Food always being an issue is annoying

[Mky]

Played a lot of games like this one and i must say i've never struggled so much keeping a decent income of food.

Villagers are just never producing enough food.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Mky:

Played a lot of games like this one and i must say i've never struggled so much keeping a decent income of food.

Villagers are just never producing enough food.

Agreed. Absolutely struggling just to stay a few months stocked in food.

[Didz]

Food should not be an issue in the game at all, but for some reason the last upgrade was determined to make it impossible to feed your population.

[Agony_Aunt]

Yup, haven't returned to the game since they added the spoilage mechanic. If they added a toggle to disable it then i'd be fine.

[Derny]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Yup, haven't returned to the game since they added the spoilage mechanic. If they added a toggle to disable it then i'd be fine.

There is a toggle.

[Jabberwocky]

Originally posted by Didz:

Food should not be an issue in the game at all, but for some reason the last upgrade was determined to make it impossible to feed your population.

I must be a genius, then... have not changed my playstyle at all, and no problems with food supply whatsoever. Spoilage on or off makes no difference to me.

[bstangeby]

Something have been done with consumption of food that is for sure. Before the patch I could have population at 400-500. Now I struggle at 300. Last game morale dropped below 50 and could not have any moving in. Used region wealth to import every kind of food and the food was eaten so fast that wealth was down at 0 and could not continue.

[Jabberwocky]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3335609738
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341644466
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341644790
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341645310
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341645696

All screenshots taken on the latest stable branch build. I don't know what y'all seem to be doing wrong, but I simply haven't had this experience. Food is a non-issue.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Derny:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Yup, haven't returned to the game since they added the spoilage mechanic. If they added a toggle to disable it then i'd be fine.

There is a toggle.

Ah, nice. I'll take a look soon then. IIRC, it wasn't there during the beta.

[Claytonium]

Originally posted by Mky:

Food always being an issue is annoying

...I thought the exact same thing when I first moved out of my parents' house.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Don't you just hate it when taking care of your people gets in the way of the ass-kicking and head-bonking?

[Jabberwocky]

Am I really the only one here having no issue whatsoever with food production in this game?! o_O

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Jabberwocky:

Am I really the only one here having no issue whatsoever with food production in this game?! o_O

I don't, but that's because I read what you post and mostly do that.

[paulbierley]

No problems here and for those saying food shouldn't be an issue its the medieval period. Serfs peasants would refuse military service at harvest time even under threat of death because no harvest meant death anyway.

[salzlaender]

Originally posted by Jabberwocky:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3335609738
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341644466
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341644790
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341645310
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341645696

All screenshots taken on the latest stable branch build. I don't know what y'all seem to be doing wrong, but I simply haven't had this experience. Food is a non-issue.

WIthout without spoilage?
I have 6 fisher with the rich + perk. I have just above 200 people and still my town is at limit. And yes, I also have 20 chicken coops and a few goats and soem vegetable gardens.

[Jabberwocky]

Originally posted by salzlaender:

WIthout without spoilage?
I have 6 fisher with the rich + perk. I have just above 200 people and still my town is at limit. And yes, I also have 20 chicken coops and a few goats and soem vegetable gardens.

I always play with spoilage on at normal level, as I feel that might be the intended way to play. I only have a rich pond in the screenshot, no fishing perk and only 3 fishers with a fishing limit set to 360, in order to prevent them from overfishing. My fish supply has been between 100-300 surplus for the whole game every month of every year.

But I also always provide apples and vegetables in bulk to my towns, as well as make every smaller burgage plot backyard a chicken coop extension (except the workshops), and try to also provide either meat or bread in bulk.

The more different food groups you have, the smaller is the amount of food each group needs to actually produce to feed your population.

In the fishing pond town you will see in the screenshot that I am producing meat (albeit in negligible amounts - I later fixed that by importing meat from neighboring meat-focused regions), large amounts of vegetables and apples due to my many gardens and orchards, as well as bread, eggs and honey alongside the fish.