Best food sources for each stage?

[MilesLong4200]

I'm just curious how everyone's food progression usually goes. Please list what type of start as well.

 

I've only done terra starts, and for both classic and spaced out I do the following:

Early game - Locally found plants and mealwood

Mid Game - Pickled Meal and BBQ from hatches

Late Game - Still pickled Meal and BBQ lol, which is why I'm making this thread.

[gabberworld]

it depends off map. either mealwood  or bog Bucket at beginning.

i would prefer the bog Bucket tho as what else you todo with all that polluted water

mealwood  i would use too but not because food the dupes but because off Juicer building and decos

another is grubfruit .

when i  finally enter Late Game then i start use high quality food. but how i play it may take thousands off cycles

[r4d6]

Well I used to go for BBQ with 7 hatch ranch, but after I played with the Only-Rust mod and didn't get any hatch to ranch, I really became into Tofu.

On the rust planetoid, ethanol was plentiful with 2 geysers, which gave plenty of ethanol to feed to the Nosh Sprout, negating the normal disadvantage of having to farm arbor trees. And even without the ethanol geysers you can just plant lots of arbor trees as long as you got a pip or two.

Tofu on it's own is a Standard Food, which give +4 moral instead of the +8 BBQ give, but you only need a Pincha Peppernut farm to upgrade the Tofu to Spicy Tofu, which give a +16 moral bonus, double that of BBQ.

I am not sure why you would still want to go for Pickled meal for the mid-late game, considering it is -1 moral and by that stage you normally have an infinite food storage, nullifying the lifespan advantage.

[NeoDeusMachina]

This is usually my approach:

Early game: bristle berries or meal lice/pickled meal lice (on forest starts), wild harvested plants. I keep non spoiling food as much as possible for first rockets later on.

Mid game: gristle berries, barbecue from ranched critters (dreckos consistently, other critters vary depending on what I'm going for)

Late game: stuffed berries, berry sludge for rockets (I tend to play rocket heavy, no interplanatery launchers or teleporters). The rest is varied (I like changing what my dupes eat pretty much every time to force myself setting up different production chains). This time around, I've got an outpost eating frost buns and another outpost eating barbecue from wild shove voles (the rest goes to the tree).

[NewWorldDan]

Early game: meal lice or grubfruit (if available).  Switch to pickled meal/grubfruit preserve as soon as I can spare a cook.

Mid game (vanilla): BBQ (usually hatches, maybe drecko)

Mid game (spaced out): Berry sludge

Late game (vanilla): Pepper bread

Late game (spaced out): More berry sludge, some pepper bread on the home planet. 

Essentially, as soon as possible, I just start mass producing berry sludge.  With the challenge of stocking rockets with food, berry sludge gives adequate morale and never spoils.  Ideal space food.  If that isn't available, grubfruit preserve  Once I'm growing sleet wheat or bristle berry I make use of the farm station.  I don't bother with that on the meal lice.  Some of this depends on the map as well - you work with what's available.  I've been doing more fish farming lately because the egg shells are great for steel.  

[MilesLong4200]

2 hours ago, r4d6 said:

 

I am not sure why you would still want to go for Pickled meal for the mid-late game, considering it is -1 moral and by that stage you normally have an infinite food storage, nullifying the lifespan advantage.

TBH it's because I can never get enough BBQ going

So i guess I need to get sleet wheat and a gristle berry farm going. Hmm ok I'll look up some guides.

[gabberworld]

26 minutes ago, MilesLong4200 said:

sleet wheat

sleet wheat is easy, make a cold room and make ice blocks at there. after that use pip

gristle berry is easy as-well . i just build room for that

 

[Coolthulhu]

For me it's:

• Early game - non-renewables, wild plants and mush until I unlock locavore
• Mid game - spam grubfruit and/or lice while I work on carnivore
• Late game - anything goes, there's no rush and no real goal anymore

[blakemw]

• Early game: sometimes mealwood but only if there's no other option, but if better plants are available (such as Grubfruit) I go for them quickly, often scavenging for wild sleet wheat provides a useful food source. Bog Bucket is great on applicable asteroids.
• Mid game: Sleetwheat + Bristle Blossom for Berry Sludge. It's just great with the general abundance of cool water on Spaced Out starts. Berry Sludge forever. If an asteroid is being fed by bog bucket, lack of morale can be compensated for with rec buildings.
• End game: Mixed Berry Pie is a good upgrade path from my favored earlier foods of Grub Fruit and Berry Sludge. But of course Berry Sludge continues to be a good option too for delivery to other planetoids.
  
   

There will be some supplementary food from other sources too of course.

[Gurgel]

For me, it really depends on what the situation allows. End-game foods for me are spice bread and, for space-travel or sending to other planets, berry sludge. But even that is not fixed. 

[r4d6]

6 hours ago, Coolthulhu said:

For me it's:

• Early game - non-renewables, wild plants and mush until I unlock locavore
• Mid game - spam grubfruit and/or lice while I work on carnivore
• Late game - anything goes, there's no rush and no real goal anymore

Why would you do Locavore before Carnivore?
If you work on carnivore you'll also get Locavore at the same time because you're eating meat, which doesn't need crops to be planted.

[Coolthulhu]

2 hours ago, r4d6 said:

Why would you do Locavore before Carnivore?
If you work on carnivore you'll also get Locavore at the same time because you're eating meat, which doesn't need crops to be planted.

I am going for carnivore from the start, it's just that locavore happens earlier, while I'm still setting things up.

[Sasza22]

Earlygame it`s mealwood/bog bucket. Plus random wild stuff.

Midgame grubfruit with maybe bristle berry depending on how much water i got. (the mealwood farm becomes the drecko ranch)

Lategame... I usually don`t go that far before restarting but i guess grubfruit preserve, berry sludge, mixed berry pie and i guess spicy tofu beacause why not (i laways attempt to farm it but almost never get to do it). Maybe i add some dusk caps for the fruit shake machine.

I wish we had a guaranteed salt water geyser so we could farm lettuce reliably.

[TeDeum]

In current playthrough it was liceloaf -> swampy delights -> pepper bread -> run out of natural gas -> berry sludge (was intended for rockets, but can be emergency food) -> grubfruit preserve (spending sulphur geyser, also nice +8 morale). Going to build sour gas boiler for pepper bread

[KonfigSys]

if you do not study all skill points but have specialization for dupes (researcher, digger, engineer, etc.) then you can feed ANY food to your dupes and the morale will still stay high enough. 

I prefer berry sludge after vacuum nerf. It is great for rocket trips as it does not spoil and do not need power for the space fridge.

 

Also players did not mention fishes; they are great in DLC as they can be fed with seeds (any ones) for the farm growth and then hungry farms (with no food) to maintain the population that produce a lot of fish fillet.

Just to share my set-up for current food production (berry sludge section is in the progress); I have just started a new game on a big map.

and yes, I know about one tile pools but I like proper sized pools for esthetic reasons.

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