Moonbrooke Running Out of Food

[Öp Pôíñt Båkèr]

I keep running out of food for the villagers in Moonbrooke. I've got the 7 potato sprouts and the 5 wheat seeds, but that isn't nearly enough. When Headhunters were in the attacking waves it was easy to keep up on food stores, but that was a while back and I'm out again.

Is there nothing that can be done to expand the farm / get more seeds/sprouts?
Or is grinding monsters / spending ages fishing the only option to keep everyone fed until I'm done with the chapter and can bring resources from IoA?

'Coz that seems exceedingly stupid.

[archmag]

Why do you need to keep them fed? You only need to feed them to get hearts and it is impossible to keep feeding all the time as seeds run out after several harvests, you are not always there and some other reasons. Just give them other good things which they will be thankful for to collect their hearts, it will be enough. I only used potatoes to feed myself at that island. No one died (well, at least because of the lack of food), no one complained, still got enough hearts to max the bell by the end of the story.

Make them a toilet (just fix it, as it is already there), pool (it's freezing outside but they will still swim in it and give you hearts for that), some bedrooms, rooms that are required by side missions.

[Chance Sarsis]

they don't die from lack of food or lack of anything.
It only affect the number of hearts you get.

Make them other rooms you learned from the first island, and they will happily use those.
like, having 2 or 3 toilets when you start having too many of them instead of one, so they all can go rather than having long queue where not everyone get their turn in one go.

I only kept the food for me during that scenario xD

[archmag]

There was a recipe for a room with a mushroom and a fireplace on the 2nd island in one of the minor missions. You can bring large mushroom leg and a head from 2nd island and build such room if you really want to feed them. But there is only one villager who can work in that room so maybe he won't have time for it.

Well, and I don't know if you can leave that island before finishing the story (I didn't try).

[Chance Sarsis]

only furrowfield does not let you leave, the second and third you can come and go as you please.

[lilisaur]

But you can't take items to those islands until you've cleared them - Brownbeard forces you to Sack items between trips. There's only two or three Frogstools near where you met Warwick, Anessa, Gerome, and the King - that's not enough to make a Mushroom Cookroom. I don't recall ever seeing more elsewhere on the island (perhaps the swamp has a few to get it done)

I think you're better off going out to grind a few monsters. Dracolytes near Moonahan drop Potatoes, but there's too many Silvapithicuses around to make it worthwhile. Better options are Spiked Hares and Headheaders - both drop Meat often and can be found in the same spot southeast of the castle, around the area where you can see the moored Children of Hargon ship. Another option that's much easier if you don't have really good weapons yet are the Crabids and Crabber Dabber Doos in the shallow river northeast of Moonahan - you've seen these guys on Furrowfield so they're now easy pickings for Crab Claws. Spend 20-30 minutes grinding any of these guys and you'll probably have enough food for a while to refocus on the story tasks.

[archmag]

Originally posted by lilisaur:

But you can't take items to those islands until you've cleared them - Brownbeard forces you to Sack items between trips.

Right. Forgot about that.

There's only two or three Frogstools near where you met Warwick, Anessa, Gerome, and the King - that's not enough to make a Mushroom Cookroom.

You need only one shroom for the room, but I am not sure if Frogstools will work, aren't they poisonous? Maybe it does not matter, but you also need a cooking pan for that room which you can't craft on this island, so yeah, this room will be impossible to build before completing the story, sorry.

[Öp Pôíñt Båkèr]

Yeah, after trying all sorts of things, farming mobs seems to be the only way to keep people fed... Boo.

[Ogdibus]

I think they only want food if you have dining tables or buffets.

[lilisaur]

Originally posted by archmag:

There's only two or three Frogstools near where you met Warwick, Anessa, Gerome, and the King - that's not enough to make a Mushroom Cookroom.

You need only one shroom for the room, but I am not sure if Frogstools will work, aren't they poisonous? Maybe it does not matter, but you also need a cooking pan for that room which you can't craft on this island, so yeah, this room will be impossible to build before completing the story, sorry.

You're right; it only takes one for the Mushroom Cookroom, and you can use two Bonfires so this room could be made at Moonbrooke, assuming you don't destroy those precious few Frogstools and carefully Glove them and return them to the castle. I must have had Marsh-Room on the mind which takes six fungi.

Frogstool should work. I'm not sure I've tried that one, but I've used Marshroom, Glumgus and parts of Massive Mushrooms (both caps and stems) before. If everything but Frogstool works, then so should it.

The room can upgrade to Toadstool Tearoom once you get the Brick Barbecue, too. (Assuming you've already put the Dining Table set in there.)

Still, I think hunting some Drackolytes or monsters for Meat will fill up your pantry faster than the slow automatic gifts of Shroomsticks in the Mushroom Cookroom or Toadstool Tearoom. Free food helps I guess, but its not enough to feed the whole castle.

[Mieumieu]

Feeding them on this level is a crazy waste of your food though. This is a world level where food is more limited and you should be keeping it for yourself. There is no need to feed them. As others mentioned it only gives you extra hearts, which you will have plenty enough to level up your base and be maxed out without ever feeding them a single thing here. They all will just hog down your food that you really should use for yourself for this level.

Though there is a time when a farmer comes for a while and if he has a chest near enough to the potato patch he'll fill it with a lot of potatoes for you as you're out adventuring. And then if you set up a kitchen with numerous cooking stations and maybe kegs, the hogs will come along and eat some of the food the cook is preparing while there is still enough left there for you to pick up and use.