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Posted March 06, 2011
Hello !

What is the best food to produce ?

From my experience it's Cheese (with cows), and apples.
But I hear some people say that wheat is better , although from my experience it's much slower to produce.

What do you think ?
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Posted March 06, 2011
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MaximB: Hello !

What is the best food to produce ?

From my experience it's Cheese (with cows), and apples.
But I hear some people say that wheat is better , although from my experience it's much slower to produce.

What do you think ?
Although bread is the most complex foodstuff to produce it also feeds the highest number of people; bakers turn out batches of bread very quickly. Also, if I'm not mistaken, you can have two-three bakeries for every mill.
I recall cheese is the second most abundant food.
Posted March 07, 2011
It depends what stage your game and keep is at - wheat and grain is not much good early on as it take too long to produce - at that time apples and cheese are far better because they provide a much faster food source.

Once you've got things up and running shift to wheat since, as said, it is able to feed more people per plot than the other food groups. Further having excess wheat converted into bread is always a good way to have a nice big store of food you can sell off at the market for a cash injection.
Posted March 07, 2011
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overread: It depends what stage your game and keep is at - wheat and grain is not much good early on as it take too long to produce - at that time apples and cheese are far better because they provide a much faster food source.

Once you've got things up and running shift to wheat since, as said, it is able to feed more people per plot than the other food groups. Further having excess wheat converted into bread is always a good way to have a nice big store of food you can sell off at the market for a cash injection.
The problem is when I did try to relay on bread, the "development" was so slow I had no food left , people left leaving the bakeries making me restart the mission.
Posted March 07, 2011
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MaximB: The problem is when I did try to relay on bread, the "development" was so slow I had no food left , people left leaving the bakeries making me restart the mission.
the trick is not to remove your previous food sources - leave them running so that they keep feeding your people and then ease into bread. In other words you have to start making wheat before you need it - then grind it into flour before you need it and then back it into bread (ideally before you need it again). Once you've a bread system up and running its a reliable food source - its just getting the build order right.
Posted December 13, 2011
The manual and tutorial say bread is the most efficient, but is it really? A full bread system is 2-3 wheat fields, 1 mill, and around 8 bakeries. That feeds a lot of people, but it also takes up 12 workers.

You sure 12 apple or cattle farms wouldn't provide more food?
Posted December 13, 2011
Maybe, but 12 big apple or cow farms take up a LOT of farmland. 2-3 wheat fields is almost nothing in comparison.
Bread is also better during a siege. When your farmlands may be outside castle walls, your bakers and mill most probably are not.
The multi-stage production also helps there, you can stock up on wheat and flour during good times and then live off your stockpile for a while.
Posted December 13, 2011
I've usually used bread if I can help it, but in early missions I find apples and cheese to be best. Although if you want to rely on Ale for happiness (SH1 and SHC strategy) bread is best for income.
Posted December 20, 2011
How about the best way to raise money? Is it building lots of farms to feed a high population that you can tax? Building lots of farms but keeping population low to sell off produce? Selling off materials?

If taxing population is the way to go, which is the best way? Getting lots of farms to feed lots of people? Getting less farms and more ale to increase popularity so you can afford a higher tax rate? (Religion sure seems to stink in the original game. It's a lot of gold for very little popularity).
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