Caravan Travel Time/Days of Food Estimate Severely Off

[Juan el Demgrafo]

So I started out with more than enough food for the thirteen day round trip, but now I have barely enough food to get to my first stop without starving. There was a single manhunting lab that didn't even touch before it was mowed down, but nothing else was there to delay my colonists. I'm in winter, so my meals I packed shouldn't have rotted during the trip. What's the deal?

[Vlad0mi3r]

How many pack animals did you have and could they graze? Did you deviate from your original path at all?

A pregnant pack animal will slow you down as well as seasonal change.

I went from a tile every hour to 4.3 hours a tile on a major road and started burning through the food real fast. Tried to settle to get things sorted out and my food reserves back up. Unfortunately I was carrying lots of devilstrand for trade purposes and my "new" settlement therefore had a ridiculously high value. Think it took about 3 days for it to get wiped out by continuous raids and mental brakes.

[Juan el Demgrafo]

Three muffalo at 3.6 c/s and four people at ~4.4 c/s. It does seem that one of the muffalo went into late stage part way through the journey and is down to 2.52 c/s. I'm not sure how tile movement speed is calculated so I don't know if that's enough to explain it, but it is highly suggestive with the progress of the pregnancy and the larger the discrepancy between day of food and travel time. This is one thing I'll have to remember in the future.

[Shurp]

Yes, pregnancy affects animal transit times.  Best to leave the ladies at home breeding more haulers.

[Mday]

Caravan travel slower in winter.

[Snafu_RW]

Caravan travel slower in winter.

..and grazing animals won't, in winter. If you take carnivores they won't hunt in any season either, so you're reliant upon carrying enough meat to feed them