Originally Posted By: LadyCFII
Unless you're very low on food and need to gather mushrooms to keep your tribe alive, it's far better to put the game on slow speed.
At slow speed the number of food points earned per "normal" food item is reduced. The amount of food consumed per hour by the villagers is reduced by a similar amount. However, mushrooms have a fixed value (6 for a brown one, 35 for the rare red) so they become comparatively more valuable when the game is on slow.
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