Food Bars

Sennera

Right now the Fabricators cook raw fish into a whole fish with little difference visually from each other. I was thinking this would be rather strange for a device that magically reconstructs materials into an item.

Instead of directly cooking fish, I was thinking it could reconstruct all the edible portions into different sized bars to better fit the 'emergency survival tool' theme of the fabricator. Later on, the player might be able to make a stove for cooking creepvine garnished peeper fillets.

Edit: I've come to realize this would make the special purpose of the heat knife a bit strange, since it currently converts a whole fish into a cooked fish. This opens up an opportunity to make the fabricator somewhat more important, though, because the processed fish sticks could be more nutritious than a fish cooked with a superheated knife.

drinniol

That is a very good, thematic idea.

Amancham

I'm loving this idea. Sounds really nice and cooking meals instead of just cooked fish would be great. I do think a diet of fish all the time an nothing else would get rather unhealthy quickly, right?

Sennera

Amancham wrote: »

I'm loving this idea. Sounds really nice and cooking meals instead of just cooked fish would be great. I do think a diet of fish all the time an nothing else would get rather unhealthy quickly, right?

Depends on what you can get out of the fish. Eating a heatblade cooked fish would probably require you to pick out the inedible pieces which might contain extra vitamins your body needs. Eating something made from the fabricator would look and taste bland, but probably contain those vitamins you couldn't eat before. Eating some not-fabricated fish cooked with creepvine might not have the vitamins, as is the case with the heatblade, but you could argue the creepvine fills in for that and overall provides a more nutritional meal.

The way I see it, Heat Blade food < Fabricator Food < Cooked Flora/Fauna

Tryst

Hopefully, once the floating islands are fully fleshed out in the biomes, we can utilise part of the ground for farming and plant seeds to get vegetables to add to a meal. Having the stove would then become an essential part of the game. It would also give a reason to use those islands and maybe even keep a base there.

It would also be nice to have a refrigerator so we can keep food fresh longer.

Sennera

I personally don't see land farming as a 'lucrative' endeavor on a water planet where land is scarce. I don't know much about the flora on the island, I'll admit I passed by it without actually going ashore, but the underwater flora would be much more developed and it's not unreasonable to expect a healthy diet can be sustained on it alone. Furthermore, if we can construct a Cylcops we can construct a wet or dry seabase greenhouse

Pretty much, I'd prefer gameplay to focus on underwater content with land content optional. Also, I want to note that I have no expectations for a complex calorie/nutrition system (though splitting food up into calorie/nutrition would be a neat idea) and I believe the current system is adequate. Heatblade cooked fish could restore less food than fabricated fish sticks to represent a lower nutritional value.

Should note cured fish sticks would still be valid, in my opinion. Regular ones would contain enough moisture leftover that they'd go bad relatively quick, but would explain the H2O increase. Cured ones would have the moisture extracted and be laced with salt for preservation. Of course, the only way those would taste yummy would be if you could deep-fry them.

Tryst

My point is that the islands wouldn't have much significance unless they can be used for something. We are not naturally aquatic and solid land under our feet, albeit floating, would provide more comfort than being constantly in water. The bases do not provide the sun and fresh air that we would crave and prolonged periods underwater would be detrimental to our biological systems.

sayerulz

Interestingly, they actually serve really good food on military submarines, I suppose as a way to keep crews happy when living in a windowless steel tube underwater for months on end. Perhaps we should dig up the old "sea dishes and food" thread.