Food

Food is a special resource/currency used by Skaven in the campaign. Having plenty of food gives benefits, while having a starving population incurs severe faction-wide penalties.

Each turn the player will gain and lose food. A player's total food is displayed in the top center of the screen, while viewing the campaign map. Hover over the food icon to see a breakdown of food income and expenditure.

This page should be up-to-date as of the Resurgent Update.

How food works

Food capacity

Food cannot decrease below zero, and it also cannot increase above a certain amount (a cap).

• The default cap with one settlement controlled, is 105 food.
• Each settlement the player controls increases the total food cap by +5.
• Certain technologies also increase the food cap, see below.

Generating food

• The Pastures resource allows the player to construct a building chain that generates food per turn:

I Putrid Rice Bog: +4 food per turn

II Fetid Grain Marsh: +5 food per turn

III Black Corn Swamp: +6 food per turn

• The Exotic animals resource allows the player to construct a building chain that generates food per turn:

I Exotic Animal Tamer (Skaven): +2 food per turn

II Exotic Animal Pen (Skaven): +2 food per turn

III Exotic Animal Market (Skaven): +2 food per turn

• Certain Skaven buildings each give +1 food per turn:

IV Warplightning Capacitors

V Warpstone Reactor

• The Skaven landmark, Corrupted Spawning Pool, gives +5 food per turn.
• The Exploitative Planning commandment generates +2 food per turn for each province that is using it.
• The Dominating Scheme rite generates +3 food per turn for 5 turns, each time it is enacted.
• Raiding by the player generates +3 food per turn per army.
• A flat amount of food is gained after each battle.
• An additional flat amount of food can be gained by choosing the Enslave post-battle option, again depending on the amount of captives.
• Certain Skaven technologies each give +30 food capacity, and +2 food production per turn:
  • Monstrous Plans
  • Virulent Plans
  • Oppressive Plans
  • Volatile Plans
  • Plans Within Plans

Expending food

• Each settlement a Skaven faction controls costs -1 food per turn.
• Each army costs a certain amount of food in upkeep, depending on how many units it has.
• Food can be expended in a flat amount to increase uses of The Menace Below in a given battle.
• Food can be expended in a flat amount to colonise a ruined settlement at a higher level.

Effects of food

The system is based on how much food your faction has, as a percentage of your total cap.

All effects are faction-wide.

Food Levels
Status	Percent of total cap	Text	Effects
Starving for Food	0-20%	There's almost no food to be found and the Skaven are in trouble: the masses are starving and the powerful are eating their underlings.	Growth: -20 Leadership: -10 Income from raiding: -25% Public order: -2 Income from sacking and looting settlements: -25% Income from post-battle loot: -25%
Food Shortage	21-40%	The Skaven food supplies are running low. Those who aren't in a position to demand their share are going hungry.	Growth: -5 Leadership: -5 Public order: -1
Normal Food Levels	41-60%	There is a normal amount of food available to the Skaven. The weak are starving and the strong are feasting - things are as they should be!	Growth: +3
Surplus Food Supplies	61-80%	There is currently enough food for almost all Skaven to have their fill. For a change, even the poor among their number can afford to eat.	Growth: +5 Leadership: +5 when in own or allied territory Public order: +1
Plentiful Food	81-100%	At the moment there's plenty of food to go around, as a result the Skaven are becoming more numerous by the day!	Growth: +20 Leadership: +10 when in own or allied territory Public order: +2

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