Q: This is overwhelming what do I even do?:

Play a small country. Build Cookeries to produce victuals in a province. Then build a Victuals Market there. Be careful with overbuilding and watch your province food like a hawk. That's basically it.

Q: Why this somewhat games system of victual market?:

One of the main reasons is that there is NO way in vanilla to directly convert food "goods" into actual food for the food market. They are completely separate systems.

Q: Why are laborers and soldiers considered "upper class" pops now?:

So they can demote during a famine. If they couldn't, you'd get endless death loops where peasants constantly promote to fill empty mining jobs only to instantly starve to death.

Q: My economy crashes and everyone starves on day one. Is the mod broken?:

Try not to leave your food slider maxed out all the time if you're struggling to afford it. It helps to let the global economy stabilize for the first few years. Also, make sure to load this mod last in your playset to prevent other mods from breaking it.

Q: The variable harvest is too punishing. Will you nerf it?:

I'd prefer not to, as it's designed to be impactful and make you plan ahead. However, if you find it too harsh for your playstyle, there are game settings available to turn it off.

Q: Dude I got horrible harvests and no economy, now my people starve??:

Sometimes this happens. Depending on how you play and how rich your country is, you will be able to avoid it. But don't expect every country to be able to avoid it at all times. As with all things in this game, it's a trade-off: keeping only your core provinces fed, or bankrupting yourself to avoid starvation—it's your choice.

Q: Why do buildings get more expensive the more you have in a location?:

Real estate gets expensive in crowded cities. This is intended to encourage you to spread out and specialize your production centers instead of stacking 500 buildings in a single location.

Q: Why does building up my city reduce my farm capacity?:

Because cities take up physical space. It represents the trade-off between a sprawling metropolis and open farmland. If you want to maximize a location's farm output, it's best to keep it rural.

Q: Why don't trade goods give food directly anymore?:

The vanilla market system led to weird situations where you'd have a massive overproduction of food goods but zero actual food in the market, or vice versa. The vanilla food production modifiers are also a bit buggy and mathematically illogical right now, so this change makes the system much more reliable.

Q: What is going on with the food price and its modifiers?:

Very long story short, selling food has INSANE debuffs in vanilla. When market food reaches max or 0 the food price BUGS out completely. I had to go to great lengths to work around these bugs. The values may look wonky because of this, but this is intended and working great.

Q: Province food storage does not show the correct modifier, what's going on?:

This is another EU5 beta visual bug. The modifier is actually applying and working correctly under the hood, the UI just isn't displaying it properly. I have reported this one as well.

Q: Are my 14 other mods compatible with your mod?:

I honestly couldn't tell you. I can't check compatibility for every possible combination of mods out there. P&P is compatible with Faster Universalis. Some great folks in the community have made compatibility patches, so I highly recommend searching for those! Otherwise, my best advice is to load Prosper and Perish last and just test it out to see how it runs.

Q: I started a new game i see 5mio buildings being build, what is this bug?:

Its not a bug, its a script that tries to build new buildings and farms so the game starting conditions make sense with the all the mods changes. Its aimed at reducing crazy starvation and other issues. It will be refined more based on your feedback

Q: Okay i understand, any tips maybe?:

Yes, be VERY wary of spiritualism and aristocracy. The extra nobles and clerics you get in cities can be extremely painful, because they scale with your population. Also check estate buildings once in a while. Toll castles for example DOUBLE noble food consumption if your estate builds them.

Q: Your Update ruined my save man.:

Don't worry. All prior releases are found here https://github.com/JanB1989/ProsperOrPerish/releases . Just unzip the file, in there you find a folder (next to the readme) "Prosper or Perish (Population Growth & Food Rework)" and you just copy that into C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis V\mod and you have it available in game.

Q: Why can i only build granaries in the province Capital?:

Because in ingame terms this is where food decay is calculated and food enters the market from your province. Granaries now reduce food decay, so they should be built in the province capital.

Q: Bro the estates spam victual markets everywhere:

This is needed for the AI to perform much better, remember you can just turn them off for no maintenance cost (dont destroy them they will rebuild)

Q: Why do victuals add 0.001 food or whatever?:

This is so that victuals are considered food by the game, which means their price can also rise if food price is high in the market. You can ignore it since it's so miniscule.

Q: How do I install the GitHub beta branch?:

Go to https://github.com/JanB1989/ProsperOrPerish, open the branch menu, select the branch you want (such as beta), and download the latest ZIP. You can see when branches were last updated. The archive contains two folders; the mod is in "Prosper or Perish (Population Growth & Food Rework)". Copy that folder into your EU5 mod directory: Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis V\mod (for example C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis V\mod).