Pax Autocratica Food and Colony Automation Guide

A reliable food loop

Choose one repeatable early meal whose ingredients your current colony can obtain consistently.
Assign the necessary gathering, farming, transport, and cooking work without starving another critical chain.
Use Stock Mode after the Warehouse unlock so production maintains a reserve rather than running forever.
Set a conservative threshold, observe one full consumption cycle, then raise it only if inputs and labor recover.
Inspect seed and greenhouse inputs manually. Launch-week player reports say some restocking behavior is not a closed automatic loop.
Add variety or morale-oriented food only after the basic hunger reserve survives expeditions and staffing changes.

Order, Stock, or Auto?

Food job	Recommended starting mode	Why
Quest or one-time meal	Order	Stops after the required batch.
Everyday prepared food	Stock	Maintains a buffer against consumption.
Stable intermediate ingredient	Auto with caution	Useful only if the input source cannot drain another priority.
Rare ingredient recipe	Order	Prevents a premium input from disappearing into continuous production.

Diagnose one failed cycle

Symptom	Check next	Evidence boundary
Recipe is configured but idle	Inputs at the destination, assigned labor, and recipe mode.	Diagnostic sequence; not one universal bug.
Gathered items vanish or never arrive	Update first, then observe hauling and storage.	AG-14 fixed one resource-disappearance defect.
Stock never reaches its threshold	Consumption rate, upstream supply, transport, and competing recipes.	Threshold behavior is official; ideal value is UNKNOWN.
Greenhouse or seed loop stops	Inspect replenishment manually.	Player-reported question; no verified closed-loop recipe table here.

Evidence status

Official: food/manufacturing exists, Stock maintains a threshold, and AG-14 fixed a hauling disappearance issue. Player-reported: worker assignment, greenhouse restocking, and configured-versus-supplied recipes cause confusion. Editorial inference: the one-cycle diagnostic above. Current-build tested: UNKNOWN.

Sources checked

Accessed or re-checked August 20, 2026. External links open the original source.