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Food is the basic source of nutrition to both humans and animals. Consuming food provides saturation. Deprivation of food leads to malnutrition and, if prolonged, death.

Summary

Food is measured in units of nutrition. Most raw foods give 0.05 nutrition. Prepared meals, such as simple meals or fine meals, give 0.9 nutrition. Cooking food allows you to get more nutrition off the same amount of material

Baseline adult humans require 1.6 nutrition per day. However, they can "store" 1.0 nutrition at any one time. As humans eat while they are "hungry" (0.25 saturation), meals are subject to slight overeating.

Raw food

Food found in its natural stage is raw. Most raw foods will give the −7 Ate Raw Food moodlet to an ordinary colonist. Milk, berries, and insect jelly can be eaten without mood penalty, all raw food comes with an innate chance of food poisoning.

You can cook food into meals at an electric stove, fueled stove or campfire, or processed at a nutrient paste dispenser. In addition to tasting better, cooked food allows you to get more nutrition off the same amount of raw food. For example, a simple meal costs 0.5 nutrition to make, but gives 0.9 nutrition when eaten - or 180% more food.

Raw food can be obtained from a variety of sources:

Degradation

As of version 0.15.1279 (29 August 2016) there is a message telling you when food has spoiled.

Food will be destroyed if left unattended by two entirely seperate factors: exposure and temperature.

  • Storing food in temperatures above 0 °C (32 °F) will spoil over time. Temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F) will slow down spoiling by a factor of 1/temp in Celsius. See Temperature for details.
    • In the early game, food spoilage can pose a threat if located on warm biomes. A freezer room can be created by placing enough coolers in proportion to its size - the bigger the storage, the more coolers required.

For example: a raider is killed and drops a fine meal outdoors, while temperature is below freezing. The meal will not spoil, but it will still deteriorate, and lose HP. Conversely, a meal stored inside a stockpile at room temperature will spoil rather than deteriorating.

Once spoiled, food will vanish and can never be recovered. However, food can be eaten at any stage before spoiling with no negative effect. Food poisoning comes from other sources, such as a messy kitchen or unskilled cook.

Comparison table

  •  NameNutritionTasteDeterioration
    rate (per day)
    Days to Rot
    Lavish meal a.pngLavish meal1Lavish104
    Vegetarian lavish meal a.pngVegetarian lavish meal1Lavish104
    Carnivore lavish meal a.pngCarnivore lavish meal1Lavish104
    Vegetarian fine meal a.pngVegetarian fine meal0.9Fine104
    Packaged survival meal a.pngPackaged survival meal0.9Simple0.25
    Fine meal a.pngFine meal0.9Fine104
    Nutrient paste meal a.pngNutrient paste meal0.9Awful100.75
    Simple meal a.pngSimple meal0.9Simple104
    Carnivore fine meal a.pngCarnivore fine meal0.9Fine104
    Egg small b.pngOstrich egg (fert.)0.6Raw215
    Cassowary egg (fert.) b.pngCassowary egg (fert.)0.5Raw215
    Egg small b.pngGoose egg (unfert.)0.5Raw215
    Emu egg (fert.) b.pngEmu egg (fert.)0.5Raw215
    Egg small b.pngGoose egg (fert.)0.5Raw215
    Turkey egg (fert.) b.pngTurkey egg (fert.)0.5Raw215
    Egg small b.pngChicken egg (fert.)0.25Raw215
    Tortoise egg (fert.) b.pngTortoise egg (fert.)0.25Raw215
    Duck egg (unfert.) b.pngDuck egg (unfert.)0.25Raw1015
    Duck egg (fert.) b.pngDuck egg (fert.)0.25Raw215
    Egg oval b.pngIguana egg (fert.)0.25Raw215
    Egg oval b.pngCobra egg (fert.)0.25Raw215
    Egg small b.pngChicken egg (unfert.)0.25Raw215
    HemogenPack c.pngHemogen pack0.15
    Chocolate c.pngChocolate0.1Fine8
    Kibble.pngKibble0.05Raw6
    Twistedmeat c.pngTwisted meat0.05Raw62
    Pemmican c.pngPemmican0.05Simple270
    Meat human c.pngHuman meat0.05Raw62
    Rice.pngRice0.05Raw640
    Meat big c.pngMeat0.05Raw62
    Toxipotatoes.pngToxipotatoes0.05Raw660
    Raw fungus.pngRaw fungus0.05Raw40
    Berries.pngBerries0.05Simple614
    Potatoes.pngPotatoes0.05Raw630
    Hay c.pngHay0.05660
    Milk.pngMilk0.05Raw1014
    Agave fruit.pngAgave fruit0.05Raw625
    BabyFood c.pngBaby food0.05Terrible14
    Insect jelly c.pngInsect jelly0.05Fine6
    Corn.pngCorn0.05Raw660
    Insect meat c.pngInsect meat0.05Raw62
  • Version history

    • 0.8.657 - Now spoils without refrigeration
    • 0.9.722 - Food poisoning added. Bad cooks are more likely to accidentally poison meals.