Porridge

Overview
Porridge is a Complex Food preferred by and. Each of your Villagers of these Species that fulfills their need for Porridge receives +4 to their Resolve. It is often the easiest Complex Food to produce during early-game, as brought with embarkation can be used to make Porridge and an early med and med can provide ample ingredients.

Alternative Sources
Porridge can be sourced in many ways other than from producing it. These include:
 * Breaking open Abandoned Cache Small icon.png Abandoned Caches
 * As Rewards from completing Icon_OrdersButton.png Orders
 * Buying it from Traders
 * Receiving it as a good after AssualtTrader.png Attacking Traders who carried it.

Orders
Orders relating to Porridge:

Strategies
Porridge is often the first Complex Food a player can produce, as its ingredients can be found early on.

A player can use Vegetables,  Grain,  Mushrooms or  Herbs gathered from Small Nodes by the Small Foragers' Camp  or  Small Herbalists' Camp  and Rainwater collected by the  Rain Collector to produce it in the  Field Kitchen.

Production Chain
The production chain for Porridge looks like this.

First Ingredient:
Vegetables, Grain,  Mushrooms or  Herbs

Step 1: Gather Resources

Second Ingredient:
Drizzle Water, Clearance Water or  Storm Water

Options:
 * Rain_Collector_icon.png Rain Collector
 * Advanced_Rain_Collector_icon.png Advanced Rain Collector
 * Water_Extractor_icon.png Geyser Pump built on top of Drizzle Water, Clearance Water or Storm Water Geyser

Bare minimum production
If you need Porridge without a lot of investment, look here. Altogether, this setup requires 10 Wood, 6 Parts, 4 Planks, and 2 Fabric for the Camps and Buildings.
 * 1) A Mushrooms, Herbs, Grain or Vegetables Deposit worked by a Small Herbalists' Camp or Small Foragers' Camp AND
 * 2) A Drizzle Water collected in a Rain Collector AND
 * 3) A Field Kitchen

Efficient sustainable production
You will need:
 * 1) Farm Fields worked by an Herb Garden producing Icon Resource Herbs.png Herbs or Small Farm producing Icon Resource Grain.png Grain
 * 2) Icon_Resource_DrizzleWater.png Drizzle Water from Water_Extractor_icon.png Geyser Pump built on top of Drizzle Water Geyser or Advanced_Rain_Collector_icon.png Advanced Rain Collector
 * 3) Building with efficient Porridge recipe, Beanery, Teahouse or Distillery