feedbox ingredients scheme

[Irradiot]

ok, so the problem with the feedbox and ingredients exists (why not let pals put ingredients into regular storage?)

1. make food for pals, jam toast is a decent option
2. put jam toast in 1st slot of feedbox, other slots, 1x each of honey (or candy)
3. set cooker to go for max toast, check 'transfer'
4. set farming pals to go for max berries and wheat
5. set cooler to receive ingredients, place nearby
6. walk away

the pals will cook food and place in feedbox, first slot with toast and jam
they will be unable to fill the food box with ingredients so will put in cooler
they will eventually run out of food and eat what is grown and the honey
they will eventually starve, unless you come back and start the operation up again using the ingredients they put in the cooler

key: nothing but farming (growing berries and wheat), at least at the one base, you can do milk and eggs at the other
to maximize production so as to have more stored ingredients by the time they run out of food

question ?: how much toast is needed for 24hr period? for all 15 pals planting and watering and harvesting?
and ?: what pals do farming (not ranching) for less food requirements and/or what pals are most efficient at farming, needing less food but producing more, best overall? late/mid/early game , like lifemonk and teafan for example

haven't tried it yet exactly like that but basically what i've been doing 'naturally', but failing bc not having the other slots filled up with honey

[★REM★]

point 1: Pizza, then pizza, and while you there, pizza. Pizza is the best food in game, if you just use jam toast, be ready to have starving, depressed and borken pals.

[NIkto Barada]

if you dont uncheck ingredients in the allowed list they will prefer to put em in feed box yea.

[Jiala]

You can under the chest settings uncheck the ingredients option and they will not put ingredients in there.

Jam filled buns as the game calls them is an okay option but you'll wanna stack it up to 9999 at least once. If you do stack it that high it should last at least a week straight without having to mess with it, long as you don't get any pals with higher hunger requirements. The bread icons next to the word food give you a general idea of what level of food they need, the more lit up bread icons the higher quality food they need.

The way pals hunger ai works is basically when their food stat hits around half empty they will become hungry and go grab something from the feed box. While technically the higher end food requirements can exist off the lower tier foods, they'll be running back to the food box more often and their sanity will dip lower faster as pals with less food in their meter loose sanity faster while working.

Pizza works better, especially long term, as it provides both a reduction in how fast a pal gets hungry and an improvement to workspeed (I think its only a +10% but I could be off), but arguably minestrone is currently the best for getting the most workspeed out of your pals due to its staggering +40% workspeed food buff, and since all food buffs last 10 minutes them getting hungry faster then they will with pizza ends up being a boon to keeping the food buff up more often. Their sanity does become an issue a bit relying on this method as they do dip lower in sanity then they would with pizza, but countering this is as easy as going down to relaxed workspeed or investing in getting some Shroomers or Shroomer Nochts into the teams for the base as they all reduce the amount of sanity lost while working.

As for pals to go for, for farming. Early on shooting for a lyleen is generally the way to go, can breed one into existence pretty easily, mossanda + petalia in a breeding farm will give you one, and if you can max it out at 4 stars it has the best planting skill in the game and can easily keep around 15 crop plots planted with just one. (Just remember to turn off its harvesting as it will prioritizing gathering over planting.) Combine the lyleen with say 3 penkings or gobfins set to water only per lyleen, and then maybe shoot for 2-3 verdashes set to harvesting only per lyleen and your farm should produce more then enough food to feed itself plus some extra. This is about a midgame goal admittedly, but should be a level you can start striving to from the outset.

I'm running on bases with 50 pals to a base mind you, but my current setup on my base uses Prunelias for planting, Frostallion Nochts to harvest, and Faleris Aqua for watering, and it produces such a staggering amount of food that I can keep my farm, my 2 friend's bases, an oil outpost and a feybreak mining outpost for hexalite all fed on minestrone.

[NIkto Barada]

btw, they can put ings into normal storage too, my summoning base had that happen.

[Pigeon]

Chest settings
Ingredients - Off
Done

[Irradiot]

yeah, but then pals run out of food maybe and starve unless they eat ingredients, which they won't farm for if they starve, so better to have them eat ingredients
it's the trick to get them to put them in the cooler box by filling up the other slots with something that doesn't decay; load up the first slot with food, hopefully enough so you can reup again before it runs out

[Jiala]

Originally posted by Irradiot:

yeah, but then pals run out of food maybe and starve unless they eat ingredients, which they won't farm for if they starve, so better to have them eat ingredients
it's the trick to get them to put them in the cooler box by filling up the other slots with something that doesn't decay; load up the first slot with food, hopefully enough so you can reup again before it runs out

Honestly if you're making so little food that they run out of meals and have to start eating ingredients, you're not making enough food. A stack of 9999 minestrone for example will last around 2 days with 50 pals eating them, on my dedicated server. And yes they do eat while I'm offline.

fill the feedbox with food, its not hard to do, and you won't worry about them running out of food and needing to eat ingredients rather then meals.

[Irradiot]

it's more for the online servers, starting fresh, and for new players to get a jump on the farming routine
once you have things in order you can just max it out and not worry
so it's about getting it in order, from scratch
and the concept of how the farms and the box works
else there wouldn't be a 'scheme' anyway, it wasn't my idea
I'm looking for feedback on the scheme, not how you do it at max level.