I have built a smokehouse remote to my main settlement, next to my gold mine /fishing shack and hunting lodge. Co-located to the little settlement is a stockhouse, upgraded root cellar and a firewood splitter.
The smokehouse is still telling me that the travel time is extreme (red) and his work% is near zero as he is spending all of his time stocking the smokehouse - so whats going on? why isnt his travel time short - what other thing do I need for him in order to fix his travel time?
Don’t put all that stuff way out there. First off your smokehouse worker is likely living in town so he has to run all the way out there to work, then he runs all the way back to stock his shelter.
Have you followed him to see what he’s doing? He likely is making the smoked meat faster than the fisher/hunter are bringing it in, so then he’s going to run all the way back to town to get fish/meat, or to an even further fisher/hunter.
Just put all that stuff in town. Don’t put hunter/fishers so far away. Honestly, once you get cows you really don’t need hunters or fishers.
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Well after raiders took ALL my food the cows had nothing to eat and I had to slaughter them. And the fields were bare due to everyone running away from the raiders instead of farming. We only survived due to my remaining hunters and foragers.
i always have 2-4 stone archer towers near my barns/fields store houses because raiders bee line for storage. i also enclose my storage inside stone walls to slow down raiders. a nice little 8x8 gives plenty of storage rooms for a smoke house, root celler, stock house, rat catcher, and 4 stone towers. i have a barn on each side of this. then grazing fields north and south of it. and grain fields on each side of the grazing fields. the archers cover most of that area with protection. 2 archers with crossbows in each tower will protect your “Food Source”.
my next build i’m going to have 2 barns on each side and center the grazing and grain fields above and below the storage vault. the over lapping fields of fire, help protect the towers. and make work of very large raider partys.
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Thats the point. After i got the farms, i felt like the work of hunters an fishers is useless. I just keep them assigned to those tasks only to give them what to do and a reason to live for 
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No need to have the rat catcher inside, can have him just outside. One smokehouse can only do 400-450 meat, so better to have a second, if not more instead of the rat catcher. With that many cows you need a ton of smokehouses.