Food

Food is the most important resource in Rebuild: Gangs of Deadsville. The player starts the game with 25-50 units of food, depending on your selected difficulty. Most survivors consume 1 unit of Food per game day (except those with the Half Ration perk).

When the player runs out of food, the following happens

• Survivors collapse from hunger hand have to be hospitalized.
• Survivors stop working.
• Survivors starve to death.

Food can be gained by:

• Scavenging from buildings. Buildings containing food are marked by an apple icon on the overlay.
• Reclaiming or building farms or large farms. A Farm will produce food each day. One-block farms produce 2.5 rations per day, two-block farms produce 3.75, and 4-block farms produce 5 rations per day. Assigning survivors on Farming duty increases the yield; this is more effective if the survivor is a Scavenger. The Green Thumb perk (on survivors assigned to farming) and certain research can further increase food production.
• Hunting in Field squares.
• Fishing in Park, River, or Bridge squares.
• Trading with other factions.
• The Good Cook perk will rarely cause a survivor to create bonus food out of nothing. When it happens, it will be called out as an event. The currently-assigned mission seems to be irrelevant; in particular, the survivor does NOT need to be assigned as a farmer for this perk to work.