Locked in Colonist won't eat available food

Addendum: If fridge is deleted duplicant will eat food on ground.

Duplicants SOMEHOW fail to register food, ive got like 6 dups that do same and i have to manually drop food from ration boxes.

I confirm this bug. No need to set access or such a thing. Let's say you set your exosuit gate, so who couldn't get suit or sick, working inside-base, etc. gets this "unreachable food" state. Save and Load helps, but time to time it happens.

I usually just drop food by re-checking it, then dups register it.

I think its caused by food on the ground getting a much higher priority flag and the dupe trying to path to outside ground food before taking food from bin, hence the food nearby hits the ground, its priority goes up.  I'm probably using the wrong words but this is what it looks like.  They are trying to use any ground food before using container food hence why the above fixes work. Your switching it back to ground food, use first

Edited January 17, 2018 by Kabrute