Help with optimizing food at base?

[dnTv]

Long story short (but still long), i was trying to optimize my bases (15 pals, all with no negative traits or musclehead but far from perfect) for ore farming, but am running into negative food output, as well as really low ore output due to toises having to stop every other hit to eat:

At first i wanted to feed them on cake ingredients cause, if there ever was surplus, it would be super convenient late game, but i don't think it's possible. The setup i was running was 5x digtoises, 2x ranches with 1x chikipi, mozzarina, beegarde and woolipop, 4x wheat farm with 1x azurobe, robinquill, and carry squad consisting of 1x hellzephyr, ragnahawk, katriss, celaray (for when i wanted to use the grinder without messing production too much).

Now I've realized i can just buy the ingredients for cake on vendors and am just thinking of using the ranches for gold (4x ice mau or sybelix better?) but then, going just farms sounds like an even worse idea... I doubt even a 6x berry farm would solve the issue of the sheer output, not to mention how inefficient it is. That said, i wanted to automate it, so I'm hoping it can be done without having to manually cook every half hour or so, and without cutting the number of toises cause they already don't clear the ores...

Also, i read somewhere tomatoes have the same nutrition as berries, and didn't find info on lettuce at all... Any help?

(Also, do pals at base die to weather?)

[dnTv]

Bump for help? D:

[Jamation]

Are they by chance over eating due to stress? I'm also running 15 Pals, but I only needed the beginning 2 berry farms to keep them all fed, with excess. I have a ranch going but they've never touched the ingredients they put in there because they've got berries. But since the berries give no SAN I've also built 2 spa things since was running into a backup with only 1.

If they have low SAN they may start non-stop eating to try to raise it regardless if the food item has a SAN benefit.

Depending on what their intake is another farm may be needed but like I said I've got excess berries with most of my Pals having 5-6 bread things as their hunger gauge.

[dnTv]

They sometimes go into stress eating but i start to run out of food before this happens... At least before i get the purple notification anyway. I don't think the ai is trying to eat to replenish san because i tried briefly 4x wollipop (cotton candy gives a bit of san) and i do have one large hot spring and one large bed. Will give berry farm a try again anyway

[smokauweeds]

They all need beds. make the good ones. the hot spring, and I have 3 berry things going, and have a 900 berry surplus, with 15 pals.

in the pals stats menu, it shows the things food consumption level. bread icons. some have one or 2. I just put the mammoth out for mining, it needs like 6 or 7. not sure the bread icons count, to actual food needed.

make sure you have enough farmers, and water people.

I built a second base, on a site with like 9 iron nodes. I only built 2 berrys, built 1 farm, and made nice beds and hot tub. only 2 of the pals have level 2 mining, for the ore. the rest are just feeding them now. and im making lots of ore.

[ELDEN LORD]

Originally posted by smokauweeds:

They all need beds. make the good ones. the hot spring, and I have 3 berry things going, and have a 900 berry surplus, with 15 pals.

in the pals stats menu, it shows the things food consumption level. bread icons. some have one or 2. I just put the mammoth out for mining, it needs like 6 or 7. not sure the bread icons count, to actual food needed.

make sure you have enough farmers, and water people.

I built a second base, on a site with like 9 iron nodes. I only built 2 berrys, built 1 farm, and made nice beds and hot tub. only 2 of the pals have level 2 mining, for the ore. the rest are just feeding them now. and im making lots of ore.

can ur other base get raided if u arent there?

[dnTv]

Originally posted by smokauweeds:

They all need beds. make the good ones. the hot spring, and I have 3 berry things going, and have a 900 berry surplus, with 15 pals.

in the pals stats menu, it shows the things food consumption level. bread icons. some have one or 2. I just put the mammoth out for mining, it needs like 6 or 7. not sure the bread icons count, to actual food needed.

make sure you have enough farmers, and water people.

I built a second base, on a site with like 9 iron nodes. I only built 2 berrys, built 1 farm, and made nice beds and hot tub. only 2 of the pals have level 2 mining, for the ore. the rest are just feeding them now. and im making lots of ore.

Uhh... I definitely need more than 2 miners, but cutting in the 5 might help. I just wanted them to be able to clear or close to it all the ore. And yeah I'm trying to optimize so i do realize they need beds and such... Thanks for being helpful tho (:

[dnTv]

Originally posted by blinkninja1:

Originally posted by smokauweeds:

They all need beds. make the good ones. the hot spring, and I have 3 berry things going, and have a 900 berry surplus, with 15 pals.

in the pals stats menu, it shows the things food consumption level. bread icons. some have one or 2. I just put the mammoth out for mining, it needs like 6 or 7. not sure the bread icons count, to actual food needed.

make sure you have enough farmers, and water people.

I built a second base, on a site with like 9 iron nodes. I only built 2 berrys, built 1 farm, and made nice beds and hot tub. only 2 of the pals have level 2 mining, for the ore. the rest are just feeding them now. and im making lots of ore.

can ur other base get raided if u arent there?

Yes, I've got notifications for raids on bases i was not in, but didn't go there to check. It was a base with no defenses and not one of those that bug ai pathfinding too, that i never helped defend and that never got anything broken so maybe they just freeze along with everything else, but they do spawn for sure