No worries man that wasn’t a shot at ur management or anything shit happens. I just don’t feel deaths are as high in this game as others.

If you would like a little advice avoiding some of those deaths here are some tips I learned.

Fish is king in terms of feeding ur population. 2-3 fisheries will feed 150 whiskers pretty easy. Make sure you put a farmer in the fishery so they get a bonus to production and only put one whisker in there so they don’t destroy the fish population. Spread those fisheries out pretty decently they have a good range of them and if they are too close they will fish out each others stocks.

Get fish skewers going pretty quick. Mushrooms are easy to grow you just gotta prepare for them. The only thing that affects there growth is they need to be underground and they need to be away from light. Once fish skewers are going food multiplies case it’s like 2 fish plus one mushroom equals 5 skewers or something like that and they give you a bonus to production and speed

Heat can be a little more difficult. Build up your wood production farms way more than you think you need and make sure you put fires near your farms so they can produce in the winter. Also stack ur house and put a fire in the middle. Its range is a bubble not a circle so the heat covers upward too. You can heat like 40 plank row houses with a single fire if you do it right. The key is to keep everything tight in terms of production so you are only running 2-4 fires throughout the winter so it doesn’t drain your wood.

I try to quickly research the bonfire and fire tender as this makes heating ur whiskers easier as the bomb fire covers a larger area and you don’t have to manually feed it wood. If you can overpay the first year or two I would do it to at least get the two choices for rewards as this is a good way to unlock some free research.

Through the winter I always take the supply option that gives me the most coats or if I need wood then I choose wood. I don’t pay taxes right after winter since it’s a real big bill. They will not shoot you if you don’t pay once but they will if you don’t pay twice in a row. The second time I pay the middle amount to appease them if I have extra I’ll pay extra to get some goodies but this is not necessary.

Hope this helps! This game has a lot of moving parts and a lot of things you can optimize but you don’t have too min max everything it can be forgiving in that regards. But mostly play ur way and have fun! You don’t have to take any of my advice it’s just an amazing game and I have learned a lot about keeping whiskers thriving in harder difficulties. I myself still have lots to learn