Questions tagged [food]
For questions about sources and types of nutrition for a living organism.
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Carnivorous humanoids & the quest for a balanced diet
My fantasy world has a species of hominids that evolved to become semi-aquatic - their lifestyle is similar to that of seals & sea lions, spending much of their time in the water.
Now - given that,...
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What type of diet would be needed to sustain the Seadominians and keep them thriving
I created this fantasy race called Seadominians, they are basically merfolk. They are mostly bipedal, have scales covering all over, and live all throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, also the ...
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How would one create a living pantry to use in an emergency?
A group of ~100 people working together have built a large forest secluded from the rest of society. The forest is ~70 km by ~70 km square. It has no seasons and can not be found or accessed by any ...
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Could the Malagasy domesticate the Dodo bird?
In an alternate universe where other groups explored the world before Europeans, what new animals could have been domesticated? In my alternate history world, the Malagasy that came to Madagascar not ...
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What would this animal's stool be like?
The animal is small, around the size of a rat or pigeon. Its activity level is on par with a rat, but it can fly and is rather more intelligent, and thus uses more energy. Their excretory system ...
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In a world without grasses, which vegetarian foods would be best suited for long-term storage?
In my fantasy world I am going for a Mesozoic-inspired biome, so I want there to be no grasses. This means no wheat, rice, corn, and the like. I imagine that the staple crops will be tubers, legumes, ...
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How to Feed a City with a Subarctic Climate?
The city of Civitas Sykofantia sits on the shore of Lake Sykofantia, a high-elevation salt lake the size of Lake Superior in the US. The lake is located on the Great Pagomenos Plateau, a huge ...
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Why would a rural village need rope in times of famine?
My protagonist needs food from a village during times of a famine, and all she can offer (or pretend to offer) is spinning their animal hair to make rope (nobody else has those skills.) Is there a way ...
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Food consumption for transparent human body to make feel less odd?
What food transparent humans consume so that others can't see what they have eaten, like what all consumable food is transparent like water.
like how people find it embarrassing when people point out ...
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What kind of daily combat or exercises should see regular soldiers burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day?
Basically I'm trying to create a combat situation and training where recruits and people on the front line are expected to burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day. Now despite how messed up the war is ...
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How could a ruminant become a carnivore?
I have a speculative evolution project regarding giraffes. For those unfamiliar, giraffes are ruminants and rumination is not viable for carnivory according to every site I have wandered upon in my ...
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What are some animals a fifteen year old boy should be able to hunt, easily, in an Early Modern Setting?
Overall I am trying to show the romance between a fifteen year old boy and girl as they both grow and age over the next few years. One of the major points of attraction is his incredible hunting ...
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How can crops survive in a desert where it's over 110 degrees... in the Winter?
Some folks I write about live in a series of mutually-supporting, mostly self-sustaining agricultural stations/colonies on the edge of a desert, and are attempting to turn said desert greener.
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How much food surplus would medieval peasants have? [closed]
So, I am working on a setting. It is medieval fantasy with a focus on realism, and in my pursuits of realism, I am trying to figure out many things. One of them is the rough approximation of how much ...
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a chemical component in vampire saliva to assist with feeding
I've been thinking about vampires lately, and I came up with the idea of a vampire's saliva containing some sort of chemical or hormone that assists with feeding. I think it would probably have to do ...
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