Baby food

Baby food

A bland vegetarian mash. Babies love it, but children and adults will be upset if they're forced to eat it.

Base Stats

Type

Food – Meal

Market Value

1.25 

Stack Limit

75

Mass

0.015 kg

Days To Start Rot

14

Ingestion

Nutrition

0.05

Taste

Terrible

Ingested Direct Thought

AteBabyFood

Maximum To Ingest

20

Creation

Crafted At

 /  / 

Work To Make

450 ticks (7.5 secs)

Work Speed Stat

Cooking Speed

Resources to make

0.25 Nutrition (vegetarian)

Product Amount

10

Technical

defName

BabyFood

Bulk Product Amount

10

Baby food is a meal added by the Biotech DLC that can be eaten by babies.

Acquisition

Baby food can be cooked at a Campfire, Electric stove, or Fueled stove.

Each batch of 10 requires 0.25 nutrition from non-hay vegetables and 450 ticks (7.5 secs) of work. Alternatively, baby food can be made in batches of 40 at the cost of 1 nutrition and 1,800 ticks (30 secs) of work. Campfires have a ×50% work speed multiplier; it takes twice as long to cook baby food at a campfire.

It can also be purchased from traders.

Summary

Baby food is one of the few foods that are ingestible by babies.

Baby food can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.05 nutrition. This is 5% of an adult human's hunger meter, or 40% of a baby's hunger meter. As it takes 0.25 nutrition of raw food to create 10 units, baby food provides 200% nutrition efficiency.

A child (ages 3 or up) or adult eating baby food gives a −5 Ate baby food mood for 1 day. This does not affect pawns with the Ascetic trait.

Baby food is the only craftable food that can't cause food poisoning.

Analysis

Baby food, milk, and insect jelly are the only food items that a baby can eat. Therefore, one of the three is a necessity if the mother is extremely busy, isn't lactating, is in cryptosleep or dead, or if the baby was formed in a growth vat. Insect jelly requires an infestation, and milk requires maintaining animals, both of which may not always be feasible - forcing baby food to be created. Additionally, both milk and insect jelly have an unavoidable 2% risk of causing food poisoning.

For adults, nutrient paste is more nutritionally efficient than baby food and gives a smaller mood debuff. Nutrient paste requires research and electricity, however, making it unavailable to tribal colonies early on; by contrast, baby food is available to all colonies from the very start of the game.

It can be a good choice for animal food. It is more nutritionally efficient than kibble, does not require animal products, and its small size means it is less prone to overeating. However, baby food requires a lot more cooking work than kibble or any regular meal.

Gallery

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  A single unit of baby food

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  A partial stack of baby food

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  A full stack of baby food

Version history

• Biotech DLC Release - Added.
• 1.5.4062 - Fix: Making baby food at campfires ignores work restrictions.

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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 - Fish

Bass • Bluefish • Catfish • Cod • Dogfish • Flounder • Frostfish • Guppy • Marlin • Piranha • Salmon • Tilapia • Tuna • Toxfish

Raw food - Eggs

Cassowary egg (fert., unfert.) • Chicken egg (fert., unfert.) • Cobra egg (fert., unfert.) • Duck egg (fert., unfert.) • Emu egg (fert., unfert.) • Goose egg (fert., unfert.) • Iguana egg (fert., unfert.) • Ostrich egg (fert., unfert.) • Tortoise egg (fert., unfert.) • Turkey egg (fert., unfert.) • Alligator egg (fert., unfert.) • Bluebird egg (fert., unfert.) • Crow egg (fert., unfert.) • Flamingo egg (fert., unfert.) • Heron egg (fert., unfert.) • Macaw egg (fert., unfert.) • Monitor lizard egg (fert., unfert.) • Peacock egg (fert., unfert.) • Penguin egg (fert., unfert.) • Quail egg (fert., unfert.) • Sea turtle egg (fert., unfert.) • Sparrow egg (fert., unfert.) • Swan egg (fert., unfert.) • Vulture egg (fert., unfert.)

Raw food - Vegetarian

Agave fruit • Berries • Corn • Hay • Potatoes • Raw fungus • Rice • Toxipotatoes