Food

What is Food?
Food is the main economy of the Tribal stage and is not necessarily needed any longer in the Civilization and Space stage. It is used to place tribal huts, buildings, and tool shacks.

Ways of Food Getting Stolen
During when your tribe members are off and away (in this case, 0 Tribe Members are not at the tribe), a wild creature will use Sneak and steal your food. It is also smaller than a regular creature, and a warning will appear telling you "Wild creatures are stealing your food!" This means that you must leave one of your tribal members at your tribe to guard the food from being stolen. When you look at the bottom of the screen, it would have your food slowly decreasing. This means you need to get there quick without hesitation (only one member should run back)

If one tribe is at odds with you (Orange face, no red face tribes will do this), then it will say "Tribe members are planning to wipe/steal your larder/food!" and one or more members of the following tribe will hide in the shadows, steal your food, and run off with a bag of your food (Most of the times, 30 food is stolen)! Quickly get some tribe members to block that thuggy thief, and grab that bag back! You can also do this to other tribes to obtain quick food, but they will get angrier!

During a game over, you will lose large amounts of your food, and your tribe will be revived with less food and buildings. Do not try to defeat a tribe thinking that it is easy with all of your tribe members. This is very dangerous and should not be advised to any other player. Do NOT even think of doing this unless you want to lose alot of food, buildings, and members.

What is Food used for?
Food is used for buildings, huts, more tribe members, tool shacks, helping your tribe members stay alive, and giving Gifts. It is a very important economy in the Spore system and is recommended to have alot of.