I give up! I have been trying to fix a nightmare of over stocked barns not being able to slaughter the live stock, after upgrading the barns and finding they’re glitched I build a new level 1 barn and started splitting the existing herds with the intention of slaughtering them back to manageable numbers but it’s just not working.
At the same time I’ve been relocating buildings that are close to dereliction because the builders cannot make repairs or even upgrade on their own, but then after restarting the game to see if it would fix the broken barns, all of the buildings that I had relocated as a means of getting the builders to reset them to 100% are now abandoned and derelict!
Last week I loved this game, in pacifist mode it’s a joy to play and build everything up to the highest levels, the game looks stunning in 4k and it’s slow pace was just what I needed - but after these last two updates it’s just too frustrating to play.
I think I saw on the hotfix notes that the barn thing is not oldsave compatible. So you will need to start a new game. I’m not sure tho, so you should go to the patch notes topic.
I have the exact same problems on my save, and the game is unfortunately unplayable at this point
But it’s probably the most fun I ever had with a game, so I can’t wait for the next update!
The trouble with overpopulated barns and cows that cannot be slaughtered came out of nowhere about 30 years in. (started on the new patch) and around that time the building update stuff was getting out of control. There is a lot of strange stuff happening when you load a save. Two of my games were working perfectly until I loaded the save and all the barns were overpopulated and no way of slaughtering.
It is a shame that some aspects of the patch are not ‘oldsave compatible’ as mentioned… the barns issue is one of the most crucial and responsible for great frustration… I made it to 355 people then when this started it all went downhill and on that same save I still have only just over 200 left and have struggled ever since the barns became an issue, which I’ve commented on elsewhere… Since the update I’ve been reluctant to make a new settlement as I have giving up on anything I start. Also I painstakingly build literally miles and miles of fortified wall across wholly uneven terrain, a mammoth job, and dislike the prospect of losing it.
I’ve found post patch that barns ‘sort of work’ now on my save, in that now and then (I’d say 60%) they now DO follow the slaughter command, and it appears that finally cheesemakers are getting milk so make their produce. Oddly enough one works fine, the other has milk but whatever I do the 4 workers are always ‘unable to work’ so not sure what this is, maybe they have mental issues or laziness is programmed somewhere in the algorithm… for the moment I am persevering and hoping barns and cheese resolve as food crops are very hard indeed on this terrain and high difficulty… most are 0% fertile…
