Always low on food....

[MelvinFtw]

From the begining of the game it always tell me that im low on food, i always make hunters and farms but still always low....

[Smiles]

Are you workers educated? Educated can produce much much more food I think.

[mattig]

you still have fisheries as well. increase your food production and stop building houses, that'll help.

[MelvinFtw]

i just did a game and only build 4 houses... everyone died of starvation

[Exekial]

I played for about an hour straight with 2 docks 2 hunting fields and a big crop field. With only 13 adults everyone was fine, then out of nowhere, I lost all food and they starved. Now I cannot start a game without starvation. had food set to 35000, but they couldnt gather it fast enough.

[CJacobN]

Try going for Gathering Huts (I think that's what they're called). The ones that produce berries, onions, and such. The amount of food produced from that is basically 4x a farm because it has four different goods being produced!

[Dragonrubi]

From what I read in this forum, people recommend gatherers, are the most efficient, then hunters.

They say that farming and cattle are for later, they say fisheries may work but you need to find a good spot (one that maxims the dock range with a greater water area).

You are not alone I am also struggling with the same issue, and as we are discussing in other thread later you’ll find that another problem is that often few houses take a lot of food letting other families to starve.

[Exekial]

Yeah I noticed one of my households was maxed with people, and i guess had most of the food while the others starve.

[Coup d' oeil]

Originally posted by SeeJah:

Try going for Gathering Huts (I think that's what they're called). The ones that produce berries, onions, and such. The amount of food produced from that is basically 4x a farm because it has four different goods being produced!

Lol it's not 4x a farm. It's added up. Total output

[CJacobN]

Originally posted by Coup d' oeil:

Lol it's not 4x a farm. It's added up. Total output

Have you tried a Gathering Hut? I may be wrong, but it is quite more than a farm.

[Sapeca]

gatheres are better then any other source type. Build 3 or 4 from them and you have anough food for 100 population.

[MelvinFtw]

ye farming sucks early game
let me try dock and hunting , sec

[Coup d' oeil]

Originally posted by SeeJah:

Originally posted by Coup d' oeil:

Lol it's not 4x a farm. It's added up. Total output

Have you tried a Gathering Hut? I may be wrong, but it is quite more than a farm.

Yes I have, and I happily left them when my pop was in the hundreds
Edit Transitioned from gather to farms

Originally posted by stefanbatata:

gatheres are better then any other source type. .

Misinformation!

[Silverfoxx15]

I had the same issue my first game. I then went and read some reviews on the web and everywhere I looked it all said the same thing - gatherers. Since then I restarted a game and sure enough I maximized my food and built it up with gatheres and once I had a decent population I started small farms and orchards for food diversity. So I would go with the gatherers and hunters for a successful town start.

Also to help them out I put foresters beside the gatherers and put them on just plant to increase the amount of mature trees which help produce more foods they for the gatherers. I have several of these areas and my food production is through the roof.

[Kunzite!]

I had the same issues with food shortages. A few things I've learned:
-Gathering Huts are the best first food building.
-If you do make farms, a single farmer can easily take care of a 10x12 farm. Might want two for a 15x15.
-Once your food sources are getting spread out (i.e. you have a few gatherers/hunters fairly far away from town) build a market. The vendors will travel around to bring food/tools/firewood to that location, making citezens not have far to go for supplies. It also seems to make producers more willing to store supplies in nearby barns instead of the one in town, which means more time producing.

[MelvinFtw]

how many gatherers should i make earlygame ? an d houses?