Corn ration

Corn Ration is a good used to satisfy the Nutrition need of timberborn bots. It appears as a consumable food item that bots pick up and eat to restore their Nutrition condition, contributing positively to their overall condition score and thereby improving work and movement performance. Corn ration are part of the food economy and interact with storage, distribution, and consumption routines like any other edible good in the game.

Feeding a bot a Corn Ration increases its Nutrition contribution toward its condition. Nutrition is one of several needs (alongside Fun, Social Life, Spirituality, Aesthetics, Knowledge, Awe and Boosts) that together determine a bot’s condition score. The condition score grants tiered bonuses to Work Speed and Movement Speed at specific thresholds: reaching condition 0 and above provides substantial increases to how quickly bots complete work tasks and how fast they move, so maintaining Nutrition with Corn Rations is important for overall efficiency.

• Corn Ration directly affects the Nutrition bar; when Nutrition falls below required levels, affected bots suffer reduced movement and work performance. Keeping Nutrition supplied prevents negative status effects associated with unmet basic needs.
• Corn Rations should be stored and routed like other goods so that workers can access them when hungry; integrating rations into supply chains and stockpiles reduces downtime from bots seeking food.
• Because Nutrition contributes to the same condition system as other needs, balancing Corn Ration supply with provisions for other needs (Fun, Social, Spirituality, etc.) yields the best net bonus to Work Speed and Movement Speed.
• Condition thresholds are critical to plan around: improving Nutrition via Corn Rations helps push bots to higher condition tiers that grant stepwise increases in Work Speed and Movement Speed.