Village Kitchen

Where villagers bring fresh-picked pumpkins to make soup. You can also make soup from other food items, like berries and mushrooms.

### Stores

Soup, Food Ingredients, Village Food Items, Valley Food Items

### Produces

Soup

The **Village Kitchen** is an unmovable Village Building where Villagers consume Soup. It also contains a Pantry used to store all Food Ingredients and Food Items produced in your Village or in the Valley.

The Village Kitchen is both the physical and operational center of your Village. As the location of your Village's Soup supply, Villager's need to return here every time they become Hungry. The Village Kitchen is also the location where the Pumpkins harvested at your Pumpkin Patches are taken to become Soup.

Every new Village contains a Village Kitchen at the start of the game. Upgrades to the Village Kitchen are researched at the Study. Once constructed, each upgrade increases the maximum amount of Soup, Food Ingredients, and Food Items that can be stored in the Pantry.

The Village Kitchen cannot be moved from it's location at the center of your Village. Since most Villager's assigned to tasks in your Village must return to it regularly for more Soup, its central location plays an important role in Efficiency. Minimizing the distance your Villagers must walk between the Village Kitchen and their task locations is a key piece of running an efficient Village.

## Strategy & Gameplay Tips

* Whilst the location of your Village Kitchen is fixed, the location of other buildings (besides the Evergroves, Clay Pits or Stone Mines) is not. Keeping your production buildings close to your Village Kitchen will minimise the time lost to walking for each Villager when they return to consume Soup, something that they must do every 2.5 minutes.
* On average, Villagers working on your Pumpkin Patches must return to your Village Kitchen more often than those on other tasks (despite not needing Soup), so locating them as near as possible to your Village Kitchen is recommended to minimise the time lost to walking between Patch and Kitchen. Minimising this time lost to walking therefore reduces to total time to make 1 Soup, which therefore indirectly keeps other Villagers working for longer.
* Similarly, a Villager assigned to Research at the Study only needs to leave their post for Soup, so locating your Study as near to the Village Kitchen as possible will greatly reduce the time taken to complete a Research Project. For the longest Projects in the game (10,000 Scrolls), every extra tile your Researcher has to walk for Soup has the potential to increase the total time to complete it by several hours.
* Considering moving any Building under construction closer to the Village Kitchen, ideally between it and the storage for the resources involved in the build. Doing so will reduce the total time spent to complete the building.
* The Evergroves, Clay Pits and Stone Mines are not equal distances to the Village Kitchen. When assigning Villagers to work on one of these buildings, assigning them to the closest of each first will increase the rate at which you gain that resource.

## Notes

* One Village Kitchen upgrade is locked behind the Highland Academy Research Swap.
* One Village Kitchen upgrade is locked behind the Summery Woods Research Swap.