It took out about 90 ppl, but property damage was minimal. Right after the first few starved, population crossed 300.and then a Tornado hit. I kept it going thinking that thinning the herd would probably be good at the time. Some of them walked right up to the market and die in front of the market.or up to their doorstep (with food inside) and die. The starving ppl started walking across the map 'looking for food', they would walk right by barns and markets with food and kept going. Even though I seemed to have enough food, people started starving, then dying of starvation. My 14000 stock of food dwindled down to nothing in a couple of years.and then hovered into dangerous territory for a couple of years, and didn't improve by adding food sources and stuff.ДЄfter about 10 or so years of struggling, population crept up towards 300. People looked like they were living relatively close to their work. There wasn't anything obvious that was going on. I had gotten the population around 250 and all of the sudden my production went into nosedive. Think I may have ran into a bug or something. I was giving the game another go around in the past couple of days. As far as food/eggs/leather production, they seem roughly identical between 1 and 2 workers per pasture. Does adding that second worker do anything? I was wondering if they might help animals breed faster or something like that. A 20x20 pasture will default to 2 workers, but I can't tell the difference between pastures using 1 or 2 workers. I've also found that pastures don't seem to require as many workers as the game says either. I imagine that this is because the workers home is very close and the food barn is also nearby. Theoretically, the 15x7 should require 2 workers, but I don't see an appreciable difference between larger orchards with 1 vs. A 15 wide by 7 tall orchard with a single worker also seems to work, and produces 33% more food. I've found that a 15 wide and 4 tall orchard with a single worker seems to work nicely.

I've been playing more with orchards as a more consistent food source than regular farming, and for better ale production.

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