For Iron teeth, only Berries, Kohlrabies (via Farm) and Mangrove Fruits (trees in water) are eaten raw, everything else needs to be processed in some way.

Looking at the screen grab, your fields are far too big for the number of farms, look at the number of picked vs unpicked crops. The picked area is basically the max area a single farm can cope with, so you need about twice as many farms, possible more, to cover those fields.

As a general rule, there should be very few unpicked crops, otherwise you are just wasting space (e.g. it's not efficient land use). i.e. As soon as crops are ripe, they get picked, only time you should have lots of unpicked crops, is if your food storage (after any processing) is full.

Also bear in mind Iron teeth have regular farms, not the efficient ones like foxtails (i.e. these are slower, so you need more of them).

Also note each farm can stock all types of crops at the same time. so I always have mixed farms, all possible crops in range of all farms. Although obviously don't grow things you're not ready to process yet!

I don't see any Kohlrabies? These are your Iron teeth carrots, so are the simplest starting food after Berries. (Processing not needed). Mangroves are also good, as you just need gatherers, and once planted (unless they die), you don't need the forester active.

Also diversify, each crop adds to the well-being score, which adds bonuses (work speed, movement speed etc), so it's worth producing all food types.

Hi, and happy good year..
I was thinking than all was said by Boothy still i have more "studie" your screenshot...
On the terrasse map ,you have well managed the badtides , got a lots of lakes and water a good production of energy and a very good storage of all the buildings materials,
And 5.800 sciences points...
But only 94 beavers (that is possible..) and 10 in well-being at the 56 cycle ???^^
on the 2024 Wrap windows , the wonders were finished at 25 cycle on average and that's true ^^
Are you plaiyng on the hard mode?
Anyways like the Folktails after a while , Iron teeths will don't eat Berries when they get different foods cos they don't apport nutrition , they just very useful with water for theirs breeding post ,also 6.100 in storage was useless..
Try to change the most part of berries by alls the crops and one by coffee ...
Build alls the processing food and rely them to energy..
Hydroponics garden need only ..water so five of each ( that's i made..)give regular
mush room and algae ...
Keep on mind , than like the Folktails,more they have differents foods , more they eat less the previous..
Me too , it took me a long time to learn to play with Iron-teeths but now i play each map with the two factions cos that is a different kind of game ^^

Good spot on the number of berries stored. Have noticed now at the top of the screed grab are a few large storage units full of berries! This isn't needed.

There are 9 meal types per faction i.e. what they eat, either raw (berries, carrots, Kohlrabies etc), or after processing (bread, corn rations etc). (Iron teeth also get coffee, a fluid).

So (ignoring the coffee) that's 9 things you need to store.

As such you only really need 1 medium warehouse of each of these (plus the coffee). So that's 9 medium warehouses, at 200 units each, one per finished food type, in total. (repeat again if splitting into separate districts).

This will last through to the end game. I completed an Iron teeth run recently, and was at over 400 population (of which about 150 was bots), and still only had 200 of each food type in warehouses, other than a few small warehouses close to where beavers worked.

Bear in mind, you only really need food in storage during the early game, in case your crops die during a drought or bad tide, i.e. as a backup food supply, and to bring food to where it's needed for easy access (i.e. close to your housing etc).

Once you've tamed the tides, you'll most likely never need the warehouses for backup.

Late game I just use the ~200 storage as a graphical indicator of if I'm producing enough of a specific food type. e.g. If I only had 100 food in stock for a specific type (e.g. Corn Rations), I know I need to increase production of that food type, so check to see whats missing (usually raw farmed ingredients) and increase as needed.

Originally posted by XorOfSteel:

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3398237127

i usually play foxtails so I'm not familiar with the ironteeth food menu.
I'm growing cassavas. are they edible without processing?
I wasn't sure so i'm fermenting them.

in any case, they seem to disappear as fast as i can grow/ferment them.
are the ironteeth eating them first ? cause i got a ton of blueberries.

You can find so many answers to easy questions like this at sites like ....

https://timberborn.wiki.gg/wiki/Timberborn and

https://timberborn.fandom.com/wiki/Timberborn_Wiki

For your current question one example would be listed here....

https://timberborn.wiki.gg/wiki/Farmhouse

I usualy don 't bother with casavas early on as i found it take too much space and time for the weild. I go straight to soja bean and oil. Much better weild for the same space used. i plant casavas only later when food supply and colony is stable to improve well being.

Kohlrabies and Mangrove Fruits for survival other food for wellbeing score