Avoid Food Waste for Age of Empires II: Deluxe Definitive Edition Bundle on Xbox Series X (XboxSX)

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In the Dark Age, wasting food is one of the most expensive things you can do. It's important to efficiently harvest the meat from the herdable animals you'll start the game with because they can be easily killed. Your villagers will walk to the closest location that will accept the meat once they have collected enough from an animal. To begin, this is your town center.

However, walking requires time, and during that time, the animal's carcass spoils, reducing the amount of food you can get from it. 

To solve this issue, slaughter your animals right beneath the Town Center, making it easier for your villagers to deliver the meat by just standing up. Put several villagers on a single animal so that they can all share in collecting the meat at the same time.