I'm out of coconuts. My field won't grow for another hour and six minutes. I have 17 villagers and I'm 13360 tech points away from farming lvl 3 with only 291 food left. Is there any way to save my village or the only thing left the mass funeral. T.T

can you make stew?

Go on Mushroom Hunt then!

If you have young villagers.

yes i can make stew and 40% of my villagers are under 14

unfortunatly for whatever reason mushrooms are a rare ucurance in my village

Then try pausing the game the mushroom (And Collection) should appear even though the game is paused

Your villagers are quite hardy. Even when the food level drops to zero it will take a while for them to take starvation damage. As others have said, set your kids to mushroom-hunting. If you find a red mushroom or manage to get a small store of food in the bin and the villagers have taken starvation damage, make a rainbow stew to restore them. You should get past the lack of food without too much trouble apart from time spent looking for mushrooms. Don't ignore the collectibles; duplicates are worth tech points, which cut the time taken to reach L3 Farming and future self-sufficiency in food.

Villagers seem to consume about 20 units of food per village year. At 2x speed you still have about 51 minutes before the food supply reaches zero. Much longer at other speeds. And, as Arnie pointed out, it then will take a LONG time for there to be a really significant effect on the villers' health.

If you get to a point where you need to rely on mushrooms for food, you might want to consider switching to 1/2 speed, since the food value for mushrooms (and crabs, but you can't get those with algae), unlike other food sources, remain constant regardless of game speed and the consumption rate seems to be based on a villager year... taking longer at 1/2 speed. Of course you will need to monitor your village constantly (or nearly so) to take advantage of the mushroom crop.

Jer

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