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Meals Are Meals

"Bob, why are there meals stacked all over the kitchen?"

"You're the one who asked me to cook, Jim."

"Didn't I also tell you to stop once we had ten meals? There are twenty here!"

"Right you are, Jim. Ten simple meals, and ten fine meals, just like you asked."

"No! Just ten meals! Stop when we have ten meals!"

"Dammit Jim, I'm a chef, not a mathematician!"

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Simple and Fine meals are counted together towards "do until you have X" bills.

This means you can instruct your colonists to prepare fine meals whenever they can, but fall back to simple meals when they have to. Add these bills to your kitchen:
1) Cook fine meal (until you have 10)
2) Cook simple meal (until you have 10)

Your colonists will cook any type of meal (fine if they can, simple if they can't) until there are ten meals in total.
If you set the bills to pause when satisfied, that'll key off of total meals as well.


Bills affected by this mod report their status a little differently.
"Do until you have X" bills normally show a status like "3/10", indicating you have 3 meals and should keep going until you have 10.
Instead, you'll see "3[5]/10", which means you have 3 of this type of meal, 5 meals in total, and should keep going until you have 10 meals (in total).

Requires HugsLib. No known incompatibilities, but meal types added by other mods probably won't get this treatment.

Keep in mind:

- This only works for simple and fine meals. Nutrient paste, survival meals, pemmican, berries, etc. are unaffected.
A future release may add support for more customization.

- This only affects "Do until you have X" bills. "Do X times" and "Do forever" are unaffected.

- Colonists still can't cook meals they don't have the skills for.
So if one of your chefs has a low cooking skill, they may prepare a bunch of simple meals before your higher-skilled chef can make the fine ones.

Changelog:
0.1:
Initial release