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What if the food storage problem was one of the puzzles in VV3?
there could be a limit as to how much the initial storage could hold, thus also limiting village growth, or it could be that the food spoils relatively quickly if it isn't somehow washed/prepared and put in a different storage device...that would also allow villagers to gain skill points (maybe in parenting) and add a level of difficulty to the game
at the start the villagers could only have a woven basket they brought with them, and that could hold a max of 300 food (or some other low number) and once the settlement is established they could have to build a better storage device from wood or stone, maybe some sort of stone cooking pit, if there is someone assigned to cook then there would be a lower incidence of illness...
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