Food (Resource)

This article is considered accurate for the current version (U51-600112).

This article is considered accurate for the current version (U51-600112).

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Ingredients and recipes

Basic Information				Cooking Information
				Ingredients		Source	You get
Image + Name	Quality	Spoil Time	kcal per kg	Ingredient	Amount
Barbeque	Good [+3]	4 cycles	4000 kcal per kg	Meat	3200 kcal	Electric Grill	4000 kcal
Berry Sludge	Good [+3]	Never	4000 kcal per kg	Sleet Wheat Grain	5 units	Microbe Musher	4000 kcal
				Bristle Berry	1600 kcal
Bog Jelly	Terrible [0]	4 cycles	1840 kcal per kg			Bog Bucket	1840 kcal
Bristle Berry	Terrible [0]	8 cycles	1600 kcal per kg			Bristle Blossom	1600 kcal
Cooked Seafood	Good [+3]	4 cycles	1600 kcal per kg	Raw Shellfish/ Pacu Fillet	1000 kcal	Electric Grill	1600 kcal
Curried Beans	Great [+4]	16 cycles	5000 kcal per kg	Tonic Root	5 units	Gas Range	5000 kcal
				Nosh Bean	5 units
Fried Mushroom	Poor [+1]	8 cycles	2800 kcal per kg	Mushroom	2400 kcal	Electric Grill	2800 kcal
Fried Morb	Poor [+1]	64 cycles	1000 kcal per kg	Morb	1 unit	Electric Grill	1000kcal
Frost Bun	Standard [+2]	8 cycles	1200 kcal per kg	Sleet Wheat Grain	3 units	Electric Grill	1200 kcal
Frost Burger	Ambrosial [+6]	4 cycles	6000 kcal per kg	Frost Bun		Gas Range	6000 kcal
				Lettuce
				Barbeque
Gristle Berry	Poor [+1]	8 cycles	2000 kcal per kg	Bristle Berry		Electric Grill	2000 kcal
Grubfruit	Poor [+1]	4 cycles	250 kcal per kg			Grubfruit Plant	250 kcal
Grubfruit Preserve	Good [+3]	32 cycles	2400 kcal per kg	Grubfruit		Electric Grill	2400 kcal
				Sucrose
Hexalent Fruit	Grisly [-1]	Never	6400 kcal per kg			Hexalent	6400 kcal
Lettuce	Terrible [0]	4 cycles	400 kcal per kg			Waterweed	4800 kcal
Liceloaf	Terrible [0]	8 cycles	1700 kcal per kg	Meal Lice		Microbe Musher	1700 kcal
				Water
Meal Lice	Grisly [-1]	8 cycles	600 kcal per kg			Mealwood	600 kcal
Meat	Grisly [-1]	8 cycles	1600 kcal per kg			Critter dying	N/A
Mixed Berry Pie	Superb [+5]	4 cycles	4200 kcal per kg	Sleet Wheat Grain		Gas Range	4200 kcal
				Grubfruit
				Gristle Berry
Muckroot	Grisly [-1]	Never	800 kcal per kg			Buried Muckroot	800 kcal
						Buried Object	800 kcal
Mush Bar	Grisly [-1]	8 cycles	800 kcal per kg	Dirt		Microbe Musher	800 kcal
				Water
Mush Fry	Terrible [0]	8 cycles	1050 kcal per kg	Mush Bar (800 kcal)		Electric Grill	1050 kcal
Mushroom	Terrible [0]	8 cycles	2400 kcal per kg			Dusk Cap	2400 kcal
Mushroom Wrap	Great [+4]	4 cycles	4800 kcal per kg	Fried Mushroom		Gas Range	4800 kcal
				Lettuce
Nosh Bean	Good [+3]	8 cycles	N/A			Nosh Sprout	12 units
Nutrient Bar	Grisly [-1]	Never	800 kcal per kg			Start of The Game	16000 kcal
						Vending Machine	800 kcal
Omelette	Standard [+2]	4 cycles	2800 kcal per kg	Raw Egg		Electric Grill	2800 kcal
Pacu Fillet	Standard [+2]	4 cycles	1000 kcal per kg			Pacu dying	1000 kcal
Pepper Bread	Superb [+5]	8 cycles	4000 kcal per kg	Sleet Wheat Grain		Gas Range	4000 kcal
				Pincha Peppernut
Pickled Meal	Grisly [-1]	32 cycles	1800 kcal per kg	Meal Lice		Electric Grill	1800 kcal
Pincha Peppernut	Terrible [0]	4 cycles	N/A			Pincha Pepper	4 kg
Plant Meat	Poor [+1]	4 cycles	1200 kcal per kg	Critter		Saturn Critter Trap	12000 kcal
Raw Egg	Grisly [-1]	4 cycles	N/A	Critter Egg		Critter Egg getting to 0% viability
						Egg Cracker	1kg
				Shine Nymph Egg			100g
Raw Shellfish	Standard [+2]	4 cycles	1000 kcal per kg			Sanishell dying
Roast Grubfruit Nut	Poor [+1]	8 cycles	1200 kcal per kg	Spindly Grubfruit (800 kcal)		Electric Grill
Sleet Wheat Grain	Terrible [0]	16 cycles	N/A			Sleet Wheat
Spicy Tofu	Superb [+5]	4 cycles	4000 kcal per kg	Tofu (3600 kcal) Pincha Peppernut (1000 g)		Gas Range
Spindly Grubfruit	Terrible [0]	8 cycles	800 kcal per kg			Spindly Grubfruit Plant
Stuffed Berry	Great [+4]	4 cycles	4400 kcal per kg	Gristle Berry (4000 kcal) Pincha Peppernut (2000 g)		Gas Range
Surf'n'Turf	Great [+4]	4 cycles	6000 kcal per kg	Barbeque (4000 kcal) Cooked Fish (1600 kcal)		Gas Range
Swamp Chard Heart	Grisly [-1]	Never	2400 kcal per kg			Swamp Chard
Swampy Delights	Poor [+1]	8 cycles	2240 kcal per kg	Bog Jelly (1840 kcal)		Electric Grill
Tofu	Standard [+2]	4 cycles	3600 kcal per kg	Nosh Bean (6)  Water (50 kg)		Microbe Musher
Mushroom Quiche	Superb [+5]	4 cycles	6400 kcal per kg	Omelette (2800 kcal)  Lettuce (400kcal)  Fried Mushroom (2800 kcal)		Gas Range
Soufflé Pancakes	Good [+3]	8 cycles	3600 kcal per kg	Raw Egg (1600 kcal)  Sleet Wheat Grain (2)		Electric Grill

Food storage

Food is only fully preserved when it's both in a Deep Freeze and in a Sterile Atmosphere.

Spoilage speed

Each perishable food item possesses an intrinsic decay coefficient, manifesting as a base spoilage speed. For instance, a foodstuff with a fundamental shelf life of 4 cycles undergoes a decrement of 25% in its freshness per cycle. This intrinsic decay rate undergoes modulation via a series of multiplicative modifiers, which coalesce to form the overall spoilage velocity.

Each food has a base decay rate. For foodstuff with a base shelf life of 4 cycles this is −15% freshness/cycle. Each modifier causes a part of this base decay rate which are then added together.

Case study:

• In an Unrefrigerated environment (modifier ×0.7) combined with a Normal Atmosphere (modifier ×0.3), the resultant spoilage speed attains a composite value of ×1.
• Conversely, in a Refrigerated state (modifier ×0.2) amidst a Polluted Atmosphere (modifier ×1), the spoilage velocity escalates to ×1.2.

Temperature

The act of cooling serves as a retardant to the spoilage process. A Refrigerator, meticulously calibrated to reduce its contents to a precise 1 °C, exemplifies this principle. The algorithmic mechanism evaluates both the food item and its encircling atmospheric medium, opting for the lower temperature to adjudicate the refrigeration status. Consequently, the mere placement of food in a frigid environment suffices to achieve refrigeration.

In scenarios where the food resides within a Vacuum, the sole determinant of its refrigerated status is the temperature of the food itself, bereft of atmospheric considerations.

• Unrefrigerated State: Surpassing 4 °C: The spoilage multiplier stands at ×0.7, translating to a 17.5% decrement per cycle from a base of 25% per cycle.
• Refrigerated State: Sub-4 °C: The spoilage multiplier contracts to ×0.2, corresponding to a 5% decrement per cycle from a base of 25% per cycle.
• Deep Freeze State: Below -18 °C: The spoilage multiplier converges to ×0, rendering temperature the sole spoilage determinant.

An outlier in this schema is  Sleet Wheat Grain, which boasts exceptional spoilage resistance, with refrigeration effective at temperatures ≤ 35 °C and deep freeze efficacy at ≤ 10 °C.

Atmospheres

Food spoilage is intricately linked to the atmospheric conditions it encounters:

• Normal Atmosphere: Spoilage multiplier ×0.3, resulting in a 7.5% decrement per cycle from a base of 25% per cycle.
• Polluted Atmosphere: Spoilage multiplier ×1, reflecting the base 25% decrement per cycle.
• Sterile Atmosphere: Spoilage multiplier ×0, thereby relegating temperature as the exclusive spoilage factor.

These are the standarts for the types of Atmospheres:

• Sterile Atmosphere
  • Gas Carbon Dioxide
  • Gas Chlorine
  • Gas Hydrogen
  • Vacuum
• Normal Atmosphere
  • Any other Gas, Liquid or Solid
• Polluted Atmosphere
  • Polluted Oxygen

Spoilage speed table

Spoil Speed Multiplier

Temperature	Atmosphere
	Sterile	Normal	Polluted
Below −18 °C (frozen)	×0	×0.3	×1
−18 °C to 4 °C (refrigerated)	×0.2	×0.5	×1.2
Above 4 °C (unrefrigerated)	×0.7	×1	×1.7

Shelf Life Multiplier

Temperature	Atmosphere
	Sterile	Normal	Polluted
Below −18 °C (frozen)	forever	×3.333	×1
−18 °C to 4 °C (refrigerated)	×5	×2	×0.833
Above 4 °C (unrefrigerated)	×1.428	×1	x0.588

Food Poisoning

Food poisoning germs can accumulate on food and ingredients. If used for producing any recipe, including recipes in the Microbe Musher, the germs will be completely removed.

History

• EX1-465635: Foods in vacuum now use exclusively their internal temperature to decide if they are refrigerated or not.

• EX1-463874:
  • Rottable items now have two stages of cooling: refrigerated and deep freeze.
  • Rottable items aren't fully preserved unless they are both in sterile atmosphere AND deep-frozen, because temperature and atmosphere effects now stack.
    • Temperature and atmosphere effects have been rebalanced to account for this.
    • Refrigerated food now lasts 5x as long instead of 2x.
  • Food preservation times were incorrectly reported in the Codex, and were missing their refrigeration value.
  • Rottable foods correctly detect if they're in an active fridge or not.
  • Refrigerators cool things to 2 °C instead of 4 °C, so that they actually get cold enough to be refrigerated. Note: foods in a powered fridge are always considered refrigerated regardless of temperature.
  • Foods dropped from a fridge will no longer continue cooling off on the ground.
  • "Unrefrigerated Food" notification now jumps to that food when clicked. Only partially stale unrefrigerated food in storage will trigger the notification.