Maybe you already got to the part where you can go deeper into the mine ? I will investigate further for you. Give me some time but check the mine entrance while I do that...
Ok, so I am about to play through to find where you possibly are in the game. But I think possibly you are before the basement quest? And need to go to the tavern? Also, you need to go to the tavern twice in the game. Hope that helps for now and I will continue to try and work this out for you.
I have six food parcels. Both the tavern girl and the foreman are asking me if I've fed everyone but I have already visited everyone in town twice. I can't get into the mine yet.
AHA! I … accidentally didn't get all the food parcels from the farmer? I thought I'd gotten enough, but apparently you need to empty the box even if you feed everyone and have extra left over for yourself.
Great, you should be able to enter the bassement then and give the tavern enough food parcels to be stored for the weeks ahead. From there the quests fall into place, good luck and let me know how you get on.