Difference between revisions of "Nutrient paste meal"

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A nutrient paste meal is produced from a nutrient paste dispenser, using raw food ingredients.

Acquisition

Nutrient paste meals are created at a powered nutrient paste dispenser instantly, using 0.3 nutrition of any food inside its hoppers. Typically, nutrient paste meals are dispensed by a hungry pawn and then immediately eaten; they can't be produced by work bill, and animals won't use a dispenser.

These meals can't normally be stockpiled. Should the pawn dispensing the meal be interrupted between dispensing and eating the meal, they will drop it. This is done by limiting a pawn's area restriction to just a nutrient paste dispenser, or by simply drafting them. This behavior can be exploited to stockpile meals, but their short shelf life of 0.75 days means they should be immediately frozen. See Nutrient paste dispenser for a more in-depth strategy.

Summary

A nutrient paste meal can be eaten for 0.9 nutrition. As paste takes 0.3 nutrition to make, it has a nutrition efficiency of 300%. Nutrient paste cannot cause food poisoning.

When consumed, nutrient paste gives a −4 Ate awful meal moodlet. This mood penalty is not applied to Ascetic pawns and those with the Eating Nutrient Paste: Don't Mind ideoligious precept.

Analysis

Nutrient paste is the most efficient way to prepare a meal, noticeably better than simple and fine meals (180% efficiency, for . In addition, no cooking is necessary, which can save a lot of time off a cook's hands. This makes nutrient paste useful in a famine, even if you don't plan to use it indefinitely.

However, nutrient paste meals give a -4 mood debuff, which ends up being -9 net mood compared to fine meals. It is advised to not give nutrient paste to pawns with a trait that gives a negative modifier to mental break threshold, because they can push a pawn over the edge. Because pawns prefer normal meals over nutrient paste, you can set restrictions to prevent normal pawns from consuming all of the good meals, leaving them to the volatile ones.

Nutrient paste is also the most efficient animal food, assuming it can eat the full 0.9 nutrition without overeating. But using it as such requires a pawn to manually produce nutrient paste meals, since animals can't use the dispenser. Animals also don't care about mood at all.

The mood penalty is negated if the colonist eating it has a precept "Eating Nutrient paste" as "Don't mind" for their Ideoligion, making it a great food for them.

Nutrient paste is a poor choice for caravans, given how quickly nutrient paste spoils and the tedious micro required to make stacks of them.

Gallery

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One nutrient paste meal
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Partial stack
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Full stack

Version history

0.3.410 - Pawns now try to eat nice meals when they have the choice over nutrient meals.
1.4.3523 - Ascetics no longer get a negative mood debuff when eating nutrient paste meals.

Texture as of some version before 1.0.2096

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

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 However, nutrient paste meals give a -4 [[mood]] debuff, which ends up being -9 net mood compared to [[fine meal]]s. It is advised to not give nutrient paste to pawns with a [[trait]] that gives a negative modifier to mental break threshold, because they can push a pawn over the edge. Because pawns prefer normal meals over nutrient paste, you can set restrictions to prevent normal pawns from consuming all of the good meals, leaving them to the volatile ones.
-Nutrient paste is also the most efficient [[animal]] food, assuming it can eat the full 0.9 nutrition without [[Saturation#Rounding_Error_and_Eating_Thresholds|overeating]]. Animals don't have mood to worry about. But using it as such requires a pawn to manually produce nutrient paste meals, ince animals can't use the dispenser.
+Nutrient paste is also the most efficient [[animal]] food, assuming it can eat the full 0.9 nutrition without [[Saturation#Rounding_Error_and_Eating_Thresholds|overeating]]. But using it as such requires a pawn to manually produce nutrient paste meals, since animals can't use the dispenser. Animals also don't care about mood at all.
 The mood penalty is negated if the colonist eating it has a precept "Eating Nutrient paste" as "Don't mind" for their [[Ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}}, making it a great food for them.