Lately I've been obsessed with the question of how I could possibly maximize food production. There's lots of good posts describing obvious and not so obvious ways to attain lots of food such as:
, but the solution I've been searching for is a step up from what I could find - hence the reason for this post.
I suppose a good way to frame it would be to ask if there were a way to gather a year's worth of food in 2-3 days time in a renewable, sustainable fashion? For one person that's 75 * 70 days = 5250 hunger points. The bundling wrap allows you to save food indefinitely, so keeping food from spoiling isn't a problem. Working on this problem I ran into the following considerations:
-time to gather ingredients
-time to cook the ingredients (if applicable..maybe a year's worth of raw materials is better)
-how big a stack of food items am I able to take out of storage at one time (aka the spoilage rate of the food items/how many trips to storage do I make)
-the time to build and maintain whatever method is used to attain the food (want to avoid rare/hard to renew items)
The best I could come up with was a large fenced area that contained dozens of bunny huts. The fenced area led to a tentacle trap built by a wickerbottom. The way it works is that at dusk a player could stand outside the fence with meat in their inventory. All the bunnymen come out of their houses and immediately aggro the player, but must go around the fence into the tentacles to get to them. The tentacles kill dozens of bunnymen, dropping loads of carrots and meat. These can be used to craft plenty of meaty stews- and with ~10 or so crockpots I could belt out at least a couple season's worth of food in a day.....except for the little detail of collecting all the fallen loot from the bunnymen which will be on top of gobs of tentacles. At best, I could only collect 1 or 2 items before needing to move out of the way of emerging tentacles at a time. There's the lazy forager, but orange gems are hard to come by and I wouldn't want to add killing the dragonfly as part of the method for example.
Anywho, if you have any great ideas, please share them! If I think of something I'll update this post with new ideas for any future searches.