Beep’s Diet Plan – Train Cooking & Science
Tired of your characters looking like they’ve been bench pressing iron plates for breakfast? Do you want your squad to look a little less like they wrestle boulders in their free time?
Well, I have good news for you! Cooking and Science reduce muscle definition — but wait, aren’t those skills a pain to level?
Fear not! This mod adds two training stations that let you easily level Cooking and Science across your whole squad.
Now you can spread the knowledge (and the skinniness) without micromanaging jobs for 100 in-game hours.
⚗️ Additions ⚗️
• Cooking Training Stove — Trains Cooking up to 98 (no food produced, just XP).
~ Cost: 5 Iron Plates, 1 Electrical Component, 1 Wheatstraw
• Science Training Station — Trains Science up to 98 (no discoveries made, just XP).
~ Cost: 5 Iron Plates, 1 Electrical Component, 1 Book
Both buildings are unlocked with the new "Culinary and Scientific Training" research, which requires Tech Level 3 and 20 Books.
The stations train faster at low levels and slower at high levels. While they can go to 98, the main intent is to reach levels 30–40 quickly, so your squad can pick up a leaner build without ruining immersion or forcing you to juggle jobs.
⚖️ Balance ⚖️
Neither skill affects combat much, and one cook or scientist is usually plenty — so there’s no real balance concern even if you train your whole squad.
Plus I added a somewhat unusual (but still cheap) resource used as a crafting cost, so that it takes a little bit of effort to build a ton of these.
But, seriously, what are you going to do with a squad full of people with 90+ Cooking and Science anyway?
Research faster? You’re already half-way through the tech tree when you unlock this!
Cook faster? Cooking is a vanity stat in vanilla Kenshi. Buying food is still more efficient than making it.
🍎 Recommended Companion Mod 🍎
If you’d like to visibly reduce muscle definition even further, you can pair this with the new *Less Muscular Females* graphical mod — it’s fully compatible since this one uses gameplay and not textures.
🔗 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3589042202
🚩 Compatibility 🚩
• Fully compatible with everything: all new entries, zero conflicts, load in any order.
• Beep loves beautiful human female ladies.
💭 My Thoughts 💭
Instead of changing models or textures, I wanted a gameplay-based way to control physique — something that fits seamlessly into Kenshi’s world. Doing it this way also comes with a bonus: you can choose which characters you want to look lean and which ones you want to look roided out. Because, hey, variety is the spice of life, right?
👋 Outro 👋
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I’m also updating my older mods, so I’d love it if you checked them out:
🔗 https://steamcommunity.com/id/2PercentNate/myworkshopfiles/?appid=233860
💿 Permissions & Use 💿
Feel free to translate, edit, chop up, deep fry, or otherwise modify my mods to your heart’s content.
All of my mods are freely distributed. If you end up editing one, I’d really appreciate receiving credit with a link to the original mod.
It’s not required, but it would make my day! 😊
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