Kanga Culinary

The Kanga Culinary mod brings a new and more challenging food system into the game. Eating only basic food will make your character unhappy. Food is devided into survival food, comfort food and social food. The mod also has a way to handle hot and cold meals, a food desire system and a food addictive system.

Features and more detailed information

The new food system is divided into survival food, comfort food and social food.

Survival food is not very tasty. All vanilla food and food from other mods fall into this category. This includes non-processed Kanga food (raw ingredients). If you eat too much of this food type, eventually your xp gain will come to a halt completely (red icon). You will get a warning first (orange icon) if it is time to start eating some comfort food. All survival food can be eaten on the run.

Comfort food is processed Kanga food. There are 7 tiers of comfort food currently in the mod. They will provide a boost to your food and slow the rate at which your food points drop. The higher tier meals that require a plate also give an XP bonus for 15 minutes. You need to be seated to eat comfort food.

Social food is quality food prepared by a chef. To craft quality food you need to put points into your food stat. Only the plated meals (tier 1 and above) can be social food and you must eat them with a dinner setting for it to give its social food value. When your social food gets low, your character will cry each time you eat a different kind of food and your character will stop moving and unequip held items while he/she cries. Quality food will only exist with the originally cooked item. Once the item goes cold and is reheated it does not retain any of the original quality as reheated food is just not the same. Quality Meals will also add a small amount to the food value of the meal. When your social food value is very high, you will get the social beast buff. This will give all players in the area (tribe or not) a small xp boost over time. This is cumulative so if there is a party with 5 players and they all have the social beast buff then you will get 5 times the xp boost.

Higher tier meals (tier 5 and above) require you to use a dinner set at a table. A pop up will ask you to press W to eat and finish your dinner. It leaves a dirty plate behind, which you will have to clean up before it can be used again.

The Kanga Culinary mod brings hot and cold food into the game. A hot meal spoils down into a cold meal pretty fast, but the cold meal will last a long time. Any cold meal can be heated back up into a hot meal.

The Kanga Culinary mod also introduces the food desire system. Every so often your character will ask for a specific meal. If you manage to eat the correct meal in time you will be awarded with the “Food of the Champions” buff. This buff will increase your XP rate x1.5 for 20 minutes. There is no disadvantage if you were not able to eat the desired meal.

Some food items are addictive (e.g. alcohol). Addictive food items have a bigger chance of being picked by the food desire system. The more you eat/ drink them, the higher that chance. Having a higher fortitude counteracts this.

Bowls and plated meals have a random chance of giving you food poisoning. The chance is based on the chef’s skill. The better the chef, the lower the chance you get sick. The food poisoning is mild and lowers your food and water stats but it is not lethal on its own. Severe food poisoning occurs when you eat food that came out of a tradestall of your own tribe (manually taking it out or eating through a dinner setting). This is done to prevent players from using a tradestall as an unlimited fridge. The effect is life threatening as it lowers your food, stamina and water stats drastically.

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