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'''Food''' is the basic source of nutrition to both [[human]]s and [[animals]]. Consuming food provides [[saturation]]. Deprivation of food leads to [[malnutrition]] and, if prolonged, [[death]]. | '''Food''' is the basic source of nutrition to both [[human]]s and [[animals]]. Consuming food provides [[saturation]]. Deprivation of food leads to [[malnutrition]] and, if prolonged, [[death]]. | ||
| − | == Raw food == | + | == Summary == |
| + | Food is measured in units of [[nutrition]]. Most raw foods give 0.05 nutrition. Prepared [[meal]]s, such as [[simple meal]]s or [[fine meal]]s, give 0.9 nutrition. Cooking food allows you to get more nutrition off the same amount of material | ||
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| + | Baseline adult humans require 1.6 nutrition per day. However, they can "store" 1.0 nutrition at any one time. As humans eat while they are "hungry" (0.25 [[saturation]]), meals are subject to slight [[overeating]]. | ||
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| + | === Raw food === | ||
{{for|a list of raw food items| Raw food}} | {{for|a list of raw food items| Raw food}} | ||
| − | Food found in its natural stage is raw, | + | Food found in its natural stage is raw. Most raw foods will give the {{--|7}} ''Ate Raw Food'' [[mood]]let to an ordinary colonist. [[Milk]], [[berries]], and [[insect jelly]] can be eaten without mood penalty, all raw food comes with an innate chance of [[food poisoning]]. |
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| + | You can cook food into [[meal]]s at an [[electric stove]], [[fueled stove]] or [[campfire]], or processed at a [[nutrient paste dispenser]]. In addition to tasting better, cooked food allows you to get more nutrition off the same amount of raw food. For example, a [[simple meal]] costs 0.5 nutrition to make, but gives 0.9 nutrition when eaten - or 180% more food. | ||
Raw food can be obtained from a variety of sources: | Raw food can be obtained from a variety of sources: | ||
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== Degradation == | == Degradation == | ||
[[File:Food has rotted away in storage.png|thumb|right|{{asof|A15}} there is a message telling you when food has spoiled.]] | [[File:Food has rotted away in storage.png|thumb|right|{{asof|A15}} there is a message telling you when food has spoiled.]] | ||
| − | Food will be destroyed if left unattended | + | Food will be destroyed if left unattended by two entirely seperate factors: exposure and temperature. |
| − | * Items dropped in an area without a roof will [[Deterioration|deteriorate]]. | + | * Items dropped in an area without a [[roof]] will [[Deterioration|deteriorate]]. |
* Storing food in temperatures above {{Temperature|0}} will spoil over time. Temperatures below {{Temperature|10}} will slow down spoiling by a factor of <code>1/temp</code> in Celsius. See [[Temperature#Temperature_Thresholds|Temperature]] for details. | * Storing food in temperatures above {{Temperature|0}} will spoil over time. Temperatures below {{Temperature|10}} will slow down spoiling by a factor of <code>1/temp</code> in Celsius. See [[Temperature#Temperature_Thresholds|Temperature]] for details. | ||
** In the early game, food spoilage can pose a threat if located on warm [[biomes]]. A freezer room can be created by placing enough [[cooler]]s in proportion to its size - the bigger the storage, the more coolers required. | ** In the early game, food spoilage can pose a threat if located on warm [[biomes]]. A freezer room can be created by placing enough [[cooler]]s in proportion to its size - the bigger the storage, the more coolers required. | ||
| − | + | For example: a [[raider]] is killed and drops a fine meal outdoors, while temperature is below freezing. The meal will not spoil, but it will still ''deteriorate'', and lose HP. Conversely, a meal stored inside a stockpile at room temperature will spoil rather than deteriorating. | |
Once spoiled, food will vanish and can never be recovered. However, food can be eaten at any stage before spoiling with no negative effect. Food poisoning comes from other sources, such as a messy kitchen or unskilled cook. | Once spoiled, food will vanish and can never be recovered. However, food can be eaten at any stage before spoiling with no negative effect. Food poisoning comes from other sources, such as a messy kitchen or unskilled cook. | ||
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Food is the basic source of nutrition to both humans and animals. Consuming food provides saturation. Deprivation of food leads to malnutrition and, if prolonged, death.
Summary
Food is measured in units of nutrition. Most raw foods give 0.05 nutrition. Prepared meals, such as simple meals or fine meals, give 0.9 nutrition. Cooking food allows you to get more nutrition off the same amount of material
Baseline adult humans require 1.6 nutrition per day. However, they can "store" 1.0 nutrition at any one time. As humans eat while they are "hungry" (0.25 saturation), meals are subject to slight overeating.
Raw food
Food found in its natural stage is raw. Most raw foods will give the −7 Ate Raw Food moodlet to an ordinary colonist. Milk, berries, and insect jelly can be eaten without mood penalty, all raw food comes with an innate chance of food poisoning.
You can cook food into meals at an electric stove, fueled stove or campfire, or processed at a nutrient paste dispenser. In addition to tasting better, cooked food allows you to get more nutrition off the same amount of raw food. For example, a simple meal costs 0.5 nutrition to make, but gives 0.9 nutrition when eaten - or 180% more food.
Raw food can be obtained from a variety of sources:
- Wild bushes can be harvested to give agave and berries.
- Growing zones can be used to plant rice, potatoes, corn, strawberries and haygrass (for domesticated animals).
- Hydroponics basins can also be used to plant rice, potatoes or strawberries, and grows them at a considerably increased rate.
- Meat is obtained from fresh non-mechanoid corpses, whether hunted or if they died via other means. Corpses may be eaten raw or butchered at a butcher table.
- Occasional drops from cargo pods.
Degradation
Food will be destroyed if left unattended by two entirely seperate factors: exposure and temperature.
- Items dropped in an area without a roof will deteriorate.
- Storing food in temperatures above 0 °C (32 °F) will spoil over time. Temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F) will slow down spoiling by a factor of
1/tempin Celsius. See Temperature for details.
For example: a raider is killed and drops a fine meal outdoors, while temperature is below freezing. The meal will not spoil, but it will still deteriorate, and lose HP. Conversely, a meal stored inside a stockpile at room temperature will spoil rather than deteriorating.
Once spoiled, food will vanish and can never be recovered. However, food can be eaten at any stage before spoiling with no negative effect. Food poisoning comes from other sources, such as a messy kitchen or unskilled cook.
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Version history
- 0.8.657 - Now spoils without refrigeration
- 0.9.722 - Food poisoning added. Bad cooks are more likely to accidentally poison meals.
- 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