[quote=@GreenGoat]
The nodes also provides food and stuff, as well as the special resources iirc
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If you're producing food, you aren't producing other harder to get things. It's definitely not optimal and the food isn't exactly high quality. Fertile lands are mad useful in this RP since you can produce a lot of food with low effort. Discounting the sort of production you can easily get on floodplains, and of course Ernalda trivializing food production. (Shout out to Hammers alchemists being really strong there too)