Need quickest way to produce food.. Pemmican? Hydro?

[twinkypillow]

I've got not a single animal (though i'm trying to breed thousands of chickens..)

and I don't know when enough is enough.. I think I have like 20 but some are chicks.. a few are full grown..

I don't know who should be slaughtered and who should be left to breed some more...


anyway, I need the quickest food.. all my colonists are starving!! including the stupid chickens!!



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[ꌗꉣ꒒ꂦ꓄]

Rice is the fastest crop to produce for you, while for your grazing animals, roses (Daylilies take the same time to grow but die 3 times faster than roses if not eaten immediately).

If you're running tribes, plant rice*, then hunt, hunt, hunt. Have your butcher set to slaughter endlessly, and use a campfire to make pemmican as often as it is available. Save the leathers for trading or upgrading your clothing (if you're starting in a cold biome).

* If you're in a cold biome make an enclosed room about 11x11 with two campfires in the middle (not built at the exat same time though!) and plant the rice around it. The reason for two campfires is so if one goes out, another is still working while you put together a new one. If the room gets too cold your plants all die. Research electricity as soon as you can. After that the direction to go gets pretty obvious. ;)

[ShunTheWitch]

Cooking raiders is also a decent option.

[twinkypillow]

how do you make pemmican anyway? what do you need food-wise? strawberries??

[ShunTheWitch]

Цитата допису twinkypillow:

how do you make pemmican anyway? what do you need food-wise? strawberries??

seems 1 meat one veg and as i'm sure you noticed research.

[A Fish]

Cannibalism bruh, definitely the quickest, which is your only posted requirement.

I mean, sure, err'body'll freak out a bit for a few days, but they'll get over it.....

And hey!

If one of 'em goes mental, it just means more food!

[Lord]

This is kind of a dumb question but what research do you need for Pemmican?

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Цитата допису BaguetteLover14:

This is kind of a dumb question but what research do you need for Pemmican?

It's just called Pemmican IIRC. If you start as tribal you get it automatically, others need to research it.

[Snippy The Rat]

The research for pemmican should be on the far left. Nearly on all my playthroughs, I grow a patch of rice for short-term food and a patch of corn for the long term, and it has never failed me. I usually get around 2-3 rice harvests between every corn.

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

Цитата допису Shun The Witch:

Cooking raiders is also a decent option.

my pawn's love Long Pig

[MightyFox]

For fast food - rice. It grows the fastest of any edible crop, but has the lowest yeild. Still useful on maps with good soil, but short growing seasons.

Hydro is an "after the fact" setup. Unless you're starting on ice sheet or extreme desert. The energy costs are huge, and it will require at least 1500 metal to make a starting setup.

Raising chickens: Keep your fertilized eggs covered and warm. Keep other animals away from them, because they are tasty and tend to dissapear around other pets. You only need a few roosters. If you have a bunch, sluaghter the excess. Keep only the hens you can afford to feed, slughter the rest. When a chicken gets too old (around 5) slaughter it, and let a chick take it's place. (You can do this to younger hens too, I just try to keep it at my feed cap) Fortunately, chickens don't eat much (unlike that warg farm I tried, good for defense, bad for supplies) but when you get a lot of them, the cost adds up.

[kevinshow]

whenever i run low on food, including food that is only for animals, i just slaughter the animals. I keep 1 male and 2-3 females...that is plenty to start the animals again. this also may happen every year as i could spend the winter with low food stores, so you might consider it as letting animals grow for 3 seasons then culling them as the winter starts.

but for your question, farming the crops that takes 3 days would be OK. once you have enough of that, go for another crop that you like. i usually pick corn.