Field Kitchen. Do you even use it?

[Red]

I want to see if there is something major that I'm overlooking here.

You start your game with Crude Workstation / Makeshift Post, unless you have better rolls available. Both buildings are viable otherwise.

Field kitchen though - planks/fabric to build. Production value is so bad/slow, that you're wasting people's time. They could probably just harvest raw resource nodes in the mean time. I've only found myself using that building in a late struggle bus game, when I need an extra "oompf" for a meal that I cannot make, and had bodies to spare on top of that.

Am I completely missing out on a strategy here? Do you use that building as an "opener" to your game. I am curious.

[Tubers]

bluemonkey eredeti hozzászólása:

P15 -- For me, FK is basically always built and basically always used.

Lil brekky eredeti hozzászólása:

I start each map on the assumption that I'm going to build a FK to make porridge, possibly jerky, unless I am presented a reason not to. I have consumption control set to autoban all foods from the start so I can squeeze more mileage out of the raw starter foods, and FK is a primary reason for that

This completely!! Also if starting with containers, FK is a quick way to make canned goods without committing early to a building/chain that isn't otherwise immediately useful.

Yup, it's pretty much auto build on high prestige, where usually by year 2 you're short on food. It's not so much about the reputation as it is about resource efficiency. A bad recipe is still better than eating raw food.

[Spacesuit Spiff]

Stevie Nyx eredeti hozzászólása:

I have only ever built it once because the first glade I popped needed jerky for the event.

I cant imagine ever justifying the time spent early game in this building. The recipes are so slow. I would rather have my worker spamming roads.

If you know you need a resolve boost to get through year 1 storm, I guess it could have some use, but I have always found other options.

I see people mentioning porridge which requires the rain building which requires parts and another worker. Where is everyone getting these spare workers early game?

World events. Next game I'm gonna have to run the numbers to see whether field kitchen is more food/minute than just gathering food in the starting clearing. I suppose there is the benefit that you can insta-build it rather than waiting for wood (when you're also building a trade post, crude workstation, maybe other camps, that adds up to a minute or so all told).

[Prowler™]

If you get some food production bonuses in caches or get the secret ingredient corner stone early, field kitchen becomes super strong. Also starting with a farm you can make porridge for free. Its ALWAYS more efficient to make complex food as you have a chance to roll double yields.
Obviously its no match for a beanary but you cannot rely on rolling that every game.

[Philly4eva]

After the early game it's a good way for porridge, I never pick any other building that makes porridge.

[Karl Marx's Das 2TC Kapital]

"Do you even use it?" Oh god yes, so often. I play P20 and win more often than not and field kitchen is so extremely useful. I build a rain collector, woodcutter, and field kitchen first thing I do every game and then I feed the kitchen the drizzle rain to up the efficiency even further.

[Allorno]

I personally started finding it useful as soon as I hit prestige... 8(?), the one where villagers have a change to consume double food on breaks. I'm pretty much perpetually short on food at that point, so even something that "only" stretches my food stores by 20-25% is definitely noticeable, especially since cutting into new glades too fast can hit you with bad events and increases threat.

I imagine the TLDR boils down to "The higher the prestige level the more likely you are to find it helpful".

[Tubers]

Basically yeah. In low prestige pretty much anything can work, so there’s no real reason to use low efficiency producers like field kitchen. On high prestige you’re constantly short on resources so every little bit helps.