Food

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Nutrition

There are five different categories of food: Fruit, Vegetable, Grain, Protein, and Dairy.

Fruit	Template:GridImageBanana	Template:GridImage Blackberries	Template:GridImage Blueberries	Template:GridImage Bunchberries	Template:GridImage Cherry	Template:GridImage Cloudberries
	Template:GridImage Cranberries	Template:GridImage Elderberries	Template:GridImage Gooseberries	Template:GridImage Green Apple	Template:GridImage Lemon	Template:GridImage Olive
	Template:GridImage Orange	Template:GridImage Peach	Template:GridImage Plum	Template:GridImage Raspberries	Template:GridImage Red Apple	Template:GridImage Snowberries
	Template:GridImage Strawberries	Template:GridImage Wintergreen Berries
Vegetable	Template:GridImage Cabbage	Template:GridImage Carrot	Template:GridImage Garlic	Template:GridImage Green Beans	Template:GridImage Green Bell Pepper	Template:GridImage Onion
	Template:GridImage Potato	Template:GridImage Red Bell Pepper	Template:GridImage Rutabaga	Template:GridImage Sea Weed	Template:GridImage Squash	Template:GridImage Tomato
	Template:GridImage Yellow Bell Pepper
Grain	Template:GridImage Barley Bread	Template:GridImage Barley Grain	Template:GridImage Cornbread	Template:GridImage Maize Ear	Template:GridImage Oat Bread	Template:GridImage Oat Grain
	Template:GridImage Rice Bread	Template:GridImage Rice Grain	Template:GridImage Rye Bread	Template:GridImage Rye Grain	Template:GridImage Wheat Bread	Template:GridImage Wheat Grain
Protein	Template:GridImage Cooked Beef	Template:GridImage Cooked Calamari	Template:GridImage Cooked Egg	Template:GridImage Cooked Fish	Template:GridImage Cooked Horse Meat	Template:GridImage Cooked Mutton
	Template:GridImage Cooked Pork	Template:GridImage Cooked Poultry	Template:GridImage Cooked Venison	Template:GridImage Soybeans
Dairy	Template:GridImage Cheese	Template:GridImage Milk

• Other food items are listed under these categories in-game for searching purposes, but are inedible (e.g. Dough & Raw Meat)
• While some foods are biologically different from their categories (tomatoes are actually a fruit), they have been placed in the category that is typically used by society. "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." ― Miles Kington

Health Tab

Health Inventory Tab

When spawning, The Player starts with each category of nutritional value completely full. Each of these categories' levels are represented with a visual bar on the health tab of the player's inventory. As the player's hunger depletes, their nutrition bars will slowly deplete as well.

In order to replenish the bar, the player must eat some food in that category. When the player is satisfied, they will gain residual nutrition based upon the player's current nutritional levels with more nutrition gained when the player is malnourished than if they aren't.

The first four categories account for 25% of the player's max health, with the dairy bar giving an additional boost of up to 25% the possible max health. For example, a starting player with no levels has a possible max health of 800HP with all four of the first categories filled. If one of these categories are empty while the other three are full, the player will have a max health of 600HP. If the player has a full dairy bar in addition to all four of the main categories being full, they will have a max health of 1,000HP.

As the player's max health changes, the numbers overlayed on the health bar will update to match.

Decay

Food comes with an expiration date in TFC, based on when the food item was created. Crafting together food items to stack them, giving the soonest expiration date. Alternatively, you could use a hotkey (configurable, default X) over any food stack in inventory to stack there as many stacks of same food from your inventory and open container as possible. Note, that both hotkey and recipe only works for food with same traits. Different foods decay at different rates. For example, Fruit decays rather quickly, around two weeks, whereas cooked and salted meat can last for months. Preserving food can extend its life greatly.

Preservation

There are many different ways to preserve food and change the rate at which it decays. Each method results in a decay modifier, meaning that if two methods stack together, the resulting effect on the decay is a multiplier equal to the two method modifiers multiplied together. When multiplying these two numbers together, it results in a smaller number, meaning that the food will decay slower. The majority of preservation methods can be used in combination to stack the modifiers. The combination of pickling and salting, and the combination of cooking and drying are the only two combinations of directly altering food that will not stack multipliers when used. Storage decay modifiers such as the ceramic vessel obviously cannot be used in combination with other storage decay modifiers such as storing in a barrel of vinegar.

Template:GridImage Ceramic Vessel

Ceramic vessels can store food up to 80 oz in weight. Food stored in a small ceramic vessel item has a decay modifier of 0.5. Note: Large ceramic vessels have no effect on decay rates.

Cooking

All foods can be cooked in either a firepit, forge, or grill. Food heated to temperatures over Template:Font color result in burning and loss of the item. Cooked meat falls into one of five stages: Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well, and Well Done. All other foods have cooked stages of: Very Light, Light, Medium, Dark, and Very Dark. The cooking stages of a piece of food simply affects the taste. The fuel used to cook the food also has an effect on its taste. All cooked foods have the same decay modifier, regardless of the stage it is cooked to. While cooked food has a decay modifier of 0.75, it affects the effectiveness of other preservation methods. For example, salted raw beef will simply have the salted 0.5 modifier, while salted cooked beef has a modifier of cooked 0.75 * salted 0.75 = 0.5625.

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Salt

Main article: Salt

Salt is used to extend the shelf life meat, and increase its saltiness. Salted raw meat has a salted decay modifier of 0.5, while salted cooked meat has a salted decay modifier of 0.75.

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Pickling

Main article: Pickling

All foods except those in the grain category can be pickled. Pickled raw food has a pickled decay modifier of 0.5, while pickled cooked food has a pickled decay modifier of 0.75. As long as pickled food is sealed within a barrel of vinegar, it has an additional decay modifier of 0.1.

Pickling	Storage
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Grain Refining

For cereal crops, the harvest must first be refined by crafting it with a knife to get grains. These refined grains have a much slower decay rate than all other stages of cereal crops (Harvest, Flour, Dough, Bread).

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