Complex Food Needs

Diagram connecting the Species with the Complex Food they need.

Overview

Villagers prefer to eat Complex Food, like Pie, instead of raw food, like Roots. While this need is satisfied, the Villager will get a bonus to their Resolve. The bonus to Resolve is higher than satisfying their needs for Housing and Clothing, but not higher than satisfying their need for Services.

Villagers satisfy their need for Complex Food when they rest at the Hearth.

Consumption and Satisfaction

Species	Services Needed
Beaver	Biscuits Pickled Goods
Fox	Pickled Goods Porridge Skewers
Harpy	Biscuits Jerky Pie
Human	Biscuits Pie Porridge
Lizard	Jerky Pickled Goods Pie Skewers

Species differ in which of the Complex Foods they want, so you will need to supply more than one type of Complex Food to satisfy all three Species in your settlement. In addition, every Species has more than one Complex Food Need, which means they can get more than one Resolve bonus if you provide enough variety.

On the other hand, if your settlement is running low on food, Villagers will eat a Complex Food that they do not need if there is no other food available to them, including raw food.

Like with raw food and Services, access to Complex Food can be disabled through Consumption Control, and denying a food incurs a Resolve penalty to those Villagers who need that particular food.

List of Complex Foods

Each Complex Food can satisfy more than one Species. Correspondingly, each of the five different Species require different combinations of the possible Complex Foods available. The following table shows these relationships.

The Production Building options are shown for convenience. See the next section for a table of Buildings that can help you choose your Blueprints.

Complex Food	Species Satisfied	Production Building Options
Biscuits	Beaver	Flawless Smelter ★★★ Apothecary ★★ Bakery ★★ Cookhouse ★★ Smelter ★ Field Kitchen ☆
	Harpy
	Human
Jerky	Harpy	Flawless Cellar ★★★ Smokehouse ★★★ Butcher ★★ Cellar ★ Kiln ★ Field Kitchen ☆
	Lizard
Pickled Goods	Beaver	Flawless Brewery ★★★ Flawless Cellar ★★★ Beanery ★★ Granary ★★ Brewery ★ Cellar ★ Field Kitchen ☆
	Fox
	Lizard
Pie	Harpy	Brick Oven ★★★ Bakery ★★ Furnace ★★
	Human
	Lizard
Porridge	Fox	Beanery ★★★ Distillery ★★ Teahouse ★★ Field Kitchen ☆
	Human
Skewers	Fox	Grill ★★★ Butcher ★★ Cookhouse ★★
	Lizard

List of Production Buildings for Complex Food

This table might help you choose Blueprints based on the Species in your settlement.

For brevity and since they are never Blueprint choices, Flawless versions of production buildings are omitted from this table. Similarly, because it is an Essential Blueprint that your settlement starts out with, the Field Kitchen is omitted.

Production Building	Efficiency	Complex Food	Species Satisfied
Apothecary	★★	Biscuits	Beaver
Apothecary	★★	Biscuits	Harpy
Apothecary	★★	Biscuits	Human
Bakery	★★	Biscuits	Beaver
Bakery	★★	Biscuits	Harpy
Bakery	★★	Biscuits	Human
Cookhouse	★★	Biscuits	Beaver
Cookhouse	★★	Biscuits	Harpy
Cookhouse	★★	Biscuits	Human
Smelter	★	Biscuits	Beaver
Smelter	★	Biscuits	Harpy
Smelter	★	Biscuits	Human
Butcher	★★	Jerky	Harpy
Butcher	★★	Jerky	Lizard
Cellar	★	Jerky	Harpy
Cellar	★	Jerky	Lizard
Kiln	★	Jerky	Harpy
Kiln	★	Jerky	Lizard
Smokehouse	★★★	Jerky	Harpy
Smokehouse	★★★	Jerky	Lizard
Beanery	★★	Pickled Goods	Beaver
Beanery	★★	Pickled Goods	Fox
Beanery	★★	Pickled Goods	Lizard
Brewery	★	Pickled Goods	Beaver
Brewery	★	Pickled Goods	Fox
Brewery	★	Pickled Goods	Lizard
Cellar	★	Pickled Goods	Beaver
Cellar	★	Pickled Goods	Fox
Cellar	★	Pickled Goods	Lizard
Granary	★★	Pickled Goods	Beaver
Granary	★★	Pickled Goods	Fox
Granary	★★	Pickled Goods	Lizard
Bakery	★★	Pie	Harpy
Bakery	★★	Pie	Human
Bakery	★★	Pie	Lizard
Brick Oven	★★★	Pie	Harpy
Brick Oven	★★★	Pie	Human
Brick Oven	★★★	Pie	Lizard
Furnace	★★	Pie	Harpy
Furnace	★★	Pie	Human
Furnace	★★	Pie	Lizard
Beanery	★★★	Porridge	Fox
Beanery	★★★	Porridge	Human
Distillery	★★	Porridge	Fox
Distillery	★★	Porridge	Human
Teahouse	★★	Porridge	Fox
Teahouse	★★	Porridge	Human
Butcher	★★	Skewers	Fox
Butcher	★★	Skewers	Lizard
Cookhouse	★★	Skewers	Fox
Cookhouse	★★	Skewers	Lizard
Grill	★★★	Skewers	Fox
Grill	★★★	Skewers	Lizard

See Also

Services Need