Food

Food
Details
A basic resource
Require:	Pasture
Storage:	Warehouse, Towncenter, Chest
Source:	Pasture, Farmer, Market trade, Trade mission, Trains, Expedition
Usage:	buildings, research, trade workers, crafting, military
Category:	Resources, Capped resources

Food is a basic resource

Food has many uses including crafting, construction, research and trade.

• Your available Food, storage capacity, production rate and any bonuses to production, displays after you get some.

Access

Food appears, after you build your first Pasture, on Buildings.

• You need 10 Wood to build your first Pasture.

Construction required:
Construct	Requirement	Resource cost
Pasture	build on Buildings	Wood	10

• You can:
  • get Food from Pastures, on Buildings;
  • get Food from Farmers, on Jobs;
  • buy Food at Market;
  • find Food on expeditions, with Military; and
  • import Food, on a Trade mission, from the Dock.

Storage

Your maximum available Food is limited by storage capacity.

• Storage for Food is provided, by:
  • some buildings, on Buildings; and
  • Chests.

Storage provided:
Item	Amount
Warehouse	100
Towncenter	500
Chest	10

• Other factors increment storage.

Production

• Pastures on Buildings and Farmers on Jobs produce Food.

Food produced:
Producer	Rate
Pasture	0.2 per second
Farmer	0.4 per second

Bonuses to production

• Other factors increment Food production.

Bonuses also affect the quantity of resources brought in by a Cargo train.

Uses

• Food is used to:
  • construct, on Buildings;
  • recruit and maintain workers, on Jobs;
  • research; on Technologies;
  • craft Supplies, on Crafting;
  • recruit and maintain units, on Military ; and
  • trade, from the Dock.

Use of food:
Use	Item	Amount
craft	Supplies	500
research	Exploration	100
research	Iron foundry	200
research	Metallurgy	200
research	Iron sword	500
research	Exchange	800
research	Husbandry	2 500
research	Trade	7 000
research	Domestication	10 000
research	Finding	20 000
hire	Woodcutter	50
consume	Woodcutter	0.1 per second
hire	Smelter	50
consume	Smelter	0.1 per second
hire	Miner	50
consume	Miner	0.1 per second
hire	Foundryman	200
consume	Foundryman	0.1 per second
hire	Sailor	500
consume	Sailor	0.2 per second1
consume	Scientist	0.2 per second
consume	Marketer	0.2 per second
recruit	Pikeman	50
consume	Pikeman	0.1 per second
recruit	Swordman	150
consume	Swordman	0.4 per second
consume	Knight	2 per second
recruit	Medic	1 000
consume	Medic	0.4 per second
consume	Bersek	0.8 per second
consume	War elephant	10 per second
consume	Musketeer	0.4 per second
explore	Expedition	depends on army
construct	House	15 × 1.8n
export	Trade mission	varies
where 'n' is the number of the item
1inconsistant with tooltip; v0.9.3 beta

Other

• You can buy, at Market:
  • 400 Food for 1 Coin, before any bonuses; or
  • the maximum amount, your available Coin and storage capacity permits.

The amount you get, with bonuses, for 1 Coin is displayed.

Food on Market

Bonuses to market ratios, increment the amount of Food per Coin.

• A Cargo train can haul 15 Food per second before any bonuses.

• There is 20% chance to find Food, on Expeditions, if no enemies appear.

• You can import Food with a Trade mission, from the Dock.

Trades for food:
Send	ratio	Receive
Chemicals	1 : 1 200	Food
Coal	1 : 150	Food
Copper	1 : 50	Food
Iron	1 : 80	Food
Mineral	5 : 3	Food
Sand	2 : 13	Food
Steel	1 : 800	Food
Tin	1 : 100	Food
Wood	2 : 1	Food

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