Farms produce food for your workers and soldiers. It is required for building, research, and training troops.

In addition, your troops have a food upkeep and if you have more troops than your empire can produce you can actually have a negative production. While there is no penalty for running out of food, it can become an issue when you need the resource to build, research, or train troops. Even with boosts and upgrades (from packs, etc.), once you have a certain number of troops you will always be in the negative. For high-level players, it does not make sense to dismiss troops, but to cash in resource items from their inventory as needed.

There are 4 levels of food:

1. Food: Level 1
   • Note that these are not called apples. While the icon used to indicate food is an apple and many players refer to this resource as apples, the developers decided to call the 1st level “food” to confuse new players. If you purchase a boost that says it will boost food production or reduce food needed for upgrades, it only affects the level 1 resource called “food”.
2. Wheat: Level 2
3. Corn: Level 3
4. Rice: Level 4