Survival Guide - Dust Settles: Garden

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Purpose:

Gardens are one of the buildings that you can build from the beginning. These structures will allow you to begin producing your own food for your people to supplement what you can find through exploration for a minimal cost.

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Basic Information:

Garden
	Building Name	Size (Land Units)	Supplies Cost
	Garden	1	3
	Workers to Construct	Staffing	Daily Cost
	3	2	2 Dsp
	Daily Production	Defense	Housing
	5 food	1	0

Opening Requirements:

Gardens are a basic building and do not need to be opened.

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Improvements:

You can increase the output of your gardens by researching Gardening. Each level of research increase will show at least a minor increase in production, which can greatly benefit your camp.

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Limitations:

In the beginning your primary limitations will be staffing costs and disposables costs. As long as you feel that you can afford the costs, you can build as many gardens as you have the land, supplies, and daily costs to support. Gardens are more vulnerable to storms than most structures, so guarding them is something worth considering.

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Displays:

One of the main displays you will want to keep your eye on while playing is your Peoples page. The chart on the bottom of this page will show you how much food you are producing vs. how much is being consumed by your population. This will help you keep an eye on when you might need to build more gardens. You will also want to watch the disposables display on the Peoples page to judge whether or not you can afford to build more gardens, especially before you can build recycling plants.

On the Construct page you can keep track of the number of gardens you currently have staffed and change this number as needed. Remember, if you get such a high deficit of disposables that your gardens are automatically unstaffed, you will not be able to restaff them until you have enough disposables to cover their cost.

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Special Considerations When Demolishing:

The main thing you will want to consider when demolishing gardens is whether or not you can produce enough food or find enough food through exploration to feed your people. You can feed your people off of food that you have in storage, but after three days without food, your people will begin to leave. Once you get farms, you may decide to demolish all of your gardens and replace them with farms. The main thing you should remember here is to demolish gardens as you build the farms. This will keep you from going into a large food deficit if it takes you a number of turns to explore for the needed land or if you lack enough workers to build all the farms you need in one shot.

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