Is there any reason not to use just rice farm?

[Altaraiser]

When i'm playing I'm usually just go for rice farm instead of potato, corn, berry since it quickly harvested.
And i cooked the rice into simple meal or even fine meal so is there a reason to use other than rice.

[Stormsong]

I believe corn yields are the most efficient, mathematically speaking. Yes they take longer, but the yield is insane. From a pure efficiency standpoint I'm not sure what niche potatoes fill, maybe if you're forced into planting in suboptimal soil?

Berries...yeah with you on that one. They do look pretty though.

[Zeno]

I've been growing rice due to the drought event which just destroyed all your crops so rice was the safest best. However now that they changed the mechanics I might change to corn. The main reason for growing corn is grow time and yield. Rice is very fast but small yield which means colonists have to replant on a frequent basis for a small yield. Corn grows long but yields a lot more than rice, not sure what the numbers are. Basically you save the colonists time in terms of replanting crops. The downside is that it takes a lot longer and if you dont have access to food you have to wait as with rice it seems like it always gets harvested. However corn should have a significant yield over rice. Potato is in the middle of the two as I can imagine and berries, I forget what its attributes are.

[Cyrus]

Rice is good right at the start as it grows the fastest. (One of the first things I do is get a rice farm going - even before I put down beds)

Corn is better in the long run as while it does take longer to grow you do get more yield out of it per 'day' growing. So usually after the first season or two I switch my rice fields to corn.

Potatoes are good if you have subotimal growing locations as their growth is less impacted by the fertility of the soil so can grow decently even on gravel or other types.

EDIT: just add there is less 'work' to be done for corn due to its grow length, with rice you need to keep picking/planting but since corn takes so long to grow you don't need to do it as often.

[Jamaican Castle]

Berries do have the advantage over the other three that they won't cause the "ate raw food" mood debuff. (This is one of the reasons it's useful to harvest them wild early in the game.) I don't know how much time that actually saves you in cooking, but it might be nice to have a reserve I suppose in case your cook is suddenly indisposed.

[rpgfreakiod]

i think berries have an advantage that they are light weight and you can feed a caravan with them.

[Kai]

引用自 rpgfreakiod：

i think berries have an advantage that they are light weight and you can feed a caravan with them.

Berries can be eaten raw by all characters without a mood penalty or food poisoning.
For some reason cooking meals results in food poisoning no matter what if those food seemed to have been 'contaminated' in any way, like if the weather was hot and exposes it for a while, before it gets hauled.

[Zorlond]

All this assumes the dev doesn't decide to include some malnutrition calculations eventually. Living on one food source alone isn't going to give a body everything it needs.

[Elementium]

Rice when you setup

When your stock are high => Corn for increased efficiency

[Tenebrais]

引用自 Zorlond：

All this assumes the dev doesn't decide to include some malnutrition calculations eventually. Living on one food source alone isn't going to give a body everything it needs.

Supposedly potatoes contain all the nutrition a human needs, so you can live off potatoes and only potatoes your entire life if you don't care about the quality of your food. That would be an interesting niche for taters to fill, if full nutrition gets implemented.

[Surmene]

I try to keep rice crops going since the Vegetable Garden mod has maki rolls that require rice.

[Celery Man]

Corn is probably the best, but you'll QUICKLY run into freezer stock issues if you have several successful harvests without a constant food production, unless you're using the x10 stack extender mod.

[AlexMBrennan]

Corn is probably the best, but you'll QUICKLY run into freezer stock issues if you have several successful harvests without a constant food production

There is nothing stopping you from staggering the planting of corn (start with 4 fields, plant corn and 3 rice, then switch one field to rice after each rice harvest).

[rpgfreakiod]

in the end i don't think the colonists care at all what their meals are made of so you can use whatever you want really.

also as a side note i find my freezer is more annoyingly cluttered up by have about 10 to 20 different stacks of meat due to meat being seperate by animal type rather than being cluttered by having a lot of a single type of food, but i guess massive amounts of food is more of an end game problem.

[Ricky'Rooster'Thunderpants]

i dont't like rice because it sends your colonists to the fields every 2 days
great starter, when you need food fast, get rice but its time consuming IMO

[anarcher]

Corn takes so long to grow that unless you have year round growing or greenhouses, at least some of it won't get harvested due to various things including animals eating the plants, cold snaps, blight and whatnot. It's still worth planting huge fields of it, if you have the time. Rice (especially on hydroponics) is when you need food asap. Potatoes are good on maps with no/little fertile soil, you get decent amounts of food in reasonable time even if tempeature is suboptimal.

Basically:
Gravel: Potatoes or berries
Soil: Whatever, but rice grows fastest.
Rich soil: Rice if you need it asap, corn if you have time.
When you have plenty of food, healroot and other nonfood plants take priority on rich soil.