Farm

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[edit] Overview

If you want to eat, build a farm. Your colonists are hungry. When they occupy cities then they get even more hungry. Food is probably the most precious commodity in the game. One of the easiest ways to get it is by having many farming planets. Planets that are favorable to your race's preferred climate and have a good horticulture rating are good targets. There are only so many places to build a farm, so the horticulture rating limits the number of farms that can be built for all bases on the planet.

Most planets can support anywhere from 0 to 200 farms. If two or more races are living on the same planet they must share the available farm land. The first race to build a farm gets the land. It is possible for one race to use all the farm land while other races use none. Food is used by colonists, cities, resorts, med labs, and much more. Med Labs use food to produce medical packs. Food can be carried from planet to planet in a ship's cargo hold or by using a resupply cargo pod.

• Each Farm produces 1mc and 1 Food Unit per turn.
• The planet climate must be within a race's farming climate range for a farm to work.
• Need 1000 Colonist per Farm (default), or zero if the HConfig switch Farms require 1000 colonists each to run them is turned off.
• Farms can be destroyed by a "Sabotage Base" spy attack.
• They add 50 "hit points" each to a ground base, which will help keep it from being destroyed.
• They can be destroyed by the Solar Gamma Ray ship device.

[edit] Special

• The HConfig setting New Farms Per Turn limits the max. number of farms that can be built each turn in a base.
• If the HConfig setting Farms require 1000 colonists each to run them is turned on, the New Farms Per Turn value is ignored, but you need 1,000 Colonists for each farm to be built and to be active. This setting also splits up the number of farms that are built before movement and after movement during the base production phase of the host run.

[edit] Soil

• Each planet can support only a number of farms up to his soil (horticulture rating).
• Planetary farm land (soil) is shared between all bases on a planet.
• Any farms that exceed the planet's soil rating are destroyed/removed.
• The Soil Reformer ship device can increase the soil rating of a planet.
• The Soil Sterilizer ship device can lower the soil rating of a planet.
• The Protomatter Cannon can change an Asteroid Field into a planet with a soil rating of 600+.

[edit] Race Specific

• The RCS building Arerran Capital will double the food output from active working farms. It will also produce medical units equal to the number of active working farms.
• The RCS building Nawole Garden will cut the food output from active working farms by 87.5% (one-eighth production).
• The Robot do not need food.
• The IMT and Crystals cannot build farms.

[edit] Other ways to produce food

• Fed Agrovators generate 10 mc and 1 food per turn per working farm that you have on a planet.
• Scav Crawlers will gather food from Insectoids.
• The Pirate Cove will steal food from enemy bases.
• The Intersteller Master Traders use their Sloane 24x24 Ranger to produce food from people and colonists. Solient Green is people.
• A Glory Device can convert Amorphous Worms into food.
• The Agro Dome ship device will produce food from its green houses.
• The Reticulian Med Lab converts natives into food.
• The Cargo Grappler can steal food from an enemy ship, resupply pod, or base.
• Food can be found on the surface of planets.
• The Crystal Assembly Hyperlathe can produce food.
• The United Enforcement Authority has a Redistribution Center that will convert contraband into food.

[edit] Farming Ranges

	0	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	Climate Control Devices
The Aczanny Pyramids	5		20				65					-
The Birdman Republic				35			61		80			-
The Centaurs		10	25			55						Terraformer
The Colonies of Man				40	50	55						-
The Crystal Assembly									90	95	100	Crystal Inferno Device, Infernorator, no Farms
The Cyborg Collective				30			65	77				Terraformer, Global Icer, Global Warmer
The Evil Empire					45		65					Terraformer
The Holy Draconian Empire			20		40		60					Global Warmer, Global Icer
The Interstellar Master Traders						50						no Farms
The Lizard Kingdom					48			75		95		Terraformer, Global Icer
The People's Army				30	45		65					Terraformer, Global Icer, Global Warmer, Crystal Inferno Device
The Privateer Bands					46	53						-
The Rebels				35			60		81			-
The Reunited Coalition of Systems				30	45		65					Terraformer, Global Warmer, Global Icer
The Robotic Imperium	0		20			50						Terraformer
The Scavenger Tribes						50	65		85			Terraformer, Global Icer, Crystal Inferno Device (Scavenger Upgrade)
The Solar Federation				30		55		75				Terraformer, Global Warmer, Global Icer
The Solorian Unity						50				95	100	every 500,000 Colonists raise temperature by 1 each turn
The Stormer Kingdom		15			44			78				-
The United Enforcement Authority				35		50			70			Terraformer
The University Alliance			25			50	67					Terraformer, Global Icer

[edit] See also

• [1] Farm (offical help)
• [2] Online calculation of max Farms, Mineral Mines and Factories at GRGZone
• Climate