Good Nutri – Pack ENG
We’re talking about the Ration Pack and the Ancient Food Ration.
In the vanilla game, you can find them in ruins or buy the Ancient Nutri-Rations from some traders, but you can’t produce them.
I fundamentally don’t like the fact that all food available for production has low nutritional value and takes up a lot of space.
The mod adds the ability to research the production technology for the Ration Pack and the Ancient Nutri-Rations, as well as the ability to craft these rations. Additionally, the mod adds the necessary storage units. All the details are below.
To avoid confusion with the rations you can get in the vanilla game, the names of the rations have been changed:
Ration Pack → Good R-Pack;
Ancient Nutri-Rations → Good ANR-Pack.
First, to learn how to craft the rations, you need to research the «Advanced Cooking» technology. Once you’ve researched this technology to Level 2, you’ll unlock two new technologies to research: one for the Good R-Pack and one for the Good ANR-Pack.
To research the Good R-Pack technology, you need:
- Level 2 of the Research Bench;
- Book — 4 units;
- Ration Pack — 1 unit;
- Research time — 4–5 hours.
To research the Good ANR-Pack technology, you need:
- Level 3 of the Research Bench;
- Book — 3 units;
- Ancient Science Book — 2 units;
- Ancient Nutri-Rations — 1 unit;
- Research time — 4–5 hours.
The Good ANR-Pack nutritional value has been increased from 125 to 150 to make it slightly better than the Good R-Pack. That’s why it requires more resources for research and crafting.
After researching the technology, a new crafting recipe will be added to your cooking stove.
To craft the Good R-Pack, you need:
- Foodcube — 1 unit;
- Dried Meat — 1 unit;
- Hemp — 4 units.
To craft the Good ANR-Pack, you need:
- Foodcube — 1 unit;
- Rice Bowl — 1 unit;
- Hemp — 10 units.
I liked another author’s idea that hemp grains are nutritious and also work perfectly for packaging the ration itself.
Due to the complex crafting process, I’ve added the necessary storage units, since characters won’t take anything from the general food barrel for crafting.
The following storage units have been added:
- Storage: Dried Meat;
- Storage: Rice Bowl;
- Storage: Foodcube.
The General Storage unit also remains available for construction — in case you need it for other types of food.
All storage units become available for construction after you research the «Item Storage» technology at Level 1.
They’ve been added to the construction menu under Storage → Food Store. Use the arrows to scroll and select the storage unit you need.
There are other ration mods in the workshop, but most of them only add one type of ration or simply add them to crafting without any prerequisites. I wanted to offer the ability to craft both rations and make the acquisition and crafting process truly engaging.
This is a standalone mod that works without requiring any other mods. Later, I’ll release a second version of this mod where I’ll keep only the research and crafting features and move all the storage units into a separate storage mod.
This will allow players who already have a mod for separate storage units to install only the crafting mod and avoid duplicating storage. Meanwhile, players who don’t use other storage mods but want to craft rations can use this version of the mod.
The mod was created with inspiration drawn from the work of these authors:
Bookhead
Psigh
Солдат НАТО
Russian version of the nutri-pack mod
My Kenshi guides
My other mods for Kenshi
