There's an achievement about making it with no hunting or foraging foods, but farming feels to slow at start. Solution?

[Bloodified]

Any tips on how to get to "small town" level without hunting or foraging berries?

[Static]

I guess you'd need to start building a farm house and farm ASAP. You get a decent amount of bread right at the start, you could probably rush farms before your people ran out of food? Haven't tried it yet personally.

[Bloodified]

Originally posted by Static:

I guess you'd need to start building a farm house and farm ASAP. You get a decent amount of bread right at the start, you could probably rush farms before your people ran out of food? Haven't tried it yet personally.

I try to do it but because you start with only a few pieces of wood, building all the buildings you need to create bread make it seemingly impossible. I tried the pastures but I don't understand how/if that works as food

[Static]

Originally posted by Bloodified:

Originally posted by Static:

I guess you'd need to start building a farm house and farm ASAP. You get a decent amount of bread right at the start, you could probably rush farms before your people ran out of food? Haven't tried it yet personally.

I try to do it but because you start with only a few pieces of wood, building all the buildings you need to create bread make it seemingly impossible. I tried the pastures but I don't understand how/if that works as food

The pasture is for sheep, you build a farmhouse and then a field. Then you pick the crop that you want your people to plant. People will take a really long time and plow the fields, then they'll plant crops, and after all that you wait until the plants grow.

For logs early on all you need is a lumber camp, since early buildings just need raw logs, not planks to build stuff.

I hope this helps! Don't sweat it that it's tripping you up, the game is hard.

[Shap111]

i feel like farming needs a big buff. a rich deposit of deer with a single family assigned to it produces more food than 5-6 families in a bunch of acres

[CorWolf]

Best try to find something to trade early, then you can sell it an buy a little amount of food.
Try to grow slowly till you have a farm running and then food wont be a problem.
Later upgrade also a few houses, so they can provide a bit extra food and you are save.

One thing that trades well are clay shindles, as you easily sell over 100 till the price drops low.

[nomed74]

trading post
import
works well

[spamfilter32]

Vegetable gardens and chicken coops can provide you early food. The size of the plot make a difference for how much vegetable gardens produce, but the cost is static. So make some of those first plots really really long and put down a couple of vegetable gardens so you can get food to last you from them.

Then set up trade immediately. planks may not seem sexy to trade, at a trade value of 2, but you can produce lots of them. Sell enough to fill out a bunch of chicken coops, for year round food for your village. This also gives you 2 food choices for your market. Vegetable gardens don't produce food until late fall (around Oct). so if yo do this, don't expand your village until year 2, when you have the regional wealth to build the chicken coop extensions.

For your clothes build a few goat pens (once you can buy the extensions). They give you hides (just like hunting, but no meat) and a tannery to make your leather from the goat hides. These and a church allows you to start upgrading houses to level 2.

[Ranzera]

I got that achievement.

The first step is actually pregame. There's no conditions for the achievement other than not hunting and no berries. So start off by setting all the game options to the easiest. IIRC the relaxing setting does all but one and you can manually change the last one. Is it turning AI opponent off? I forget.

From there, get your trade going ASAP. Logging Camp, Planks, Trading post. Get your planks trade route going, it should be cheaper than 25 wealth, so get that money coming in.

From there I recommend you get your burgages going and hit the next tier. Spend your point on cheaper trade routes.

Go ahead and buy Meat and Berry trade routes (but don't start buying them yet) since one or both should still be cheaper than 25 and finally buy a tools trade route and export *all* your tools (should be 20 on relaxing) for a cool 95 wealth profit.

Somewhere in here you get gifted a bunch of gear for a militia. You don't need that, you're on peaceful. Make some trade routes and cash that in too.

Go ahead and import 2 hides (without a route) and get a tannery going while you wait.

When your hides roll in you'll have enough money for a pair of meat and berries each. As soon as you get all that stuff, you should be able to upgrade 2 burgages, level up your village and buy the second trading perk to make imports cheaper.

From there you're basically set. You can trade basically anything (that doesn't come from the weaver) and make a profit. I liked roof tiles.