Stock full but game keep showing notification settlers with no tool/protective clothes

[Goldensun]

Hi everyone,

I am kinda new to this game and I am still playing with the tutorial. During the game play, there are something bothering me a lot that I cannot figure out how to solve the warning settler with no tool/protective clothes. Sometime it shows thirsty/starve even all my stock are full and have a lot of things.

I would like to ask for advice how to solve this problem.
Thank you

[beebopper]

In early game this will happen usually the first 50ish seasons until you establish tool workshops and tailors and start to keep up with demand.

tip.. stick with scrap tools and scarves until you produce enough equal to your pop.. then go metal tools and masks... first 100 seasons you only need 20 suits for the expeditions. Also keep 50 scrap tools and scarves in your inventory for side missions and expeditions once you start to upgrade.

Hope this helps

[Goldensun]

Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately, that is not the case for my problem. I passed 150ish seasons, and have a quite much settlers (around 500) in my colony. Also I stocked more than 100k foods, 200k water, around 2-3k tools and radiation suits. But the game still showing warning that I dont have enough food/water or settler have no tool/protective clothes. So I wonder what did I do wrong here. I keep increasing the limit for my stock but it did not solve the problem

[beebopper]

Ahh.. ok numbers seem about right.. your problem is not how many items you have then.. tools/water maybe a little close.. but the issue is that your colony is most likely too spread out and the settlers have to walk long distances to get these things.

Try adding warehouses / wells / markets / food points etc along roads with very little to offer. In long distances your settlers maybe suffering thirst/starvation and their tools or protective gear may be wearing out with no option but to walk all the way back to one of the above to get these items.

eg:

bus------Well-----market-----water point---- warehouse----well--employment

On long spread out distances.. use a market to gather a bit of everything.. you'll find scrap collectors/foresters are the main culprits here (not the only) due to the long distances we send them to gather scrap/wood.

but a screenshot would be helpful here to see why it maybe throwing these notifications.

Hope this helps :)

[Goldensun]

Thank you so much, I did place more stop point for food and water, then also some warehouse only for tool and suit, then the problem gone

[beebopper]

I'm glad it helped :)

Tip: Use the market ring to roughly judge the max distance a worker can travel before possibly getting these notifications... then place a well.. warehouse and food point at that location..
:)