[0.93.3] Workers are not automatically getting food

[TacticalMaster]

Weren't they supposed to like about an update ago? My workers can put food away, but they won't get food at all...

Personally, it's annoying when workers keep putting the food away. I suggest they 'keep' the food but there's no sort of 'item lock' feature in the game.

[Hatsune_Neko]

build a food store. put all finished food in there and they will grab it.

[TacticalMaster]

I did, in one house. But like I said: They're not even getting the food.

To be specific, they're just only a few feet apart from that food store. My iron miners are just far from it also.

[Hatsune_Neko]

not sure why then
mine was working just fine.

you try the normal stiff?? like rebuilding nav mesh? revaldiating? all those fun things? and its still persistent after you reloaded your game?

[TacticalMaster]

I'm not sure if rebuilding the navmesh would be any help but they just won't get food. I mean, they can put them away, but they won't even get.

Maybe it's distance detrimental? Because, it's just a few blocks away them and they just won't get to that store at all.

[Hatsune_Neko]

dont know
my player was nearly at edge of settlement im making and ran to get food. only time they didnt was when working at the science station with no job assigned.

maybe upload your affected savegame for the Devs.

[Drag00ne]

I noticed this is happening sometimes. Like they was just getting food fine until I had 2 of my peoples fainted because of starvation. And sometimes some of them prefer bread even if they have better food available like Gohan.

[Darkynd]

I've noticed this problem as well... if you examine the situation you'll see that those wearing backpacks will only grab food if they have space for it in the backpack. For workers carrying larger items you can ensure they auto grab food by putting something they won't auto-store away like bandages / hats / pants / weapons around a 3x2 space (items you use to do this depends on their jobs). Unfortunately, this workaround won't work for all labor types since some will pick up fabric / cotton leaving no space for food. For these people I just put 4-5 food stuffs in them which lets me not have to worry about them for quite some time.

I think if you're still getting the problem of them not grabbing food, it could be the placement of the food storage is messing with their pathing, make sure there's a wide berth around it, enough for people to walk around all sides of the barrel