Important Note: post-Twisted & Twilight update, you have the ability to abandon settlements you do not want, which is a huge quality of life improvement for the Skaven, because settlements cost you that 1 food, and if you do not build anything in them to offset that cost, owning settlements that you do not want after sacking them while you wait for the AI to capture them hurt you, but hopefully that will not be as much of an issue now.
If you have 800 food capacity and only 400 food, you are at 50%. You can raise your food capacity, and your food percentage will adjust accordingly. There is a bar in the top middle of your screen that will show you what your food capacity is, how much food you have, and what percentage of your food capacity you currently have in food.
Skaven can use food to increase the level of a settlement upon occupying or colonizing a settlement (not after).Įach army you recruit, and each settlement that you occupy, costs you 1 food (undercities DO NOT appear to cost food unless you build certain under-buildings in them).