Berries
Berries
Assorted berries. Nice to eat, even when raw.
Base Stats
- Type
- Food
- Market Value
- 1.2
- Stack Limit
- 75
- Mass
- 0.027 kg
- HP
- 100
- Deterioration Rate
- 6
- Flammability
- 100%
- Days To Start Rot
- 14
- Rotatable
- False
- Path Cost
- 15 (46%)
Ingestion
- Nutrition
- 0.05
- Taste
- Simple
- Food Poison Chance
- 2%
- defName
- RawBerries
- Preferability
- RawTasty
Berries are a vegetable raw food obtained by harvesting wild berry bushes or domesticated strawberry plants. Unlike most raw foods, they can be eaten raw with no mood penalty.
Acquisition
The following plants provide berries:
| Plant | Harvest Yield |
|---|---|
| Berry bush | 10 |
| Strawberry plant | 8 |
Note that only strawberry plants can be planted. Berry bushes only spawn naturally.
Berries can also be foraged by a caravan when traveling through any biome, other than arid shrubland and both deserts, in its growing season.
Summary
As a raw food, berries can be be eaten raw, with a flat 2% chance of giving food poisoning, or cooked into a meal with a food poisoning chance dependant on the skill of the cook and the cleanliness of the kitchen. When used in food recipes that require specific types of nutrition, such as fine meals, berries are classified as a vegetable.
Unlike most raw food, eating berries directly does not result in the −7 Ate raw food mood penalty.
Berries are also unique in that they are the only raw food that conceited nobles 
will eat.
Berries take 14 days to rot without refrigeration, half that of most other vegetarian foods.
Analysis
Not particularly work or space efficient to grow, nor fertility-insensitive, berries lack a useful niche outside of foraging from wild berry bushes in the very early game. About the only other positive is that pawns will automatically forage for berries while inside a caravan, giving them a supplemental source of food.
They can be eaten raw without penalty, but the increased nutrition and decreased food poisoning chance from cooking them into meals is almost always the better choice.
They can be combined with a sterilizing or nuclear stomach, or the strong stomach gene
to remove the risk of food poisoning, but they'd still be more efficient cooked into meals. Additionally, the only xenotype that spawns with strong stomach, the pigskin , also has robust digestion gene. While it makes raw food as nutritionally efficient as simple and fine meals, it also eliminates the mood penalty from all raw food, removing the only advantage berries have over other raw vegetarian foods.
They can be eaten by conceited nobles, but that requires that you have nobles and that they are conceited. Fine meals are far more nutritionally efficient and are able to suit praetors and below. Lavish meals are net equal on nutrition, give +12 mood, and suit any noble rank. Berries only have a niche if you have a baron or higher, can't make lavish meals, and aren't willing to tank the −3 from the combined Ate fine meal mood buff and Ate low-class food mood penalty but are willing to risk food poisoning. Even a conceited, pigskin noble would be more efficiently fed by growing corn, and turning that into vegetarian lavish meals.
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Version history
- 0.2.363 - added
- 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