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.

Summary

Nutrient paste meals are worth 0.9 nutrition and consume 0.3 points of nutrition from raw food. When consumed, it gives a -4 mood penalty ("Ate awful meal"), which is still better than the raw food debuff. 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.

Analysis

Nutrient paste is the most efficent way to prepare a meal, a 66.67% nutrition/food improvement from simple and fine meals. 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 indefintely. Nutrient paste also 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.

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 and leaving none to the volatile ones.

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

Stockpiling

For full details, see Nutrient paste dispenser.

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 for a more in-depth strategy.

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.

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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-{{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.}}
+==Summary==
+Nutrient paste meals are worth 0.9 nutrition and consume 0.3 points of nutrition from raw food. When consumed, it gives a -4 mood penalty ("[[Thoughts#Eating|Ate awful meal]]"), which is still better than the raw food debuff. 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.
 == Analysis ==
-Nutrient paste is the most efficent way to prepare a meal, increasing nutrition to 300%. The next most efficent preparation sources, [[simple meal|simple]] and [[fine meal]]s, only increase it to 180%; nutrient paste is a 66.67% improvement. 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 indefintely. Nutrient paste also 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.
+Nutrient paste is the most efficent way to prepare a meal, a 66.67% nutrition/food improvement from [[simple meal|simple]] and [[fine meal]]s. 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 indefintely. Nutrient paste also 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.
-However, nutrient paste meals give a -4 [[mood]] debuff, which ends up being -9 net mood compared to [[fine meal]]s. This is at least better than eating food, raw. 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.
+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 and leaving none to the volatile ones.
 The mood penalty is negated if the colonist eating it has a precept "Eating Nutrient paste" as "Don't mind" for their [[Ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}}.