Optimization: Meats

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Author: Owlchemist

Last revision: 15 Aug, 2020 at 14:41 UTC (4)

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Description:

This mod reduces the meat variety in the game. Aside from insect meat and humanlike meats, every other meat is treated the same as far as gameplay mechanics go. So why have them? This mod simply runs a catch-all patch operation across all animals (except insectoids and humanlikes) to only drop raw meat.

1. People who don’t care about all the animal meat variety since it all ends up being treated the same.
2. People who would prefer simplifying their meat storage situation, since there would be less stacks.
3. People interested in slightly improved load times due to fewer defs.

• It should work on most animal mods as well, although there is a small possibility they may avoid the patching process depending on how the author handles their abstract layers. Should this happen, their meat will just work the same as it normally would. I haven’t run into any animal mods that have this problem yet.
• I’ve never seen one before, but if there’s such thing as a mod which adds prepared meals that can only be cooked from a very specific type of meat, then there would be a conflict.
• Strange meats from Call of Cthulhu mods are unaffected by this mod.
• Fish meat from fishing mods are unaffected.
• Is not compatible with Animal Logic’s "Convert any generic meat into chicken meat upon butchering" mod setting feature (which is disabled by default).

Load order probably doesn’t matter, but just in case, I would recommend this:

There are three things to note when using this on an existing game:

1. Any meat, and meals made from meat, will bug out, since those meats were removed from the game.
2. Squirrel meat is a unique definition in the game and requires some extra attention. Make sure you remove any squirrel meat from your game before using this mod. You can also enable dev tools in the options to force-delete any from the map.
3. You may get some errors about your storage and bill filters referencing removed meats. These should clear up next save and reload.

• Play with Combat Extended? Optimization: CE Ammo