How do i get food early game?

[Sililos]

So I have harvested the supply on the station, I have a cargo ship travelling to the trade partner, But I keep exhausting their supply and my workers all starve.
I'm not seeing research for farming and at my current stage of development, don't see food sources in the Solar system.

So, How do i produce enough food to keep my workers fed?

[shadowrowan]

You don't get anymore food then what the trade partner gives. Do you have a stockpile dedicated to food and a refrectory? Basically don't get all of the resources in that area of the station but focus on the objectives.

[Regent]

the trader should provide food endlessly through the demo... usually when you drop below 50 food in storage, they get resupplied to feed you more.

[Sililos]

Yeah, the trade ship is showing 0 food, my stockpile and refectory have 0 food and my workers are all but dead.

I have been following the tutorial/story, just reached the point of installing the engine when everyone started dropping dead from no food.

[Vládce]

There is a box with 300 food in front of the "entrance" (upper left corner). You need to build storage and road to that box. Than just click on the food icon as transportation command.

[Boothy]

I think there is a bug.

In my 1st play-through, I got infinite food from the supply station, via the cargo ship. It just kept adding 30 food as soon as my local food got low. So the cargo ship was just going back and forth for the rest of the game. I had 205 people at that point, one storage for food, and three refectories, and no one starved.

In my 2nd play through, I got the initial food from the supply station, but once I ran out locally, no new foods showed up, and people started to starve to death. Still managed to complete the game, by rushing the drive build and jump.

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by Boothy:

I think there is a bug.

In my 1st play-through, I got infinite food from the supply station, via the cargo ship. It just kept adding 30 food as soon as my local food got low. So the cargo ship was just going back and forth for the rest of the game. I had 205 people at that point, one storage for food, and three refectories, and no one starved.

In my 2nd play through, I got the initial food from the supply station, but once I ran out locally, no new foods showed up, and people started to starve to death. Still managed to complete the game, by rushing the drive build and jump.

I experienced the same thing. I've played through the demo three times now, and the first time all was fine with infinite food from the trade post. Second one I didn't really notice any issue, but on the third one I definitely noticed my guys were starving because of the trade post not coughing up.

[hotmailcompany52]

wtf the trade post only had 100 food for me and then didn't make any more and now my guys are starving. This is the second time this has happened too :/

[titico7777]

Build only one housing building, the food will last longer, Once you build the transport ship you can obtain more food.

[Boothy]

Yup, as far as I can see, once you get below a certain amount of food in storage, and after collecting the initial 100, another 30 should appear, and this should keep repeating.

My 1st play through, when it worked fine for me, I was following the tutorial instructions closely. Only building what I was asked to, only researching what I was asked to etc. nothing more.

2nd play through, when no new food appeared, I was just skipping all the dialogue, and doing what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it, and ended up with no extra food.

My guess is there is some trigger to initiate the extra food, and it's not happening, or not at the right time. e.g. Perhaps it's looking for a specific building being placed, but I've already placed it by the time it's looking?

I've seen similar in other games, like 'Build a granary to continue', and you already built one 5 mins earlier! So you demolish it, and built it again, and the game continues!