Is corn really all that good?

[Zawarudo]

I thought corn was the best produce since it yelds more... corn.

But hey... by the time you can harvest corn dont you get to reap rice like 2 or 3 times?

[Knight9910]

According to RimWorld wiki...

Corn - 27units, takes 19.52 days - .0692 nutrition/day
Rice - 7 units, takes 5.45 days - .064 nutrition/day
Potato - 14 units, takes 10.55 days - .066 nutrition/day

Corn will give SLIGHTLY more in the long run...

All said, I think rice is slightly better, though, for the following reasons:

1. Faster growing means if a blight, power outage, cold snap, etc. kills off your plants you don't have to wait as long for the next crop to grow, meaning it's a little less susceptible to emergency loss.

2. Corn can't grow in a hydroponics tub. Rice can, and this puts its nutrition per day up to .148.

[Myriad]

Rice only yields 7 on harvest, whereas corn yells 27. So you would need 4 rice harvests to equal one corn harvest.

Corn also lasts the longest un-refrigerated, and saves you 300% labor having to replant the rice all the time.

Rice is good when you need food quick, and would probably produce more in hydroponics, if you don't mind the extra work. Otherwise I'd just stick with corn.

[Knight9910]

Labor intensity is a valid point too.

It's probably best to have a combination of different food sources, though... in case something happens to one it doesn't leave you totally high and dry.

[AquaX]

It’s a choice matter between rice which req extra labor but can rebound from events that kill growing plants easier or growing more but if those events happen and the plant hasn’t past a certain grown amt, it’s a complete lose.

I would suggest having a mixture of both of your in areas that has either heat wave, cold snap or blight set on, it wouldn’t be that destructive.

[eighmy_lupin]

I think it really depends on how you're playing the game.

Examples:
Playing on a map thats really cold most or all the time? Use rice because it can grow in the short time its warm and be grown indoors.

Playing on a warmer lush map? Grow corn since you'll have more time for it to grow and it yelds more.

If you're using a map that is warm enough long enough to grow corn at least once I would do both. Even more so if it's also a map that doesn't have a lot of wild crops or animals to hold you over for your first rice harvest.

[TotallyAverageGamer]

I normally store 30k corn because it lasts forever so if power goes out you don’t have to worry

[Vintorez]

While corn doesn't give that much more than rice, you don't have to spend as much time planting. Which may be a negative if you're still training up a farmer, but once you have people who can grow healroot and devilstrand it's less necessary. I like to use the extra free time to have them plant more decorative crops to improve the beauty around the place or just train them up to be combat ready.

[Boink]

You use rice (+hydrponics) to feed animals / short term, you use corn / potatoes (depending on climate) to cover the long haul.

A mature colony will have both.

[TotallyAverageGamer]

Originally posted by Vintorez:

While corn doesn't give that much more than rice, you don't have to spend as much time planting. Which may be a negative if you're still training up a farmer, but once you have people who can grow healroot and devilstrand it's less necessary. I like to use the extra free time to have them plant more decorative crops to improve the beauty around the place or just train them up to be combat ready.

This, I have my farmers do 2 job, like crafting. Corn let’s them craft a looot more, gives me tons of money because they make yayo in their free time

[Slye_Fox]

I use all 3 + Strawberries.

[AlexMBrennan]

You use rice (+hydrponics) to feed animals / short term, you use corn / potatoes (depending on climate) to cover the long haul.

A mature colony will have both.

A mature colony will have a freezer full of corn, negating the need to waste grower time on replanting rice unnecessarily.

However, I'd love to hear why you think that animals will benefit from having a different type of food crop from your main colonists because I literally can't come up with any reason why anyone would arrive at such an absurd conclusion.

Hay I'd get, but rice? Why?

[Boink]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

You use rice (+hydrponics) to feed animals / short term, you use corn / potatoes (depending on climate) to cover the long haul.

A mature colony will have both.

A mature colony will have a freezer full of corn, negating the need to waste grower time on replanting rice unnecessarily.

However, I'd love to hear why you think that animals will benefit from having a different type of food crop from your main colonists because I literally can't come up with any reason why anyone would arrive at such an absurd conclusion.

Hay I'd get, but rice? Why?

Hydroponics.


You've literally not played this game at all, have you?


Oh, long version: *all* tame animals, including canines eat rice. Canines don't eat hay, and hay has a longer grow time and cannot be constantly grown. And not indoors like hydroponics.

Come back to me when you've actually run a colony with tame animals for 3 years.


Srsly?


This muppet is really boring me now.

[Boink]

Originally posted by bearhiderug:

Hydroponics are very situational. I rarly if ever use them.

Then you play non-optimally and probably without pushing the boundaries of the engine. Let me guess, also play with a lot of mods etc?

Not really my problem, eh?

[Slye_Fox]

Originally posted by Boink:

Oh, long version: *all* tame animals, including canines eat rice.

Well, that's not entirly true.

Wargs can only eat raw meat, corpses, kibble & meals.
So they can eat rice, but it has to be processed into something else first.

[Boink]

Originally posted by Slye_Fox:

Wargs can only eat raw meat, corpses, kibble & meals.
So they can eat rice, but it has to be processed into something else first.

Wargs =/= breeding issues. Slow gestation, slow fertility.

If you can get >6 wargs in your colony, I'll be impressed.

Hint: talking about colonies with 30+ tame animals. Your wargs really aren't the ones you should worry about (given you can just hunt a random animal + dump corpse or allow them to eat the recent raiding party).