doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Apples can keep for over a year if stored properly, without any refrigeration.This is simply incorrect. grains and pulses keep a loooong time.
Food could be stored quite well before the modern era.
Apples can keep for over a year if stored properly, without any refrigeration.This is simply incorrect. grains and pulses keep a loooong time.
The whole piece is quite general in being about the ancient Mediterranean (mostly) rather than a specific region or narrow time span. That was my reading anyway, although my impression was that following articles would probably be more specific.Its not really that broad once you read past the introduction.
Vertical farming might be a thing in a fantasy city. Wouldn't help with grains, but would help with vegetables.1 Acres for a family of 4 sounds rather on the low side assuming a European diet. If anything goes wrong they will instantly starve and even in the normal years won't have that much of a buffer.
One thing to remember though that long lasting sieges only worked because cities were supplied from the outside which also happened at Candia/Heraklion. They didn't have protected farms within the walls which could supply their population. No city has.
Also because without refrigeration you can't keep long lasting supply anyway.
Donut cities do not really work as the demand for fields vastly outstrips the ability of cities to encircle them. Protecting every field with walls is possible but very expensive. And without defenders a wall is useless.
Just real world megafauna should work. Giant ground sloths were huge.I wonder how farming would be changed with how many dumb, slow megafauna have to exist to feed all the super-predators but who don't get statted due to not being an interesting fight.
Like somewhere in D&D world, there have to be gargantuan versions of pandas and cows and deer.
They're statted. We have aurochs, giant boars, giant elk, giant goats, and several species of herbivorous dinosaurs.I wonder how farming would be changed with how many dumb, slow megafauna have to exist to feed all the super-predators but who don't get statted due to not being an interesting fight.
Like somewhere in D&D world, there have to be gargantuan versions of pandas and cows and deer.
Keeping grains wet doesn't sound like it will help lasting it longer, but I am not expert what would count as refrigeration.Vertical farming might be a thing in a fantasy city. Wouldn't help with grains, but would help with vegetables.
Fantasy refrigeration might be a thing. Dig a cold cellar, add some water, occasionally have a caster cast the shape water on it. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would help things keep colder for longer. (I'd allow either of the frost-based cantrips to be used as well).
Thing is, giant herbivores also have a giant appetite for plants, including your crops.They're statted. We have aurochs, giant boars, giant elk, giant goats, and several species of herbivorous dinosaurs.
For that, you can look at how humans deal with megafauna in the modern day!I wonder how farming would be changed with how many dumb, slow megafauna have to exist to feed all the super-predators but who don't get statted due to not being an interesting fight.
Like somewhere in D&D world, there have to be gargantuan versions of pandas and cows and deer.
Not putting them in water. It'd be like having an old-fashioned icebox.Keeping grains wet doesn't sound like it will help lasting it longer, but I am not expert what would count as refrigeration.