That's bread from the initial supplies that washed ashore. You start out with some of each food group. You'll notice that eventually the bread runs out for good if you don't get a bakery up and running (I've never managed that myself...).

Oy. I thought I was doing well, but the goblins surrounded me to the point that I couldn't really divide up my people effectively between peasants and soldiers. I think at the end I had three soldiers and three knights, and five peasants... and three farmers.
It looked ok, but constant looks at my stores told me it was only a matter of time before we ran out of food, and if that didn't happen, the goblins had us completely surrounded. They only destroyed one house, but there was no chance I could spare people to build new houses. ... You know, I meant for that tactic to come into play in Sengoku Jidai, but it hasn't really happened...
(Surrounding people and just letting them use up their supplies, I mean)

Although, my first knight was named Athena... my third knight was her daughter, who I had be a builder until the guard tower was completed... and she wound up being the person who seemed to be putting the most effort into the construction of the tower. Methinks someone was eager to join her mother.

Good morning everyone.  Another day of bug hunting lies ahead of me.  Rather than just skipping around, I plan to completely remove the new AI code, and put it back in again!  Things worked fine before I added it, so clearly the problem is somewhere in there.  Hopefully I won't make the same, hard to find mistake on my second attempt to code the new AI behaviors.

I'm also really hoping I can finish up some of the new content I've had planned.

Well, after tearing all of the new AI code out, things went back to working perfectly, as far as I could tell.  Instead of just putting the new AI code back in, I got to work changing the original AI so that it would have a nicer bond with the new features I was going to put back in.  I'm pleased to say, that after I finished, I played a game where I got all of the way up to having a doctor, and not a single error or bug with the people!  Yay!  We won't know for sure, of course, until I have my swarm of testers putting it to the test through.  Hehe, that's all of you guys.

I've added in a quick reference announcement, for when you highlight over buildings.  A tavern will say "Tavern. 5, 2, 0, 2" to give you a super quick idea of what is stored within it.  In this case, 5 meat, 2 bread, no vegetables, and 2 wine barrels.  Buildings under construction now also tell you what the destination amount is.  When building construction site are fully stocked, a message will let you know that it is time for the builders to take over.  And finally, when the game begins, all of your people start out as builders instead of peasants!  For the millionth time, I started the game out by switching everyone over to be builders, and it occurred to me I should just change that!  Now that the new AI is working, those builders will start out acting as peasants, so there won't be any job switching required, until you want to start specifically dedicating some people to be peasants (which is a good idea at some point).

Please grab version 0.6b and let me know if the bugs are finally squashed.  I'm already back to work on the new features, so hopefully I hear good news from everyone about this new version. 

As a side note.  Blacksmiths require 2 metal bars to make a suit of armor, so that might explain why some people saw their black smiths sitting around even when there was metal waiting in the forge.

Hi Aprone,
I can confirm this error, along with similar ones when I simply try and exit the game.  Type mismatch, apparently.
Best,
Zack.

yeah a audio guide is good.

hi,
I think aprone edvance the read me. add some more information, how to collect (create) brikes, lumber etc, and other stuff...

wow, a walkthrough is very good.

Dark is completely right, as usual, haha.  There really is no reason to hold back questions you have.  You might feel like everyone else understands something, but there's a good chance someone else is wondering the exact same thing as you, and they just aren't asking it either.  Also, some of the people here are understanding things so well, because they've been asking me questions on the side.  This is a rather complicated game, and it would be crazy for me to expect people to just figure it all out on their own.  Please let me know where you're stuck, or just say "I don't even know where to start", and we will help.

Hi all,
ok, i'm at the point where i need to build a ship, but, i have no cloth, i built a textile, and asigned two taylors. they dont  seem to be doing anything at all though, just standing around,
any help would be apreciated, as i have the goblind under controll, having given birth  to 4 children, i have 5 soldiers, who are killing away.
all i need is cloth

Hi Aprone.

As zack says this is awsome, production is nice and even, and the secondary ai seems to work very well most of the time.

I have however found a very miner bug and have sent you a save file with it.

Namely, the secondary ai on builders was great for all structures until I got to a barracks, and they're just standing around looking gaumless rather than going and grabbing resources as they did with everything else, ---- maybe it's the metal?

I also wonder about the doctor, sinse I've just realized when there's no curing to be done and no cloth to transport he's just standing around too. I'd assume he'd be a peasant, though I could be wrong.

I also wonder how far down the chain things will go in terms of wine making. Will a bar tender go and make barrels if there are none, and will a barrel maker go and be a farmer if there is no wine to put in the barrels? I may just have to experiment with this and see what happens.

These are probably famous lst words, but the goblins seem a litle more peaceful now too.

Keyisfull, it is true that bread is difficult to produce in the game.  Pretty much, you have 2 foods that are easy, and 2 that are hard.  Meat and Vegetables can be gained without the need for a chain, so they are most likely the first foods you will concentrate on.  I'm not sure if you've noticed, but a baker will actually produce 3 loaves of bread at a time, so once it actually is running, it is probably producing food faster than you realized.

Dark, I replied to your email.  As it turns out, the construction message for the barracks and ship had a typo in it, so it wasn't correctly telling you what supplies were still needed.  Your barracks site still needed 2 more metal, which you didn't have, so that's why no one was doing anything on it.  I've corrected the typo, and it will be in the next update.  As long as someone has the proper materials, they would probably never have even noticed the typo though, since the people still actually do the jobs they are supposed to do.

The doctor will only revert back to the stage prior to his own, on a normal chain of supply.  This means he will step in to fill the role of a tailor, but that is as far as he'll go.  Giving people the freedom to revert back to any number of jobs, would likely cause more problems, and would take even more decision making away from the actual player.

Ah yes, I forgot to mention that for the easy difficulty, I've made the Goblins 25% less aggressive with their expansion across the land.

I do plan to separate the injured people into their own category soon.  It is a good idea, and I would have done it sooner if I'd had the time.  Does anyone else ever feel like they're being buried alive?  haha, kidding.

Robla, if you have a butcher, you will begin storing up animal furs from the animals hunters kill.  If you don't have a butcher, the furs are simply discarded by the hunters.  Those furs are turned into yarn by peasants, at the textile, and then a tailor weaves that yarn into cloth.