Render Cube’s 2020 release Medieval Dynasty is an open-world survival title where building from the ground up is the aim of the game. This realistic simulator is enticing for both world-building game fans and history enthusiasts alike. For fans of history, this title offers an immersive experience for them to weigh up the accuracy of every aspect. Meanwhile, for the patient gamers out there, this game throws out meticulous details and gameplay fulling all Middle Ages desires.
Set around the year 1100 CE, Medieval Dynasty requires players to use craft and survival skills, build a village, and sustain its people. And, as humans, players are sure to know what villagers require for basic sustenance: food and water. After finding a suitable location, putting craft skills into action and recruiting folk to join the village, providing nourishment to the population is going to be vital. Here are five pointers to help beginners gather and store food.
5 Foraging For Food
Players will be provided with food in their inventory at the onset of the game. However, they way they decide to spend time – exploring, building, meandering or beginning the story – might impact their food usage.
Players in need can search the wilderness, foraging for different foods in different seasons. Berries, plantains, and mushrooms are some of the vegetation available to players. And, with a small population of villagers, foraging may suffice needs. However, players should be wary of poisonous berries.
Another means for beginners to feed themselves, although this is not suitable for a population of any notable size, is to collect sticks and sell them in a local village tavern. They can subsequently use the money for personal food.
4 Hunting For Food
Similar to foraging for vegetation, hunting game is a good way for players to get quick food easily. Beginners will need to chop trees, collect wood, craft a spear, and steady their nerves as they head out to hunt. Choosing whether to take on a boar or deer can be a matter of life and death for beginners, so it is advised to choose one's target wisely. Additionally, players may choose to buy or craft traps to lay out overnight in order to catch rabbits. Though, like all wares these traps have a shelf life before becoming unusable.
Providing villagers with meat will give adequate sustenance, though, like all food, cooking will maximize its impact. Initially, players may hunt food to store for the villager, but as the village grows, it will be necessary to hire hunters to fulfill this task.
3 Farming Food
Hiring hunters to collect game is a long-term aim to replenish food stocks. But, before players are able to hire such skilled labor, a growing village is going to need a more reliable source of nourishment. As such, creating farms and farmers should be high up on a Medieval visionary’s priorities.
Finding and preparing farmland will involve a player plotting the area, building structures, and preparing the earth with fertilizer and a hoe before planting seeds. Players can grow personal small plots with onions, carrots, cabbage and more to sustain them on their quest for survival. Yet, a personal garden will not be adequate for a growing population. The current size of the village and number of residents will determine an approximate amount of land needed for farming. And while this will ultimately be balanced with intake from hunters, players are going to need farmhands to man the land in order to provide the appropriate amount of crop to feed the people.
2 Food Storage
The size of a player’s village population is going to affect how much food they will need. The amount of food that is needed will require different solutions to providing sustenance.
With only two or three villagers, it is possible for players to deliver food directly to each individual. Though, like all great visionaries, players will want to expand the village and increase its population. As such, handing out food is not going to be feasible as the village grows. After collecting the required resources, it will be necessary for players to build increasingly bigger food storage to sustain the people of Medieval Dynasty.
1 Getting Water
Just as important as food for aspiring village builders is water. Personally drinking to keep up hydration and providing hydration to the people is essential for virtual living in Medieval Dynasty. While it is possible for players to survive drinking directly from any body of water, this will not suffice for the villagers.
In order to keep people appeased, working, and alive, players will need to build a village well. This option will not be immediately available; instead, it becomes an option upon gaining 50 farming points. For those who have undertaken this patience-testing survival game, balancing playing the storyline with steady village growth is going to help provide for all the needs of a rising population.