Cooking Suggestions

Zourin · September 2, 2013

I'll keep it short tonight. I've got to start another test game 'cause zombies infiltrated my no-zombie test save. In short, cooking is really short-changed by the (un)availability of fresh produce, water, and power.

- Add Cabbages, Tomatoes, and Potatoes to the list of items that can be made into a soup. They're feeling left out.

- Similar to the Soups, who doesn't want a salad? Similar to the 'mix and match of soups, allow players to use some of the other ingredients like apples, strawberries, berries, radishes, cabbage, tomatos, and carrots. (boring salad, etc) Just needs some bowls and a kitchen knife.

- Split Sundae! Bannana + Ice Cream + Bowl = Win

- Hot Chocolate - Mug of Water + Chocolate Bar, then cook

- Trail Mix - Berries/strawberries + Chocolate Bar + Cereal + Popcorn

- Bread! Flour + Sugar + Bowl of Water, then cook

- Watermelon seeds! (Not an original idea, but I'm going to shamelessly plug my love of shamelessly plugging watermelons!)

- Make screwdrivers (and hammers, in an unrelated but equally important note) more common, for crepes sake. It's only found in just about every household ever.. and once the power goes, good luck getting a campfire going without one! Using can openers isn't cooking.

Suomiboi · September 2, 2013

Now we shall wait until kinyoshi sees this... aaaaand it's done.

Back on topic: good simple ideas. And you know it's not that hard to try and mod it yourself .

ToastedFishSandwich · September 2, 2013

Yeah, making this as a mod would be really easy and could possibly be used by the devs in the future. I agree about screwdrivers and hammers, at least one in three houses should have a hammer or screwdriver since carpentry shouldn't be about finding a hammer, but about finding enough wood and nails to create your masterpiece.

TinnedEpic · September 2, 2013

I do believe we need Jam added to the game... for jam sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches and the infamous Peanut butter and Jam sandwich!

Zourin · September 2, 2013

I tend to be a bit of a purist in all but the most dire of situations, so I prefer to play as the developers intended (Or die, as the case may be) rather than mod things up. That and I usually wind up with delusions of grandeur I never quite finish and wind up with a few MB's of half-baked files.

Berry preserve would be awesome (a reason to grow strawberries!)

Hans A. · September 3, 2013

- Similar to the Soups, who doesn't want a salad? Similar to the 'mix and match of soups, allow players to use some of the other ingredients like apples, strawberries, berries, radishes, cabbage, tomatos, and carrots. (boring salad, etc) Just needs some bowls and a kitchen knife.

Now I'm not speaking on behalf of the game developers here so I cannot guarantee salads will be implemented, but I did see(and translated) mixed salad in the items.lua

GSC · September 9, 2013

I like all these food ideas. The spawns will be tweaked, I'm sure.

harakka · September 9, 2013

Salad was implemented in earlier versions, it might be a leftover or it might be coming back.

RedBaron87 · October 31, 2013

Speaking of cabbage, I suggest "sauerkraut" as a way to perhaps marginally increase the hunger reduction of cabbage, but more importantly to prevent cabbage from spoiling. Naturally-fermented sauerkraut (i.e. not just cabbage + vinegar) is capable of lasting for a long time, provided you can keep it away from oxygen (e.g. keep the cabbage submerged underwater) and let carbon dioxide escape (otherwise pressure buildup would destroy container). Would need some sort of storage container though...could maybe use a cooking pot + water. I don't have any experience with modding, but if someone is interested in implementing it, I'd be interested in seeing how it works.