How To Keep Your Villagers Fed In The Wandering Village
Feeding your villagers will take the most time The Wandering Village. With limited space, water, and labor, finding enough food to keep everyone alive and happy takes planning and effort. Once your settlement starts to grow, your villagers will start demanding higher quality food and more variety than when you started. Your villagers can be surprisingly picky.
If you’re struggling to know which plants to grow and when to grow them, this guide will help you out. Although that’s really just the beginning when it comes to managing your farming on the back of Onbu.
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How to grow crops
You have to build farms to get started. These are cheap buildings that do not require research before construction. Once built, you You must determine where your farmers will plant your crops before they begin. They are limited to grassland So think about where you want to place your fields.
Air fountains and water tanks become an integral part of growing your plants. These buildings produce and store water necessary for plants to grow when there is enough moisture to do so. Make sure you build enough to keep all your crops watered and save enough for droughts.
Compost made on the compost heapused to fertilize crops on farms, making them more efficient and improving your food production.
Once Onbu starts struggling through the game’s three biomes, understanding which crops to grow and when becomes very important. Your farms will eventually be able to plate five different cultures that thrive in different environmental conditions.
| harvest | water consumption | Biome Preference |
|---|---|---|
| turnip | 2 | jungle and mountain. It’s still growing freezing temperatures. |
| Corn | 1 | Desert. It grows best in hot weather and can still grow in hot temperatures. |
| tomato | 3 | jungle and desert. It can’t grow in hot temperatures. |
| Wheat | 1 | jungle, desert and mountain. It cannot grow in all extreme temperatures. |
| cactus | – | Desert. It thrives in it hot and scorching weather. |
Also, the cultivation of plants in unfavorable conditions slows their growth to 60%, stops it entirely, or kills them entirely, causing them to decompose instead of growing. For example, try growing corn while the Freezing temperatures will cause the entire crop to fail when growing in hot weather makes the crops thrive.
You can change crops in advance to ensure you are prepared for the next biome. If your farms grow cacti and corn and you head into the mountains, you can switch to beets and wheat before crossing harvest suitable crops faster.
It is also worth paying attention to the water consumption of each culture. While the decision to plant tomatoes in the desert provides more food than corn, it depletes it three times as much water in a biome where it is already scarce. It may be a good idea to make the switch once you’ve done so lots of water, but running out of food However, if you maintain it for too long, your water supplies may be depleted.
The desert is too dry for Air Wells to function. you will need Grow cacti and raid oases to fill up your water tanks when you are in the desert.
harvest berries
Use berry picker lets you develop a food source that does not require water and is independent of temperature. Berries will continue to produce food throughout your journey, although not as quickly as grain. The buildings work by harvesting berries from nearby bushes Efficiency increases with the number of nearby bushes. However, the efficiency can be low at the beginning Berry bushes spread slowly over time. Eventually your collectors will collect with 100% efficiency.
berry harvest is particularly susceptible to poisonous plants that ruin the harvest. You can’t just plant more bushes, which means that once an infestation destroys a bush, You cannot replace it directly.
Processed Foods
The sooner you research and build a kitchen, the better. Processed foods aref higher quality than its raw counterparts, which is necessary to keep your villagers happy at larger population levels. Processing can even Multiply the yield of each crop by producing more food than you put into it. It is particularly evident in the following cultures:
- Three beets make five beet soup
- Three berries make five berry molasses
- Three tomatoes make four grilled tomatoes
- One piece of wheat makes two loaves of bread
It’s a good idea to grow wheat throughout the journey. It can survive in all biomes except extreme conditions. It also has the highest yield per crop harvested but it takes operate most of the infrastructure. Instead of kitchens, at a, wheat must first be ground into flour windmill before they are made into bread at a bakery. It takes a significant investment in resources and research to unlock these returns.
Distributing processed food can pose a logistical problem for your village. With buildings like Dung Collectors and Scavenger Huts must be built in specific locationswhich forces their workers to travel long distances to get their groceries waste valuable time and keep them from work. Food stands solve this problem by automatically transporting processed food from the kitchen to the warehouse. It is useful to supply remote jobs efficiently.
With Onbu
Despite your best efforts, harvests may fail and famine looms. In dire situations like this, the huge beast you live on can seem pretty delicious. That Onbu Blood Extractor lets you satisfy your dangerous hunger by drawing Onbu’s blood, which is cooked into black pudding. The usage will deplete Onbu’s health and decrease confidence, but it can be a necessary evil to keep the village alive, at least in the short term.
Later in the game, you can even turn blood into water at a laboratory to survive a drought should it happen.