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The other option is if you have a Graveyard, you can store the body after they die, then reanimate them as a zombie using the Altar.  This tends to be a bit expensive in the beginning, but it's a good alternative to just having them die & not being able to use them as servants when a capture fails.

Of course you have a couple other options you can do with corpses if you are running low on resources.  You can scrap them for meat, as well as sell the corpses on if you have the Trade Market placed in your dungeon.

Some of the items in the game do have a codex of sort where you can find out what is necessary to craft them, but you need to enter the codex area of the game & search for the item.  Additionally, you have to have actually owned the item before it will allow you to look up that item, so it's still necessary to own the item before you'll know what you need to craft it.

Or the simple way to get them to the Worship status is to simply screw them until they get to that point, prisoners can't resist (servants can & typically won't agree to it before at least being at the Love level unless they have the Perverted trait).  This does take a while to do from lower relationship levels however, so you could always find something else to do while the game does it's thing & eventually maxes out the relationship level.

EDIT:  Alternatively, you could just wait if you aren't hurting for more servants or running out of prison space, their level will increase over time just by staying in prison waiting to be released (normally I'll strip them of all their equipment while imprisoned, not sure if that has any affect or not however).

The game takes a while to load.  It takes my PC around a minute to fully load this game, so I'll typically start it up, then run in the other room to get a drink or use the bathroom while it's loading, it's usually up by the time I come back.  If the game is in fact crashing, try clearing your saves or do a fresh copy from the download folder (it could be you're trying to load save date from an older version of the game).

I haven't personally messed with chairs yet, but I have used the Banquet table before & I've noticed that it has limited range & only affects those within it's range when the progress bar resets (this seems to be the point the effect of it activates & applies the "well-fed" buff to those around it).  Are the chairs close enough to the props you are attempting to acquire the affect from?

I can see where your concern on this would be, given you might be using those chairs to keep them in place while waiting for the effect to trigger (given they won't typically go right to it; I've only seen rare cases where it seems a character would go right to it when it's ready to trigger).  I personally have been having to pick them up & take them over to the table & hold them there until it went off to make certain they would get the buff (either by leaving a dialog window open with them or by doing the dirty with them at the table as a prop action), then repeat as necessary with other characters when needed (what I do find as odd however is the application of "well-fed" through the Banquet table doesn't negate the Hungry debuff if that character has it).

I'm noticing that when playing the Ancient Warrior scenario, traps don't appear to have any affect on raiders.  I'm guessing this must be a bug, just getting it out there so it can be fixed.

Last version I played was v0.5.20a, since updating to v0.5.25, I started a new game & immediately ran into this problem when you go to the Unlock Abilties screen for the master.  the Default Title field is on top of the Unlock Abilities screen, so that field is covering up the description & requirements to unlock a skill.  I deleted the settings.ini file located in %AppData%\Strive hoping that would fix the problem, same problem, all it did was make the text a little larger afterwards.  I created a screenshot for upload, but uploading don't appear to be working, so I uploaded it to Google Drive instead at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v7M6WpkLCQMCq1X6f5VPAkkstQvsmnYh