But may the RNG God have mercy on your soul when a solar flare wipes out your hydroponic potato crop. For maximum efficiency, nutrient paste is the way to go.Īnd if you're really pressed for space, you can grow potatoes in hydroponics, then nutrient paste them - You can keep a colonist alive on just 6 potato plants. That means each colonist only needs 0.6 nutrition per person, which translates to just 10 potatoes per colonist on 100% fertility ground. Pemmican deserves a mention too - It upgrades 0.5 nutrition to 0.8, but because it produces 16 0.05 nutrition food items instead of a single meal, colonists can eat it more sparingly - So little net difference to just cooking simple meals, but pemmican lasts a lot longer if you can't freeze meals.įinally, nutrient paste is very unpleasent, so carries a mood debuff, but it's slightly better than raw food, and outrageously efficient - It takes a meagre 0.3 nutrition to produce a 0.9 nutrition meal. Lavish meals and Packaged Survival Meals, however, are substantially more expensive in terms of nutrition required, as well as needing animal products in addition to vegetables, in exchange for either a large mood bonus or being unperishable. If you're cooking your potatoes, you only need 16 per colonists on normal soil as a bare minimum. While Colonists over-eat when you feed them meals, it still only costs 1 point of nutrition to feed them for a day compared to 1.6 if fed sparingly on smaller items, as well as avoiding the raw food mood penalty. I'd disagree on the meals point Simple (And fine, but you need meat to make fine meals) cost 0.5 nutrition to make and provide 0.9. Colonists eat 1.6 nutrition per day minimum, but generally two meals, so cooking food into more nutritious meals tends to not as save much nutrition.Įdit: Keep in mind you need to be prepared for things like blights, and cold snaps or heat waves, so that information is mostly useless in actual gameplay. Shows how much nutrition per day per crop on each soil type. This way, your colony’s entire food supply cannot be decimated by a single event, such as one wildfire or a single brownout. It is not required for growing nutrifungus, which can grow on any type of soil, provided it is grown in complete darkness. Though most RimWorld players seem to agree that the hydroponic farms are better (once you can afford them), it is actually best to have a mixture of both indoor and outdoor farming. Fungal gravel can grow any type of plant, not just nutrifungus. It is statistically identical to stoney gravel. With a sun blocker, you'll still need to place a roof over the growing area for colonists to actually plant the crop.Originally posted by Astasia:21 pototato plants per colonist on fertile soil, 25 on normal soil. Fungal gravel has a soil fertility of 70, and has a walk speed modifier of 87. It can also be grown freely if you are forced to (or want to) live under a sun blocker. So, even when considering the mood penalty of fungus, and the work penalties of darkness, this crop can be worthwhile to grow. If youre in a sandy hell or somesuch, then use hydroponics. Also, hydroponics means a solar flare or battery drain in an eclipse will kill all of the plants. Being indoors, in turn, lets you use heaters to control the temperature, and grow crops during the winter. Spending power to get 120/135 growth in 50 growing area (you need walkways between the basins) isnt as good as 100 growth in 100 growing area. This is because nutrifungus can be grown in darkness, which lets you grow indoors without needing a sun lamp. They can be also viable if you are forced to grow crops under gravel or stony soil, such as in the Extreme Desert.Įven without the Tunneler meme, fungus can be worthwhile to sow. With the Tunneler meme, growing nutrifungus becomes a no-brainer, as tunnelers hate non-fungus vegetables. This makes potatoes the superior overall choice for colonies without the Tunneler meme, so long as you can grow outdoors. The confusing thing was that they lose HP before dying so when they died it came as 'Hop plant (32) died due to rotting' and i thought that number was growth progress instead of HP, so it didnt come to mind they werent being harvested until I ran indepth experiments. In addition, most ideoligions dislike eating raw fungus, with a −3 moodlet when cooked.
The Lighting: Darklight Preferred precept or Dark vision gene both counteract any negative dark-related effect. However, a baseline pawn will work 80% as fast with fungus due to the penalties of darkness. Nutrifungus has even less fertility sensitivity than potatoes, so it actually grows faster in poor soil (the potato plant's usual niche). In addition, yield per work is identical between the two crops, making them mostly identical for the purposes of food. Nutrifungus grows very slightly slower than potato plants, taking 103.4% the time to grow for the exact same yield.
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