Starving while there is plenty of food.

[Brother Alpha]

This happens to me where one of my townies will just freeze, not work, not haul, not nothing. Two days later, they starve to death. I've figured a way to stop this. I unequip something. That seems to snap them out of it.

I can confirm that this works BUT its only a short term solution. The problem is that townies try to haul some thing that is unavailable to them, or they are trying to put a item that they are holding down, and there is no space (there is space but they insist putting the item on the spot that is not available to them) i had half of my town stuck on a mineshaft becouse they wanted to put iron behind a closed door.

I use locked doors to prevent them from running into rooms filled with mobs that would other wise kill them.

I have no locked doors. I wonder why this keeps happening.

[cyclist]

I'd like to see food, sleep and heal become priority orders. This way, within reason, once a citizen needs food, sleep or healing, they will stop their current task and proceed to fill that one.

I say within reason because if they are one square away from say delivering their item to a storage zone, then complete it. Maybe if they are going to complete their task within a certain amount of time, then they will finish it before eating or sleeping.

As for healing, it's really annoying watch a citizen who's mortally wounded, kill their current mob, and then be a hero by diving into a fight with about 5 more. Don't worry, I'll give you a nice grave.

[wizardjian]

Mine is the oposite, they startted great working very hard, then for no reason they stoped doing everything once i ordered them to cut trees
at 1st i thought it was the priority and having to much orders, so i removed all the orders and set the harvesting,cutting etc on 1. they sit in my bakery and just camping on my food barrels, only move to make a loaf of bread to eat every once in a while.
lol i have lazy bums for vilagers

[cpc65]

I've been having the same problem as well. Usually when building a mine shaft a citizen won't stop to eat while it is under construction. They'll place one component then go back to the stockpile for the next and so on. Sometimes if I see they are starving and I destroy the mine shaft before it is completed, they will then go and eat. Other times they will acquire a new task instead and then starve. This needs to be tweaked and I would also add an option to cancel a task by selecting a citizen and then the next available person will assume that specific task, or add an option to just postpone a task so they will go eat or sleep first. Having this happen automatically would be best though as you can't always follow everyone. Edit: Oops! I didn't have 0.45B. I'll have to try it and see if the issue is solved or not.

[Maverynthia]

I have version .46 and they are still starving even though I have an over abundance of food. I'm down to floor 4&5 and I'll see the message that "townie has starved" and it seems their only task is hauling, there are no other orders present other than cook poultry.

[Mae]

It seems, from what I have seen in my recent games, that sometimes Townies do not know proper path ways.

So instead of taking the shortest way for hauling or mining in floor 4+, they run around for what seems a long time in the floor, and they sometimes try to take the same looong way back. I tried shortening ways by mining but it doesn't seem to help. I guess they just like to wander while hauling