Food supplies

[Biggus Dickus]

Is there a way to get food faster I just started a campagin and I am already low on food and people are rebelling is there an Art that I can master that will help me get more buildings that produce alot of food?

[LSD]

Food's a binary choice.
You build a farm and you get +1 food.
You build a castle and you get -1 food.

To build the next level of farms, you need the farm tech on the farthest right of the tech tree.

[PawHumper]

Don't upgrade your castle until you have enough food for it

[Brave and Fearless Sir Shiba]

very right side of the Chi tree focuses on food and yeah dont upgrade castles unless you NEEd to. either for A a stronger border defense or B to abuse the provience special thing. like lets say it has a black smith youll most likely want to smack on yari drill yard tree katana dojo tree. cav tree buildings ect

[Mile pro Libertate]

Originally posted by John:

the best strategy is to not upgrade any castle that is not either your recruiting province or your money making province. if its your money making province upgrade it so you have 2 slots, one for market, another for sake den/gambling hall. if ts your recruiting province then upgrade it to the max possible (castle, for citadel you need the last chi tech) to be able to recruit faster.

since you are new, take this in account. when i say recruiting province it should be one with blacksmithing for melee troops and artisans for ranged troops, and also an upgraded encampement for each one.

when i say money making province i mean provinces with high income like the ones that have gold mines or ones that are simply rich. some ones like this are:
- the three north to shimazu (one wth stables, one with school and the corner one in between)
- oda starting province
- province directly at the left of the oda, with a ninja school.
- both of starting provinces of the ikko ikko, though you might want them for recruiting instead.
- province directly south of starting date (owned by hatakeyama at start, has an iron mine).
- province directly south to the previous one. it is pretty big and has wood on it.

the ones that have gold mines are:
- hojo starting province
- honma island
- province directly to the north of where mori starts

as far as tech is concerned, the most optimal way is to go is, straight from the start of the game:
- directly to terrance farming, the tech at the rightest position
- merchant guild tech
- buddhist temple tech

Then go for bushido directly go to encampent tech to be able to recruit troops with superior stats. From here go to whatever you want in bushido. There is no point to research further in the chi tree.

This is really great advice.

I'd just like to add that one should remember that not all provinces have the same agricultural fertility.

A new player may not realize this.

If you hover over either the farm's building slot or the little farm building on the map, a tooltip will tell you the soil's fertility rating for the province. There are five levels: barren, meager, average, fertile, and very fertile.

Upgrading the farms will not increase the inherent fertility for the province; it will only maximize how much yield from that fertility. So "improved irrigation" upgrades in a province with "barren soil" will actually bring in less than the base farms in an area with "fertile soil."

So when you upgrade your farms, it's almost always best to upgrade the most fertile areas first, because you will see a bigger koku increase for the same construction costs. A barren province might garner, say, an extra 115 koku from improved irrigation, whereas the same upgrades in a fertile province will generate around 270 extra.

Once you have the money and other things in place to allow for upgrades all over your provinces, then ideally you'd want to upgrade all farms. But when money is tight in the early game, you'll want to agriculturally upgrade only your most fertile provinces.