Difference between revisions of "Fine meal"

Latest revision as of 21:40, 12 January 2024

A fine meal is a higher quality meal that requires both meat and vegetables to create.

Acquisition[edit]

Fine meals can be cooked at a Fueled stove or Electric stove. A fine meal requires 0.25 units of nutrition from vegan items, 0.25 units of nutrition from meat or animal products – this is equal to 5 units of raw vegetables and 5 units of meat or an equivalent nutritional yield of animal products. They require 450 ticks (7.5 secs) of work to make, and a Cooking skill of 6.

Summary[edit]

A fine meal can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.9 nutrition, or 90% of a human's hunger meter. As it takes 0.5 nutrition of raw food to create, fine meals provide 180% nutrition efficiency, equal to simple meals.

Eating a fine meal or its variants gives the +5 Ate fine meal mood for 1 day. This replaces the +12 Ate lavish meal mood for 1 day from lavish meal if present. If the meal was made out of insect meat or human meat, their respective moodlets will be applied. If Ideology DLC is active and the meal was made out of raw fungus, its normal moodlet will also be applied.

Analysis[edit]

If you are already producing both meat and vegetables, fine meals are an easy-to-implement mood buff. Fine meals consume the same total nutrition as a simple meal, meaning no food is wasted. Even if the meat : vegetable ratio is unbalanced, you can always cook fine meals until you run out of either ingredient (then switching to simple meals afterwards). This is as simple as queueing fine meals for cooking before any simple meals. The only downside is the minimum skill requirement and the 33% slower production rate.

Animals like chickens and cows can produce a continuous stream of edible products. Whether meat is easy to obtain is highly variable - hunting rats may not be worth it, but a ranching economy could be.

Insect meat only gives a −3 moodlet when cooked, which results in a net +2 mood when used for fine meals. If a colonist's ideoligion prefers insect meat, then fine meals of insect meat provide a great mood buff. If ideoligion permits cannibalism, then human meat can be used to the same effect.

Vegetarian fine meals give the same fine meal moodlet without using meat, at the cost of using +50% more food. Many colonies can afford to grow 50% more food; just 1 hour of a grower's time can "upgrade" multiple colonists from simple to vegetarian fine. If you don't already have meat or animal products, making vegetarian fine meals might take less work than regular fine meals. See vegetarian meal's Analysis section for more details.

Note you can make fine meals that are ideologically vegetarian from the same amount of nutritional value using the regular fine meal recipe by replacing all meat with animal products. This will keep vegetarian pawns happy while avoiding the lower nutritional efficiency of the vegetarian fine meal.

If colonist mood is alright without fine meals, even during the worst draft conditions (hungry and tired), then fine and lavish meals can be saved for when a colonist is on verge of a mental break. However this is only worth it for fine meals if:

The colony doesn't have a consistent supply of both nutrition types
Pawns are typically eating food with a higher nutritional efficiency that fine/simple meals; and/or
The pawns mood is consistently above 95.

Gallery[edit]

One fine meal
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history[edit]

0.2.363 - Added
Beta 19/1.0 - Traders will no longer accept typical short-life meals, including fine meals.

Old sprite
Even older sprite

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

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{See also|carnivore fine meal|vegetarian fine meal}}{{Infobox main|Food
+{{See also|carnivore fine meal|vegetarian fine meal}}
+{{Infobox main|food
 | name = Fine meal
-| image = Fine meal.png|Fine meal
+| image = Fine meal a.png
 | description = A complex dish assembled with care from a wide selection of ingredients.
 <!-- Base Stats -->
@@ Line 12: / Line 13: @@
 | flammability = 1
 | stack limit = 10
-| path cost = 15
+| path cost = 14
 <!-- Ingestion -->
 | taste = Fine
 | ingested direct thought = AteFineMeal
-| joy offset = 0.045
 | max num to ingest at once = 1
 | days to rot = 4
 | nutrition = 0.9
 <!-- Creation -->
-| work to make = 8
+| work to make = 450
+| work speed stat = Cooking Speed
 | production facility 1 = Fueled stove
 | production facility 2 = Electric stove
+| skill 1 = cooking
+| skill 1 level = 6
+| resource 1 = Nutrition
+| resource 1 type = non-vegan
+| resource 1 amount = 0.25
+| resource 2 = Nutrition
+| resource 2 type = vegan
+| resource 2 amount = 0.25
+| bulk product amount = 4
 <!-- Technical -->
 | defName = MealFine
@@ Line 43: / Line 53: @@
 | use hit points = true
 }}
-{{Info|A '''fine meal''' is created at an [[electric stove]] or [[fueled stove]] and requires 0.25 [[nutrition]] from any combination of animal products and meat (5 [[meat]], 5 [[milk]] or 1 [[egg]]) and 0.25 nutrition from vegetables (5 non-[[Hay]] vegetarian products) to create. A colonist with cooking skill of at least 6 is required to create this meal. When eaten it causes the [[thoughts|Ate fine meal]] thought with a 5 mood bonus. A fine meal provides 0.9 nutrition.}}
+{{Info|A '''fine meal''' is a higher quality [[meal]] that requires both meat and vegetables to create.}}
-Producing a fine meal requires 0.5 nutrition in ingredients, but produces 0.9 nutrition in results -- an 80% net nutrition gain.  If you have meat and vegetables available, fine meals are strictly better than simple meals, with the only differences being a requirement for both meat and vegetables and the +5 positive moodlet from eating a fine meal. Vegetables can be obtained from farming and meat or eggs can be obtained from ranching animals. A two female and a single male [[chicken]] can easily reproduce into 20 or more in a few quadrums.
+== Acquisition ==
+Fine meals can be [[Work#Cook|cooked]] at a [[{{P|Production Facility 1}}]] or [[{{P|Production Facility 2}}]]. A fine meal requires 0.25 units of [[nutrition]] from vegan items, 0.25 units of nutrition from meat or animal products – this is equal to 5 units of raw vegetables and 5 units of meat or an equivalent nutritional yield of animal products. They require {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work to make, and a [[{{P|Skill 1}}]] skill of {{P|Skill 1 Level}}.
-== Version History ==
+== Summary ==
-* [[Version/0.2.363|0.2.363]] - added
+A fine meal can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.9 [[nutrition]], or 90% of a human's hunger meter. As it takes 0.5 nutrition of [[raw food]] to create, fine meals provide 180% nutrition efficiency, equal to [[simple meal]]s.
-{{nav|Food|wide}}
+Eating a fine meal or its variants gives the {{Thought|desc=I ate a really tasty fine meal. Yum!|label=ate fine meal|value=+5|stack=1|duration=1}}. This replaces the {{Thought|desc=That lavish meal was amazing. It nourished my body and my soul.|label=ate lavish meal|value=+12|stack=1|duration=1}} from [[lavish meal]] if present. If the meal was made out of [[insect meat]] or [[human meat]], their respective moodlets will be applied. If [[Ideology DLC]] {{IdeologyIcon}} is active and the meal was made out of [[raw fungus]], its normal moodlet will also be applied.
+== Analysis ==
+If you are already producing both meat and vegetables, fine meals are an easy-to-implement mood buff. Fine meals consume the same total nutrition as a simple meal, meaning no food is wasted. Even if the meat : vegetable ratio is unbalanced, you can always cook fine meals until you run out of either ingredient (then switching to simple meals afterwards). This is as simple as queueing fine meals for cooking before any simple meals. The only downside is the minimum skill requirement and the {{Bad|{{%|1-{{Q|Simple meal|Work To Make}}/{{P|Work To Make}} round 2}}}} slower production rate.
+Animals like [[chicken]]s and [[cow]]s can produce a continuous stream of edible products. Whether meat is easy to obtain is highly variable - hunting [[rat]]s may not be worth it, but a ranching economy could be.
+* [[Insect meat]] only gives a {{--|3}} moodlet when cooked, which results in a net {{+|2}} mood when used for fine meals. If a colonist's [[ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} prefers insect meat, then fine meals of insect meat provide a great mood buff. If ideoligion permits cannibalism, then [[human meat]] can be used to the same effect.
+* [[Vegetarian fine meal]]s give the same fine meal moodlet without using meat, at the cost of using +50% more food. Many colonies can afford to grow 50% more food; just 1 hour of a grower's time can "upgrade" multiple colonists from simple to vegetarian fine. If you don't already have meat or animal products, making vegetarian fine meals might take less work than regular fine meals. See vegetarian meal's [[Vegetarian fine meal#Analysis|Analysis section]] for more details.
+Note you can make fine meals that are ''ideologically vegetarian'' from the same amount of nutritional value using the regular fine meal recipe by replacing all meat with animal products. This will keep vegetarian pawns happy while avoiding the lower nutritional efficiency of the vegetarian fine meal.
+If colonist mood is alright without fine meals, even during the worst [[draft]] conditions (hungry and tired), then fine and lavish meals can be saved for when a colonist is on verge of a [[mental break]]. However this is only worth it for fine meals if:
+# The colony doesn't have a consistent supply of both nutrition types
+# Pawns are typically eating food with a higher nutritional efficiency that fine/simple meals; and/or
+# The pawns mood is consistently above 95.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Fine meal a.png|One fine meal
+Fine meal b.png|Partial stack
+Fine meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+== Version history ==
+* [[Version/0.2.363|0.2.363]] - Added
+* Beta 19/1.0 - Traders will no longer accept typical short-life meals, including fine meals.
+<gallery>
+Fine meal old 2.png|Old sprite
+Fine meal old.png|Even older sprite
+</gallery>
+{{Nav|Food|wide}}
 [[Category:Food]] [[Category:Processed Food]] [[Category:Meal]]