Best/ effective FOOD building

[Morte]

What is the best food building? Insect farm (ферма насекмоых), crop farm (пшеничная ферма), Algae farm (грибная ферма)? Taking into account the maximum study of technology.

[manfred.stabentheiner]

the best food building is the building you understand and you can use and not what other say
for me the best is mushroom but i love to play with 6 sectros and over 5000 population

[Phat Pidjin]

With all upgrades, 1 Insect farm feeds 120 pops per feeding cycle (bit more tbh, but ease of calculation).

That means you can get all 5200-odd pops fed from about 44 Insect farms, for a cost of 352 workers and 220 power. Note, this is without adding in the bonus from specialisation. FAR more resource intensive than the 2-3 fully upgraded Algae farms you can get away with later on, but they also require no other inputs. Algae farms are perfect for when you produce enough waste.

[RED-Life]

Originally posted by Phat Pidjin:

With all upgrades, 1 Insect farm feeds 120 pops per feeding cycle (bit more tbh, but ease of calculation).

That means you can get all 5200-odd pops fed from about 44 Insect farms, for a cost of 352 workers and 220 power. Note, this is without adding in the bonus from specialisation. FAR more resource intensive than the 2-3 fully upgraded Algae farms you can get away with later on, but they also require no other inputs. Algae farms are perfect for when you produce enough waste.

Algae Farms don't require waste to function, that's Mushroom Walls.

[Sviothiod]

Originally posted by RED-Life:

Originally posted by Phat Pidjin:

With all upgrades, 1 Insect farm feeds 120 pops per feeding cycle (bit more tbh, but ease of calculation).

That means you can get all 5200-odd pops fed from about 44 Insect farms, for a cost of 352 workers and 220 power. Note, this is without adding in the bonus from specialisation. FAR more resource intensive than the 2-3 fully upgraded Algae farms you can get away with later on, but they also require no other inputs. Algae farms are perfect for when you produce enough waste.

Algae Farms don't require waste to function, that's Mushroom Walls.

That's true but you can use waste to run the water reclamation plant.

[RED-Life]

Originally posted by Sviothiod:

Originally posted by RED-Life:

Algae Farms don't require waste to function, that's Mushroom Walls.

That's true but you can use waste to run the water reclamation plant.

Ah that's what you meant, I used this strategy myself, the water reclamation plant seems more useful as a waste sink whenever you need to demolish buildings and your resources are full. Though I suppose you could run it full time with 5000 people generating resources for it

[Cougarific]

Unless you're min/maxing I'd say you really want a variety of food sources for a number of reasons...like the Stability bonus from diverse foods and not having all your eggs in one basket (so an accident at your big Crop Farm doesn't cripple food distribution).

I like to have at least two Insect Farms in *every sector* so the sector can be somewhat self-sufficient for a few cycles if something goes horribly wrong in my food production sector. Throw up a Mushroom wall in a sector or two and everybody stays happy and fed.

[Batailleuse]

literally fed 5000 people with only 2 (x6) farm, 4 bug farm and 2 mushroom walls.

just put most non worker/colonists in 1-2 sectors, set to lower food consumption. done. you just cut your total needed food by 25% if not more.

the Mess hall upgrade are literally your biggest upgrade to 1 food per people fed ratio, so focus on that.

1 food is 10 people, with the upgrade mess hall its 1 food 20 people. and you get a +25% (-25% used) on top if you set to low usage.

basically you need 1 food for 25 people.

1 farm is doing some 40-50 food, so that's enough for 1250 people, and faster with techs.

[huangism]

with 5k+ pop, all upgrades are done, it looks like there isn't enough waste generated to run Water treatment center + 1 recycler for alloy. This is with 2.5 full crop farms.

[RED-Life]

Originally posted by huangism:

with 5k+ pop, all upgrades are done, it looks like there isn't enough waste generated to run Water treatment center + 1 recycler for alloy. This is with 2.5 full crop farms.

That's true if you leave it on, but if you turn it on and off, then you can manage it, here is what I did:

I turn off my food production buildings (3 algae farms) and water treatment until food is around 200 (I had a big stockpile, and a medium one for it). whenever I do this my sectors get clog up with waste, so I just activate the water treatment center until I refill my food stockpiles, then turn them off again.

If you do it in this manner you can sustain yourself with the water treatment center, just make sure there is a stockpile near to it with waste so it can restock before the cycle is over. And have the sector maintain at least 50 waste.

If you're looking for an example of my food sector, here[i.imgur.com]

[huangism]

Originally posted by RED-Life:

Originally posted by huangism:

with 5k+ pop, all upgrades are done, it looks like there isn't enough waste generated to run Water treatment center + 1 recycler for alloy. This is with 2.5 full crop farms.

That's true if you leave it on, but if you turn it on and off, then you can manage it, here is what I did:

I turn off my food production buildings (3 algae farms) and water treatment until food is around 200 (I had a big stockpile, and a medium one for it). whenever I do this my sectors get clog up with waste, so I just activate the water treatment center until I refill my food stockpiles, then turn them off again.

If you do it in this manner you can sustain yourself with the water treatment center, just make sure there is a stockpile near to it with waste so it can restock before the cycle is over. And have the sector maintain at least 50 waste.

If you're looking for an example of my food sector, here[i.imgur.com]

I am trying to avoid micro-managing it, I want it to run by itself, it should be self efficient

[resonance]

if you want to use the water plant full time, you will probably have to give up on the waste recyclers. It is fine anyway since there are more than enough resources on each map to keep supplied for a VERY long time, even more so once you finish building what you want and your only use of alloy is for repairs. Besides, having the factories running also increases your trash output for the water plant.

[Arbiter]

I finished the game with 4 crop farms (x9). You get enough water from ice. There was no reason to get the Algea farms.
IMHO the tech tree is not really thought-out, as you don't need half of the tech.

[RED-Life]

Originally posted by huangism:

Originally posted by RED-Life:

That's true if you leave it on, but if you turn it on and off, then you can manage it, here is what I did:

I turn off my food production buildings (3 algae farms) and water treatment until food is around 200 (I had a big stockpile, and a medium one for it). whenever I do this my sectors get clog up with waste, so I just activate the water treatment center until I refill my food stockpiles, then turn them off again.

If you do it in this manner you can sustain yourself with the water treatment center, just make sure there is a stockpile near to it with waste so it can restock before the cycle is over. And have the sector maintain at least 50 waste.

If you're looking for an example of my food sector, here[i.imgur.com]

I am trying to avoid micro-managing it, I want it to run by itself, it should be self efficient

Unfortunately, water treatment plant is too expensive to leave on, if you want to avoid turning it on and off when your stocks get filled, you're better off defrosting ice.

[huangism]

Algea farms produce the most amount of food but does not produce as much waste. You could also ran food with only insect farms. Everything works, play whatever style you want

[huangism]

Originally posted by RED-Life:

Originally posted by huangism:

I am trying to avoid micro-managing it, I want it to run by itself, it should be self efficient

Unfortunately, water treatment plant is too expensive to leave on, if you want to avoid turning it on and off when your stocks get filled, you're better off defrosting ice.

I hear there is a bug for cell housing which is preventing us from running water treatment center full time + recyclers. I have another thread on this topic and there is a post of screenshots with insane amount of waste with a lot less population from what I tested with so far