How can I most effectively produce food?

Question

In terms of producing food for my dragons in Dragonvale, the cost of food vs. the time it takes to produce said food seems to be a little ridiculous.

For example: I can produce 75 Zazzberries for 1000 gold in 30 minutes. However, I can also produce 800 Pumpermelons for 15,000 gold in 8 hours. Eight hours seems a bit steep, to be honest.

What's the most efficient way to maximize food production?

Asked by Tristan

Answer

There's two problems here; the theoretical maximum and the humanly feasible maximum. For the theoretical max, check the "Food per hour" metric on the Treat Farms wiki page. It also shows you the cost per food; note that the longer the grow time, the less efficient the food/hour and food/money metrics get.

The cheapest foods actually produce the most food in the least time and for the least cost (an exception below). However, it's not humanly possible to sit at the game and harvest Dragonsnaps every 30 seconds.

Instead you should just plan your food growing based on how long you'll be away from your game. When you start out, you'll probably be playing actively and pick very quick-growing food. As time goes on you'll check the game less and prefer Pumpermellons for the 8 hour time; if you only check the game once every 8 hours, Pumpermellons are suddenly the most efficient.

There's a late game exception however; once you upgrade your farms a second time to the Huge Treat Farm, you get very high-cost, short grow time treats. These foods all grow in an hour or less, and cost exactly 50 gold per food and give large volumes of food in very stort times. It's basically converting your money straight into food, bypassing (most) of the growing time problem. These are the least cost efficient, but once you have millions of Cash, you'll prefer it to manually growing all the time.

Answered by Ben Brocka

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