Kibble

Kibble is a kind of animal feed.

Acquisition

Pemmican can be cooked at a Butcher spot or Butcher table. A batch of kibble requires 1 unit of nutrition from vegetarian items, and 1 unit of nutrition from meat or animal products. For example, 20 rice and 20 insect meat are sufficient. A completed bill requires 450 ticks (7.5 secs) and produces 50 kibble at a butcher table, but only 35 at a butcher spot.

Analysis

Kibble is less efficient for pure nutrition than other meals. Kibble has a 125% nutrition efficiency, producing 2.5 nutrition per 2 from raw food. This isn't very good compared to simple meals (180%) or pemmican (160%), however:

Kibble allows use of hay, human meat, and insect meat. Hay is inedible for humans, and the other items are undesirable for most.
- Haygrass is the plant with the highest yield/day, but cannot be turned into meals. Hay turned into kibble is slightly worse for nutrition/tile/day than rice turned into meals, and slightly better than rice turned into pemmican.
Animals will eat an entire meal, even if they would overeat. Kibble is less affected by overeating.
- For example, a chicken can only store 0.3 nutrition in their sotmach; they would consume 5-6 kibble when hungry, but a full meal every time. The smaller an animal is, the larger the effect of overeating (minimal effect at size >= 1).
Kibble can be used for animal training, unlike meals.
Kibble never spoils, so you don't have to worry about it going bad from non-refrigeration.
Kibble requires substantially less work time than other recipes, and can be done at a butcher's table rather than requiring a fueled/powered kitchen.
Since there is no chance for food poisoning, producing kibble is a safe way to train a no/low skill cook.

Humans can eat kibble, but they'll get a -12 "Ate kibble" mood penalty. This is the only way for humans to eat hay. Note that if a human pawn eats Kibble made with insect or human meat they will get both the negative moodlet from eating kibble and from eating insect / human meat.