Food

[AuddieD]

I have 4 apple trees, 20 tomato plants and 20 potato plants with 3 villagers. They are picked as soon as they get ripe. It's almost winter and I have 10 apples stored. They are eating it faster than it grows and there are only three of them.

[Akatosh]

Hello

Do not hesitate to craft several food storage.
Do not count on apple, unless for late game recipes.
Make sure at least one of your villager is programed to be a 3 stars farmer to be sure he will prioritise the farm work.
Check you didn't set your villager to eat extra rations (the % under their portrait).
use 1 of your villager as scholar to study the crystal and unlock different technolgy, with the woodcraft tech you can craft a watering can that will increase how many food you'll get from each plant.

I started the game with a 6x7 tomato square then later I added a 6x7 potate square and my 6 villagers never run out of food. And I use lot of vegetables to craft cooked meals.

[roo]

Agree with Akatosh :)

I think you should consider at least a 6x6 field of tomatoes and a 6x6 of potatoes.
You can never really have too much food - if you do, you can give them extra rations or use it for bribing the goblins.

In the first year, I like to have 30xfood for each Foundy in the village to get through winter and into Spring until your first harvest. You can get by with less, but its nice to have a small buffer :)

[AuddieD]

I will try the larger fields. It didn't take the farmer very much time to tend 4x5 fields as they had plenty of time to rotate between wood and stone harvesting along with farming.

Thanks!

[richard.e.jenkins]

I'm new to the game as well, but I'm not having problems feeding 4 villagers with a 5x5 tomato plot and a 5x5 potato plot. Are you 'cooking' your meals or letting the 'toons eat raw food? I think the food goes farther if you cook it. I've planted some apple trees but in 2 years they haven't begun producing apples yet. Maybe you know if that's a problem? The tree 'tiles' are in a 3x3 pattern with a space between each 'soil for apples', a total orchard size of 5x5.

*I do have the waterbucket technology. It probably doubles farming productivity.

[Akatosh]

Appel trees take a very long time to grow up and start producing. And you don't get much apples anyway. Later in the game you'll unlock advanced cooking and you'll be able to cook a dessert from apples and strawberries; until then apples are not very usefull.

1 cooked meal requires 2 raw vegetables, but give more satiety and happyness.

The waterbucket doesn't double production, but allow you to reach the maximum production; clic on any plantation tile and you'll see something like "will produce 1-4 tomato".