Your town
What the town eats
What the plots require
The other requirements
Coverage you need
What counts in each group
Variety is a plot check, not a meal
A burgage plot looks at the market and counts distinct food types within reach. Ten families eating bread all year satisfy a level-one plot and leave a level-three plot stuck, however full the granary is. Consumption runs underneath all of it at one food per family per month, and the two numbers never meet.
The planner keeps them apart for that reason. The left column is what your people eat. The right column is what your buildings demand before they will upgrade.
The groups, and what fills them
Four groups: foraged and vegetables, grains, fruit and animal produce, meat and fish. A level-two plot wants two foraged, one fruit and one meat. Level three raises that to seven foods in total, level four to ten.
Cheese is the quiet answer to most of it. A cheesemonger turns milk and salt into a food type that never runs out and barely spoils, which is the cheapest permanent pip on the board. Backyard vegetables and a chicken coop cover two more without a single field.
Reach beats supply
A food only counts if a market stall carries it and the plot sits close enough to that stall. Two granary families staffing stalls will feed variety to more plots than a third food source ever will. When a plot shows an empty pip and your storehouse is full, the problem is nearly always distance or staffing.
Beverages, clothing and footwear ride along
From level two a family drinks four ale, cider or mead a year. Clothing runs two a year from the same level, footwear one a year from level three. A small tavern serves fifteen families and a large one fifty, so the tavern count is a capacity question rather than a supply one.
Where these figures come from
The requirement tables, consumption rates and coverage figures here were measured in game by Chuckw44 and published with his community tools. They are not our measurements, and the tool says so rather than passing them off. Our own tips cover the strategy that sits on top of them. How we use his data, and why we link rather than copy.
