Calculating food consumption ?

[Mr_Zayder]

Hey there, me again !

I searched for ways to calculate food consumption etc, the encyclopedia in-game says that human + beaver eat 1 food every 2mn and harpies + lizard every 1mn40.

For the sake of the argument, i'd take 1mn40 regardless of the species.

One year is 3 seasons.
The wiki says that Drizzle and Clearance last 4 minutes each, and the storm only 2mn.

So 600s per year, one break every 100s, is it safe to assume you should plan 6 food per person per year ? We could crank it up to 7 to be extra-safe and have some more room for error.

I always end up leaving my food production uncapped, but sometimes I can use the workers :-)

[arjensmit79]

Just take 2 minutes average. Its a bit slower than those numbers because they first finish tasks and walk to hearth. Average will be even more than 2 mins.

So a year is 10 or 12 minutes so thats 5 or 6 breaks.

Each break they eat 1 food, or 1.5 if you have the 50% more food prestige modifier.

[Mr_Zayder]

Originally posted by arjensmit79:

Just take 2 minutes average. Its a bit slower than those numbers because they first finish tasks and walk to hearth. Average will be even more than 2 mins.

So a year is 10 or 12 minutes so thats 5 or 6 breaks.

Each break they eat 1 food, or 1.5 if you have the 50% more food prestige modifier.

Thanks for the feedback ! What is that "more food prestige" modifiers ?

[mostly willing]

as one discord user put it, you can expect your villagers to consume roughly half your population in food every minute before modifiers. I find that the easiest way to calculate food consumption

[arjensmit79]

Also, it is very good to make this calculation and be aware of your food needs and production, but dont worry too much about your exact food production and "to be extra-safe". You usually will find food from other sources like caches, glade events, order rewards. So often you can produce quite a bit less.

[el Darkness]

Originally posted by Mr_Zayder:

... What is that "more food prestige" modifiers ?

It is a difficulty setting. When you beat Viceroy for the first time you will unlock Prestige 1 difficulty. After Prestige 2 is P3, P4 and so on. I think on P6 you get a negative effect "your folks have 50% chance to consume double amount of food during break".

[mk11]

AFAIK, if you have multiple types of desired complex foods they will eat one of each on each break.