Oh, also, are the settlers in question stuck? Keep in mind, without ladders, entities can only climb up 1 block. So, it could be possible they are stuck in an area they can't reach their food from.
They should attack you more based on how much Ren you've got and how many settlers. As those go up, bandits will target you more. You can also increase the threat rating difficulty from the settings menu.
I have some more fixes for this coming in with the next patch. Are you playing the beta? It has some fixes in there currently. I'd love to look at the save too. If you're interested, you can follow these instructions: ...Read more
I believe I have found the cause of this issue. I'll be putting out a patch today to see if it resolves the problem for you folks. Stay tuned for that. Thanks!
Thank you for testing that out and for the feedback. :)
I think there are still a couple smaller things making folks idle for longer than they should, but I'll continue to tune these. So, do let me know if you encounter anything else.
I've uploaded 0.11.0.16 to the beta branch. It has some improvements for entities not being given jobs. I still need to improve idling settlers on the highest game speed, but that's not quite related to this issue you two found. So, check it out and let me know if things improve.
Thank you for the feedback. I totally understand that frustration. I'm going to do my best to track down the issue and fix it. Hope to improve this soon.
So, I looked into this and it seems to be working fine. Did you change the setting for the correct race? There are some race tabs at the top of the screen. Maybe you changed them for another race accidentally?
That's correct. There are a few things which do this because I don't want players to experience a bunch of lag for increasing the speed. It's a bit of a trade-off.
There are two ways; Open the designations window from the top left of the HUD or with the [ key (this shows you all your jobs/rooms). You can select a previous room in that list and start adding more room points to it.
Or
With the rooms toolbar menu open, hold left-ctrl and right-click a previously designated room. It will select the room and let you add points to it.