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 mood for 1 day. This mood penalty is not applied to Ascetic pawns and those with the Eating Nutrient Paste: Don't Mind ideoligious precept. 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

Nutrient paste is the most efficient way to prepare a meal, noticeably better than simple and fine meals (180% efficiency). This makes nutrient paste useful in a famine, even if you don't plan to use it indefinitely. In addition, no cooking is necessary. This avoids food poisoning entirely and can save a lot of time off a cook's hands. Nutrient paste is a poor choice for caravans, given how quickly nutrient paste spoils and the tedious micro required to make stacks of them.

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, who don't care about mood, 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.

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 powerful choice for day-to-day work flow.

Gallery

One nutrient paste meal
Partial stack
Full stack

One carnivore nutrient paste meal
Partial stack
Full stack

One vegetarian nutrient paste meal
Partial stack
Full stack

Version history

0.3.410 - Pawns now try to eat nice meals when they have the choice over nutrient meals.
Beta 19/1.0 - Traders will no longer accept typical short-life meals, including nutrient paste meals.
1.4.3523 - Ascetics no longer get a negative mood debuff when eating nutrient paste meals.

Texture before introduction of carnivore and vegetarian variant
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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-{{Rewrite|reason=Format standardisation}}{{Infobox main|food
+{{Infobox main|food
 | name = Nutrient paste meal
-| image = Nutrient paste meal.png|Nutrient paste meal
+| image = Nutrient paste meal a.png
 | description = A synthetic mixture of protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins, amino acids and minerals. Everything the body needs, and absolutely disgusting.
 <!-- Base Stats -->
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 | flammability = 1
 | stack limit = 10
-| path cost = 15
+| path cost = 14
 <!-- Ingestion -->
 | taste = Awful
 | ingested direct thought = AteNutrientPasteMeal
-| joy offset = -0.04
 | max num to ingest at once = 1
 | days to rot = 0.75
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 | work to make = 0
 | production facility 1 = Nutrient paste dispenser
+| resource 1 = Nutrition
+| resource 1 type = any
+| resource 1 amount = 0.3
 <!-- Technical -->
-| def name = MealNutrientPaste
+| defName = MealNutrientPaste
 | preferability = Awful
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 | ticker type = Rare
 | use hit points = true
-}}{{Info|A '''nutrient paste meal''' is produced from a [[nutrient paste dispenser]], using raw food ingredients worth 0.3 points of nutrition (i.e.. the raw nutrition is tripled). When consumed, it gives a -4 mood penalty ("[[Thoughts#Eating|Ate awful meal]]"). The meals are dispensed on demand, and no cooking skill is required. Nutrient paste meals never cause [[food poisoning]]. The nutrient paste dispenser requires power to dispense a meal.}}
+}}
+{{Info|A '''nutrient paste meal''' is produced from a [[nutrient paste dispenser]], using raw food ingredients.}}
-The mood penalty from eating the meal and power requirement are offset by several substantial benefits:
+==Acquisition==
-* Producing a nutrient paste meals requires 0.3 nutrition in raw food products, but produces 0.9 nutrition in results -- tripling the nutritional value of any - ''any'' - food.  This is substantially better then the next best options ([[simple meal|simple]] and [[fine meal|fine]] meals), which don't quite double the nutritional value (x1.8).
+Nutrient paste meals are created at a [[power]]ed [[nutrient paste dispenser]] instantly, using 0.3 [[nutrition]] of any food inside its [[hopper]]s. 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.
-* Nutrient paste never causes [[food poisoning]], while cooked meals always carry at least a small chance of food poisoning.
-* No cooking is necessary, completely avoiding the work and oversight associated with cooking as well as the need for a skilled chef
-* Eating nutrient paste meals only gives a -4 mood debuff compared to the -7 for eating raw food
-** This is negated if the colonist eating it has a precept "Eating Nutrient paste" as "Don't mind" for their [[Ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}}.
-Nutrient paste is useful during famine, as the nutrient return is the highest of any meal. 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 and leaving none to the volatile ones. Nutrient paste is the most efficient animal food, but using it as such requires a pawn to manually produce nutrient paste meals, since animals can't use the 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#Manually_producing_meals|Nutrient paste dispenser]] for a more in-depth strategy.
-== Stockpiling ==
+==Summary==
-''See [[Nutrient_paste_dispenser#Manually_producing_meals|Nutrient paste dispenser]] for further details.''
+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]].
-Typically, nutrient paste meals are dispensed by a hungry pawn and then immediately eaten. They cannot be produced by bill like other meals can. This means, short of buying them from the rare trader that stocks them, it is impossible to stockpile the meals. This prevents them to be fed to animals or stored for when there is no power to use the dispenser. However should the pawn dispensing the meal be interrupted between dispensing and eating the meal, it can be retrieved and stored. This behaviour can be exploited to stockpile meals, however their short shelf life of only 0.75 days means they should be immediately frozen. See [[Nutrient_paste_dispenser#Manually_producing_meals|Nutrient paste dispenser]] for a more in-depth strategy.
+When consumed, nutrient paste gives a {{Thought|desc=I had to eat a disgusting, tasteless meal. I know it keeps you alive, but nobody wants to swallow that glop.|label=Ate awful meal|value=-4|stack=1|duration=1}}. This mood penalty is not applied to [[Ascetic]] pawns and those with the [[Ideoligion#Eating_nutrient_paste|Eating Nutrient Paste: Don't Mind]]{{IdeologyIcon}} ideoligious precept. 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.
-== Version History ==
+== Analysis ==
+Nutrient paste is the most efficient way to prepare a meal, noticeably better than [[simple meal|simple]] and [[fine meal]]s (180% efficiency). This makes nutrient paste useful in a famine, even if you don't plan to use it indefinitely. In addition, no cooking is necessary. This avoids [[food poisoning]] entirely and can save a lot of time off a cook's hands. Nutrient paste is a poor choice for [[caravan]]s, given how quickly nutrient paste spoils and the tedious micro required to make stacks of them.
+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, who don't care about [[mood]], 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.
+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 powerful choice for day-to-day work flow.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Nutrient paste meal a.png|One nutrient paste meal
+Nutrient paste meal b.png|Partial stack
+Nutrient paste meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Carnivore nutrient paste meal a.png|One carnivore nutrient paste meal
+Carnivore nutrient paste meal b.png|Partial stack
+Carnivore nutrient paste meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Vegetarian nutrient paste meal a.png|One vegetarian nutrient paste meal
+Vegetarian nutrient paste meal b.png|Partial stack
+Vegetarian nutrient paste meal c.png|Full stack
+</gallery>
+== Version history ==
 * [[Version/0.3.410|0.3.410]] - Pawns now try to eat nice meals when they have the choice over nutrient meals.
+* Beta 19/1.0 - Traders will no longer accept typical short-life meals, including nutrient paste meals.
+* [[Version/1.4.3523|1.4.3523]] - [[Ascetic]]s no longer get a negative mood debuff when eating nutrient paste meals.
 <gallery>
-File:Nutrient Paste Meal Old.png|Texture as of some version before 1.0.2096
+Nutrient paste meal old.png|Texture before introduction of carnivore and vegetarian variant
+Nutrient Paste Meal Old.png|Texture as of some version before 1.0.2096
 </gallery>
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