A little help with eating...my colonists dont seem to be doing it.

[Nerhesi]

Nutrient paste dispenser, check.
Adjacent Hoppers, check.
Powered? Check.

By day 4 or so everyone is having a mental break down and leaving and their food meter is empty? check. What gives?

[Semmy]

growing food is needed aswell d-;

And make sure that the food that you got around is not forbidden.
Also the priority of the hoppers should be higher as the stockpiles.

And by any chance is your hopper in a prison area?

[Nerhesi]

Didn't know I needed food too, my bad I could have sworn in previous versions is was just nutrient paste dispenser and power and good to go

[Semmy]

Yes but than the food was in your invisible inventory (top left numbers)
Now they are in a stockpile. And that stockpile count is shown in your top left.

[harpo99999]

in a couple of my latest games in the alpha, I have had ALL of the colonists going into the prison and eating in the  paste from the prison paste dispensor (admittedly no prisoners at the time) with TWO paste dispensors with 11 full hoppers at critical priority while the prison only has one hopper at critical and the others at the default priority, (the prison was dark no lightsources, but the other two dispensors were illuminiated) even when the prison was the furthest dispensor from where they were working.