The above picture shows the best hydroponics layout in Rimworld. Try them, see if they work for you don't use them in Ice Sheet or Sea Ice though, obviously.Hydroponics is just the way to do that in Rimworld. Hydroponics makes it a moot point, so you can grow anything (basically) anywhere, but yes. extreme biomes suit potatoes more, rice in mild biomes, strawberries anywhere-ish). If you're intending to survive potentially indefinitely, you'll benefit from a different crop in each biome (i.e. Players who actually go for the ship escape ending will just spam research and not care too much about specific crops, generally. Low-fertility zones will benefit more from potatoes as they are hardier against all conditions. Ultimately though, the best food is dependent on your situation. In this situation, Rice will cripple you with a worse "Ate raw food" debuff than most other raw foods, whereas Strawberries grow almost as quickly, provide slightly higher yield AND don't incur a "raw food" debuff. The main problem with this is that colonists are generally quite stupid, and will oftentimes grab food not yet prepared. Sure, Rice grows extremely fast and provides low yield (which, when the math is done, should equal out to more than a crop of Corn over the same duration), Potatoes grow slow-ish and provide mid-tier yield, and slow Corn gives a lot. I typically try to have around 200-250 units of veggies available when it's time to pack up so that I can use those to start making fine meals ASAP after settling at a new location, which gives me time to start up new crops.įrom what I've found, Strawberries are the best to plant for your colonists at any particular point. Also, food isn't the only thing one needs to carry on a caravan, which is why I've made pemmican. He'll be bigger in 5 or 6 days and will be able to carry more weight and not slow down the caravan. I have 2 and a baby.which is why I'm waiting to leave. Tame some animals like muffalos to greatly increase caravan carry weight. Now, if there was a potato-cannon mod (which I'm sure there is, lol), I'd plant potatoes until the cows came home. Besides, what good is 4000 potatoes going to do me if I can only carry 300, ya know. Good advice, but right now I'm caravaning a lot and try to keep the excess down, which is why I've forbidden sowing I plan on leaving in 5 or 6 days and the food I have in my freezer will be enough to last that long. Oh yeah, I also have 30 fine meals prepped and ready to be eaten as well. I've also made 750 pemmican as well (getting ready to caravan soon). I've got 1000+ hay, 600+ potatoes, 300+ each meat, rice, and corn. So far on this playthrough it's been the easiest I've endured (playing RR rough). I've had to forbid sowing at the moment because my freezer is literally crammed with food. I've got only one greenhouse (12x12) going on my current colony (3 peeps) in which I've been growing rice, potatoes, corn, and haygrass. Always have at least a 7 day supply of food (meals + raw ingredients to make meals).never know what events will transpire that can lead your colonists down the road to starvation. You can also make meals out of wild raspberries, which is a good stop-gap if you're really hurting for food, and animal milk if you have any milk-producing animals assigned to your colony. A single rice plant yields 8 or 9 units, potatoes around 20, and corn around 30. I'm still only getting used to the exact ratios to use myself.Ĭolonists typically eat 20 units of food a day (2 meals). However, since you can't judge how many new colonists you might end up getting early on until later, it is better to grow more than less. For 3 colonists, an 8x8 patch of rice, 4x8 patch of potatoes, 4x8 patch of corn, 4x4 or 4x8 patch of berries, would be complete overkill. So planting some can be worth it, you just need to make sure you have other stuff growing as well to mature more quickly. You will only get one "batch" of corn fully grown (typically) in a 30 day grow season, in my experience, but that one batch will give you a MASSIVE amount of food with which to survive the winter. Strawberries are great as well to grow if you have the growing skill for it at the start. Grow potatoes and corn as well, as potatotes take longer than rice to mature and corn does as well, so you'll often have something new to harvest throughout the growing season. Rice first, as that is the fastest to grow and you will start running low on food (likely) by the time it is first ready. I would recommend just doing a mix of crops. Rice also requires much more time actually harvesting, since - as I said - the yields are low for what you get. I might be wrong on this, but it APPEARS that the longer it takes a plant to grow, the more food you get, so it's more about what you find more important. Rice grows the fastest, but in my experience the yields are low.
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