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Yeah, this isn't just with meat, but it happens mostly with meat. I think that the issue is that it never really was there in the first place. I have seen meat disappear and I have also seen meat not disappearing when my minion picks it up.

Once again, the stay tool comes to the rescue.

It said "3 years ago" when I wrote this and I don't know if the stay tool was there when you wrote that but now it is and you can use it to get rid of him.

Definitely autosave, otherwise you could save when your tribe was at it's strongest, and then charge into battle just to come out un-wounded. 

Would the population thing be sorta like villagers in Minecraft? 

(pls post other ideas outside the question)

Wolves were a great idea! They would perhaps be like barbarians, just not on the same team as barbarians and a hole different attack style.

Yeah, when you hover over the grass, it says that it is food for animals, but birds do not eat them and they and rabbits are the only animals.

Yeah, there should be a building that would let you change one minion to another.