Stronghold Legends Feast Production: Eat the Eelies to Fix Your Feelies

[Planewalker 25]

Hey everyone - Lord Tanthos here - an old-time Legends fanatic! Having recently explored the differences between granary food, I decided to examine royal food next.

 

Background. The castle kitchen stores royal food: eels, pigs, wine, and vegetables. Each month, your lord may feast upon the following in exchange for honor:

 

Half Feast: 1/month = 5 honor
Normal Feast: 2/month = 8 honor
Extra Feast: 4/month = 12 honor
Double Feast: 8/month = 20 honor
+1 honor per month for each extra food type eaten

 

Note that vegetables are only available to Arthurian lords.

 

I built a castle kitchen and placed two of each: pond, garden, vineyard, and pig farm adjacent to it.

First, I noted delivery sizes:

Eel Farmer: 4 eels
Gardener: 5 vegetables
Grape Farmer: 6 wine
Pig Farmer: 2 pigs

 

After 10 minutes, I had the following: 80 eels, 52 pigs, 36 wine, 50 vegetables

 

There is a major output difference between these farms. A single eel farmer can nearly match the production of two other farmer types. I expected more from the grape farmers, given their large delivery size of 6. However, wine production is slow - the farmer takes a long time gardening, gathering, and pressing all the grapes grown on their farm.

 

I repeated the same test (2 of each farm for 10 minutes), but placed the farms approximately 15 tiles further away from the kitchen.

After 10 minutes, I had the following: 48 eels, 28 pigs, 24 wine, 30 vegetables

 

Distance affected each of these substantially, but not equally. Eels and vegetables dropped by 40%, but pigs dropped by almost half, whereas wine only dropped by 33%. This is because pig farmers have the smallest delivery size and grape farmers have the largest, thus being most and least affected by walking time, respectively. Therefore, place pig farms closest to the kitchen and place vineyards further away.

 

Now, most importantly, how many farmers does it take to maintain levels of feasting with good variety? First off, a single eel farmer adjacent to the kitchen is alone sufficient to maintain Normal feast consumption, providing 8 honor per month for a single peasant and a small amount of wood. One of each farm is sufficient to provide Extra feast consumption, but you'll occasionally run out of wine due to its slow production time (even more so if you're Ice or Evil, and thus have no vegetables to make up the difference). In most circumstances, it's best to always place at least two vineyards. If you want to have constant Double feast, place 1 pond, 2 gardens, 2 pig farms, and 3 vineyards.

 

As it turns out, it doesn't take too much to get 20+ honor per month.