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Vastin

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Luxurious foods
« on: August 20, 2010, 05:18:11 pm »
Just a minor suggestion regarding cooking. Currently there seems to be little or no reason to ever make anything other than luxurious meals? They stack better and have higher final values.

I was thinking it might be interesting to have a few restrictions on cooking, based on available ingredients such as:

Basic meal = (any) + plant
Good meal = (any) + plant + liquid
Luxurious meal = (any) + plant + liquid + animal

A slightly more complex version could look like:

Basic = plant + liquid
Good = plant + liquid + meat/fish
Luxurious = plant + liquid + meat/fish + cheese

Bringing skill in to matter a bit more could perhaps risk a loss of stack size when an incompetent cook is trying to make the more advanced sorts of meals? Just some thoughts. Cooking is neat, but its a bit simplistic at the moment given all the variety of cooking ingredients in the game.
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Re: Luxurious foods
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2010, 05:33:11 pm »
That's almost how it works now. Luxurious meals contain four ingredients, but they can all be the same thing.

Secondly, I know that there is already a thread about this.
Edit: I honestly cannot think of anything to search for to find that thread (cooking beings up 34 pages of results) but I know it's out there.
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Re: Luxurious foods
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 05:40:04 pm »
I am pretty sure everything suggested in the OP is possible via modding, so if you want it that bad, get cracking!  All it takes is editing some text files  ;D
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Re: Luxurious foods
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 06:01:57 pm »
Hmm, perhaps I'll try that. I haven't done any modding yet, but that sounds like it might be a rather easy way to test the waters.
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Re: Luxurious foods
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 06:04:08 pm »
Quote from: Vastin on August 20, 2010, 06:01:57 pm
I haven't done any modding yet, but that sounds like it might be a rather easy way to test the waters.
My very first mod, ever, is the Lord of the Rings total conversion mod in my sig. Testing the waters? Pffft.
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Re: Luxurious foods
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2010, 07:14:42 pm »
I don't cook with booze.
I don't cook with fat (except kitten tallow of course, for the biscuits).
I only farm wild strawberries.

All my lavish meals are roasts made of extraordinarily minced strawberries: basically my dwarves eat JAM!
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