Catfish

Catfish

A large freshwater fish with distinct whisker-like organs. Their large size means they provide more nutrition than most fish.

Base Stats

Type

Food – Raw food

Market Value

26 

Stack Limit

25

Mass

1.5 kg

Beauty

-2

HP

80

Deterioration Rate

3

Flammability

25%

Days To Start Rot

2

Ingestion

Nutrition

0.5

Taste

Raw

Food Poison Chance

1%

Fishing

Salinity

Freshwater

Rarity

Uncommon

Bad outcomes

Escape, Spine

Catfish are large temperate freshwater fish.

Acquisition

Catfish will sometimes inhabit large bodies of freshwater in the following biomes:

• Arid shrubland
• Glowforest
• Grassland
• Lava field
• Temperate forest
• Temperate swamp
• Tropical swamp

The catfish population can be converted into raw food through the work of a fisher in a fishing zone.

Bad fishing outcomes

Catfish have a chance to attack with their spines, dealing 1-2 stab damage and causing 0.1 units of toxic buildup in the fisher, or to escape without harming the fisher.

Summary

As a raw food, catfish can be eaten raw, with a chance of giving food poisoning, however this chance half that of raw foods at 1%. They can also be cooked into a meal with a food poisoning chance dependent on the skill of the cook and the cleanliness of the kitchen, with no additional malus when compared to other raw foods. Animals are immune to food poisoning from raw food but not from meals. When used in food recipes that require specific types of nutrition, such as fine meals, catfish are classified as meat.

As with most raw food, eating catfish directly results in a −7 Ate raw food mood for 1 day. This mood penalty is negated if the pawn has the robust digestion gene or the ascetic trait.

Analysis

Compared to default fish: 1.5 mass instead of 0.5, market value 26 instead of 6.5, 0.5 nutrition instead of 0.25

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Version history

• Odyssey DLC Release - Added.

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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