Cooking: Difference between revisions

[[File:MeatInFirepit.png|200px|thumb|right|Raw red meat in a fire pit]]

Player nutrition includes four categories: Protein, vegetable, grain and fruit. As the nutrient bars fill, the player hp increase.  The player starts with 15 base health points and you can increase that to 25 hp by consuming a balanced diet including all four nutrients. This where more advanced meals are particularly useful because they let you create mixed nutrition meals (protein/vegetable, grain/vegetable, protein/grain, protein/fruit/vegetable etc...). Please be aware though, your nutrition levels do not increase if you eat while completely satiated.  

Player satiety is how "hungry" or "well-fed" you are and has a maximum value of 1200.  The satiation you receive from eating simple foods is given in the table below. The satiation you receive from eating meals is "equal to the sum of its parts". So what you put into your meal is what you will get in terms of satiation and nutrition. In addition, for every 100 satiation you fill, you will get 30 seconds more time until your satiety bar starts dropping again.

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! Food

! Satiation

! Health

! Nutrition

| Roots (Carrot, Turnip, Onion, Parsnip, Cattail Root)

| 100

| +1.5

| Vegetable (Cabbage)

| Vegetable (Pumpkin)

| 480

| 0

| Berries

| 80

| +0.5

| Honey

| 60

| +0.5

| Fruit

| Mushrooms (Bolete, Field)

| 80

| 0

| Vegetable

| [[Saguaro]]

| 60

| +4

| Fruit

| Grain (Flax)

| 30

| 0

| Grain

| Grain (Rice, Rye, Spelt)

| 60

| Grain

| Bread (Rice, Rye, Spelt)

| 300

| 0

| Grain

| [[Soy Bean]]

| 150

| 0

| Protein

| Chicken Egg, Boiled

| 160

| 0

| Protein

| Bush Meat

| 120

| 0

| Protein

| Cooked Poultry

| 200

| 0

| Protein

| [[Cooked Meat]]

| 280

| 0

In its most simple form, cooking is done by placing raw meat, bread dough or cattail roots in the [[Firepit|fire pit]]. This makes these 3 types of raw food edible. All other ingredients require a clay pot to be cooked.

To bake bread, in addition to a firepit, you must have a [[Planks|bucket]] and a [[Quern|quern]] available.  

# With grain in your hand, right click on the quern and add the grain into the input slot (left) of the quern.

# Right Click on the quern to grind the grain into flour, which will appear in the output slot (right) of the quern).  

Place the dough into the input slot of the [[Firepit|fire pit]] and fuel the fire. (It takes about one piece of firewood to bake each loaf of bread.)

== Advanced cooking ==

[[File:PotInFirepit.png|300px|thumb|right|Cooking a stew in a fire pit]]

To prepare more wholesome meals, you need to craft yourself a clay pot using the [[Clay_Forming|clay forming]] mechanic. Once you have a burned claypot, place it back into the fire pit input slot (left) and you are ready to cook some meals.  

There are 4 base types of meals. Each meal type requires TWO mandatory ingredients and allows up to TWO optional ingredients. Which meal you create is determined by what you put into the claypot, but the ingredients do not have to be in any particular order when placing them into the claypot. To create a serving of a meal, you must put 1 item per slot in the claypot. For example, a porridge requires "two grain", you must add two individual pieces of grain, one in each of two slots, but you can put these in any slot in the clay pot. You don't have to put the grain in the "first two slots" of the claypot, but placing two grain in one slot of the claypot will not create a porridge. Adding optional items in the other input slots of the claypot will increase the nutrition value and saturation of the meal depending on which ingredients you choose to add. When you have created a valid meal recipe by combining correct ingredients, a message will appear in the claypot dialog box informing you of what you will create when you cook your meal.

The claypot allows you to cook up to 6 servings at a time. You can increase the amount of servings by increasing the number of items in all slots. If you are trying to create multiple servings and you do not increase all the items in the input slots by the same amount, your food will not cook!

===Porridge===

To make a porridge you need at least 2 grain. The porridge is the only exception to the "sum of its parts" rule. A cooked piece of grain will yield double the satiation.

Optional ingredients:

* 0 - 2 Grain

* 0 - 2 Berries

* 0 - 2 Vegetable, Pumpkin or Mushroom

To make a soup you need at least 1 portion of water and 1 vegetable. You can add water with a filled water bucket. Left click to add one portion of water, right click to remove one portion.

Required ingredients:

Optional ingredients:

* 0-2 Vegetable, Pumpkin or Mushroom

* 0-1 Poultry, Red meat or Chicken Egg

To make a stew you need at least 2 portions of meat

* 0-2 Poultry or Red meat

* 0-2 Chicken Egg

* 0-1 Honey

* 0-2 Vegetable, Pumpkin, Mushroom or Soy beans

Optional ingredients:

* 0-2 Vegetables, Pumpkin, Soy beans

* 0-2 Mushroom

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