Feeding Guide

A note on feeding, you can feed your monsters most efficiently while you are actively playing. In the early levels your focus may be on other goals, but once you have reached a point where you are working on leveling up your monsters to increase coin production, simply making cupcakes will give you the best food return for you time. However if you anticipate being away form the game for an extended amount of time you should cook the biggest item you believe will be finished by the time you get back.. or the biggest item you can afford. Here's why.

If you notice below, the amount of food for the next highest baked good is a direct multiple, cookies give you x5 the food of cupcakes and cost x5 the coins. Bread is a x4 of Cookies, and Donuts are a x5 of Bread, so on, and so forth. But if you'll notice, the time is not the same multiple. The Cupcake cooking time x5 is 2 minutes and 30 seconds, or half as long as it takes to cook Cookies. This means if you continuously cook cupcakes you will have twice as much food in 5 minutes (give or take however long it takes you to click through the baking menu) as you would have had if you had cooked Cookies, or 300 food as oppossed to 100 if you had cooked bread for a half hour (more power to you if you can bake cupcakes that long).

This holds true until you can make Ice Cream.

Past Ice Cream costs continue to rise at the same rate as food yield, but it becomes less and less efficent to bake smaller items.

Pizza takes twice as long (x2 cooking time), but gives you x5 the food.

Pie x2 cooking time of Pizza and yields x 6.667 (6 and 2/3) the food

Turkey x2 cooking time of Pie and yields x2 food.

Cake x2 cooking time of Turkey and yields x2 food.

Now, that said. By the time you are baking the bigger goods, you will likely be managing multiple islands, each with their own bakeries. To develop a feeding guide further would require more math than I consider fun :)  But, here is a good guide to follow (see rule #1)  Figure out how long you plan to be away from an island.  Cook that item.  I hope this helps all to grind a little easier, and I look forward to visiting The Island LastFrontiersman (talk) 08:29, December 10, 2014 (UTC)