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Necesse: Feeding Throught Are Broken? (Workarounds)
Short answer
No confirmed fix yet. Players suggest: max priority, fill with 1 stack, mill at do until, everything else in the fridge, works fine for 15h+
How to fix it
Set the trough to the highest priority
- Open the trough’s settings and choose “Top priority (Fill this first)”. This makes villagers treat the trough as the primary storage for wheat.
Limit the trough’s capacity
- In the same menu set the “Cap” to 1 stack (or a small amount you are comfortable with). This prevents the trough from being considered “full” and forces villagers to keep wheat there.
Configure the grain mill
- Open the grain mill and set it to “Do until 10” (or a low number of flour sacks). This tells villagers to only produce flour until they have that amount, stopping them from constantly pulling wheat from the trough.
Move all other wheat storage to a fridge
- Place any additional chests, coolers, or storage containers that hold wheat inside a fridge. The fridge will act as secondary storage, keeping excess wheat out of the villagers’ immediate reach.
Remove or disable the cooler
- If you still have a cooler (or any other storage without priority settings), delete it or ensure it is not receiving wheat. The cooler can interfere with the priority system and cause the trough to be emptied.
Monitor for about 15 hours
- After applying the above settings, let the settlement run for roughly half a day. Villagers should now keep wheat in the trough and only take what is needed for the mill.
If it still doesn't work
- Check that no other building (e.g., a regular chest) has a higher priority than the trough.
- Verify the grain mill’s “Do until” value is low enough that it isn’t constantly demanding wheat.
- Make sure the fridge is the only other wheat storage; any stray chest can pull wheat away.
- Consider temporarily removing the cooler and windmill entirely to see if the issue resolves, then re‑add them with proper settings.
- If the problem persists despite these steps, it may be a situational bug with no confirmed fix yet.
What players reported
My settler are always emptying the stupid feeding throught. I tried every single configuration. I always did Top priority (Fill this first) Cap at 100 of each resources or 1 stack. But they always go to empty it.... I have no building at anything else but normal (cooler and windmill has no settings) It use to work just fine, but now i need to completetly remove the cooler and windmill to prevent…
What players suggest
idk whats ur issue... max priority, fill with 1 stack, mill at do until, everything else in the fridge, works fine for 15h+
I tried SO many configuration. And gave up. It feel like having an empty fridge might have been linked to the issue thought. Or maybe there is a bug in the game and it s very situational?
If the trough is at higher priority than the the cooling box and other chests, villagers should keep all your wheat there, up to the max you set. Villagers will remove wheat to put in the grain mill, but if you set the mill to "Do until 10", they will try to keep a supply of 10 sacks of flour. If something is using that flour, then it will keep turning wheat into flour. Either produce more…
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