Food icon.

**andym** · March 16, 2011, 04:11 PM

You know down the bottom right near the amount ingoing and outgoing Koku, there is a food icon.I assume this tells you how much food is being produced?Or do i have it wrong?I cant seem to find any relevance to it at all.

**Grundhelm** · March 16, 2011, 04:17 PM

It tells you how much food is available. If you upgrade your stronghold to a castle it will cost 3 food. If you only have 2 food available you cant purchase the upgrade, if you had 3 and build a castle you will now have zero food and will need to produce more rice farms if you want to upgrade any further strongholds or castles. hope this helps. Cheers Grund.

**andym** · March 17, 2011, 10:48 AM

Many thanks Grund.

**Silly Wizard** · March 17, 2011, 11:00 AM

Try not to get into negative with the food or you will need to deal with revolts and the ire of REBEL SCUM. Last thing you want when out on a campaign and your capital's garrison is poorly defended. Cheers nyoro~n

**Otherdude** · March 17, 2011, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by Grundhelm

If you only have 2 food available you cant purchase the upgrade, if you had 3 and build a castle you will now have zero food and will need to produce more rice farms if you want to upgrade any further strongholds or castles. hope this helps. Cheers Grund.

Does it actually stop you from purchasing the upgrade? I ended up in a major food shortage because I wasn't paying attention to that little resource. I guess that's one reason to reconsider having major strongholds in every province early on.

**Nitrius** · March 17, 2011, 11:11 AM

Doesn't stop you from building stuff that needs food i believe, i've gone into - myself so.

**Mikelus Trento** · March 17, 2011, 11:30 AM

The food icon shows the cumulative surplus, or deficit.

**Sol Invictus** · March 17, 2011, 11:31 AM

Lack of Food doesn't stop you from building but you will go into negatiove Food and peasants get angry when they are hungry. I find it best to maintain a 2-3 Food surplus to cover any unforseen occurance.

**Mikelus Trento** · March 17, 2011, 11:49 AM

Please note that rice exchanges cost food.

**Thoragoros** · March 17, 2011, 11:53 AM

But does it anywhere say how much is actually being produced?

**Otherdude** · March 17, 2011, 12:02 PM

It's a constant representation of availability vs expenditure. Farms provide +n per turn, while Castles and advanced markets etc cost -n per turn.

**Otherdude** · March 17, 2011, 12:08 PM

Also, if you want to know what is costing food and how much your farms are producing, you can mouse over them with a city selected. It should pretty plainly say Provides food n or costs food n. Something along those lines.