As with any real-time strategy game or grand strategy game, one of the key elements inAgainst the Stormis managing villagers; namely, keeping them well-fed. As players arescouring the surrounding gladesfor resources, on top of their lists should be viable nodes for food rations or farm land for growing crops and herbs.
Thankfully, the game provides a variety of food nodes to help players keep their villagers from starving as they establish a thriving settlement. But which food items are worth investing resources on? Here are some of the best options players can look for when going for a run.
Lizard’s Specialty: Second Raw Food Material
Essential ingredient for the following foods:
Against the Stormhas players start each run in a hunter-gather scenario where they must command their villagers to forage for food. Eggs areone of the available fooditems that is easy to gather. Players just need to get a Trapper’s Camp and assign villagers to start gathering them.
Eggs are usually found in nests on the ground. Depending on how large the nest is, players might need to have an upgraded Trapper’s Camp to gather from the egg nest. In addition to being a key ingredient in other crafting materials like Bag of Crops and Pack of Provisions, Eggs can also be used to complete Glade Events, where players choose between inviting new villagers to the settlement or sending them back to the Citadel.
Lizard’s Specialty: Raw Food Material
Protein is essential to ensure that the players’ workers can undertake the back-breaking labor entailed when establishing a settlement. Luckily, the game provides various nodes where the villagers can harvest meat. These are usually in the form of carcasses of animals and nests via Trapper’s Camps.
Meat is a key ingredient for creating more scrumptious food items, such as jerky and skewers. These food items are especially made for Lizards and Harpies to increase their resolve. In most cases, players need to keep their eye on their meat production when their villagers have more Lizards or Harpies, since these workers tend to get affected with the Storm and other negative effects the most.
Provides Medium Resolve for Humans and Beavers
2nd-Tier Luxury food for:
When it comes to food that is well-loved by villagers, the Biscuit is the go-to consumable for many townsfolk inAgainst the Storm. This processed food lifts the resolve of Humans, Beavers, and Harpies whenever they manage to get their hands on these morsels.
Biscuits greatly alleviate hunger, butthey do require a lot of resourcesto produce. They typically need Flour, and either Herbs, Berries, or Roots. In most cases, these aren’t readily available, unless players are actively seeking them in glades.
Specialty Food for Beavers
Luxury food for:
During the early to middle stages of the game, the available villagers are often a mix betweenHumans, Lizards, and Beavers. Each villager has their own preferences, and for Lizards and Beavers, their taste converges when it comes to Pickled Goods.
Pickled Goods are made from a combination of Vegetables, Mushrooms. Roots, Berries, and Eggs. Once consumed, Beavers and Lizards get a huge boost to their resolve. This allows them to soldier on with their tasks, even during heavy rainfall. In the latter stages, even Foxes are keen on partaking in Pickled Goods to get motivated.
Provides Medium Resolve for Lizards and Harpies
Jerky is one of the first-level processed foods players will encounter and cook for their settlers in the game. These are made by cooking Meat or Insects along with Wood, Oil, Coal, or Sea Marrow, all of which are generally available in the early glades that players will hack through.
The recipes needed for Jerky also differ, but are not as resource-intensive as the more complex processed food. This makes it an excellent early game food item, especially for Lizards and Harpies, who are notorious when it comes to having their resolve hit hard whenever something negative happens. Having Jerky for them bolsters their resolve and allows them to work through heavy rainfall.
Harpy Specialty: Raw Food Material
The best food items in the game are those that players can harvest indefinitely. Berries fall into this category. In the beginning, players can encounter shrubs where Berries can be harvested via Herbalist’s Camp. But such shrubs can only hold so much, and eventually, foragers can exhaust the nodes.
Luckily, players can get a steady supply of Berries when they get the Plantation structure. These are placed near fertile soil, and players can assign villagers to till the land and plant Berries and Herbs. Berries are also used as crafting materials for other tradeable items or glade events, further increasing their importance.
Human Specialty: Plant-based Raw Food Material
As far as food items are concerned, Vegetables are one of the most versatile ingredients inAgainst the Storm. These are usually harvested in small or large nodes that spawn in most glades.
Vegetables are typically part of many first to second-level crafting materials and food items, such as Pack of Goods, Pickled Goods, Porridge, and Skewers. They are even used for completing glade quests that typically involve enticing small encampments to join the players’ settlements. That said, once players have access to the Small Farm, they can grow Vegetables as often as they like, and evencombo it with specific Cornerstonesto further increase its production.
Human Specialty: Crop-based Raw Food Material
Grains are essential for any player who is planning on expanding their food items to the second level. Grains are used for making flour, an essential ingredient for Biscuits, Pies, and other bread-like food items. It can also be used for different kinds of Goods for trading, as well as another resource option for specific glade events. They can be harvested in specific nodes, similar to other primary food resources.
The Small Farmis usually the first food production structure players build for their settlement’s food needs. This is because Small Farms are one of the cheaper structures to build, and the crops players can harvest from them are used for a lot of items. Whenever there’s a plot of fertile land, it is best to have a Small Farm on it, so that there is always a steady stream of Grain ready for consumption.
