Easiest Food to Mass Produce?

I was wondering, since as of now, I'm starting to run out of cooked meat, and I have very few cooking schematics and ingredients. My only decent strategy for getting more meat is going back to Alpha Sector and 1-shotting with my bow the aliens for their meat, and since there aren't any upgrades for the bow after Steel, it stops being viable after the Beta Sector.

I'd prefer a type of food that's fairly easy to get in all sectors and can be quickly harvested.

 

all races can grow wheat and craft bread
apex can also craft banana bread, which is a full hunger bar and massive amount of health

 

Wheat -> bread.

 

Each race has it's own base recipes. Each recipe also has a unique effect on the player (also determined by race). What race are you playing as?

Go here for a list of basic recipes. Just find a source that's easy to reproduce. Ex., if you're playing Apex, make a huge banana and wheat garden and farm for banana bread and roast banana

Another good way to stock up on food is to simply purchase from a vendor.

 

So, would it be better to make my homeworld on an Alpha planet and grow wheat there? I've heard that trying to farm on multiple planets is terrible and a waste of time and seeds.

 

As far as foods to produce I can't help you, though more advanced foods made with the cooking table will restore much more food than just meat (and many provide healing as well) - if you ever find yourself on a planet with an eye or toxic minibiome, oculemons or toxic tops can both be found by the dozen, though that's only on planets that have them and they aren't so great for farming.

 

Well, whatever sector you want to make your home planet in. You can warp there from any other sector from your ship. But yea, pick one spot to farm at and go big instead of having multiple farms that you have to travel to.

 

The wheat won't grow while you're away, unless you're using the persistent farmables mod, so it's easiest to keep just one farm, on your home planet. You could also build your farm on your ship, which is always loaded. It won't be very big (unless you're using a ship mod), but you'll have a fresh crop ready every ten minutes, so you can just harvest every time you beam back up.

 

I found the copper key pie receipt. So I've now been making those since they are relatively easy crops to grow. The receipt calls for only 1 wheat, 1 kiwi and 1 diodia.

Tier 3 Health regen and full stomach.

 

I could be wrong, but I think recipes act differently for different races. Like, that recipe would make a glitch burn or something.

Anybody know about this?

 

I ate an apple pie on an apex and it gave her the burn status. It did no damage at all though, just made her get the visual and status effect icon.

 

you could carry seeds and dirt with you on your travels and plant them on the planet your visiting just before you go exploring and when your done you should have a full harvest. provided you use fast growing crops. if its a large planet they will stop growing when you get out of range but will start up again once you approach from the other side, hence why you should use quick growing crops.

 

There are a few things coming to my mind:

To my observation Diturchin (this green, tasteless fruit with red fruit flesh) grows insanely faster (~2 mins growth time) but it isnt really nutrious nor can be used in most recipes (and tastes like nothing). However if you got somehow the Corn on the Blob recipe you can use 1 Corn and 1 Diturchin to get a fairly saturing and healthy item (has a decent health regen). Thats what I am currently mass producing since corn and diturchin grow very fast and I got the recipe.

Boneboo also grows extremly fast and can be used for "Boneboomarrow" a floran recipe found in floran villages (requires 2 boneboo). Good healing boost, and good nutrition but kinda disgusting to immagine that your char eats a marrow like substance. Not to be confused with meat and marrow which is another recipe requiring boneboo and alienmeat.

Wartweeds are also grown fairly fast, though their outer appearence remember me a bit of a flashlight... flashlight written with e instead of an a. They have good nutrious, but not many easy recipes use them.

Last but not least I would say that boltbulbs are extremly easily grown and very compact (1x1 tile size). Those can be turned into Bolt O's (glitch recipe) which also give a nice heal buff and is also fairly nutrious.

Usually they turn faster when eating apple pies or similar, like this roast dinner gives you a 1000% jump boost (not kidding with that), the burn status is just a "visual" placeholder.

 

The fastest way to have mass food is to find an npc food merchant villager or chef spawner and buy the food for 4-5 pixels each. At low level bandages are enough and you get plenty from jungle planets.

Farming is a bad way to do it imo, unless your afk a lot. Or you have a farm on your ship. And ship space is limited.

 

First, here's the wiki page on crops; shows stages of growth and (approximate) time till maturity. http://starbounder.org/Crops

Buying the food (ingredients) is definitely the way to go. Time is money and pixels can be made cheap.

Bandages are only acceptable at low levels; once you have a good recipe you want to make and keep lots of food for filling up your health bar and possibly other benefits. Satifying your hunger will be secondary.

Breads are a great way to go. Carrot Bread is my favorite as it seems almost all food vendors in villages sell Wheat or Carrots or both. Bananas grow much faster than carrots go so Banana Bread if you're going to be a complete farmer.

 

When I go for mining raids I keep to planets with tar-caverns, as these are filled to the brim with boneboo, as well as having a ridiculously easy-to-break base-block. Ca 80 Boneboo per mining-expedition + buying chili from local vendors gets me ca 80 spicybone, which in turn gives a good regen and a glorious speed-increase, perfect food for battle.

 

Copper Key Pie. You can get the recipe from Glitch castles fairly often.

It takes 1 Diodia, 1 Kiwi, 1 Wheat. Heals for ~400 HP and fully restores hunger.

Kiwi and Wheat takes 12 minutes to grow, Diodia takes 24. If you make a farm with Kiwi/Wheat/Diodia ratio being 1/1/2, then you can easily mass produce them.


An other alternative -- Hamburgers. Human starting recipe.

Takes 1 raw meat and 2 bread (4 wheat). Also restores ~400 HP and all of your hunger.

I believe that's the sugar rush buff. It gives a fire-like glow, 3x speed and jump height from what I can remember.

Sadly, Apple Pies are difficult to mass produce without merchants due to the apple requirement -- they can't seem to be grown.

The glitch castles I've mentioned before are where you want to go. Guards there drop crossbows, which scale in strength and make fairly decent ranged weapons. Those with non-elemental bolts will cause mobs to drop meat and leather, just like the bow.

 

Wow! I need to verify this; if true it is quite the game changer because I love the idea of hunting for my meat but hate going back to Sector A with my crappy bow and hunting knife to do it.

 

Anything from a food vendor.

 

It's not the burned effect, I believe it's called "hot feet" and it increases movement speed.