settlement.

Workload is the percentage of tasks that are available with respect to the number of villagers working (sheltering Villagers excluded), and some villagers can also die at low or very low workload.

No tools mean that your available tools is/are below your limits regardless if you have no work area but knives might be different as it corresponds to the amount of tools needed to slaughter animals over limits or sometimes bad shaped ones are not taken into consideration.

All of these should not happen with a good play.

[BenTheVaporeon]

odd thing was that today i got the same village past 200 people without makeing major changes to the base and without gathering much more food then i had, i wonder if the time the game is opened plays a role here, as i tend to leave it paused if i have to do something else rather then doing the right thing and saving then quiting the game.

[Peyhah]

nully29 is wrong, the maximum population is much higher than 170. in fact i got to 400 before.

i would bet the reason your people are starving to death is because you put all your granaries in one corner of your town. if one of your dudes starts going on a long mining/hunting trip while their hunger bar is low (but not low enough to trigger them to abort task and go find food), their hunger trigger only kicks in after they have completed their task, by which time they're so far away they'll die before they reach a granary.

or maybe you're not grinding your grain into enough bread. dunno. a screenshot would help.

[BenTheVaporeon]

Originally posted by ICA_pH_Level:

nully29 is wrong, the maximum population is much higher than 170. in fact i got to 400 before.

i would bet the reason your people are starving to death is because you put all your granaries in one corner of your town. if one of your dudes starts going on a long mining/hunting trip while their hunger bar is low (but not low enough to trigger them to abort task and go find food), their hunger trigger only kicks in after they have completed their task, by which time they're so far away they'll die before they reach a granary.

or maybe you're not grinding your grain into enough bread. dunno. a screenshot would help.

i had plenty of non grains for them, and have granaries scattered all over the village, its more liikely that the food was in the wrong spot

[Pak0tac]

From my experience, villigers dont stock pile food at their homes for some reason.
So to eat they have to go to a storage, take food, then go home, and eat it.
It can take time, and they may die escpecially if there is no food at the store near their house

[BenTheVaporeon]

2 game play throughs later i think a big part of the problem was my buildings were too close together and not alined well, so the village became a maze and it took to long to get around

[pdoan8]

Originally posted by Sgt.Summer:

From my experience, villigers dont stock pile food at their homes for some reason.
So to eat they have to go to a storage, take food, then go home, and eat it.
It can take time, and they may die escpecially if there is no food at the store near their house

There are people who hate it when AI store food in house if there is a granary next door.

If I were AI, I would be very confused by this forum.

What should I do with this log: should I fill up the stockpile over there, or should I put it in the new stockpile here? Or should I keep it in my house just in case? Oh, who cares. I'm going to be called stupid anyway.

Master call me stupid because I did not eat before going to the mine (I wasn't too hungry at the time. I was 49% full). Master call me stupid and lazy because I try to eat before going to the mine (it's 49% like before).

Master call me stupid again because I try to kill the mammoth all by myself. Actually, I did it on purpose. I had enough.
:)

[threethreethree]

Originally posted by pdoan8:

There are people who hate it when AI store food in house if there is a granary next door.

If I were AI, I would be very confused by this forum.

What should I do with this log: should I fill up the stockpile over there, or should I put it in the new stockpile here? Or should I keep it in my house just in case? Oh, who cares. I'm going to be called stupid anyway.

Master call me stupid because I did not eat before going to the mine (I wasn't too hungry at the time. I was 49% full). Master call me stupid and lazy because I try to eat before going to the mine (it's 49% like before).

Master call me stupid again because I try to kill the mammoth all by myself. Actually, I did it on purpose. I had enough.
:)

haha!