Subscribe to download
Smarter Vanilla Food

Version 1.1

Version 1.0 Release
Version 1.1 - Made Drying Rack Rotatable and added Four Course Meal

A problem with the vanilla game to me is being able to cook a lavish meal with just two ingredients. That doesn't seem very lavish to me. This means you only need to grow berries and hunt meat to have the best meals on the RIM? I think we can do better, so here is my interpretation of better.

I love to camp, and I tell you I can create a meal with 5 different ingredients at a campfire with no problem. So adding meals up to fine at campfire, Lavish will still need a stove.

What this mod does:

It keeps it simple, adding no additional plants or a ton of new meals like some bloated food mods do.

First off it adds the drying of meats and berries at any tech level. This is simply putting things on a rack and letting the air dry them. Earth has been doing it for eons.

Adds a drying rack for the drying of berries and meats for additional tribal/survival type food using vanilla plants and materials. Dried meats (25 days) and berries (50 days) last less time than vanilla pemmican (70 days), but are great preserved foods nonetheless.

Categorizes the vanilla food plants into their own additional categories so that we can actually make meals with individual ingredients. Doesn't change vanilla plants beyond additionally categorizing them from one category, plantfoodraw, into multiple.

Adds a new meal "Better Meal" with two ingredients, 1-meat and 2-plants, like vanilla fine meal. Cooking skill 3 to create. Nutrition like vanilla simple meal but added mood buff +3, "I am nice and full".

Changes Fine to use three ingredients: 1-meat and either 2-berries, agave or fungus, and either 3-potatoes, corn, or rice.

Changes Lavish Meal to use four ingredients: 1-meat, and either 2-berries, agave or fungus, 3-corn, and either 4-potatoes or rice.

Adds a new meal "Four Course Meal" with five ingredients: 1-meat, and either 2-berries, or agave, 3-corn, and 4-either potatoes or rice and 5-fungus. Cooking skill 10 to create. Nutrition like vanilla lavish meal but added mood buff +15, ate 4 course meal.

Adds bulk recipes for all meals at stoves and bulk simple at campfire.

Adds new artwork for meals to reflect the amount of ingredients used, which I borrowed and revised a little from JabbaMonkeys Graphic Overhaul, which I highly recommend. - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1606246248

COMPATIBILITY: This MOD overwrites core files for vanilla meals and plants and may very well not be compatible with other meal mods.

RECOMMEND: Since vanilla meat types (standard edible) don't matter, meaning you can create any of the vanilla meals with any meat, I highly recommend the MOD Optimization Meats which does away with all the different animal meats and puts them all into one type, Raw Meat. Simplifies your fridge for sure!! Get it here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1721970101