Now that the disappearing cattle bug has apparently been fixed, why can't the villages, at least, be set to have more food available for purchase? I ask this after visiting 12 cities and 23 villages before finding one vat of butter and I'm only on day 116. After that, the search gets really hard. Meanwhile 12 villages had oil for sale; oil, which cannot be produced in villages and will never be bought from them since their price for it ranged from 527 to 602. Other villages had tools, leatherwork, wool cloth, linen, all of which they might have, but they would have procurred them from cities where they are manufactured.
I realize not every village can produce fruit, cabbage, grain, fish or honey, but every village I've seen lately has lots of cattle. so beef, dried beef, cheese and butter should be relatively plentiful. I appreciate the morale benefits of multiple food items in my inventory but I feel the use of perishable food items is unnecessary micro-management, although they are good for feasts where they never spoil. Still, several times per game, I'm off on world wide foraging missions for non-perishable items which seem to become increasingly scarce.
I realize not every village can produce fruit, cabbage, grain, fish or honey, but every village I've seen lately has lots of cattle. so beef, dried beef, cheese and butter should be relatively plentiful. I appreciate the morale benefits of multiple food items in my inventory but I feel the use of perishable food items is unnecessary micro-management, although they are good for feasts where they never spoil. Still, several times per game, I'm off on world wide foraging missions for non-perishable items which seem to become increasingly scarce.
