How do you get food early game?

[PJC]

So I picked this up in the sale due to the review score. I really love a lot of what the game is offering, but it feels like the early game is: ranch some slimes, then wait for carrots to grow. Is there a better, quicker way to get food rather than just set up gardens for carrots?

[purplecharmanderz]

gardens are by far the fastest method in the game besides under special conditions the range exchange. carrots also are tied for the largest output of food units with pogo fruits and odd onions that appear later on.

in the end the only real way to get faster is to produce more and upgrade your gardens to produce every 12 hours. technically though planting bumps it up a couple hours for the first harvest after planting, so you can produce them faster for a cost of 10 newbucks.

[PJC]

It just seems like the game is more about producing food than it is about ranching slimes. I find that a little disappointing. But maybe with increased food production I'll feel differently. Will give it a try!

[pig]

With max upgrades the farms will give 100 food each, so end game is very easy - farm wise. Since you have drones as well. Just a bit of a grind mid-game to get resources and other stuff (dont wanna spoil anything).

[purplecharmanderz]

Originally posted by ThePigKing:

With max upgrades the farms will give 100 food each, so end game is very easy - farm wise. Since you have drones as well. Just a bit of a grind mid-game to get resources and other stuff (dont wanna spoil anything).

Max upgraded garden with pogo fruit is 30 per harvest and 2 harvests per day that is 60 per day...

[ArgentumRattus]

i start by mixing everything with pink because pink eats everything. once i unlock the forest i clear my slimes out and get new slimes and mix them all with honey so i only have to grow minto mango. once I unlock the glass desert and a few of the oasis i clear out most of my slimes again, get new ones, and mix them all with mosaic so i only have to grow silver parsnip. My fave slimes are crystal mosaic. I tend to have honey hunters, tangles (in the area where the chickens spawn away from everything else) honey booms and crystal mosaics in the main ranch. rad/pink rock/pink kitty in the science area and a few water slimes at the dock. I free range phospher quantums in the cave with two lemon trees in there to feed them. max out the gardens as high as you can and get a full upgraded silo or two and the drones as soon as you can to build up a good stash of food so you can get rid of a few gardens and replace them with more slimes

[pig]

I sometimes sleep 2 days for food, but the point is you get ENOUGH food.
I have 3 fully upgraded farms which feeds 36 largos, and that over-feeds them.

[purplecharmanderz]

Originally posted by ThePigKing:

I sometimes sleep 2 days for food, but the point is you get ENOUGH food.
I have 3 fully upgraded farms which feeds 36 largos, and that over-feeds them.

Just using this for a depiction, heres the math going with it.

Assuming a non 30 harvest we get 26 or 28 for our harvests, can't recall which. We produce 2 harvests a day per garden and we get 3 gardens.

26x2x3 or 28x2x3
52x3 or 56x3
156 or 168

Next the largos. Largos eat 3 times a day and there are 36. 3x36 is 108.

Demand of 108 to a supply of 156 or 168.

[pig]

But food rots, I NEVER get over 100 (on the ground).
usually 99 with 1 rotten or 100 if im quick.

[purplecharmanderz]

Originally posted by ThePigKing:

But food rots, I NEVER get over 100 (on the ground).
usually 99 with 1 rotten or 100 if im quick.

odd since the rot timers are longer than my calculations time frame for production by another 12 hours.