Simple Foods
A simple mod to change the behavior of food in Kenshi.
Principally, it offers an alternative to desert food and making bread.
Every desert outpost (Which I would believe is the majority of outposts) requires bread to create other food to keep the outpost going properly.
Given the way the AI in the game behaves, creating bread for recipes requires an entire other person, so this mod offers an alternative to baking bread so that you can have a single person run your food production!
Current recipes are:
Flatbread. A 15nu item that weighs next to nothing, and occupies a 3×1 space in your inventory. Requiring 10 wheatstraw and some water to make, it offers a very lightweight, cheap food item that will let your soldiers or travelling characters carry a great deal of it. Bread is still better.
Wholegrain Oatmeal: A 25nu snack that occupies 3×3 space. It has the same crafting requirements as flatbread, and is an alternative to standard bread. It gives slightly less nu, but only requires a stove. It is not used in recipes, and therefore is only preferable to bread if you wish to simplify your production line and intend to constantly produce oatmeal.
Meat Gruel: A bowl of oatmeal and a meat slurry. A 50nu meal occupying 3×3 slots, but requiring a strawflour and three meat to craft. This is for outposts that hunt or have wild animals attacking constantly and have a good supply of meat to keep uip with the production needs of this specific dish. A meatwrap will be better nu and use less meat, but this dish only requires a stove and a silo.
I’m open to suggestions if you have a certain food combination you want added to the mod. I intend to add alternatives to all bread-based recipes, with their own pros and cons. Probably trading lower nu for more portability or ease of creation.
