Flying Hunters' Gear (Technology)

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Flying Hunters' Gear

Thanks to better weapons and enhanced detection, Hunters setting out from the Hunters' Hangar will return with more Raw Food from each hunt (up to 45 Raw Food per hunt).
Tier 4
Time
Easy	9 hours
Medium	11 hours
Hard	15 hours
Extreme	17 hours
Cost
Prerequisite	Flying Hunters
Wood	50
Steel	30

Flying Hunters' Gear is one of the Technologies in Frostpunk. It increases the nightly Raw Food output from Hunters' Hangars from 30 to 45, a 50% increase.

Summary

If you have not yet researched Hunting Tactics, it is more efficient to research that before researching this technology. The Raw Food per Worker ratio increase is identical for both technologies in Hunters' Hangars, but Hunting Tactics is a much cheaper technology, and available much earlier. Hunting Tactics also improves any remaining Hunters' Huts you may have, while this technology only affects Hunters' Hangars.

You need to have at least one Hunters' Hangar to get any value from this technology. Once you have at least one Hangar, it is more steel-efficient to research this technology than upgrading a second hut, if you have to choose (not taking opportunity cost of other technologies into account). That one hangar will gain 15 Raw Food per night from this technology, while a second Hangar will only gain 10, and the steel cost of this technology is less than one Hangar upgrade. If wood is scarce, the efficiency tipping point is 2 hangars, as this technology provides 30 Raw Food at 2 Hangars while costing 50 Wood, while upgrading a third Hut to a Hangar provides 10 Raw Food for 20 Wood.

With this and Hunting Tactics, the Hunters' Hangars will provide 45 Raw Food for every 10 Workers, which is the best ratio available for hunting. With regular Food Rations, you only need to employ 11% of your population in raw food production, from the 50% that was necessary at start. By supplementing this with the even more workforce-efficient (but much more expensive) Industrial Hothouses, you can reduce the workforce cost of Food even more.

When using Temporary Hazards, it is a good idea regardless of ideal efficiency to have a mix of hunting and farming, since the "Animal Migration" or "Rotting Roots" hazards can always cripple either food production approach, but never both simultaneously.

Hunting Efficiency

This table shows the efficiency of various possible hunting setups. The factor can be multiplied by your Worker count to see how much Raw Food they would produce, or you can divide your necessary Raw Food production by this factor to see how many Workers you will need. The worker count necessary to supply the Endless mode starting population of 80 is also shown, as reference.

Building	Extra Hunting Technologies	Raw Food : Worker ratio	Factor	Workers needed to provide 40 Raw Food/Night
Hunters' Hut	None	15 : 15	1.0	40
	Hunters' Gear	20 : 15	1.33...	30
	Hunting Tactics	20 : 10	2.0	20
Hunters' Hangar	None	30 : 15	2.0	20
	Hunting Tactics only	30 : 10	3.0	14 (13.33...)
	Flying Hunters' Gear only	45 : 15	3.0	14 (13.33...)
	All Hunting Technologies	45 : 10	4.5	9 (8.88...)

See also

Hunting Technology Tree
Workshop	Drafting Machines	Difference Engine
Hunters' Gear →	Flying Hunters →	Flying Hunters' Gear
	Hunting Tactics

Food Production
Raw Food Sources	Hunter's Hut → Hunters' Hangar
	Hothouse → Industrial Hothouse
	Scouting → Fishing Village
	Alternatives...
Food Rations Sources	Cookhouse
	Scouting
	Soup or Food Additives