Food and water for villagers

[satioh]

Do villagers get happy with a variety of food and drinks or can you just focus on one thing as long as they get fed? Also does it matter what food they eat, or will they be just as happy eating raw cabbage as food cooked in the kitchen? If it does matter, how much and what part effects it? Maybee food value number? Normally I just make potash or flatbread, after the first year, (first year it's roasted meat), and they get water to drink.

[Ookapia]

They do not need any variability and only the food value is relevant. It becomes interesting when you want to supply the village with the work of one kitchen, because different foods are produced at different speeds and have different food values, so that, for example, a kitchen that only produces cakes has produced considerably less food value at the end of the day than a kitchen that cooks scrambled eggs with mushrooms.

[CaBux]

I feed my villages the beef and beet soup or potage and apple juice or berry wine exclusively. I do make other high value foods and beverages for sale by my food stallholder and, although my villagers cannot eat these items from the food storage, they still buy them from the market stall - best of both worlds

[Foxglovez]

2 cows, quark then cheese. One lvl10 cook for 70. Bunch of kids so realistically maybe 50. Amazingly boring but stress free. And they could just eat meat too but that seems silly. I kind of wish more complex actually had some sort of real benefit but it's a game.

[satioh]

Well I just restarted and in spring 2, So so far I'm the chef. and cows are WAY down the line. Goal for spring is to build the stockpile, (wich I deliberate postpone to not hit 10 buildings before tax season), kitchen, extraction, smithy and tailor. Possibly some will have to be postponed to summer. That is a lot of materials.

[Foxglovez]

Yeah, get a goat at some point. Same food much earlier but till then just feed them cabbage or whatever's convenient from your hunter if you have one, or a mix.

[schorsch_morsch]

One thing to add if you run out of water the villagers will eat soup.

[satioh]

Originally posted by schorsch_morsch:

One thing to add if you run out of water the villagers will eat soup.

I always have plenty of water for them, as soon as you got a workshop and a well, it's super easy to keep up the water. (might change when you have a big village). Also, I disabled most of the good food and just enable whatever I make that I want thme to eat :). Currently spring year 3, it's flatbread. First 1,5 years it was 100% meat diet, now they changed to a 100% carb diet. The gravy I use to pay for my 200% taxes.