01-09-2017, 11:57 AM
I learned the same thing during my first Bonkers for Bakeries trial. I thought I hit the jackpot when a grain (sorghum) was my map's first preferred crop, since they seem to yield more, or am I imagining that maps 'like' their first preferred crop (the one in orange at the top of the list)?
But during the lean years my flour mills and bakeries had nothing to work with because folks were eating the grain direct. I don't think there's a way around it. I tried using the resource depot to keep folks from eating the grain, but even then when I release it for the mills, folks would eat it.
I thought I read a long time ago that some grains are inedible until processed - and that flour is also inedible until turned into baked goods - but a couple grain crops (corn, sorghum) can be eaten without milling, as we do IRL. But now I can't find anything on the intertubes about this... If it is still true, I would happily turn half my sorghum fields to wheat to help keep my flour production up even when food is generally more scarce. (Usually due to me plopping too many houses at once and having to scramble to keep up when they have their mini-baby-booms.)
If true, could you also give your stables a type of grain that folks wouldn't eat raw?
