Food?

[Matusz27]

My city always grows massive, as in 40-50k in capagin as I take thing slowly, but WHERE I AM SUPPOSED TO GET FOOD? Without colonies aka if I want to have a lot of heat in major city, I can't feed them all, deep deposits just don't provide enough and I can't combo them with Hot houses or build even a second deep mine in a district. Where I am supposed to find the food that will last?

[Starfoth The Burgundy Silk Rug]

Going to be honest food being finite feels so strange

[HardNRG]

Put a workers dormitory in the Food district with the deep drill, it boosts the output. Also a train hub next to it helps too. I think you can add another one also

[Matusz27]

Originally posted by Starfoth The Burgundy Silk Rug:

Going to be honest food being finite feels so strange

Honestly yeah with the hothouses at least, if I was absolutely demolishing local wildlife fine, but we running out of soil

[Harris]

Go all in on Reason, it gives you access to factories that make food from corpses.

[Matusz27]

Originally posted by Harris:

Go all in on Reason, it gives you access to factories that make food from corpses.

The thing is in my city there is no deaths

[Harris]

It's not like FP1 where bodies were a resource. Here's it's just the lore around it. Essentially it's just a factory you plop in the industrial district that prints food for you.

[MetalHev]

Panaceum-fueled apexchads: 👀

[Mr. President]

Had the same problem in all my 3 runs now. (1 utopia 2 story) I think the problem is tech, every other industry has a good infinite production typ of building, only food is not good. Which is as, already mentioned, because of a to big population in your city. The thing is in story mod you can get plenty of food at least for some time, in utopia on the other hand its far worse. I gues this is a balancing problem. Hope they fix it with the day one patch.

[Matusz27]

Originally posted by Mr. President:

Had the same problem in all my 3 runs now. (1 utopia 2 story) I think the problem is tech, every other industry has a good infinite production typ of building, only food is not good. Which is as, already mentioned, because of a to big population in your city. The thing is in story mod you can get plenty of food at least for some time, in utopia on the other hand its far worse. I gues this is a balancing problem. Hope they fix it with the day one patch.

I guess I wait a bit and see. Food defiently is a problem, I going back to a old save, but it shouldn't require me to build a 6x rail hubs and workers hub on the two food patches and have the pepole get natural food to just have enough food to have a little of them starve

[Matusz27]

Originally posted by HardNRG:

Put a workers dormitory in the Food district with the deep drill, it boosts the output. Also a train hub next to it helps too. I think you can add another one also

SHould work and I can just smack about 6 of rail hubs around it. but still it barely 4x the output

[NzFox]

hot houses should work when you have a deep mine, they were for me but I had to turn the deep mine on/off once on one of them. Either way though its a known bug but it still does not change the underlying issue of food being a massive limiting factor, even with deep mines/hot houses and frostblood gathering I was struggling to stay positive after 30k or so people

[Starfoth The Burgundy Silk Rug]

Honestly it feels weird like food is supposed to be balanced around being non-depletable
If they made it so you needed like 3 food plots to have full production (enough for field rotation) then it'd work out really well and they wouldn't have to do anything else

[Slimothy James]

The game is balanced around colonies. Getting food without them will be difficult.

[Fomka]

i picked the choice "embrace the frost" and now the deep mining is not availiable for me, and i have 0 food otpost (all of them are exasted). So i need to restart i guess. Dont know if it is bad random of the food outposts or i should had somehow upgrade them to make them infinite.

[Syiss]

You can combo hothouse with the infinite food tile. There seems to be a bug where you have to turn off then turn on the deep mining building to get it to work properly.

I didn't really have food problems. I went all in on Stalwarts and they give a ton of production bonuses. My infinite food district was providing so much food that I turned down the productivity in the other districts since it wasn't needed. I only ever built one of the food outposts, and didn't feel the need to replace it when it ran out. Even with New London supplying all of the food for Dreadnought (and Winterhome temporarily) I still ended the game with like 500k in storage.