Food (Fallout 4)

Food is a necessary component of creating a successful settlement in Fallout 4.

Overview
Right next to water, food is essential for a settlement. The usual method of generating food is planting crops using the crafting interface. To do so, just pick any of the food plants from the resources menu and plant them in the dirt (open ground). Food resources need a settler to be assigned to them, otherwise, they will not be harvested.

Generating food
Each settler assigned to food resources can only handle up to 12 plants; nearly all crops (carrots, corn, gourds, melons, razorgrain and tato) have an yield of 0.5 food per harvest, but mutfruit yields 1 food per harvest. Unique to The Slog, tarberry plants also generate food but additional plants cannot be grown.