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[HARD] Harder food & cooking

Nerf "easy" food combinations such as using ice in crock pot or giving monster meat to birds.

This mod is intended for players who want a more realistic survival experience and removes broken ways to produce food. It should only affect experienced players, casual users won't even notice it is enabled and the game shouldn't be harder for them than it is already.

Most of the changes are configurable and can be disabled.



• Ice cannot be used as filler in the crock pot.

Overpowered way to make recipes, especially meatballs.
Ice can still be used for recipes that explicitly require ice.


• Birds cannot eat meat, can only give one egg per day, and with only 70% chance.

Birds can no longer be used to produce eggs from just monster meat.
The bird won't accept any more food for a day after producing an egg, meaning you probably want to have multiple bird cages now.


• Pigs respawn 5 days after being killed, instead of 4. Catcoons drop only a morsel.

Pigs and catcoons are a very easy to kill, abundant source of meat, especially in winter.


• Ponds can contain up to 3 fishes instead of 10, generate new fishes 3x slower.

In the original game ponds generate one fish every 2 minutes and can contain up to 10, which is insane. This makes ponds and fishing an almost infinite source of good food.


• Bee boxes honey production rate reduced by 20%


• Other changes: (each can be disabled/tweaked)

* Crockpot has 1% chance to give a random unexpected recipe
* Wolfgang: sanity penalty increased by 10%, but hunger transitions are now cancellable
* Wendy runs 10% faster
* Willow runs 10% faster
* Willow's lighter durability increased.
* Stalagmites give less gold.
* in addition to ice, you can disable monster meat and/or twigs in the crock pot (recipes that require them are still working, such as kabobs etc.)



Special thanks to:
- EvenMr for his help with coding.
- IcyFoxe for the inspiration (DST Food Overhaul ).