What is the most land efficient food source?
After reading some tips on settlement defense, it seems like having a small walled inner-base is optimal. To this end which crops take up the least space?
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I'm not quite sure which crop takes up the least space, but if it comes to efficiency, Mutfruit is by far the most efficient. It is the only crop that yields 1 food per unit, as opposed to every other crop, which yield only 0.5 food. Mutfruit also doesn't take up particularly much space, though it might require slightly more space than Corn or Carrots.
Since Mutfruit produces twice the food per unit, it's also the most workforce efficient. As each settler can tend to at most 6 units of crop, a single settler can produce 6 food worth of Mutfruits instead of 3 food worth of any other crop.
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