Mushrooms cannot be used for packs of provisions?

[itsthemarcel]

Is there a reason for this? It says they are a common food source just like everything else...

It is the same with the roots and vegetables. I can see not wanting to double them up with the packs of crops, but they are (I am assuming) something that everyone can eat...

[Olleus]

While the game generally has pretty consistent rules about which ingredients can be switched for which ones for most recipes, the food related ones are somewhat weird and inconsistent. See: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1336490/discussions/0/3547176090241941157/

I don't think there's much to be gained by trying to rationalise this in terms of "realism". It's probably done for balance reasons that are kind of mysterious when viewed as a player.

[itsthemarcel]

I should have been clear, mostly this post is a complaint.

I was really annoyed in the last map I played. I played a map where I took farm blueprints and a ton of farming perks right at the start and didn't find ANY fertile land the entire game, I was able to get mushrooms from Mushtrees which kept the villagers from starving but didn't have enough food for a lot of the game to make packs of provisions to trade. I had to wait till traders arrived then trade things to the traders to get the food for provision packs for settlement trading.

[Chiaroscuro]

Originally posted by itsthemarcel:

I should have been clear, mostly this post is a complaint.

I was really annoyed in the last map I played. I played a map where I took farm blueprints and a ton of farming perks right at the start and didn't find ANY fertile land the entire game, I was able to get mushrooms from Mushtrees which kept the villagers from starving but didn't have enough food for a lot of the game to make packs of provisions to trade.

IRC, the Mushroom biome benefits from camps more than farming. There's a biome-specific perk there that gives 10% to the speed of camp employees per however many (2?) villagers are assigned to camps.

Tl;dr, don't farm in Mushroom forest!

[itsthemarcel]

There is the special ability to turn resource nodes into farmland and I thought it would be fine, but the moment you stop pausing the game every 30 seconds to micromanage everything they harvest the nodes outside of drizzle season and you get nothing.

[Starseed]

Originally posted by itsthemarcel:

There is the special ability to turn resource nodes into farmland and I thought it would be fine, but the moment you stop pausing the game every 30 seconds to micromanage everything they harvest the nodes outside of drizzle season and you get nothing.

Say what? How do you "turn resource nodes into farmland"???

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by Starseed:

Originally posted by itsthemarcel:

There is the special ability to turn resource nodes into farmland and I thought it would be fine, but the moment you stop pausing the game every 30 seconds to micromanage everything they harvest the nodes outside of drizzle season and you get nothing.

Say what? How do you "turn resource nodes into farmland"???

It's a modifier for drizzle that you might get on a map. Since it's random, you can't guarantee it on any map.