Villagers using all the mushrooms on the smoker and other cooking QoL suggestions

[rugged flume]

Villagers prioritize placing raw food on the smoker rather than the Cauldron.

Example.
I got a batch of 10 mushrooms.
The Cauldron has mushroom stew prioritized and the Cauldron as priority 1.
Villagers will still use the smoker to smoke all the mushrooms. And as for the Cauldron will only be cooking my berries instead which is the 2nd recipe.

QoL for smoker

1. Able to limit amount of resources used for smoking
2. Able to set topup values or disable smoking of certain recipes
3. Able to set the priority of the smoker (e.g. Cauldron as priority 1 and smoker priority 2 so that villagers will prioritize the recipes in Cauldron first)

[shell plume]

I was able to thwart this by setting limits on foods in the storage. Whether it be stockpile, barn or camp chest. Not to say it couldn't be improved upon. Good ideas. Micromanagement is fun when it works.

[bronze island]

Smoker should have a management setting like the cauldron to configure the number and type of food you will produce with this.

[daring monolith]

on the other side, may i ask why do you still intend to use the smoker? the couldron produces way more and better food...

i get there are smoker with the inn, but you can disable those, as of now, from the start disable campfire and smoke, so i only place food in there i want to prevent from spoiling, and i always have a handy emergency stock on the smoker... while the cauldron are working nonstop
( although the excess wood burning in the cauldron is a bit unsettling 🙂 )

[quasi hinge]

i set my prioity of my smoker to lower than cauldrons but doesnt seem to do anything. Maybe its a bug

[daring monolith]

no, that normal, your cauldron are busy, then the smoker comes up in the priority list. thats why i disabled the smoker... i would also open the trying rack and instead of berry jam, just dry the berries... but you cant stop the villager from drying mushroom... so a managment option for drying rack, smoker etc isnt that for off ...

[quasi hinge]

well i guess the only reason for Drying racks is Drying berries / mushrooms for the winter so they can still put them in the traps (maybe this is meaningless after u get hunting lodge) Wish you could set how many mushrooms / berries max to dry

[quasi hinge]

also i made 5 cauldrons and its still the same problem. They can't all be "busy" but your right i should just turn off berry jam completely. I did turn it off on some cauldrons and mushroom stew

[daring monolith]

i am running 2 cauldron for my 14 villagers,.. 1 cauldron for berry jam and mushrom steu , the other one for fine meat stew.. i have one disabled smoker that is paked with meat for emergencies...

[quasi hinge]

okay im gonna disable the campfire and smoker tommorow and see if that helps. Too be honest i don't see why i can't just feed my villagers potatoes the stats don't really help them in gathering or crafting etc.

i just want the fine stew ready for my army to send to war, wish i could disable villagers from eating it

[daring monolith]

i understand that way of thinking, i was there once too... well you could lock you fine stew away in chest ( hidden in an outpost) but i produce so much fine stew that i stopped botherring.... if i ever run out of meet, d then maybe i will see what i am doing,

[quasi hinge]

i have like 15 traps set but im not sure if they are too close together or something or the meats just being cooked in the fire constantly instead of cauldron

[daring monolith]

i only run 3 traps in a wide range, most of the meat is from me hunting game for pelts, fur and hide... i had also had some nasty wolf groups with ~15 animals... 😀

[wraith glen]

I think there needs to be management options on the smoker and the campfire but until they add that I leave the priority off early once I have cauldron. If you put things on there if they finish before the workers go to sleep people will take them off and store them still. Same with the drying racks, the dried berries slow down workers food consumption and the dried mushrooms increase their productivity. Once you have enough extra meats I turn the smoker on and they smoke the meat before mushrooms, without the management though I try to remember to turn it off 3/4 of the way through the day so they take everything off before they go to sleep and it doesn't burn

[late ether]

I ended up having to put my smoker in an outpost while its in the middle of my base. this would help alot

[daring monolith]

in that case they cant even get the meat from it, if might burn if you dont pay attention,... if you simple disable it, you have to manual put the meat on it and but some fire on it, but when ready the cooking staff can still unload the meat into storage....

[late ether]

i had set up deliveries, a box for meats and 1 person in that outpost with a hut to do the cooking it was annoying to set up but kinda works

[daring monolith]

ok, yes that you can do... if you fancy it 🙂

[late ether]

thats why managment would be better its a huge pain to automate it without all your mushrooms being used up

[daring monolith]

yes,... i know i validate that,... for me i still wont using the rack anymore, but others might want to,
for myself i would fancy the managment for the drying rack.... be it as part of the building because a managament interaction in the rack istelf would be troublesome to implement i guess...

for the drying rack.. those are also part of the inn, so naturally i would expect managment to be put there and single out the stand alone drying rack... but thats just me ... not seeing the usfullness of the dryingrack after the cauldron 😄

[late ether]

idk if they set it up like the farm where you set the production preference and you can turn off a specific thing that would work.

[daring monolith]

yes that is true... but ateleast for the drying rack i would dislike it to have it done for each rack individually...

i could however imaging that certain building are meant to not have a seperate interaktion,... for their purpose... so that why i might expect there could be a limitation...

but its also very troublesome that you cant dry cranberries... to there is much room to improve here and there

[rugged flume]

How do you set the resource limit in the stockpile and barn?
I think I might have missed this feature.

[shell plume]

Two ways. To go up to the building, and there's an interactable overlay. And, go to buildings under the town management and click on the building you want to edit.

[rugged flume]

I think Smoked fish provides good stamina benefits.
And I chose to keep the smoker due to the Wood efficiency to burn it.
Cauldron drains the wood fuel fast.

[rugged flume]

I'll try looking into that.
I've been setting the resources to allow. Guess I missed the feature to edit the limits.
Thank you!

[shell plume]

yer welcome, hope you get it all figured out

[shell plume]

it happens... I about shat myself when I found out the cauldron had a food specific table