Platform: Steam
Issue Type: Gameplay
Game Mode: Online Official
Server Type: PvP
Map: Exiled Lands
Server Name: =SERVER NAME=
Mods: =MODS=
— ## Bug Description:
Thrall Pot does not work
— ## Bug Reproduction:
Place thrall pot. Put food in it. Damage a thrall with zero food in their inventory. Note that the thrall does not take food from the thrall pot, the thrall pot inventory remains the same and the thrall does not heal from food as they didn’t take any.
This was reported back in June 2023.
https://forums.funcom.com/t/thrall-pot-not-working/232642/10
Someone else can verify, but I have found I have just had to place a large stack of food in the thrall inventory. Not ideal, though it does allow me to place specialist food with certain properties to benefit the thrall.
Same applies to the Pet food I think.
What kind of food are you putting in the pot? Have you tried other foods?
This was a long awaited bug to be fixed and was supposed to happen as of October 17, 2024 with the release of AoH.
I can add a new wrinkle to this. Firstly my thralls actually do take food from thralls pot. Gruel fwiw.
My issue started when I then tried to level a couple of thralls that had been taking gruel from the pot. I wanted to level them with grilled steak but they kept pulling gruel from the pot from half the map away. I ended up having to put stacks of grilled steak in their inventories instead of just feeding them a piece when they leveled.
The plot congeals, as they say.
That fix didn’t happen.
If my thinking is wrong, I’m sure someone will enlighten me.
Locically ‘Thralls’ should only take food from the Thrall Pot that is intended for them. Is the Thrall Pot only for human thralls, or for all followers. At this point in time I can put raw meat in the pot for my dogs, but human thralls take the raw meat.
I stopped using Thrall Pots yonks ago. This is just one of the ‘work arounds’ I referred to in one of my other posts.
Use the feeding box for pets.
Thralls take whatever food you put in the thrall pot, cooked or raw.
Was that the way the thrall pots were set up when they were first introduced. I can’t remember that far back. As soon as the Thrall Pots became bugged I stopped using them (was that at the Age of Sorcery).
I tried the pots again after the intro of AoH. Thralls were still not taking food. The food just sat in the pot spoiling. This was on SP as well as my unmodded vanilla test server.
Since the thrall pots are only cosmetic as such I don’t use them. I’ve never lost thralls through not having a thrall pot set up.
They are handy for bulk storage of meat that you want to spoil for the compost heap though so they aren’t a total waste of time.
I know that. But weren’t they fixed?
I’ve had my followers take food from other peoples thrall pots on the way by 
I remember barkeepers had no problems taking all the food they could from thrall pots.
It appears the Jury is still out. No one has definitively said “yes it was fixed”.
All I’m seeing is that “it should have been fixed”.
Can anyone confirm either way.
Because so much has changed in the game over time, can any one remember what the initial use of the thrall pot actually was. Was it it set up tor thralls to take food that was only good for them, or anything that was in there, ie food that could poison them as well.
Just curious.
To my best knowledge fighter and archers supposedly only eat when injured.
It’s another system that needs an overhaul but I’m terrified funcom might try.
Greetings Exiles,
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Please, give us these additional details so we can share it with our development team:
What thrall types is this happening with, is it a fighter/archer type or a crafting type? If a crafter type, some example specializations would be useful (blacksmith, alchemist, etc)
What food is in the thrall pot?
Is this happening on official servers, private servers, and/or single player/co-op?
Are the thralls being attacked/damaged from purges, camps nearby (thrall or animal types) that are aggroing the thralls?
Thank you in advance!
Update the beta servers where players ought to be testing this stuff.
Thrall pots didn’t work at all prior to Beta and live release October 17, 2024.
I tested it on Beta and on Live myself. They seemed to have “fixed” it in that it can be used. But they clearly didn’t fix the intended functionality. Hell, even the thrall list doesn’t show anymore.
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