Lettuce
Food · FoodVegetable0★A leafy green, and the backbone of any salad. Crisp texture, clean taste.
Lettuce is 8th of 20 foods by hunger restored, at 15 against the 100 of Corn Soup.
Lettuce feeds 7 different recipes, which is why it is worth farming past the point you think you need it.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Where to Find Lettuce
If you would rather just buy it, the cheapest seller is Caravan Shop at 80 Gold, and 2 other shops stock it too.
You can also grow it yourself at a Plantation — roughly 5.5 minutes per harvest for 10 at a time, which quickly beats foraging once the farm is running.
The plantation line on this page has a gate behind it: the Lettuce Plantation is a technology at level 25 and costs 2 points, then 100 Wood, 70 Stone, 10 Aquatic Pal Fluids (Aquatic Pal Fluids) and 3 Lettuce Seeds to place. The seeds are the part you cannot craft — buy them at 40 Gold each from the same caravan, desert and volcano merchants that stock the lettuce itself, so the first plot costs 120 Gold in seed money. Only the three seeds are consumed; the plot keeps producing after that.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 80 Gold |
| Merchant | Desert Shop | 80 Gold |
| Merchant | Volcano Shop | 80 Gold |
| Plantation | Grown at your base | 5.5 min per harvest · 10 per crop |
Using Lettuce Well
A plot needs Planting, Watering and Gathering all covered by the Pals working your base, and it stalls on whichever one is missing rather than running slowly — a base with two planters and no waterer harvests nothing. Watering is the suitability most bases are short on, so check that before you place the plot. Once staffed it turns out 10 lettuce every 5.5 minutes, which is 800 Gold of merchant lettuce per cycle against a one-time 120 Gold of seeds; the plot pays for itself on its first harvest and buying lettuce by hand stops making sense the moment it is running.
Nothing else on the lettuce recipe list matters next to Vegetable Cake — Vegetable Cake eats 7 lettuce and 8 Tomato per cake, and cake is what the breeding farm burns. One lettuce plot and one tomato plot side by side is the standard setup for keeping a ranch fed; if you are breeding seriously, build the lettuce plot for the cake, not for the salad.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Hop matches it exactly at 15 hunger restored — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw hunger restored, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Red Berries at 20; below it is Red Berries at 15.
Other foods at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
