Villagers refuse to make or eat food

[rory ein uberbil]

I had a settlement of about 120 people and all of them refused to eat even though I had 160+ bread and they refused to make more even though I had 130 flour and production capacity at infinite. Instead of eating or making food every single villager instead went to mine and cut down trees which lead to 70 people dying.

Anyone else having this issue?

[janfo]

when they went to cut down trees you maybe have many gathering areas or high workload?
160+ bread seems way too much for 120 people considering it will decay in 0.25 years.
maybe they were so busy producing bread that they didnt even get to eat it :D
set a reasonable limit for everything, you dont need more than 50 bread for 120 people.. I even have my limit at 30 bread and its all fine.. as long as you have grain (which will only decay after 2 years)

But nonetheless there are several topics about this, maybe its a bug but most of the time its just mismanagement.. I'm not sure, try to use search function

I think you should give your people some rest so they can care about their own needs, dont let them produce flour and bread and everything in these large amounts

[Pebble]

What's your workload at most of the time? If it's way over 100% all the time (it's okay if it's short term), they might not have the time to eat.

Currently the villagers aren't good at prioritizing their own needs over other jobs, so if they have too much stuff to do, they might end up working in a mine instead of eating.

Same thing if they have to travel long distances. They won't fill up their stats before going on a long trek, so they could die before they can get back home. That's why you should be careful about building mines that are too far away.

Setting certain tasks to infinite might not be a good idea either, since that could add a lot of workload. I generally only set tasks to infinite, if there are other ways to moderate the production/collection.

For instance, setting collecting sticks to infinite is okay, if you only have a few small collection areas, that will get exhausted quickly, thus it's not actually infinite. It will only result in a short spike in workload.

On the other hand, if you're swimming in grain, and are making infinite amount of bread, then the tasks will keep spamming, and your workload will never go down.

Personally, I have my bread production limited to 30, and the same for flour.

[Oriflame]

Originally posted by rory ein uberbil:

I had a settlement of about 120 people and all of them refused to eat even though I had 160+ bread and they refused to make more even though I had 130 flour and production capacity at infinite. Instead of eating or making food every single villager instead went to mine and cut down trees which lead to 70 people dying.

Anyone else having this issue?

still an issue in 2022; they'd rather starve

[pdoan8]

Originally posted by Oriflame:

Originally posted by rory ein uberbil:

I had a settlement of about 120 people and all of them refused to eat even though I had 160+ bread and they refused to make more even though I had 130 flour and production capacity at infinite. Instead of eating or making food every single villager instead went to mine and cut down trees which lead to 70 people dying.

Anyone else having this issue?

still an issue in 2022; they'd rather starve

You don't really have to spam responses when you could have spent the time to look for answers.

[korac]

Originally posted by Oriflame:

still an issue in 2022; they'd rather starve

It's probably more accurate to say they would rather starve to death than be worked to death...

Look at it this way: a villager with nothing better to do will eat, drink, sleep, pray and maybe even make babies. If they don't feel the need to do any of those things, they will just idle around the village until they do feel the need.

Your job as tribal leader is to give them a purpose in life beyond this, for their own good and for the good of the tribe as a whole - but not to the extent that they no longer have enough time to do all of those very necessary things.

When you screw up, they screw up. It doesn't happen the other way around.