However, gatherers need a lot of space - to get those fantastic yields, you need to have most of their yellow range circle be forest - and you really shouldn't overlap gatherer circles because they're picking from the same plants - it'll reduce the total yield of both. Make sure you have a storage barn and housing for your gatherers at the site of the hut. They give awesome food variety (keeping your population healthy) and generate a lot of food per worker if they're in a heavily wooded area. When you're trying to optimise food produced per worker, gatherers are fantastic. It depends on what stage of the game you're in, and what resource you're trying to optimise. And they will yield leather and wool, which are needed for warm cloth. But it may take a long time to fill the pastures. Sheep and Cattle will provide a lot of food with only 2 herdsmen. And you can or lower the yield by assigning more or less fishermen, which is not possible for crop fields and orchards. The best thing about fishing docks is that they are able to provide food all the time. And really - 500 food is a bad output for 4 workers, only 100 more than they need for themselves. I had fishing docks in small rivers with much more than 1000 food per year and I had docks with 500 food per year on wide rivers with a lot of water around. Ok, in general they should produce more fish if there is a lot of water around. Maybe Herbalists and Hunter are a better team, as Herbalists will need "old" trees to produce herbs.įishing docks are sometimes confusing me. They seem to work best in quite areas, so forester+hunter may not be the best combination. No matter how old a tree is - it will generate food to pick up nearby. Gatherers are always good in combination with foresters. I only use orchards for food variety, which should help keeping your population healthy. And again a few years later some of the trees will need replacement, dropping the yield. Orchards can also provide a lot of food, but they need a few years to grow the trees. In winter time farmers will act as general laborers, which may be useful. But the yield may depend on the weather and crop fields can become infested.
A crop field with maximum size will need up to 4 farmers and can produce 1596 food per year, feeding almost 16 people. Crop fields can provide huge amounts of food, if you take the number of workers and the land used into account.
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