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Craftable Jerky

Could you update this for build 42 please?

i love meat

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Is it possible to add compatibility with Snake's mod pack Le Gourmet addon? Woud love to use the other meats it adds from hunting for making jerky.

Okay, am I doing something wrong? I made some Marinated Jerky, cooked it but did not get homemade Jerky. Checked my crafting menu and even craft helper and I have no recipe for Homemade jerky at all. I thought all I had to do was cook the Marinated Jerky, but is there another step I'm missing? I also looked in the files and there aren't any recipes for Homemade jerky but there are scripts for the items. Sooo do i just cook the marinated jerky to get homemade jerky that lasts for months or am I missing something?

I feel like the recipe is good, but maybe an additional recipe where you simply dry and preserve the meat and it gives unhappiness for being bland would be far more realistic for the situation, running around all the time to find all these ingredients seems silly when your goal is to preserve food not make it tasty. I'm not saying get rid of what you have, more of maybe have the simpler option.

A tip : In one of my mods I first used similar method you are using now to make smoked/salted meat but then had to overhaul it to use evolved recipes so it would keep the nutrition and such.

@Sowilo Thanks for the feedback and comments! I'll take a look at the code and see if your implementation will work for the recipes.

I think for the nutrition, I'll just try to calculate the calories and such based off the food items and hard code the values. (how much protein and calories are in 20 hunger of fish? idk, but its more than 1g and 100 kcals).

Lastly, I wanna try to implement a custom marinade, where you can create any flavour you want using various scavenged and foraged goods. Perhaps another skill book once I figure that out. (I also don't want to over complicate the mod, as what it adds to the game is relatively simple)

A few ideas: maybe the nutrition should be based on the items used to make it, since nutrition of trapping/fishing meat itself varies? For an example of how to do this, check out how it works for filleting fish, in the function Recipe.OnCreate.CutFish in media/lua/server/recipecode.lua. You could divide the values so it still works out to be a similar amount of calories to now, but with added variance.

If you plan on changing nutrition, another approach could be increasing the amount of jerky gained from the recipe, e.g to 2. Would also feel more natural to get multiple jerky from an entire animal imo.

Last thing—I think it'd be cool if soy sauce and sugar could each be substituted, as while both are popular for flavour, jerky can be made without them. A quick search of recipes leaves me to suggest additional pepper as an option in place of soy sauce and wild garlic in place of sugar, as they seem popular in recipes lacking them, and it'd help making jerky easier in the long term.

Really nice mod and impressive for a first mod especially, thanks for sharing this! Fits into the game great. I have a bad habit of avoiding using limited non-perishables like jerky, so finally I can make them and not worry about it.

Re: your dev note, I believe it'd be possible to make a script that alters the spice items dynamically to keep compatibility. You'd make an evolved recipe the way it's done in evolvedrecipes.txt as usual, then have a lua script probably in lua/shared that finds the items, gets the existing EvolvedRecipes field, and adds to it. Without testing it I believe it'd be done something like this:

local item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.HotSauce")
if item then
local EvolvedRecipe = item.EvolvedRecipe -- probably another way to get this field if this doesn't work. may need to do tostring(item.EvolvedRecipe) on it
item:DoParam(EvolvedRecipe .. ";Base.BeefJerky:10")
end