Human meat

Human meat

Raw butchered flesh. Can be cooked into meals or eaten raw, although most humans dislike the idea.

Base Stats

Type

Food – Raw food

Market Value

0.8 

Mass

0.03 kg

Beauty

-4

HP

60

Deterioration Rate

6

Flammability

50%

Days To Start Rot

2

Ingestion

Nutrition

0.05

Taste

Raw

Food Poison Chance

2%

See also: Meat (disambiguation), Meat, and Insect meat

Acquisition

Human meat is obtained when a cook cook butchers humans. Humans have a base Meat Yield of 140, but the actual number depends on the Butchery Efficiency of the butcher, damage of the corpse, and a number of other factors.

Summary

Human meat is like any other raw food. It can be used to create meals, or combined with other ingredients to produce fine, lavish meals, pemmican and kibble. However, humans despise eating human meat, which is cannibalism.

The colony recieves a -6 moodlet simply by butchering a human - the butcher themselves recieves another -5 mood. Actually eating raw human flesh gives a massive -20 mood penalty, which is only reduced to -15 mood if cooked. Psychopaths and pawns with bloodlust ignore the butchering penalty, but hate cannibalism all the same. A nutrient paste dispenser won't mask human meat, and pawns recieve debuffs for both human meat and nutrient paste.

Meanwhile, Cannibals enjoy human meat, gaining +20 mood for eating it raw or +15 for eating it cooked. Mood can also be swayed (positive or negative) by a pawn's Ideoligion.

Processing human meat, once it has been butchered, incurs no penalties. Human meat can be made into meals, used for animal feed, processed in biofuel refinery for chemfuel, or put in a biosculpter pod.

Analysis

Butchering a human is already upsetting for a good majority of colonists. So in a colony not filled with cannibals, eating it should only be for absolute emergencies, in extreme biomes like sea ice, or to please a cannibal on verge of mental break. For a cannibal, cooking the meat into a fine meal gives the same net buff (+20) as eating raw, and fine meals are more efficent for nutrition.

The massive mood debuff may make human meat situationally useful. It may force a tortured artist into a mental break, or help make ideoligcal conversion easier - including a Crisis of Belief.

Alternatively, using human meat for carnivorous animals (whenever raw or kibble) isn't cannibalism, so the animals won't mind. It may be wiser to leave corpses unbutchered, as the butchering itself has a fairly large penalty to both the butcherer and the colony.

Its market value is only  0.8 silver, or 40% of regular meat. However, processing it into meals or chemfuel will ignore its origin when considering market value.

Ideoligion makes this a different story. With the Cannibalism meme, raiders become a completely viable source of both food and positive moodlets. Setting the precept to Required (ravenous) gives the greatest mood buffs, but also gives a stronger debuff when human meat isn't available. This is also possible in the base game with a colony entirely comprised of the cannibal trait, though there's no way to "convert" future recruits.

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Food

Meals

Chocolate • Fine meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Kibble • Lavish meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Nutrient paste meal • Packaged survival meal • Pemmican • Simple meal • Baby food

Raw food - Animal

Meat (Human, Insect, Twisted) • Insect jelly • Milk • Hemogen pack

Raw food - Eggs

Cassowary egg (fert.) • Chicken egg (fert., unfert.) • Cobra egg (fert.) • Duck egg (fert., unfert.) • Emu egg (fert.) • Goose egg (fert., unfert.) • Iguana egg (fert.) • Ostrich egg (fert.) • Tortoise egg (fert.) • Turkey egg (fert.)

Raw food - Vegetarian

Agave fruit • Berries • Corn • Hay • Potatoes • Raw fungus • Rice • Toxipotatoes