The way the imperium colonize planets and have aggri worlds, dedicated to that do not only show that the imeprium is willing to establsih colony on world taht will be dificultly food sufficient but also and mainly taht the imperium over specialize its colonies to avoid scecession. Wich is STUPID consider how transportation and trade is so risky.
Just imagine a truck driving sim, but you’re an Imperial transport ship going through space. Several minutes of floating around and suddenly a pirate raid occurs, and then you could have small skirmishes. I wish there were more games like that.
Honestly, you joke, but that could be pretty interesting. Imagine something like the NASA Crawler (although much faster) that they used to transport the Space Shuttle... but that's your "tractor" and mobile base. And it's nuclear or plasma reactor powered. And you have to harvest basically the size of Texas worth of just wheat. Just... Wheat. Wheat for as far as the eye can see for what would be an hour's worth of time flying over it in a jet.. And you have to manage harvesting the wheat, separating, sorting, cleaning, packaging, transport and defense of it from dangerous wildlife. All while managing like several hundred servitors like resource collecting units in an RTS or something.
@@matchesburn That sounds amazing. I'd imagine it would have to be an RTS game given how large the map would have to be, and all the tasks you would have to manage.
I'm reminded of the story of Hogfish Bay. The way this story was told to me, a guy was in a multiplayer PvE match in the Anno series of strategy games. His allies had all played the game before, but this guy was new to it and hadn't yet figured out the game's One True Build Path, so he was constantly having to correct his town, which usually meant _over_ -correcting - until he noticed that there was a neutral NPC faction nearby that would to buy soap at a constant price. So, he reoriented his entire city to focus on pig farming, to produce exactly two things: soap, and sausages. When the other allied players looked over to see how he was doing, they were met with a Dickensian nightmare haze of caustic smoke from the soap factories and screams of dying animals from the endless slaughterhouses that fed them. It was great.
Farmers will commonly rotate crops to allow the soil time to recover from the plants that where just harvested as well. Either leaving them fallow or planting something that puts specific nutrients back into the dirt so the next time you grow your main crop it’s more likely to to be a stable or bumber crop. So it would make sense that they would change crops from time to time to keep the world producing as much as possible.
For a planet sized farm fertilizers would absolutely be required too because you would be taking all or most of your produce off planet removing any possibility of recycled nutrients. However changing crops from time to time would help the soil to recover and allow for some nutrient balancing in the food you’re producing for the meatbags you’re sending it to feed.
@@michaelkimberling7307 No, you don't need to rotate farms, you just apply fertilizers in the correct amount at the right time of the year so that the nutrients are available for the plants to absorb. The only reason we produce food in the soil is because it acts as a medium in which nutrients can go from the soil, through the ion pump in the roots and into the plant. Plants do not give two-fucks what they actually grow in, only if the growing conditions are met or not.
@@LazyLifeIFreak You are correct in that you don't *need* to do it, but practicing organic growing techniques such as crop rotation, animal fertilizer, and so, you can grow a lot more food efficiently and effectively without requiring a higher technology base. It's why we still practice these techniques even in the modern day where we could conceivably feed the whole world in massive hydrophonic plants.
St John of the Deer: a prehistoric tech priest from a time long predating even the dark age of technology. The tech priest would build a machine that would inspire the STC-pattern single-seat 'Thresher' wheeled harvesting machine. We only uncovered the ancient machine that would become the basis for the STC 'Thresher' and came to know of St John of the Deer due to the most blessed of fortunes: during an attack on the south-eastern portion of Merica by an unknown nation during the Age of Strife, the fusing on a 300 megaton airburst nuclear weapon failed, plummeted into the ground, and detonated. It left a huge crater behind. At the bottom of the crater: A pristine example of an ancient harvesting construct, miraculously preserved through tens of thousands of years beneath the earth. On the machine the name of its holy builder was inscribed on the side panels. Soon after the Horus Heresy, this ancient machine would be rediscovered by the Imperium and this most holy of prehistoric tech priests would be canonized St John of the Deer.
"Having seen what they eat, I can now understand why Spartans are so eger to die in battle" Some Greek General or philosopher, I can't remember who off the top of my head.
Hive worlds actually use hydroponics to help feed themselves, as several spires are used as massive hydroponic farms. Now of course most of what’s grown is basically turned into gruel for the hive cities but some upper spire royalty enjoy owning their own personal hydro farm to provide food for themselves. Of course these hydro farms are no where CLOSE to feeding the entire hive city, but they can provide enough most of the time to not let everyone start starving instantly.
The problem with hive cities is that they do everything to minimize the populations food requirements. Substantial hydroponics, biomass, and fluid recycling, yet the thing is with populations that dense anything you do to try and lessen the logistical strain is just going to be Band-Aids on bullet holes.
@ 19:06 Not just dirt, but fertilizer, trees to protect the soil* from being picked up and raging in huge storms, irrigation systems, etc etc. The American Dustbowl happened because of over tilling, and lack of trees covering said over-tilled fields.
Fun fact; corn does have tryptophan! However, you need to nixtamalize it (boil in an alkaline solution). This increases the bioavailability of nutrients otherwise unusable (niacin and tryptophan). That’s why corn was such a staple in the Americas for thousands of years
And it was why the first non-American adopters of corn had outbreaks of pellagra because that process was not shared with them. RIP a bunch of Spanish peasants and Africans.
This reminds me of the time I was in a black crusade game taking place in an underwater hive. And the gm made it cannon that only the hive nobles had access to the height of culinary decadence... chicken tendies.
The Piranhas live in the Algae pond for three very important purposes; To dispose of idiots that fall into the vat, to ensure proper nitrogen levels for optimal algae growth, and to serve as diversification of foodstuffs.
@@semi-useful5178 I was thinking of Pacu, though most subspecies are omnivores, yes. Always disappointed patrons at the aquarium that our school literally carried the carcass off and hid before eating, rather than making like the ones in Live and Let Die
There were vineyards on Prospero. Underground vineyards likely run off hydroponics. Ahriman himself took part in cultivating grapes and running a vineyard. He intended to make that his focus when the Great Crusade ended and the Astartes had no purpose. Unfortunately the wolves, and the heresy came first.
Seeing what such warriors would have wanted to do if the war had ended is remarkably melancholy for 40K. Reminds me of the picture floating around on the internet of Perturabo in full Great Crusade power armor, but with a kid on his power-armored knee, both of them smiling and happy, surrounded by toys and crafts the Primarch had made.
So they had massive vinyards for making wine and it never occured to them it might attact the one Space Marine chapter with a disposition for alcohol? XD
Imagine living in the 41st millenium on an agri world, peacefully, for you're entire life and dying, having never even seen any of the horrible conflict or death or chaos. Entirely possible, and probably actually quite common.
5 minutes later... "what is that dark could coming closer? Ou did you hear that astropathic messages are not getting trough, whats up with that?" Then again one could live their lifes in somewhat peaceful manner since time scale is such vast in 40K
I would imagine the majority of worlds and people never see the crazy intergalactic warfare or get blockaded by chaos or attacked by Tyranids or invaded by Orks. Maybe a local uprising on the world itself, a war or two every generation between large factions or nations on the planet - like what we experience on earth. Any conflict the average person experiences is probably with other people from his or her world, if any.
There is no one that insanely lucky, either their planet will be annihilated or the person will taken off planet, forever being unable to return to their peaceful life.
Personally I enjoyed the entire sea world built around mobile city ships whose job was to move around the ocean to scoop up algea because it was able to be made into a good basic food stuff. An entire mostly safe world full of shallow waters... Except for the imperium and Tau fighting over it.
Same thing with an ocean world where they also exported incredible amount of fish. Pretty decent place to live untill the alpha legion and world eaters showed up.
@@firmak2 Kreig was an absolute paradise world before they destroyed themselves, afterwards it's far far more useful to the imperium then a vacation spot for nobles. Personally counting that as a pyrrhic victory.
I used to work in a prison. 4 days of the week we would feed the inmates corn grits, oatmeal 2 days week, and cereal on Monday. The cereal was the last popular meal; those inmates want corn grits for breakfast all day and cook the same way.
Naw. By law one of the officers has tasted a random tray. But some of the boxes of meat paste do say ” Institutional used only." I think the company that provided the food was called "Miami Special Meats inc" or something like that. If you look on the Florida Department of Corrections website they have a master menu. Fun Fact about 90% of FL DOC prison does not have A/C, like Mordian
The imperium might be using terraformed agri worlds from the DAoT, fields plowed perfectly thousands of years before. We know the golden age humans relied on interstellar trade, so specialized terraforming could have been common.
@trueblue23 Most 7.62x39 (type of ammo the AK-47-pattern carbines take) is Russian and has been made illegal to import in a lot of western countries. It's getting mighty expensive and will only get worse as 90% of the supply is drying up. Your pre-historic (from 40k perspective) Knight will be quite expensive to operate if you're too liberal with the dakka switch.
Now I imagine entire fleets of slow moving poop ships. Ships that collect waste from Hive worlds and transport them to Agriworlds to be made into fertilizer.
@@Jst.a.Normal.Bottle.of.Mustard Could be that its stored there and once every hundred years it gets pumped to orbit... or mined out depending on its consistency. The hive does not need to have its own pumps, could be just a thing for the poop ship have. Though pretty sure they wont waste water in this operation, so its gets pumped into ship that separates the water making it into solid that gets stored, while water gets pumped back to hive storage tanks to be processed, or that too is done on orbit. Once in agri world, ship pumps water up, dehydrates the solids into liquid and pumps it down. This is most feasible method of transporting shit... though human solids tend to be issue, so there probably is some processing done it the shiip.
Feces is actually being considered for use as radiation shielding by nasa. It would essentially by stored in the walls of space ships instead of isolated tanks
When I was deployed to Iraq for OIF I, my section had access to a DVD laptop and a "One Eye" office projector so my squadron was able to have movies. The showing of Behind Enemy Lines got messy when Owen Wilson's zoomie character whined about the food on an aircraft carrier. MRE packaging, utensils, food and even a cup of dip spit were thrown at the wall by marines who were sick of the limited food options and considering at that point I was eating the same meal for 7 of my last 9 meals, I joined in the scorn. We would have killed our brothers for aircraft carrier or Air Force food. Navy food is good - Air Force is even better.
Submarine food is supposedly pretty damn good and considering being stuck in a tin can for months on end, honestly I am perfectly fine with that. If I was stuck in a tin can with the same people, no fresh air, no elbow room and sanity on the short end I can understand why such creature comforts is needed. Stay sane, stay safe.
@@LazyLifeIFreak I knew a guy who was a submariner and he said the food was pretty good. That is one posting I would never delude myself into thinking I could do.
True that. One of the best meals I ever had in my life was back in 1990, was in the army at Ft Riley and a couple of us got tapped for a funeral detail. We had to travel somewhere, was a private so it was " put on your class A's & get your ass in the van, enjoy the trip", but it was a long enough trip we had to stop at an air base for chow. OMG that food was awesome ! Base discipline was shit, guys walking around with football jerseys under their BDU's and hats on sideways... but damn that food was in my top ten meals even 30+ years later.
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Just think about some of the logistics and infrastructure for worlds like that too, grain elevators back in my parents home town are already gigantic supported by train lines to haul them off to processing, not to mention how massive the spaceports on such planets would be to handle that level of commerce. Not to mention the amount of defenses I'm sure the Imperium focuses on such strategic worlds.
Many agri worlds dont even have space ports left alone defenses or harvesting Equipment. The mechanicus has specialized harvester fleets that have athmosphere capable bulk haulers and harvester machines the size of titans that take care of the logistics so the planet can produce calories with a minimum of technology and maintainance required.
@Sabizos just imagine if they'd successfully completed the Imperial Webway Project, how much easier commerce could flow between the worlds of the Imperium and even better you wouldn't have to worry about getting cut off by a warp storm.
I could imagine a second Catachan being born from an Agriworld gone wrong. Maybe where the administrators gave the crops a little too much encouragement. Maybe the servitors were cheaper food than normal fertilizer. Then the rest of the human population gradually became the menu.
@@TealWolf26 You just ask the nearest Catachan to pass on a message to the crazy Exodite hermit back home, the one normally seen making a mess alongside the Harlequin with a big hammer, they will know the one.
@@rasiabsgamingcorner2258 Howabout a fremen desert world rip off. That would mean 90 percent of the populace dies due to “sand worm” rip offs. Instead of those people being killed off they were put to recruitment and become footsoldiers at once.
We've wanted more agriworld coverage for A LOOOOOONG time! Thanks so much for this! If we ever write our own 40k story the main character will be from an agriworld! Our favorite imperial planets!
@@robertnelson9599Easy. The planet was a newly developed agri world but an Ork waagh drove the locals away. The planet was abandoned for centuries after the waagh subsided. Now the imperium reclaimed the planet but the farms keep getting broken into by: grox that have been turned feral and adapted to the local environment abundant in food allowing them to grow into tank sized beast, snakehead fishes that also broke free of captivity and grow to massive sizes allowing them to swallow a space marine whole and the remnant of the waagh living in the jungle. The local agri workers obviously were no match to the new feralized fauna and turned to a knight house or a fleet born space marines chapter for help. The knights or space marines chapter gladly settled on the planet. The civilians gained protection from the space marines chapter, the space marines get a home planet, free combat training and a food source that often eats them back.
Love the image of a little bunch of lettuce with tiny cherry tomotos and pre-sliced-looking baby carrots growing from the same plant. They grow the dressing in the neighboring facility. Ranchvine and Caesarberry are particularly popular.
You are an inquisitor, you are investigating the local variant of the imperial faith on an Agri world. Then you see it the statue on the Emperor on wearing his golden straw hat with a straw in his mouth riding his golden John Deere combine harvester. What do you do? Also dark heresy campaign based on the children of corn when?
Actually... fungus would grow fairly well in vacuum so long as you keep the mycelium bed inside. All the fruiting bodies wouldn't really care if they poke out into the void with just a few tweaks.
I wonder if agri worlds utilize a form of farming similar to the three-sister farming native Americans utilized. For those not aware of this type of farming, it was three crops (squash, maize and beans) which produced waste products that the other plant would need to grow more effectively. Left the soil fertilized and the plants grew faster and healthier.
Depends on the agri-world Some are industrialized, some are not industrialized but still conservationist in the way you described, and some are blatantly wasteful, like Nazi Germany times 100 levels of wasteful. Most are America level farming tho.
I would like to imagine that the pirania fish in your rice field world example are part of an aquaponics system and you're not actually allowed to hurt them.
There is a massive hydroponic complex in the southern corner of Spain supplying a large portion of of Europe so it isn’t in an experimental stage just not wide spread
There are several hydroponics farms in my area but nothing super huge. I feel like they will increase in scale as outdoor growing conditions become increasingly unpredictable.
ok so... on the plants that thrive on higher levels of radiation: they'd grow enormously fast. Therefore: there'd be more output. second: some planets could be entirely unsuited for food crops, but they could be suited for crops that can be fermented, where the crops can then be used for actual food. this would mean, you'd need a fermentation planet as well xD
I'm slowly putting together a system based in 40k, I had an idea for an Agri-World that is an ocean world where they fish up Titan sized sea monsters with Imperial Knights serving as basically whalers. For your hypothetical full agri world where everything has been terraformed, rather than just having the people living on stilts above the growing fields, it would be way cooler if there were massive combi harvesters that were so large that they functioned as cities (like Mortal Engines but actually good) The people living on the harvester work to process the food that has been harvested and the harvester leaves seeds behind it so that a few months the next harvester on the same latitude can harvest it. Then you have a space port on the north or south poll which get shipments flown in from each harvesters to be then shipped off world.
I want to build an argi world revolving around invasive species. The imperium brought some genetically engineered cattle and fish to a planet. Some of these animals escaped captivity into the wild where they cross breed with the local species and grew to massive sizes much like the feral hogs and snakehead fish in north America. Unlike the captive variants which are culled before they get too big to handle, these feral hogs and fish are only limited in size depending on the available food which is quite plentiful on the planet because it has a massive tropical river delta. They are still edible but due to their size and the feral nature, normal agri workers can't hurt them and they tend to break into holding pens and artificial ponds to steal food. This can be a potential home work for a space marines chapter, a knight house or imperial guard regiment who hunt the oversized crocodilian beasts and fish for food and combat training.
Hey if BattleTech can have general motors still running in the third millennium that I see no reason why John Deere can't have its own cult or at least be a saint in the Imperial cult in the 41st millennium
The way the imperium colonize planets and have aggri worlds, dedicated to that do not only show that the imeprium is willing to establsih colony on world taht will be dificultly food sufficient but also and mainly taht the imperium over specialize its colonies to avoid scecession. Wich is STUPID consider how transportation and trade is so risky.
@@darthrevan3342 Is English not your first language? Either way I understand what your saying, yes the imperium needs to be interdependent in all things so corruption of any form doesn’t corrupt the entire system.
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 Have a revolt on yoru aggri world it can spark rebellions on tthe shitty indurtials worlds. It work for the imperial guard. But for this? It is complety stupid.
In Star Wars Legends EU there are planets defined as "Green Worlds", Ork jokes aside, these are worlds that the Republic, Galactic Empire, New Republic, Fell Empire, and Galactic Alliance, actively try to keep from ever being industrialized or the very least not turned into something like Nul Hatta, worlds like Alderaan, Naboo, Dantooine, Ithor before its devastation and after its restoration, Telos IV following its restoration, these worlds produce the most abundant amount of food and medical plants in addition to having the best types of hydroponic gardens, you might have cases of more mundane farms like those near running water, enabling them to use the running water for both powering turbines & supply fresh water the plants granted they are poissbly some thing the size of a small island, while other worlds use something in the form of giant domed hydroponic gardens the size of New York, in addition to having water filters to scrub and remove debris and toxins from entering their worlds oceans, the technological process of the people from Alderaan & Naboo is used on many of these enabling the soil not to be contaminated or other things, these worlds also serve as the main source for acts of terraforming and planetary restoration proncesses in the aftermath of wars and other devastating things, I imagine the Imperium also keeps tabs on these sorts of worlds,
Some agriculture soil products of WH40k. Nitrolizers, Terrasoil, Necromulch, Rockrete, claypith, sandment, and Bark Dirt, as well as various seeds, hay, and other salts and mamilk products.
I'd argue that a portrail of the Emperor on an agri would would be more of a Master Farmer/Shepard. Its something I remember hearing growing up in Church, with God/Jesus being compared to a Shepard tending to their flock. Just think of it, Proverbs about having to trim back those tainted by blight of sent by Nergal. Stories about the Emperors guardian lamas and dogs for the Inquisition and Space Marines keeping Khorne and the forces of Chaos. I could go on and on. But that might require me to look up stuff I've forgotten and I'd rather do research on any other subject. Also some old sunday school song is all ready trying to pry its way into that area of the brain where ear worms dwell, and I don't want to encourage it.
I had thje mental image of a planet borderline (borderline because of course Big E needs to be on the top - of course, with the Emperor depicted as some kind farmer god) deifying the project leader of the biologis team that created the crop that made that planet famous thoughout the sector.
On some agri worlds the emperor is worshipped as the sun that makes the plants grow or as a god of bountyful harvest. Agri worlds probably have the greatest variety in terms of tech level. Some are basically bronze age nomads others are fully automated GMO factory farms ran by mechanicus genesmiths.
Hope you do a video on paradise worlds. Vacation planets where the upper crust of imperial society can relax and live out their serial killer fantasies, at least that's what 40 facts said.
I am curious, would they have lumber producing worlds? I mean we still use wood, it's cheap and very versatile. Heck I guess that the administratum needs a heck of a lot of paper. It amuses me that there could be entire planets dedicated to tree farming among other pursuits
You answered your own question. Imagine a world covered in forest, every inch of land has trees there. Now imagine how many potential planets one sector might have. Now imagine the regrowth of a normal ideal tree, now imagine 1000's of machine eating into the landmass everyday. Then you now understand the reason for lumber world's ... Also to consider, what's the chances of finding a planet completely covered in trees. Probably very rare so there's not point in squandering it
Good fucking point. Cause those idiots still use paper for everything, they’ll have to have multiple planets of dedicated lumber production. Very ineffective methods are the favorite of the Imperium.
I was gonna make the point that us Irish proved that peasants can live on almost just potatoes alone, and then I remembered the potato blite that wiped a lot of us out in the 1,800's....incidentally, according to our last census, our population has finally managed to reach the 8 million people that it was, before the 1847 Great Irish Potato Famine. Interestingly, if you wanna watch some real life post apocalypse stuff, that'd sort of like a US western outlaw film, "Black 47" is a movie set during that famine in Ireland. It's on Netflix. I say post apocalypse, even though it's not the actual biblical apocalypse, but reducing the population from 8 million to I forgot, but a much lower number, in one failed harvest, after a few years on on and off failing harvests, is very Warhammer 40,000, along with interesting or let's just say mixed, ways of dealing with starving peasants. To be fair, there where British people in power that did try to help the situation as best as they could. Also, only an estimated 1 million actually died of starvation or more so disease that would have been survivable if not for the starvation. Most of the population decline was emigration, like to mainland Britain or the New World, like the USA, in "coffin ships", called so because of those ships death rates on the journey to the New World.
Charles Trevelyan in Britain's civil service at the time pushed hard on insisting that Ireland was starving because its people were lazy and morally bankrupt because they became so dependant on potato farming, and needed social reform. He was an advocate of "non-intervention free market" that saw to it that Ireland was better off starving so it would correct itself. It took donations coming from across the world, including Native Americans and even American *slaves* before Britain felt forced to actually do anything, when conditions had already gotten so bad. I don't think it's fair to say they did try to help as best they could.
@@jondoe5937 Actually the, I think Prime Minister of Britain or a similar position, seeing reports of the famine coming, ordered vast grain supplies from the New World. Unfortunately, he lost his office and was replaced by a man that had that attitude. Also, many individual British people did what they could, like Christian preachers. Including the man that invented Binary logic, who was born in England, but excepted a job, teaching at the newly opened University College Cork, which is like a 20 or 30 minutes drive from where I live. He did write about how there was nothing that an individual could offord to stop the crisis, but also records showed that the rich locals where more interesting in fancy living them actually helping the starving masses. This is not the first time I heard stories about wealthy British landowners in Ireland having a "devil may care" attitude, while being more concerned with making money, like communist leaders when they actually get into power. Like Bernie Sanders 5 houses or BLM leaders multi million dollar houses.
@@jondoe5937 That was not a prevalent attitude however, even among the upper crust and especially not amongst the middle classes who were the voting population. Unfortunately despite not being a majority opinion it was concentrated in the worst places, and many powerful individuals in the Government and the Civil Service held similar views. Amongst the middle classes especially the response was one of donations in Britain, but the main problem is that those donations were often mismanaged, slow to be transported, and often badly targeted. Aid organisations even today can be guilty of such mistakes, but the ad hoc rabble of largely inexperienced volunteers who were involved in distributing the Aid early in the Famine made them all! The problem was that such aid would not be efficiently distributed at that time without Government and Civil Service involvement, and people with those views, whilst a minority, were a POWERFUL minority, and so the involvement of Government took far, far longer than it should have. History is almost never black and white, it is almost always a mix of shades of grey. Ascribing those deplorable opinions to Britain as a whole is a mistake, and is an untruth.
The safest world one could be one in the Imperium, just as if not more important than Forge World(Tech heresy I know but I don't care), and the backbone of humanity. If any of us were in 40k, and not lucky enough to be a Space Marine or better, we'd want to be on an Agri World. I know I would.
@@inductivegrunt94 getting attacked by Tau is like being petted on the forehead when compared to having some giant space slug thing eat your planet's surface while spawning infinitely respawning antibodies that fight and eat you. So that you can get eaten alive by a monster while your planet gets eaten alive by a monster. So seriously the Tau and the Imperium should just CHILL the fk down.
The extremes of 40k are great, agriworlds are fascinating as well because it's not strictly something related to battle and combat. It's just a place where they produce food and the potential for that is great.
"Khorne! Khorne! Khorne!" "Arbites, what's that fuss out there?" "Don't worry. That's just these dudes again demanding something different than potatoes every day."
I heard that in agriworlds, bakers make bread with barley that was only recycled 5 times. The water won't melt any machines it spills on, and there is this one fellow in reprocessing that swears by the Emperor that one coin can buy you a full SLICE of 8 headed goatfrog jerky. Yeah, those lucky sons of a bolter have it made in the shade.
Someone recently released an STL for a combine harvester Dreadnought, so some dedicated farmer can operate a combine FOREVER... This model was released by 'Digital Taxidermy' and is called the 'Dreadnought Harvester'
That can be a very wide topic. They’re the most inventive siege masters in the galaxy. Like they have destroyed entire fortress worlds by simply conquering or destroying the agri-worlds that supplied the fortress world. How the Iron Warriors siege a planet is entirely up to how imaginative/powerful/influential/insane/warp-touched the local Warsmith is.
Be like sourcing from a pure seaweed algae agri cluster of water planets. Then you just hit it during processing into cubes, patties or powder with your choice of minimal animal typed bone broth powder. This is why you need to always have at least a small amount of salt and pepper available alongside your Imperial Primer.
Welcome to our ocean agri world. On a good day you can catch tons of plankton here.Plankton is the fruit of the sea. You can bbq it, boil it, broil it, bake it. There is plankton kebab, plankton creole, plankton gumbo, lemon plankton, coconut plankton...
Colgate Extremists, huh? Lemme guess, a cult formed from a heretical offshoot of graduates of the Dentistorum on Holy Terra that formed a cult? Plaque for the Plaque God! Teeth for the Teeth Throne!
Apparently, rice farming is such labour intensive and back breaking work, that many Asians lie about their age to get to work in sweat shops, because at least then you're sitting down, indoors. As an Irishman, that's tried a bit of amateur potato (of course lol) and other crop growing, I can attest to how it cam strain your back or legs when trying to harvest, sow or mainly just pick weeds out.
The grim side of me thinks of planets dedicated to the raising of livestock. City sized abattoirs slaughtering thousands if not millions of animals on a daily basis.
19:00 Arch: It would be ludicrously expensive to level those mountains and then cover that again in dirt. Me: Don't they have this thing called target practice when it comes to orbital bombardment? 2 or 3 tungsten rods from orbit a year and give it maybe a decade to settle the dust and yeah mostly just replacing the topsoil at that point.
Great episode and honestly being on a Agri world or Garden world would be some of the best options for normal workers. Most likely to not die a horrible death.
I grow sweet corn, and I could never imagine eating it everyday day in day out. You can throw in some potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, and definitely some lettuce you need some lettuce in your diet 🙂.
Maybe it’s just the tisms, but eating the same thing every day lowers my stress levels. Figured out how to get all my macros and micros, and now I just eat the same things everyday with maybe something else thrown in to spice things up
I think our dairy products here in Ireland, are exported as far away as China...for the richer Chinese people. Apparently we just freeze it and ship it over. I know when I went to Spain, that they use Irish dairy products because Spain's climate isn't suited anywhere as well as ours is here in Ireland to dairy production. Meanwhile, we import their wine. (Yes, I know, Irish stereotype, importing alcohol while exporting non alcohol, lol.)
I know it's stupid but the first time I heard him say an entire world of fields of corn I pictured a red screaming field of knife wielding plants. yay chaos
Rather than not diversifying food the Imperium doesn't diversify *planets.* The Imperium takes The Planet Of The Hats trope to the extreme to make said planets interdependent. This reduces instances of successful rebellion from single planets - they're either poorly defended, or they'll eventually starve. Not that this stops 'let them eat cake' types from trying their luck.
Makes you wonder why the Imperium's enemies bother attacking Hive Worlds when Agri Worlds are much more valuable targets. Destroy your enemy's food supply and all you have to do is wait. And while I have no doubt that the Imperium is aware of this and will defend an Agri World to the best of their ability, there's only so much you can do to fortify a planet when at least 95% of its surface is devoted to food production.
I may not be accurate but most agri worlds are kept on the dl even from high ranking inquisitors (unless chaos is afoot of course) and they actually stay relatively safe for a 40k world. Very very ignorant of the universe citizens.
A lot of the Imperium's enemies don't think in the same tactical way that we think. For a Khornate warband slaughtering a hiveworld would be a far more valuable act than attackig a lowly agriworld. For a Drukhari raiding party the Hivecity has MUCH more possible slaves so not even a question there , even though smaller parties could decide to play it safer ; their reason wouldn't be your/our current human reasoning. Same for the Tyranids except they just eat all the people , yet maybe the crops of an agriworld might be nutritious as well. And even if the Swarms did attack them they would attack them for this reason , not to tactically starve humans.
By the end of the video, all I know is Corn for the Corn god! Crops for his cropfield! This can't be misunderstood by the inquisition and the grey knights. I'm sure we'll be fine.
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21:30 You Mean Alien crops? Because rmemeber, anything fancy teh imeprium get is by illegal retro-engineering of Xenos tech.
The way the imperium colonize planets and have aggri worlds, dedicated to that do not only show that the imeprium is willing to establsih colony on world taht will be dificultly food sufficient but also and mainly taht the imperium over specialize its colonies to avoid scecession. Wich is STUPID consider how transportation and trade is so risky.
Imagine Farming Simulator set in the 40K universe.
"In the grim darkness 41st Millenium there is only farming!"
Ya know, that be a fun game to try out
"In the grim darkness 41st Millenium there is only Farm!"
Just imagine a truck driving sim, but you’re an Imperial transport ship going through space. Several minutes of floating around and suddenly a pirate raid occurs, and then you could have small skirmishes. I wish there were more games like that.
Honestly, you joke, but that could be pretty interesting. Imagine something like the NASA Crawler (although much faster) that they used to transport the Space Shuttle... but that's your "tractor" and mobile base. And it's nuclear or plasma reactor powered. And you have to harvest basically the size of Texas worth of just wheat. Just... Wheat. Wheat for as far as the eye can see for what would be an hour's worth of time flying over it in a jet.. And you have to manage harvesting the wheat, separating, sorting, cleaning, packaging, transport and defense of it from dangerous wildlife. All while managing like several hundred servitors like resource collecting units in an RTS or something.
@@matchesburn That sounds amazing. I'd imagine it would have to be an RTS game given how large the map would have to be, and all the tasks you would have to manage.
I'm reminded of the story of Hogfish Bay.
The way this story was told to me, a guy was in a multiplayer PvE match in the Anno series of strategy games. His allies had all played the game before, but this guy was new to it and hadn't yet figured out the game's One True Build Path, so he was constantly having to correct his town, which usually meant _over_ -correcting - until he noticed that there was a neutral NPC faction nearby that would to buy soap at a constant price. So, he reoriented his entire city to focus on pig farming, to produce exactly two things: soap, and sausages.
When the other allied players looked over to see how he was doing, they were met with a Dickensian nightmare haze of caustic smoke from the soap factories and screams of dying animals from the endless slaughterhouses that fed them. It was great.
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Farmers will commonly rotate crops to allow the soil time to recover from the plants that where just harvested as well. Either leaving them fallow or planting something that puts specific nutrients back into the dirt so the next time you grow your main crop it’s more likely to to be a stable or bumber crop. So it would make sense that they would change crops from time to time to keep the world producing as much as possible.
Use fertilizers? Ammonia nitrate comes to mind, including all the problems it brings with its massive energy requirements.
For a planet sized farm fertilizers would absolutely be required too because you would be taking all or most of your produce off planet removing any possibility of recycled nutrients. However changing crops from time to time would help the soil to recover and allow for some nutrient balancing in the food you’re producing for the meatbags you’re sending it to feed.
@@michaelkimberling7307 No, you don't need to rotate farms, you just apply fertilizers in the correct amount at the right time of the year so that the nutrients are available for the plants to absorb. The only reason we produce food in the soil is because it acts as a medium in which nutrients can go from the soil, through the ion pump in the roots and into the plant. Plants do not give two-fucks what they actually grow in, only if the growing conditions are met or not.
If you rotate cows or goats onto farm lands, they'll recover the soil very quickly. Farming plants just kills the planet
@@LazyLifeIFreak You are correct in that you don't *need* to do it, but practicing organic growing techniques such as crop rotation, animal fertilizer, and so, you can grow a lot more food efficiently and effectively without requiring a higher technology base. It's why we still practice these techniques even in the modern day where we could conceivably feed the whole world in massive hydrophonic plants.
St John of the Deer: a prehistoric tech priest from a time long predating even the dark age of technology. The tech priest would build a machine that would inspire the STC-pattern single-seat 'Thresher' wheeled harvesting machine.
We only uncovered the ancient machine that would become the basis for the STC 'Thresher' and came to know of St John of the Deer due to the most blessed of fortunes: during an attack on the south-eastern portion of Merica by an unknown nation during the Age of Strife, the fusing on a 300 megaton airburst nuclear weapon failed, plummeted into the ground, and detonated. It left a huge crater behind. At the bottom of the crater: A pristine example of an ancient harvesting construct, miraculously preserved through tens of thousands of years beneath the earth.
On the machine the name of its holy builder was inscribed on the side panels.
Soon after the Horus Heresy, this ancient machine would be rediscovered by the Imperium and this most holy of prehistoric tech priests would be canonized St John of the Deer.
"Having seen what they eat, I can now understand why Spartans are so eger to die in battle"
Some Greek General or philosopher, I can't remember who off the top of my head.
I think it was a Roman merchant from Sicily who were known to be gourmands and have a expanded palate.
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@@frankenstein6677 Thanks man :)
Hive worlds actually use hydroponics to help feed themselves, as several spires are used as massive hydroponic farms. Now of course most of what’s grown is basically turned into gruel for the hive cities but some upper spire royalty enjoy owning their own personal hydro farm to provide food for themselves. Of course these hydro farms are no where CLOSE to feeding the entire hive city, but they can provide enough most of the time to not let everyone start starving instantly.
The imported food stuff is mostly for the middle and under hivers so they don't riot.
Down forget the corpse starch and soilent green
The problem with hive cities is that they do everything to minimize the populations food requirements. Substantial hydroponics, biomass, and fluid recycling, yet the thing is with populations that dense anything you do to try and lessen the logistical strain is just going to be Band-Aids on bullet holes.
@ 19:06
Not just dirt, but fertilizer, trees to protect the soil* from being picked up and raging in huge storms, irrigation systems, etc etc. The American Dustbowl happened because of over tilling, and lack of trees covering said over-tilled fields.
You don't need trees if cows are shitting everywhere. Any sense plants will work and they all eat cow shit
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@@TherealTenmanI It's only for the those with papers.
The Aztecs had a pretty good system set up for that. Trees, irrigation canals between and even fish.
It's not dirt it's soil. Dirt is what you empty from a vacuum cleaner.
Finally. We get to talk about the world of Mid-West of 40K
Flyover -country- planets.
Hey we get a mention!
*cocks shotgun
We dun take too kindly to hiveworlder's round 'ere.
Yay
Fun fact; corn does have tryptophan! However, you need to nixtamalize it (boil in an alkaline solution). This increases the bioavailability of nutrients otherwise unusable (niacin and tryptophan). That’s why corn was such a staple in the Americas for thousands of years
And it was why the first non-American adopters of corn had outbreaks of pellagra because that process was not shared with them. RIP a bunch of Spanish peasants and Africans.
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Honestly being on an Agri world sounds like the most pleasant place/role to be on or have in the imperium if you're not lucky enough to be a noble
This reminds me of the time I was in a black crusade game taking place in an underwater hive. And the gm made it cannon that only the hive nobles had access to the height of culinary decadence... chicken tendies.
The Piranhas live in the Algae pond for three very important purposes; To dispose of idiots that fall into the vat, to ensure proper nitrogen levels for optimal algae growth, and to serve as diversification of foodstuffs.
Who doesn’t love piranha steak.
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Indeed
Depending on the piranha species, they might not be carnivores. There are massive ones that eat tree nuts as well as small fish
@@Mulletmanalive
Yes. Red Bellied I believe.
@@semi-useful5178 I was thinking of Pacu, though most subspecies are omnivores, yes.
Always disappointed patrons at the aquarium that our school literally carried the carcass off and hid before eating, rather than making like the ones in Live and Let Die
There were vineyards on Prospero. Underground vineyards likely run off hydroponics. Ahriman himself took part in cultivating grapes and running a vineyard. He intended to make that his focus when the Great Crusade ended and the Astartes had no purpose.
Unfortunately the wolves, and the heresy came first.
Seeing what such warriors would have wanted to do if the war had ended is remarkably melancholy for 40K. Reminds me of the picture floating around on the internet of Perturabo in full Great Crusade power armor, but with a kid on his power-armored knee, both of them smiling and happy, surrounded by toys and crafts the Primarch had made.
So they had massive vinyards for making wine and it never occured to them it might attact the one Space Marine chapter with a disposition for alcohol? XD
Imagine living in the 41st millenium on an agri world, peacefully, for you're entire life and dying, having never even seen any of the horrible conflict or death or chaos. Entirely possible, and probably actually quite common.
you are a shiny spade, not a cog. look up chaos uprising video for more.
5 minutes later... "what is that dark could coming closer? Ou did you hear that astropathic messages are not getting trough, whats up with that?" Then again one could live their lifes in somewhat peaceful manner since time scale is such vast in 40K
I would imagine the majority of worlds and people never see the crazy intergalactic warfare or get blockaded by chaos or attacked by Tyranids or invaded by Orks. Maybe a local uprising on the world itself, a war or two every generation between large factions or nations on the planet - like what we experience on earth. Any conflict the average person experiences is probably with other people from his or her world, if any.
There is no one that insanely lucky, either their planet will be annihilated or the person will taken off planet, forever being unable to return to their peaceful life.
You still live under the most brutal regime imaginable so your life isn't exactly baby town frolics.
Personally I enjoyed the entire sea world built around mobile city ships whose job was to move around the ocean to scoop up algea because it was able to be made into a good basic food stuff.
An entire mostly safe world full of shallow waters... Except for the imperium and Tau fighting over it.
And then the war between the Imperium and the Tau will eventually lead to the world becoming useless. Imperial victory then
@@tefras14 The imperium might let a back water or two slide into Tau heresy but the instant the Tau go for an Agri world, they are just plain dead.
@@tefras14 well no. When a planet becomes useless its a loss, and be written down as such. Krieg a good example.
Same thing with an ocean world where they also exported incredible amount of fish. Pretty decent place to live untill the alpha legion and world eaters showed up.
@@firmak2 Kreig was an absolute paradise world before they destroyed themselves, afterwards it's far far more useful to the imperium then a vacation spot for nobles.
Personally counting that as a pyrrhic victory.
Just wanna hear about the Christmas tree planet working hard to make sure the imperium is ready for sanguinala.
I used to work in a prison. 4 days of the week we would feed the inmates corn grits, oatmeal 2 days week, and cereal on Monday. The cereal was the last popular meal; those inmates want corn grits for breakfast all day and cook the same way.
Do they put stuff in to make the inmates more docile or is that just a conspiracy theory?
Naw. By law one of the officers has tasted a random tray. But some of the boxes of meat paste do say ” Institutional used only." I think the company that provided the food was called "Miami Special Meats inc" or something like that. If you look on the Florida Department of Corrections website they have a master menu. Fun Fact about 90% of FL DOC prison does not have A/C, like Mordian
@@ziggy274 no AC and in Florida? Damn
@@lawindacera7219 conspiracy theory
@@ziggy274 "Miami Special Meats inc" are you sure that wasn't corpse starch?
The imperium might be using terraformed agri worlds from the DAoT, fields plowed perfectly thousands of years before. We know the golden age humans relied on interstellar trade, so specialized terraforming could have been common.
Absolutely, after all, didn't pre-DAoT humans use Terminator armor as farm equipment??
@@davethedestroyer9727 no they were reactor maintenance suits
@@ha2vard27 when you think about it, imperial knights are the sci-fi version of a forklift with an AK 47 strapped to it
@@niks3632 knights are more of a multi tool with a big folding knife. Great for a lot but also handy in a fight against local wildlife/raiders.
@trueblue23 Most 7.62x39 (type of ammo the AK-47-pattern carbines take) is Russian and has been made illegal to import in a lot of western countries. It's getting mighty expensive and will only get worse as 90% of the supply is drying up. Your pre-historic (from 40k perspective) Knight will be quite expensive to operate if you're too liberal with the dakka switch.
Now I imagine entire fleets of slow moving poop ships. Ships that collect waste from Hive worlds and transport them to Agriworlds to be made into fertilizer.
That would be a great use but I think Hive worlds just pump it into the lowest section from what I remember
@@Jst.a.Normal.Bottle.of.Mustard Could be that its stored there and once every hundred years it gets pumped to orbit... or mined out depending on its consistency. The hive does not need to have its own pumps, could be just a thing for the poop ship have. Though pretty sure they wont waste water in this operation, so its gets pumped into ship that separates the water making it into solid that gets stored, while water gets pumped back to hive storage tanks to be processed, or that too is done on orbit. Once in agri world, ship pumps water up, dehydrates the solids into liquid and pumps it down. This is most feasible method of transporting shit... though human solids tend to be issue, so there probably is some processing done it the shiip.
The Brown Ships, even more dreaded than the Black Ships.
Feces is actually being considered for use as radiation shielding by nasa. It would essentially by stored in the walls of space ships instead of isolated tanks
Just use the ships that carry the food to the hive world to bring the fertiliser with them on the return trip.
A nomadic herdsmen on an aggrey world, that's what I would like to be in 40K.
Noice
When I was deployed to Iraq for OIF I, my section had access to a DVD laptop and a "One Eye" office projector so my squadron was able to have movies. The showing of Behind Enemy Lines got messy when Owen Wilson's zoomie character whined about the food on an aircraft carrier. MRE packaging, utensils, food and even a cup of dip spit were thrown at the wall by marines who were sick of the limited food options and considering at that point I was eating the same meal for 7 of my last 9 meals, I joined in the scorn. We would have killed our brothers for aircraft carrier or Air Force food. Navy food is good - Air Force is even better.
Submarine food is supposedly pretty damn good and considering being stuck in a tin can for months on end, honestly I am perfectly fine with that. If I was stuck in a tin can with the same people, no fresh air, no elbow room and sanity on the short end I can understand why such creature comforts is needed. Stay sane, stay safe.
@@LazyLifeIFreak I knew a guy who was a submariner and he said the food was pretty good. That is one posting I would never delude myself into thinking I could do.
Air Force has, unsurprisingly, the best chow.
True that. One of the best meals I ever had in my life was back in 1990, was in the army at Ft Riley and a couple of us got tapped for a funeral detail. We had to travel somewhere, was a private so it was " put on your class A's & get your ass in the van, enjoy the trip", but it was a long enough trip we had to stop at an air base for chow. OMG that food was awesome ! Base discipline was shit, guys walking around with football jerseys under their BDU's and hats on sideways... but damn that food was in my top ten meals even 30+ years later.
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Just think about some of the logistics and infrastructure for worlds like that too, grain elevators back in my parents home town are already gigantic supported by train lines to haul them off to processing, not to mention how massive the spaceports on such planets would be to handle that level of commerce. Not to mention the amount of defenses I'm sure the Imperium focuses on such strategic worlds.
Many agri worlds dont even have space ports left alone defenses or harvesting Equipment. The mechanicus has specialized harvester fleets that have athmosphere capable bulk haulers and harvester machines the size of titans that take care of the logistics so the planet can produce calories with a minimum of technology and maintainance required.
@@KT-pv3kl that's a pretty good way to do it for the more remote and technologically lacking worlds.
@Sabizos just imagine if they'd successfully completed the Imperial Webway Project, how much easier commerce could flow between the worlds of the Imperium and even better you wouldn't have to worry about getting cut off by a warp storm.
@@lordfrostwind3151 Humanity would make trains going trought the webway.
I could imagine a second Catachan being born from an Agriworld gone wrong. Maybe where the administrators gave the crops a little too much encouragement. Maybe the servitors were cheaper food than normal fertilizer. Then the rest of the human population gradually became the menu.
So what you are saying is that we can potentially produce a second Sly Marbo, and all that it will cost is the entire population of a planet ?
@@KaiserAfini I'm down for it if you are. Anyone have Poison Ivy's number?
@@TealWolf26 You just ask the nearest Catachan to pass on a message to the crazy Exodite hermit back home, the one normally seen making a mess alongside the Harlequin with a big hammer, they will know the one.
@@KaiserAfini not the entire population just about 95% of it. Remember we are trying to make another Catachan
@@rasiabsgamingcorner2258 Howabout a fremen desert world rip off. That would mean 90 percent of the populace dies due to “sand worm” rip offs. Instead of those people being killed off they were put to recruitment and become footsoldiers at once.
We've wanted more agriworld coverage for A LOOOOOONG time!
Thanks so much for this!
If we ever write our own 40k story the main character will be from an agriworld!
Our favorite imperial planets!
What about civilized worlds?
What about an Agri world that has been used up and abandoned? That would be interesting.
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Pick one
@@rybread3981, Elysia or Perlia, for example.
@@robertnelson9599Easy. The planet was a newly developed agri world but an Ork waagh drove the locals away. The planet was abandoned for centuries after the waagh subsided. Now the imperium reclaimed the planet but the farms keep getting broken into by: grox that have been turned feral and adapted to the local environment abundant in food allowing them to grow into tank sized beast, snakehead fishes that also broke free of captivity and grow to massive sizes allowing them to swallow a space marine whole and the remnant of the waagh living in the jungle. The local agri workers obviously were no match to the new feralized fauna and turned to a knight house or a fleet born space marines chapter for help. The knights or space marines chapter gladly settled on the planet. The civilians gained protection from the space marines chapter, the space marines get a home planet, free combat training and a food source that often eats them back.
I love that he’s calling the plants “little salads”
Love the image of a little bunch of lettuce with tiny cherry tomotos and pre-sliced-looking baby carrots growing from the same plant.
They grow the dressing in the neighboring facility. Ranchvine and Caesarberry are particularly popular.
The emperor being a mighty Khorne god producing limitless khorne
You are an inquisitor, you are investigating the local variant of the imperial faith on an Agri world. Then you see it the statue on the Emperor on wearing his golden straw hat with a straw in his mouth riding his golden John Deere combine harvester. What do you do?
Also dark heresy campaign based on the children of corn when?
Inquisitor:... this is Fine I guess.
Actually... fungus would grow fairly well in vacuum so long as you keep the mycelium bed inside. All the fruiting bodies wouldn't really care if they poke out into the void with just a few tweaks.
That's why orks kept living on everywhere
I wonder if agri worlds utilize a form of farming similar to the three-sister farming native Americans utilized.
For those not aware of this type of farming, it was three crops (squash, maize and beans) which produced waste products that the other plant would need to grow more effectively. Left the soil fertilized and the plants grew faster and healthier.
Depends on the agri-world
Some are industrialized, some are not industrialized but still conservationist in the way you described, and some are blatantly wasteful, like Nazi Germany times 100 levels of wasteful. Most are America level farming tho.
Exception to every rule. Khorne is exclusively served in the Sabbat worlds
I would like to imagine that the pirania fish in your rice field world example are part of an aquaponics system and you're not actually allowed to hurt them.
Yaay! Galaxy-wide logistics!
The true 40k fans favorite topic!
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But no seriously!) 🙃
I want an edit of this where a different image of Khorne pops up whenever Arch says corn.
There is a massive hydroponic complex in the southern corner of Spain supplying a large portion of of Europe so it isn’t in an experimental stage just not wide spread
There are several hydroponics farms in my area but nothing super huge. I feel like they will increase in scale as outdoor growing conditions become increasingly unpredictable.
"Eating the same food for week makes anyone cranky"
And I've been eating chicken an rice for 4 years 🤣
ok so...
on the plants that thrive on higher levels of radiation: they'd grow enormously fast. Therefore: there'd be more output.
second: some planets could be entirely unsuited for food crops, but they could be suited for crops that can be fermented, where the crops can then be used for actual food.
this would mean, you'd need a fermentation planet as well xD
Hmm...time to homebrew a Guard regiment raised from an Imperial Booze World?
@@MagnusVictor2015 works for me.
their flamers would be fuelled by alcohol, I guess?
also: I was actually talking of non-alcoholic fermentation^^
I'm slowly putting together a system based in 40k, I had an idea for an Agri-World that is an ocean world where they fish up Titan sized sea monsters with Imperial Knights serving as basically whalers.
For your hypothetical full agri world where everything has been terraformed, rather than just having the people living on stilts above the growing fields, it would be way cooler if there were massive combi harvesters that were so large that they functioned as cities (like Mortal Engines but actually good) The people living on the harvester work to process the food that has been harvested and the harvester leaves seeds behind it so that a few months the next harvester on the same latitude can harvest it. Then you have a space port on the north or south poll which get shipments flown in from each harvesters to be then shipped off world.
I want to build an argi world revolving around invasive species. The imperium brought some genetically engineered cattle and fish to a planet. Some of these animals escaped captivity into the wild where they cross breed with the local species and grew to massive sizes much like the feral hogs and snakehead fish in north America. Unlike the captive variants which are culled before they get too big to handle, these feral hogs and fish are only limited in size depending on the available food which is quite plentiful on the planet because it has a massive tropical river delta. They are still edible but due to their size and the feral nature, normal agri workers can't hurt them and they tend to break into holding pens and artificial ponds to steal food. This can be a potential home work for a space marines chapter, a knight house or imperial guard regiment who hunt the oversized crocodilian beasts and fish for food and combat training.
Being fed only corn is a sure-fire way to fall to Khorne.
Hey if BattleTech can have general motors still running in the third millennium that I see no reason why John Deere can't have its own cult or at least be a saint in the Imperial cult in the 41st millennium
The idea of a tech priest in a green robe with deer antlers and blessing a mile long tractor
@@Nic7800 leshy looking tech priest blessing a combine harvester is a new thing for me, but sounds like a fun idea for my admech group
A world type concept I have always been particularly fond of.
It is nice to see Arch cover Agri Worlds. 🙂
The way the imperium colonize planets and have aggri worlds, dedicated to that do not only show that the imeprium is willing to establsih colony on world taht will be dificultly food sufficient but also and mainly taht the imperium over specialize its colonies to avoid scecession. Wich is STUPID consider how transportation and trade is so risky.
@@darthrevan3342 Is English not your first language? Either way I understand what your saying, yes the imperium needs to be interdependent in all things so corruption of any form doesn’t corrupt the entire system.
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 Have a revolt on yoru aggri world it can spark rebellions on tthe shitty indurtials worlds. It work for the imperial guard. But for this? It is complety stupid.
@@darthrevan3342 Okay? Then they get their teeth kicked in and after a few hundred years things go back to normal.
Love your channel Mr. Arch. Your commentary and POV is 70% of the reason I watch/ listen to your videos.
In Star Wars Legends EU there are planets defined as "Green Worlds", Ork jokes aside, these are worlds that the Republic, Galactic Empire, New Republic, Fell Empire, and Galactic Alliance, actively try to keep from ever being industrialized or the very least not turned into something like Nul Hatta, worlds like Alderaan, Naboo, Dantooine, Ithor before its devastation and after its restoration, Telos IV following its restoration, these worlds produce the most abundant amount of food and medical plants in addition to having the best types of hydroponic gardens, you might have cases of more mundane farms like those near running water, enabling them to use the running water for both powering turbines & supply fresh water the plants granted they are poissbly some thing the size of a small island, while other worlds use something in the form of giant domed hydroponic gardens the size of New York, in addition to having water filters to scrub and remove debris and toxins from entering their worlds oceans, the technological process of the people from Alderaan & Naboo is used on many of these enabling the soil not to be contaminated or other things, these worlds also serve as the main source for acts of terraforming and planetary restoration proncesses in the aftermath of wars and other devastating things,
I imagine the Imperium also keeps tabs on these sorts of worlds,
Some agriculture soil products of WH40k.
Nitrolizers, Terrasoil, Necromulch, Rockrete, claypith, sandment, and Bark Dirt, as well as various seeds, hay, and other salts and mamilk products.
I'd argue that a portrail of the Emperor on an agri would would be more of a Master Farmer/Shepard. Its something I remember hearing growing up in Church, with God/Jesus being compared to a Shepard tending to their flock.
Just think of it, Proverbs about having to trim back those tainted by blight of sent by Nergal. Stories about the Emperors guardian lamas and dogs for the Inquisition and Space Marines keeping Khorne and the forces of Chaos.
I could go on and on. But that might require me to look up stuff I've forgotten and I'd rather do research on any other subject. Also some old sunday school song is all ready trying to pry its way into that area of the brain where ear worms dwell, and I don't want to encourage it.
Wait if God is a shepherd, why did he make Dragon's, Space Wolves, and giant Fists?
I am more into the idea of worshipping 20. century tractors. The Saints are Jon de Reé, Hanno Mag, and Mercedes of Unimog.
I had thje mental image of a planet borderline (borderline because of course Big E needs to be on the top - of course, with the Emperor depicted as some kind farmer god) deifying the project leader of the biologis team that created the crop that made that planet famous thoughout the sector.
@@waynebimmel6784 and on the Mechanicus agriworld they pray to the bright red Por Sche 111
On some agri worlds the emperor is worshipped as the sun that makes the plants grow or as a god of bountyful harvest. Agri worlds probably have the greatest variety in terms of tech level. Some are basically bronze age nomads others are fully automated GMO factory farms ran by mechanicus genesmiths.
Hope you do a video on paradise worlds. Vacation planets where the upper crust of imperial society can relax and live out their serial killer fantasies, at least that's what 40 facts said.
And a Kriegsmen's worst nightmare
Just rewatch the dark eldar video, it wouldn't be too far off from Imperial "Pleasure worlds" XD
Less extreme
I am curious, would they have lumber producing worlds? I mean we still use wood, it's cheap and very versatile. Heck I guess that the administratum needs a heck of a lot of paper. It amuses me that there could be entire planets dedicated to tree farming among other pursuits
That would go under Quarry Worlds I believe. A planet with strategically important resources that maintain the survival of the Imperium.
Luxury goods use wood.
You answered your own question. Imagine a world covered in forest, every inch of land has trees there. Now imagine how many potential planets one sector might have. Now imagine the regrowth of a normal ideal tree, now imagine 1000's of machine eating into the landmass everyday. Then you now understand the reason for lumber world's ... Also to consider, what's the chances of finding a planet completely covered in trees. Probably very rare so there's not point in squandering it
Good fucking point. Cause those idiots still use paper for everything, they’ll have to have multiple planets of dedicated lumber production. Very ineffective methods are the favorite of the Imperium.
@@muglypunt968 *Wookiees nervously roaring*
I was gonna make the point that us Irish proved that peasants can live on almost just potatoes alone, and then I remembered the potato blite that wiped a lot of us out in the 1,800's....incidentally, according to our last census, our population has finally managed to reach the 8 million people that it was, before the 1847 Great Irish Potato Famine.
Interestingly, if you wanna watch some real life post apocalypse stuff, that'd sort of like a US western outlaw film, "Black 47" is a movie set during that famine in Ireland. It's on Netflix.
I say post apocalypse, even though it's not the actual biblical apocalypse, but reducing the population from 8 million to I forgot, but a much lower number, in one failed harvest, after a few years on on and off failing harvests, is very Warhammer 40,000, along with interesting or let's just say mixed, ways of dealing with starving peasants.
To be fair, there where British people in power that did try to help the situation as best as they could.
Also, only an estimated 1 million actually died of starvation or more so disease that would have been survivable if not for the starvation.
Most of the population decline was emigration, like to mainland Britain or the New World, like the USA, in "coffin ships", called so because of those ships death rates on the journey to the New World.
Charles Trevelyan in Britain's civil service at the time pushed hard on insisting that Ireland was starving because its people were lazy and morally bankrupt because they became so dependant on potato farming, and needed social reform. He was an advocate of "non-intervention free market" that saw to it that Ireland was better off starving so it would correct itself.
It took donations coming from across the world, including Native Americans and even American *slaves* before Britain felt forced to actually do anything, when conditions had already gotten so bad. I don't think it's fair to say they did try to help as best they could.
@@jondoe5937 Actually the, I think Prime Minister of Britain or a similar position, seeing reports of the famine coming, ordered vast grain supplies from the New World. Unfortunately, he lost his office and was replaced by a man that had that attitude. Also, many individual British people did what they could, like Christian preachers.
Including the man that invented Binary logic, who was born in England, but excepted a job, teaching at the newly opened University College Cork, which is like a 20 or 30 minutes drive from where I live.
He did write about how there was nothing that an individual could offord to stop the crisis, but also records showed that the rich locals where more interesting in fancy living them actually helping the starving masses.
This is not the first time I heard stories about wealthy British landowners in Ireland having a "devil may care" attitude, while being more concerned with making money, like communist leaders when they actually get into power. Like Bernie Sanders 5 houses or BLM leaders multi million dollar houses.
@@jondoe5937 That was not a prevalent attitude however, even among the upper crust and especially not amongst the middle classes who were the voting population.
Unfortunately despite not being a majority opinion it was concentrated in the worst places, and many powerful individuals in the Government and the Civil Service held similar views.
Amongst the middle classes especially the response was one of donations in Britain, but the main problem is that those donations were often mismanaged, slow to be transported, and often badly targeted. Aid organisations even today can be guilty of such mistakes, but the ad hoc rabble of largely inexperienced volunteers who were involved in distributing the Aid early in the Famine made them all!
The problem was that such aid would not be efficiently distributed at that time without Government and Civil Service involvement, and people with those views, whilst a minority, were a POWERFUL minority, and so the involvement of Government took far, far longer than it should have.
History is almost never black and white, it is almost always a mix of shades of grey. Ascribing those deplorable opinions to Britain as a whole is a mistake, and is an untruth.
The safest world one could be one in the Imperium, just as if not more important than Forge World(Tech heresy I know but I don't care), and the backbone of humanity. If any of us were in 40k, and not lucky enough to be a Space Marine or better, we'd want to be on an Agri World. I know I would.
At least until the dark eldar show up *shudders*
@@jacthing1 Or Nids, or Orks, or Crons, or Chaos, or the Inquisition. Really just the Tau are the only "Oh thank fuck it's just X" race in 40k.
@@inductivegrunt94 getting attacked by Tau is like being petted on the forehead when compared to having some giant space slug thing eat your planet's surface while spawning infinitely respawning antibodies that fight and eat you. So that you can get eaten alive by a monster while your planet gets eaten alive by a monster.
So seriously the Tau and the Imperium should just CHILL the fk down.
The extremes of 40k are great, agriworlds are fascinating as well because it's not strictly something related to battle and combat. It's just a place where they produce food and the potential for that is great.
Arch is back from PC prison.
PG, PC Double entendre for the win!
For now
"Khorne! Khorne! Khorne!" "Arbites, what's that fuss out there?" "Don't worry. That's just these dudes again demanding something different than potatoes every day."
I heard that in agriworlds, bakers make bread with barley that was only recycled 5 times. The water won't melt any machines it spills on, and there is this one fellow in reprocessing that swears by the Emperor that one coin can buy you a full SLICE of 8 headed goatfrog jerky. Yeah, those lucky sons of a bolter have it made in the shade.
Someone recently released an STL for a combine harvester Dreadnought, so some dedicated farmer can operate a combine FOREVER...
This model was released by 'Digital Taxidermy' and is called the 'Dreadnought Harvester'
If I might make a suggestion: how the Iron Warriors conduct a siege.
That can be a very wide topic. They’re the most inventive siege masters in the galaxy. Like they have destroyed entire fortress worlds by simply conquering or destroying the agri-worlds that supplied the fortress world. How the Iron Warriors siege a planet is entirely up to how imaginative/powerful/influential/insane/warp-touched the local Warsmith is.
Crazy thing is in the states we often farm rice and crawfish in the same location. Maybe that's why the admech love the color red...
Be like sourcing from a pure seaweed algae agri cluster of water planets. Then you just hit it during processing into cubes, patties or powder with your choice of minimal animal typed bone broth powder. This is why you need to always have at least a small amount of salt and pepper available alongside your Imperial Primer.
Welcome to our ocean agri world. On a good day you can catch tons of plankton here.Plankton is the fruit of the sea. You can bbq it, boil it, broil it, bake it. There is plankton kebab, plankton creole, plankton gumbo, lemon plankton, coconut plankton...
That's it, I'm praying to the Corn Cobperror for a bountiful harvest in my garden 🙏
Oh, the real-world connotations. All hail the bread barges!
Corn, the greatest of all choas gods. Seeds for the seed god!! Grain for the grain throne!!
I could imagine dozens of worlds being a state of anarchy because a ork thought it would be hilarious to blow up a shipment of potatoes
I now have a terrible mental image of a Potato Gun Waagh.......
"So I's thinkin Why not shoot the humies with their own food."
Some guy with Irish ancestry: " Bloody brits trying to starv us again just like in the story's grandad used to tell."
I'd like to suggest a video on the Arbites, Enforcers, Collegiate Extremis and other local law enforcement in the imperium.
Colgate Extremists, huh? Lemme guess, a cult formed from a heretical offshoot of graduates of the Dentistorum on Holy Terra that formed a cult?
Plaque for the Plaque God! Teeth for the Teeth Throne!
Apparently, rice farming is such labour intensive and back breaking work, that many Asians lie about their age to get to work in sweat shops, because at least then you're sitting down, indoors.
As an Irishman, that's tried a bit of amateur potato (of course lol) and other crop growing, I can attest to how it cam strain your back or legs when trying to harvest, sow or mainly just pick weeds out.
21:45 "Growing Kevlar" now that's a phrase I never expected to hear...
Khorne causes pellagra? I thought that was from Nurgle's garden!
This are the only TH-cam videos I really watch till the end, the longer the better
Today on Warhammer 40K Lore: Space Saskatchewan
The grim side of me thinks of planets dedicated to the raising of livestock. City sized abattoirs slaughtering thousands if not millions of animals on a daily basis.
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Arch: It would be ludicrously expensive to level those mountains and then cover that again in dirt.
Me: Don't they have this thing called target practice when it comes to orbital bombardment? 2 or 3 tungsten rods from orbit a year and give it maybe a decade to settle the dust and yeah mostly just replacing the topsoil at that point.
Ehh just use terraces to farm on elevated terrain and slopes
@@domusavires19 I'm just going with the Imperium's strengths and random Drill Instructors going, "I don't like that mountain...."
Remember one of the horror books took place there.
You definitely don’t want to be late with the tithes there.
The squats already knew what was up, had the best solution!
Great episode and honestly being on a Agri world or Garden world would be some of the best options for normal workers. Most likely to not die a horrible death.
Agri World. The perfect snack for a Tyranid hive fleet.
3:12 is when the lore starts
Bless the Omnissiah.
"Without food..." [Raid Shadow Legends Ad Interrupt]
Sentence is not completed.
That raid ad was integrated seamlessly
I grow sweet corn, and I could never imagine eating it everyday day in day out. You can throw in some potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, and definitely some lettuce you need some lettuce in your diet 🙂.
No, you don't need lettuce in your diet, its almost entirely made of water.
I am now trying to imagine...The Emperor as a giant corn cob.
Maybe it’s just the tisms, but eating the same thing every day lowers my stress levels. Figured out how to get all my macros and micros, and now I just eat the same things everyday with maybe something else thrown in to spice things up
I think our dairy products here in Ireland, are exported as far away as China...for the richer Chinese people. Apparently we just freeze it and ship it over.
I know when I went to Spain, that they use Irish dairy products because Spain's climate isn't suited anywhere as well as ours is here in Ireland to dairy production. Meanwhile, we import their wine. (Yes, I know, Irish stereotype, importing alcohol while exporting non alcohol, lol.)
Love a good biomass basket- local Hive fleet
That cover art is really something special!
“Imagine yourself eating the exact same meal for a week.”
Arch stop bringing up my college days XD
Pasta and garlic in a million different ways.
I know it's stupid but the first time I heard him say an entire world of fields of corn I pictured a red screaming field of knife wielding plants. yay chaos
I'm sure a planet full of corn would make the inquisition at least a little bit nervous..........
Agri-World Farmer- It’s hard work but honest work
I would love to hear about the Imperial guard that uses flying jet packs.
So if khorne doesn’t have the correct amino acid balance it would explain why he’s alway in bad mood and snatching up skulls and whatnot
Rather than not diversifying food the Imperium doesn't diversify *planets.* The Imperium takes The Planet Of The Hats trope to the extreme to make said planets interdependent. This reduces instances of successful rebellion from single planets - they're either poorly defended, or they'll eventually starve.
Not that this stops 'let them eat cake' types from trying their luck.
Cake for dinner again?! NO MORE!!
The inquisition will be like: This scribe is sure saying "Khorne" a lot.
Also some fields require rest after grown certain crops
Somewhere out there there is an agri world completely covered in pot
Makes you wonder why the Imperium's enemies bother attacking Hive Worlds when Agri Worlds are much more valuable targets. Destroy your enemy's food supply and all you have to do is wait. And while I have no doubt that the Imperium is aware of this and will defend an Agri World to the best of their ability, there's only so much you can do to fortify a planet when at least 95% of its surface is devoted to food production.
I may not be accurate but most agri worlds are kept on the dl even from high ranking inquisitors (unless chaos is afoot of course) and they actually stay relatively safe for a 40k world. Very very ignorant of the universe citizens.
Well, for Chaos forces humans are more important as resource and there are a lot more humans on hive-worlds.
It does happen. That what the alpha legion MO for a while.
Cooler to fight in ruined cities than empty corn fields lol.
A lot of the Imperium's enemies don't think in the same tactical way that we think.
For a Khornate warband slaughtering a hiveworld would be a far more valuable act than attackig a lowly agriworld.
For a Drukhari raiding party the Hivecity has MUCH more possible slaves so not even a question there , even though smaller parties could decide to play it safer ; their reason wouldn't be your/our current human reasoning.
Same for the Tyranids except they just eat all the people , yet maybe the crops of an agriworld might be nutritious as well. And even if the Swarms did attack them they would attack them for this reason , not to tactically starve humans.
I would love to hear about those cemetery worlds.
40k really is an amazing setting.
Not a setting, more of a play ground.
I love that Thumbnail Arch
The Emperor in His Aspect as a giant golden cob is now a thing for me.
By the end of the video, all I know is Corn for the Corn god! Crops for his cropfield!
This can't be misunderstood by the inquisition and the grey knights. I'm sure we'll be fine.
On the topic of plants absorbing radiation they have recently found fungi that absorb nuclear radiation for energy